2024 IEEE Mediterranean and Middle-East Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
15 - 17 April 2024 • Hybrid Format || Physical: Oran, Algeria || Virtual: Online Platform
The submission and review process is handled similar to past M2GARSS events.
The review process is being conducted entirely online. To expedite the review process, and to assure that the paper submissions will be readable through the online review system, we request that authors submit manuscripts that are formatted according to the Paper Kit instructions included here. For similar reasons, authors are strongly encouraged, though not required, to format the submissions using these tools as well.
| Paper Submission System Online | 17 September 2023 |
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| Paper Submission Deadline | 30 November 2023 |
| Submission Status Available Online (Accept/Rejection Decisions) | 19 January 2024 |
| Author Registration Deadline | 15 March 2024 |
| Accepted Manuscript Revision Submission Deadline | 15 March 2024 |
| M2GARSS 2024 | 15-17 April 2024 |
Please make sure to put the conference name (M2GARSS 2024) and the paper number that is assigned to you on all correspondence.
Additional questions regarding submission of papers should be directed to the following address:
M2GARSS 2024Use the following guidelines when preparing your manuscript:
LENGTH: You are allowed a minimum of two (2) pages and maximum of five (5) pages for your manuscript. These limits include all figures, tables, and references. Any documents that exceed the 5 page limit or fail to meet the 2 page minimum will be rejected.
LANGUAGE: All proposals must be in English.
MARGINS: Documents should be formatted for standard letter-size (8.5 in. by 11.0 in.) or A4 (210mm by 297mm) paper
COLUMNS: Manuscripts should be in 2-column format. The title and author block on the first page should span across the two columns. Wide figures may span across two columns. However, the use of wide figures should be limited if possible.
A format sheet with the margins and placement guides is available in PDF format:
These files contain lines and boxes showing the margins and print areas. If you print one of these files, then stack it atop your printed page and hold it up to the light, you can easily check your margins to see if your print area fits within the space allowed.
TYPE:
Face: To achieve the best viewing experience for the review process and conference proceedings, we strongly encourage authors to use Times-Roman or Computer Modern fonts. If a font face is used that is not recognized by the submission system, your proposal will not be reproduced correctly.
Size: Use a font size that is no smaller than 10 points and no larger than 12 points throughout the paper, including figure captions.
TITLE: The paper title should appear in boldface letters and should be in ALL CAPITALS. Do not use LaTeX math notation ($x_y$) in the title; the title should be representable in the Unicode character set. Also try to avoid uncommon acronyms in the title.
AUTHOR LIST: The authors’ name(s) and affiliation(s) appear below the title in capital and lower case letters. Proposals with multiple authors and affiliations may require two or more lines for this information. The order of the authors on the document should exactly match in number and order the authors typed into the online submission form.
BODY: Major headings appear in boldface CAPITAL letters, centered on the page. Subheadings appear in capital and lower case, either underlined or in boldface. They start at the left margin of the page on a separate line. Sub-subheadings are discouraged, but if they must be used, they should appear in capital and lower case, and start at the left margin on a separate line. They may be underlined or in italics.
REFERENCES: List and number all references at the end of the document. The references can be numbered in alphabetical order or in order of appearance in the paper. When referring to them in the text, type the corresponding reference number in square brackets as shown at the end of this sentence [1]. The end of the document should include a list of references containing information similar to the following example:
[1] J. P. Kerekes and J. E. Baum, "Full-Spectrum Spectral Imaging System Analytical Model," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 571-580, Mar. 2005.
[2] A. B. Tarokh and E. L. Miller, "Subsurface Sensing under Sensor Positional Uncertainty," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 675-688, Mar. 2007.
ILLUSTRATIONS & COLOR: Illustrations must appear within the designated margins. If possible, position illustrations at the top of pages, rather than in the middle or at the bottom. Caption and number every illustration. All illustrations should be clear when printed on a black-only printer. Be sure that your images are acceptable when printed in black and white (the USB and online IEEE Xplore proceedings will retain the colors in your document).
PAGE NUMBERS: Do not put page numbers on your document. Appropriate page numbers will be added to accepted papers when the conference proceedings are assembled.
The following style files and templates are available for users of LaTeX and Microsoft Word:
We recommend that you use the Word file or LaTeX files to produce your document, since they have been set up to meet the formatting guidelines listed above. When using these files, double-check the paper size in your page setup to make sure you are using the letter-size (8.5 in. by 11 in.) or A4 (210mm by 297mm) paper layout. The LaTeX environment files specify suitable margins, page layout, text and a bibliography style.
