GEOBIA 2012 keynote talks were presented by some of the most distinguished representatives of GEOBIA and related fields, namely:
Thomas Blaschke
Co-director of the Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS),
Universität Salzburg, and head of the Research Studio iSPACE, Austria
Gilberto Câmara
Director of the National Institute
for Space Research (INPE), Brazil
Christian Heipke
Director of the Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation,
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Marguerite Madden
Director of the Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science,
University of Georgia, USA.
Special Panel
Representatives of the current and previous editions of the GEOBIA International Conference participated on a Special Panel, discussing the major achievements, trends and challenges of this emerging discipline.