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The article presents information on a workshop on earth observation for urban planning and management held on November 20-21, 2006, in Hong Kong, China. The workshop addressed four major application areas: environmental monitoring, land use/land cover mapping, planning, and geotechnical monitoring. Some of the recommendations that emerged from the workshop, include promotion of data sharing policies by working with the Open Geospatial Consortium, provision of a high resolution thermal imager for urban climatology.