Conference venue: National and University Library, Hrvatske bratske zajednice 4, Zagreb, Croatia.

The conference program will be released soon.

Conference date: 1^st - 3^rd July 2026

Conference venue: National and University Library, Hrvatske bratske zajednice 4, Zagreb, Croatia (45°47'48.2"N 15°58'39.1"E)

Organizer: University of Zagreb Faculty of Geodesy

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Keynote lecture: Dr. Tomislav Hengl

Technical Director, OpenGeoHub foundation / Envirometrix Ltd, Doorwerth, Netherlands
Dr. Tomislav Hengl is the Technical Director at OpenGeoHub foundation and EnvirometriX Ltd with over 25 years of work experience in predictive soil mapping, geostatistics, GIS and remote sensing. He continuously runs hands-on-R training courses to promote use of Open Source software for spatial analysis / spatial modeling purposes. Current special interests are developing Machine Learning methods for spatial and spatiotemporal data primarily for the purpose of automated mapping / interpolation.

Keynote lecture title: "Future of Open Earth Observation and geospatial technologies in the time of AI and intelligent machines"

Scientific committee:

• Assoc. Prof. Mateo Gašparović (president), Croatia
• Prof. Geoffrey Henebry, USA
• Prof. Xinlian Liang, China
• Prof. Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva, Switzerland
• Assoc. Prof. Sudhir Kumar Singh, India
• Assoc. Prof. Gordana Kaplan, Turkey
• Dino Dobrinić, PhD, Croatia
• Iva Gašparović, PhD, Croatia
• Valentas Gružauskas, PhD, Lithuania
• Txomin Hermosilla, PhD, Canada
• Damir Klobučar, PhD, Croatia
• Ivan Pilaš, PhD, Croatia
• Ronald Pöppl, PhD, Austria
• Dorijan Radočaj, PhD, Croatia
• Imelda Somodi, PhD, Hungary
• Yongze Song, PhD, Australia

Organizing committee:

• Assoc. Prof. Mateo Gašparović (president)
• Prof. Mladen Zrinjski
• Assist. Prof. Sergej Baričević
• Dino Dobrinić, PhD
• Katarina Pavlek, PhD
• Ivana Jarak, MSc
• Klara Pejnović, MSc
• Filip Radić, MSc
• Marijo Seničić, MSc

Registration and abstract submission

Full papers will be published after a double-blind review process. All accepted papers (up to 8 pages) will be published in conference proceedings. Presentation of the accepted papers is possible in person (Zagreb, Croatia).

Submission of abstracts is possible through the online form.

Registration for conference participation is available through the online form.

For any other questions and information contact us via mail: icers@geof.unizg.hr

The conference is organized as part of the project Assessment of the Long-term Climatic and Anthropogenic Effects on the Spatio-temporal Vegetated Land Surface Dynamics in Croatia using Earth Observation Data (ALCAR) funded by the Croatian Science Foundation.

Participation fee:

*The fee includes access to all sessions, access to the exhibition hall, daily b2b networking, lunch, coffee and a certificate of attendance.

Due to the limited number of places, please register for participation as soon as possible to secure your place at the conference.

Travel Grant Announcement

We are pleased to announce that a limited number of Travel Grants will be available to support PhD student and young scientist participants,  attending the conference.

Travel grants are intended to encourage the participation of PhD students and young scientists to help reduce the financial barriers associated with attending the event.

Application Details:

Travel grants will be open exclusively to PhD students and young scientists whose full paper have been accepted. Eligible authors can apply for Travel Grant via form. Information on the application procedure, required documents, and deadlines will be provided after the full paper review process is completed.

We encourage all PhD students and young scientists who submitted abstracts to consider applying for grant once the official announcement is released.

Gold sponsors:

We invite you to support the organization of the ICERS conference as a sponsor and choose one of the offered sponsorship packages.