In particular, with LaTeX, there are cases where the top-margin of the resulting PDF file does not meet the specified parameters. In this case, you may need to add a \topmargin=0mm command just after the \begin{document} command in your .tex file. The spacing of the top margin is not critical, as the page contents will be adjusted on the proceedings. The critical dimensions are the actual width and height of the page content.
The review process will be performed from the electronic submission of your manuscript. To ensure that your document is compatible with the review system, please adhere to the following compatibility requirements:
Papers must be submitted in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) format.
Please make sure that you submit a valid PDF to the submission system. Adobe Acrobat is the prefered way of generating a PDF file, but there are many other options which produce quality PDFs as well.
PDF files:
ALL FONTS MUST be embedded in the PDF or PostScript file. There is no guarantee that the reviewers of the abstract have the same fonts used in the document. If fonts are not embedded in the submission, you will be contacted by CMS and asked to submit a file that has all fonts embedded. Please refer to your PDF file generation tool’s user guide to find out how to embed all fonts.
Generating a PostScript file is straightforward for all LaTeX packages we are aware of. When preparing the proposal under LaTeX, it is preferable to use scalable fonts such as Type I, Computer Modern. However, quite good results can be obtained with the fonts defined in the style file recommended above (spconf.sty).
PDF files with Postscript Type 3 fonts are highly discouraged. PDF and PostScript files utilizing Type 3 fonts are typically produced by the LaTeX system and are lower-resolution bitmapped versions of the letters and figures. It is possible to perform a few simple changes to the configuration or command-line to produce files that use PostScript Type 1 fonts, which are a vector representation of the letters and figures.
For most installations of LaTeX, you can cause dvips to output Type 1 fonts instead of Type 3 fonts by including -Ppdf option to dvips. The resulting PDF file will reference the Type 1 Computer Modern fonts, rather than embedding the bitmapped Type 3 versions, which cause problems with printers.
You may also need to tell dvips to force letter sized paper with the option: -t letter.
Most current LaTeX installations also include pdflatex, which produces acceptable PDF files as well.
Authors will be permitted to submit a document file up to 5 MB (megabytes) in size. To request an exception, contact the paper submission technical support at: papers@2024.m2garss.org.
The filename of the document file should be the first author’s last name, followed by the appropriate extension (.pdf). For example, if the first author’s name is Johan Smith, you would submit your file as ”smith.pdf“.
The paper submission process will append the filename with a unique identifier when it is stored on our system, so multiple submissions with the same name will not overwrite each other and will be distinguishable.
When you have your document file ready, gather the following information before entering the submission system:
To submit your document and author information, go to the Paper Submission link on the M2GARSS 2024 homepage:
https://2024.m2garss.org/papers.php
The submission system will present an entry form to allow you to enter the paper title, paper topic, and author contact information.
ALL authors must be entered in the online form, and must appear in the online form in the same order in which the authors appear on the PDF.
After you submit this information, the system will display a page with the data that you entered so that you may verify its accuracy. If you need to change the data to fix a mistake, you may use the back button on your browser to return to the information entry form. Once you approve of the data that you have entered, you may choose your document file for upload at the bottom of the verification page. When you click on the button labelled 'Continue' at the bottom of this page, the page will check the filename extension to make sure it matches the submission criteria, then your browser will upload your file to our server. Depending on the size of your file and your internet connection speed, this upload may take a few minutes. At the end of a successful upload, you will see a confirmation page displaying the paper number that is assigned to you, and an email message will be sent to the corresponding authors' email addresses to confirm that the file has been uploaded. If you do not see the confirmation page after uploading your file, we may not have successfully received your file upload. If you encounter trouble, contact the paper submission support at: papers@2024.m2garss.org.
Your submitted manuscript will be visually inspected by our submission system staff to assure that the document is readable and meets all formatting requirements to be included in a visually pleasing and consistent proceedings publication for M2GARSS 2024. If our submission inspectors encounter errors with your submitted file, they will contact you to resolve the issue. If your paper passes inspection, it will be entered into the review process. A committee of reviewers selected by the conference committee will review the manuscripts and rate them according to quality, relevence, and correctness. The conference technical committee will use these reviews to determine which papers will be accepted for presentation in the conference. The result of the technical committee’s decision will be communicated to the submitting authors by email, along with any program committee comments, if any.
After you submit your document, you may monitor the status of your paper as it progresses through the submission and review process by using the Paper Status website available at:
https://2024.m2garss.org/papers.php
Authors will be notified of paper acceptance or non-acceptance by email as close as possible to the published author notification date. The email notification will include the presentation format chosen for your paper and may also include the presentation date and time, if available.
The notification email may include comments from the reviewers and/or program committee members. The conference cannot guarantee that all of the reviewers will provide the level of detail desired by you. However, reviewers are encouraged to submit as detailed comments as possible.
