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<p class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="color:#0070C0">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="color:#0070C0">It is my pleasure to inform you
all that the International Symposium on  “Benefiting from Earth
Observation” is being organized from 4 to 6 October 2010 in Kathmandu, Nepal
by ICIMOD and partners on different thematic applications as mentioned below. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="color:#0070C0">Call for Papers/Posters on
Thematic sessions of<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p DEFANGED_STYLE="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoListParagraph"><![if !supportLists]><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-family:Symbol;color:#0070C0"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="mso-list:Ignore">·<span DEFANGED_STYLE="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
</span></span></span><![endif]><span DEFANGED_STYLE="color:#0070C0">Remote sensing of
the cryosphere<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p DEFANGED_STYLE="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoListParagraph"><![if !supportLists]><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-family:Symbol;color:#0070C0"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="mso-list:Ignore">·<span DEFANGED_STYLE="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
</span></span></span><![endif]><span DEFANGED_STYLE="color:#0070C0">Spatial decision
support systems (DSS) for ecosystem management <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p DEFANGED_STYLE="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoListParagraph"><![if !supportLists]><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-family:Symbol;color:#0070C0"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="mso-list:Ignore">·<span DEFANGED_STYLE="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
</span></span></span><![endif]><span DEFANGED_STYLE="color:#0070C0">Land cover change,
and carbon stock<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p DEFANGED_STYLE="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoListParagraph"><![if !supportLists]><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-family:Symbol;color:#0070C0"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="mso-list:Ignore">·<span DEFANGED_STYLE="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
</span></span></span><![endif]><span DEFANGED_STYLE="color:#0070C0">Transboundary air
pollution monitoring and<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p DEFANGED_STYLE="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoListParagraph"><![if !supportLists]><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-family:Symbol;color:#0070C0"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="mso-list:Ignore">·<span DEFANGED_STYLE="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
</span></span></span><![endif]><span DEFANGED_STYLE="color:#0070C0">Spatial data infrastructure
for climate change adaptation<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="color:#0070C0">For details please visit</span><span DEFANGED_STYLE="color:#0070C0"> <a href="http://geoportal.icimod.org/Symposium2010/"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="color:#0070C0">http://geoportal.icimod.org/Symposium2010</span></a>  and
for further inquiries please communicate at email <a href="mailto:symposium2010@icimod.org"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="color:#0070C0">symposium2010@icimod.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://geoportal.icimod.org/symposium2010"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img alt="sing-symposium" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CAF8FD.541272F0" id="Picture_x0020_2" height="187" width="300" border="0"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>

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color:gray"><a href="http://geoportal.icimod.org/symposium2010"><span style="color:blue">http://geoportal.icimod.org/symposium2010</span></a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p DEFANGED_STYLE="line-height:115%" class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:9.0pt;
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line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray;background:yellow;
mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p DEFANGED_STYLE="line-height:115%" class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:9.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray">Samjwal Ratna
Bajracharya, Remote Sensing Specialist <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p DEFANGED_STYLE="line-height:115%" class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:9.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray">Mountain
Environmental and Natural Resources Information Systems <br>
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray">GPO Box 3226,
Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Kathmandu, Nepal.<br>
<a href="Tel:+977"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="line-height:115%;color:blue">Tel:+977</span></a>
1 500 3222 Ext 123 Fax: +977 1 5003299/ 5003277 Web <a href="http://www.icimod.org/"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="line-height:115%;color:blue">www.icimod.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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