Multilingual Glossary in Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics
- Paper number
IAC-08.E7.1.8
- Author
Dr. Rumiana Kancheva, Solar-Terrestrial Influences Laboratory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
- Coauthor
Mr. Hristo Nikolov, Solar-Terrestrial Influences Laboratory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
- Year
2008
- Abstract
In our rapidly changing technological world new terms emerge almost every day. For people working in such advanced fields as remote sensing and geoinformatics it is crucial to keep up with the latest and equally rapid quantitative and qualitative developments and novelties of the terminology. Researchers, professionals, students and decision makers of different nationalities should fully understand and translate into their native languages any term, definition or acronym found in English (in articles, books, proceedings, specifications, documentation, etc.). This issue is directly connected with the world-wide polices for knowledge dissemination, experience exchange and international cooperation in scientific, research and application areas putting a particular accent on Earth Observations and environmental problems of global significance. It is not less important that users of remote sensing products have to be well familiarized with the relevant terms and definitions so that, for instance, the correct questions can be asked about the nature of a data set and any processing it has undergone. With this motivation, considering the importance of the problem and believing that remote sensing community is an essential part of the today’s information society, we are going to present at the IAC Terminology Symposium our vision about the creation and the web-based access to a Multilingual Glossary in Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics. This initiative will build upon previous national and international attempts (including the multilingual “Glossary of Terms and Definitions on Earth Remote Sensing” prepared and issued in 1985 in the frameworks of the space ex-program ‘Intercosmos’). It intends to make use also of on-going activities (e.g. IAA Multilingual Dictionary) but focusing on Earth observation technologies (tools and methods, sensors, data sources, data processing and applications, etc.). Such a glossary will, in our opinion, be a more feasible, efficient and easy to use tool than enormous and not always accessible Space relevant thesauri. The initiative will rely on the experience of international teams in the elaboration of suchlike materials with the aim to collect, update and proliferate available and future terms in this specific field of the human knowledge. As an action plan our suggestion and appeal is to establish a large international network of collaborators and to operate through forums, specialized websites, workshops and etc. At last but not least, this initiative could search and apply for financial support from national and international funds.
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