Because of the short amount of time between paper acceptance decisions and the beginning of the publication process, M2GARSS 2024 is not able to allow for a two-way discourse between the authors and the reviewers of a paper. If there appears to be a logistical error in the reviewer comments, such as the reviewer commenting on the wrong paper, etc., please contact M2GARSS 2024 at papers@2024.m2garss.org.
Publication in the Proceedings: All accepted submissions, with an author registered, and which are presented on-site or online, will be published in the proceedings (IEEE XPlore). Except in the case where the authors have indicated to exclude the manuscript from the submission to IEEE Xplore.
Be sure that at least one author registers to attend the conference using the online registration system available through the conference website. Each accepted paper being presented must have at least one author registered, with the payment received by the author registration deadline (see above) to avoid being withdrawn from the conference.
https://2024.m2garss.org/papers.php
If you plan to publish a copy of an accepted paper on the Internet by any means, you MUST display the following IEEE copyright notice on the first page that displays IEEE published (and copyrighted) material:
Copyright 2024 IEEE. Published in the 2024 IEEE Mediterranean and Middle-East Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (M2GARSS), scheduled for 15 - 17 April 2024 in Oran, Algeria. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works, must be obtained from the IEEE. Contact: Manager, Copyrights and Permissions / IEEE Service Center / 445 Hoes Lane / P.O. Box 1331 / Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, USA. Telephone: + Intl. 908-562-3966.
If you post an electronic version of an accepted paper, you must provide the IEEE with the electronic address (URL, FTP address, etc.) of the posting.
When we send the review results for your paper by email, that email message will specify whether accepted papers have been assigned for presentation in a poster session or oral session. To help authors prepare for oral and poster presentations, the following suggestions have been created:
The official language of the IEEE M2GARSS 2024 is English. Its Technical Program consists of poster and oral presentations delivered in-person or virtually.
Each presentation time is allocated 15 minutes. It is recommended that presentation should take 10 minutes, leaving 5 minutes for introduction, summary, and questions from the audience. Pre-recorded presentations are NOT ALLOWED. Surrogate presenters must be sufficiently familiar with the material being presented to answer detailed questions from the audience. In addition, the surrogate presenter must contact the Session Chair in advance of the presenter’s session.
All presentation rooms will be equipped with a computer, a data projector, a microphone (for the amphitheater room), and a pointing device.
It is important that the sessions remain on time. The session chair is responsible for keeping presentations on schedule. Any setup time used is part of the overall 15 minute presentation time, so it is a good idea to check the visual aids before the session begins.
Presenters should locate their session room in due time and be in the room before the session begins. Presentations must be uploaded to the room presentation computer via USB at the start of the scheduled session's day. Presenters must check if formulas/animations are shown correctly.
Please do not attempt to use personal computers to connect to the projector. For speed and efficiency, use only the conference-provided computer for displaying the presentation visual aids.
Each presentation should be made in real-time LIVE in a zoom-based virtual room (i.e. by sharing the screen) from the website. Each live presentation time is allocated 15 minutes. It is recommended that presentation should take 10 minutes, leaving 5 minutes for introduction, summary, and questions from the audience. All virtual oral presenters will need to send a 10-minute video presentation as a backup before the conference, however, presenters must be present to answer questions; otherwise the paper will be considered a no-show!
The ideal poster is designed to attract attention, provide a brief overview of the work, and initiate discussion. Carefully and completely prepare the poster well in advance of the conference.
For each paper accepted within a poster session, one A0 board is reserved for the use.
The boards will be arranged in rows. Each reserved paper space will be assigned a number. Every paper being presented at the same time will also be assigned a number. The number, called the Board Number, will identify the place to post the poster. Authors are requested to: 1) put up their poster at the start of the scheduled session’s day; 2) stand by their poster during the poster session; 3) remove their poster at the end of the scheduled session’s day.
IMPORTANT: there MUST be a presenter standing at the poster during the entire scheduled poster time. A poster that is mounted to the board, but without any person presenting it will be considered a no-show!
Make the poster as self-explanatory as possible. This will save the efforts for technical discussions. Prepare a short presentation of about 5 minutes that can be periodically given to those assembled around the poster. If possible, more than one author should attend the session to aid in presentations and discussions, and to provide the presenters with the chance to rest or briefly view other posters.
No live presentation, but a video played by the session chair.
All poster presenters will need to send a 5-minute video presentation before the conference, otherwise the paper will be considered a no-show!
Live Q&A of 10 minutes after every batch of 4 video presentations. Presenters must be present to answer questions; otherwise the paper will be considered a no-show!
All videos and other media should be created according to the Video Preparation Instructions.