Technical Sessions
Special Sessions
| Session No | Session | Convener/s |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Space Agencies: Future Ocean Remote Sensing Missions by various space agencies | Dr. Kristina Katsaros (USA) Dr. V. K. Dadhwal (India) |
| 2. | Societal applications of Ocean Remote Sensing | Dr. T. Srinivas Kumar (India) Mr. Pattabhi Ramarao (India) |
| 3. | Contributions of Oceansat-2 (Sensor, Retrieval, Cal/Val & Applications) | Dr. Raj Kumar (India) |
| 4. | In-situ radiance measurements for ocean colour remote sensing in coastal waters | Dr. K.H. Rao (India) Dr. T. Srinivasa Kumar (India) Dr. A.K. Shukla (India) |
| 5. | Trichodesmium phenomenon | Dr. Jim Gower (Canada) Dr. Ajit Subramanian (USA) Dr. Aneesh A. Lotliker (India) |
| 6. | Bio-optical properties and algorithms for the coastal and estuarine waters | Dr. H.B. Menon (India) |
| 7. | Remote Sensing Applications in Marine Ecosystem studies including algal bloom monitoring | Prof. N.R. Menon (India) Dr. Lasse H.Pettersson (Norway) Prof. Trevor Platt (UK) Dr.Shubha Satyendranath (UK) |
| 8. | Precision Fisheries and Aquaculture using Remote Sensing and GIS | Dr. Sei-Ichi Saitoh (Japan) Dr. Beena Kumari (India) Dr. Ming-An (Taiwan) |
| 9. & 12. | Air-Sea Interactions Turbulent and Radiative Fluxes Estimated from Remotely Sensed Data | Dr. Naoto Ebuchi (Japan) Dr. Masahisa Kubota (Japan)Dr. Abderrahim Bentamy (France) Dr. A. M. Mestas-Nunez (USA) Dr. K. Katsaros (USA) Dr. R. T. Pinker (USA) |
| 10. | Tropical cyclones | Prof. Leonard Mitnik (Russia) Dr. Peter Black (USA) Dr. M. Mohapatra (India) |
| 11. | Role of Ocean Thermal Structure on Tropical Cyclone Intensification | Dr. M M Ali (India) Dr. Gustavo Goni (USA) |
| 13. | Intra-seasonal variability of Asian Summer Monsoon | Prof. P.V.Joseph (India) Prof. Ola M. Johannessen (Norway) Dr. Annalisa Cherchi (Italy) |
| 14. | Aerosols and Climate | Dr. H.B. Menon (India) |
| 15. | Ocean Winds | Dr. Werner Alpers (Germany) Dr. B.S. Gohil (India) |
| 16. | Calibration and validation of satellite data | Dr. R. Venkatesan (India) Dr. A.K. Shukla (India) |
| 17. & 18. | Satellite altimetry from the open ocean to coast Satellite Altimetry | Dr. Guoqi Han (Canada) Dr. Stefano Vignudelli (Italy) Dr. H. Bonekamp (Germany) Dr. Raj Kumar (India) Prof. D. Stammer (Germany) |
| 19. | SARAL-Altika (ISRO-CNES Joint Programme on Altimeter) | Dr. R.M. Gairola (India) Dr. Jacqes Verron (France) |
| 20. & 21. | Oceanographic applications of SAR-I Oceanographic applications of SAR-II | Dr. Andrei Ivanov (Russia) Dr. Antony K. Liu (USA) Prof. Ming-Kuang Hsu (Taiwan) Dr. Xiaofeng Li (USA) |
| 22. | Satellite-based research on oceanic planetary waves: Recent Advances and open questions | Dr. Tatyana Belonenko (Russia) Dr. P. Cipollini (UK) |
| 23. & 24. | Observed Changes in the Frozen Oceans Remote Sensing for Polar Sciences | Joey Comiso (USA) Prof. P C Pandey (India) Dr. A.J. Luis (India) Prof.Ola M. Johannessen (Norway)/ Prof.Stein Sandven (Norway) |
| 25. | Tsunami Disasters, Impacts and Early Warning | Dr. Ramesh Singh (USA) Dr. Y. Tony Song (USA) Dr. T. Srinivasa Kumar (India) |
| 26. | Role of Oceans in Carbon and Water Cycle | Dr. W. Timothy Liu (USA) Dr. V.V.S.S. Sarma (India) |
| 27. | Indian Ocean Observations and Modelling | Dr. D. Shankar (India) Dr. P.N. Vinayachandran (India) |
| 28. | Ocean remote sensing data management and dissemination | Mr. E. Pattabhi Rama Rao (India) Dr. Rama Krishnan (India) |
| 29. | Operational Oceanography/ Ocean Forecasting | Dr. M. Ravichandran (India) Dr. T. M. Balakrishnan Nair (India) |
| 30. | Megha-Tropiques | Dr. Pradip K Pal (India) Dr. Remy Roca (France) |
