With the sponsorship of the President of the University  of Technology Prof. Dr. (Ahmad  Al-Ghban), and Prof. Dr. (Jasim Kadhim Hamood) head of the Department of Laser and Optelectronics Engineering, the proceedings of the virtual scientific symposium (Laser remote sensing) was held, which sponsored by the Laser Engineering branch, on Thursday, 26/11/2020, in the presence of the Assistant Rector of the University for Scientific Affairs, and a group of lecturer staff of the University of Technology and other universities. The program for the scientific symposium contained four lectures:

First lecture has been given by Dr. Khaled Ibrahim Hassoun, Ministry of Science and Technology, Assist Prof Dr. Mohammed Mijbel Saleh, administrative assistant of our department and was entitled: (The Development of Imaging Sensors in Remote Sensing Applications) 

Second lecture has been given by Brigadier General Adnan Ramadan, Ministry of Defense, Prof. Dr. Uday Zakariya Jassim, Civil Engineering Department, Engineer Qutaibah Qayas, Ministry of Defense, and was entitled: (Using of LIDAR data in intelligence application)

Third Lecture has been given by Lec. Dr. Ahmed Jayad Kadhim, Department of Laser and Optelectronics Engineering and was entitled: (Applications or uses of LIDAR Technology)

Fourth Lecture has been given by Assist Lec. Omar Saud Aziz, University of Putra (Malaysia), and was entitled: (Object Boundaries Detection Using LIDAR Data znd Dynamic Polyline Compression Algorithm)

At the end of the sessions, the recommendations were discussed and organized to serve the future work.

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