boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01CC2AA6.01C54D6E" ****************************************************************************** dorismail 14-Jun-2011 15:16:24 Message No 0756 ****************************************************************************** Author: "Ferrage Pascale" Subject: TR: 20 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry Symposium - 24-29 September 2012, Venice (I) - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01CC2AA6.01C54D6E Dear colleagues, =20 I forward below the following message recently sent by J=E9r=F4me Beneviste= from the European Space Agency : Please note that an IDS workshop is planned, as it was in Venice in 2006. Best regards Pascale Ferrage ________________________________ De : J=E9r=F4me Benveniste [mailto:Jerome.Benveniste@esa.int]=20 Envoy=E9 : vendredi 10 juin 2011 15:36 =C0 : OSTST; cryolist@lists.cryolist.org; coastalt-swt@noc.soton.ac.uk; swo= t@list.jpl.nasa.gov; 15_Year_Progress_Radar_Altimetry_Participants@plod.esr= in.esa.it; land.ice.altimetry.experts@plod.esrin.esa.it; gut.open.group@plo= d.esrin.esa.it Objet : [20YPRA] 20 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry Symposium - 24-29 = September 2012, Venice (I) - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Dear Colleagues, =09 =09 Please mark in your agenda:=20 =09 The "20 years of Progress in Radar Altimetry" Symposium will take place fr= om Monday 24 to Saturday 29 September 2012, in Venice-Lido, Italy.=20 =09 =09 Following on from the "15 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry" Sympo= sium in 2006, deemed a very successful landmark by the participants and the= readership of the Proceedings, we are now reaching the twenty year anniver= sary of the launch of ERS-1 and TOPEX/POSEIDON. To mark this occasion the = European Space Agency, in collaboration with the French Space Agency, CNES= , is organising an exceptional Symposium on "20 Years of Progress in Radar= Altimetry". This event will be sponsored by other partner agencies and or= ganizations supporting the development of altimetry. Along with this sympos= ium, several related events will take place on the same week, including the= annual meeting of the Ocean Surface Topography Science Team (OSTST) and th= e International Doris Service (IDS) workshop, as well as other thematic wor= kshops still to be organised, such as, Sea Level for Climate, Coastal Zone,= Space for Hydrology, Argo, etc. These events will be held over 6 days, fro= m 24 to 29 of September 2012, in Venice-Lido, Italy.=20 =09 Please consider your participation at this exceptional event and reser= ve the week from 24 to 29 September 2012 in your agenda. For the symposium,= a call for papers with detailed information and deadlines will be sent sub= sequently, along with the details of a dedicated web site to submit your co= ntributions to be reviewed by the Scientific Committee. For OSTST and IDS m= eetings, additional information and call for contributions will be sent out= and linked to the same website. =09=20=20=20=20 =09 Looking forward to your participation at this exceptional scientific S= ymposium on "20 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry".=20 =09 J=E9r=F4me Benveniste (ESA) and Rosemary Morrow (CNES-LEGOS) Organising Committee Chairs --=20 Jerome Benveniste =09 Senior Advisor - European Space Agency/ESRIN Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes EO Science, Applications and Future Technologies Dpt Via Galileo Galilei E-mail: Jerome.Benveniste@esa.int Frascati (Roma) Tel : (+39) 06 941 80 553 I-00044 Fax1: (+39) 06 941 80 552 Italy Fax2: (+39) 06 941 80 280 (long faxes) ~~~ ~~~~ ~ ~~ ~~_/)~ ~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ _/) _/) ~~~ ~ ~_/) ~ ~ ~~ ~~ ~~ `~~ ~~ 0 ~~ ~~ ~~ O ~~~ ~~~~ ~ ~~ ~~ ~ ~ _/)~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~~ ~~ ~~ ~