A template for your paper is here.

**NEW - Workshop papers are posted here. (Password required)

Your reviewed paper must be submitted electronically as an MSWord file to jrgray@usgs.gov no later than January 31, 2007. Submitted are available now, under password protection, to the workshop attendees by clicking here. Please contact a workshop organizer for the password.

The content of the paper, of course, is the province of the authors, but we request each author to include in the submitted manuscript the following points, if appropriate:

• What technology was tested?
• What is the approximate cost?
• What are the major benefits and drawbacks of using the technology?
• What special expertise is required to derive reliable data from the technology?
• How reliable were the ground-truth data?
• In what type of system was the technology deployed (field, lab, sand, gravel, etc.)
• Was the performance of the technology acceptable under the conditions deployed?
• How robust (useable over a wide range of conditions) does the technology show promise?
• Is there information on uncertainty associated with the estimate or ground-truth data?
• Is the technology considered ready for operational deployment in monitoring programs?
• If not, what additional work is needed to validate the technology?

It is acceptable to use information that has been previously published and updated for this workshop, considering that it should have added value when compiled with the full suite of like-themed papers.  In other words, a complete paper synthesis may not be necessary. Alternately, consider writing an entirely new manuscript, and subsequently update and submit it to a journal of your choice.

After peer-reviews administered by the editors and revisions, as appropriate, by the authors, the papers will be formally approved by the USGS and published electronically, and possibly also in print.  All attendees will be requested to provide a review of one workshop paper, regardless of whether or not the attendee will be a presenter.