Planned activities:

1. Special session at the 31st International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE), Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, June 20-24, 2005 (http://www.niersc.spb.ru/isrse/)
   Technical Session: TS4; Polar and Alpine / ISPRS Special Session
   Jay Zwally, ICESat’s observations of polar sea ice and ice sheets
   Toni Schenk, Fusion of LIDAR data for change detection in polar ice sheets
   Kirill Khvorostovsky, Assessment of Greenland Ice Sheet elevation changes using merged ERS-1/2 radar altimeter measurements
   Manfred Stober, Terrestrial geodetic measurements in West Greenland for investigating ice mass changes and for establishing ground control for remote sensing
   Kenneth Jezek, Building an Integrated View of Antarctica Using Measurements from the Radarsat-1 Antarctic Mapping Project
   Martijn de Ruyter de Wildt, Snow cover mapping using multi-temporal Meteosat-8 data
   

2. Workshop on Polar Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry, 2005 or early 2006 in US or Canada

3. ISPRS MID-CONGRESS Symposia Haifa, 2006

4. Activities related to the International Polar Year 2007-2008. A “critical facet of the International Polar Year 2007-2008 is a coordinated satellite imaging of the polar regions. Existing satellites obtain information across much of the electromagnetic spectrum and provide high spatial and temporal resolution data over the polar regions. A number of additional missions under development, such as Cryosat, have a specific polar mission. Coordination of satellite observations from this international suite of sensors, and additional focus by higher-data rate sensors that do not collect data continuously would secure valuable benchmark data sets and advance the effort to assess the environmental status of the polar regions.” (ICSU IPY Outline Science Plan).

5. ISPRS CONGRESS Beijing 2008