The proceedings contain the papers presented at the Atlantic Europe Conference on Remote Imaging and Spectroscopy (AECRIS 2006), held at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom, 11-12 September 2006.

The conference is organised by the ADSIP (Applied Digital Signal and Image Processing) Research Centre at the University of Central Lancashire, is funded by the European Regional Development Fund under INTERREG IIIB – Atlantic Area via the PIMHAI project (Platform for Analysis of Multispectral and Hyperspectral Images from Acquisition to Interpretation for Environmental Monitoring and Decision Making), and has benefited from the support of the following organisations:

• IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition)
• IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
• ADETTI - Associação para o Desenvolvimento das Telecomunicações e Técnicas de Informática, Portugal
• Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, UK
• Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
• Universidade de Vigo, Spain
• Université Bordeaux 1, France
• Université de Poitiers, France
• Université de Rennes 1, France