LARS Newsletter

March 1996

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FACULTY PROMOTIONS

Congratulations to LARS faculty who were approved for promotions at the March Purdue Board of Trustees meeting:

Bernard Engel (Agricultural & Biological Engineering) to full professor
Darrell Schulze (Agronomy) to full professor
Peter Doerschuk (Electrical & Computer Engineering) to associate professor

AHN GRANTED PRF FELLOWSHIP

Congratulations go to Prof. Marion Baumgardner (Agronomy) and PhD graduate student Changwoo Ahn who has received a PRF Fellowship for 1995-96 and a year extension through September 1997. Ahn's research is focused on hyperspectral remote sensing data analysis for characterizing land surface conditions.

CORRECTION:

In the December LARS Newsletter we had given credit to Todd Helt for presenting a paper at the GSA Convention:and I learned that John Teufert, an Earth & Atmospheric Sciences graduate student presented the paper. Here is the paper presented by John Teufert:

Teufert, J., Helt, T., Dobos, E., Micheli, E., Baumgardner, M.F., Johannsen, C.J. "Factors effecting regional water quality - Applications of a remote sensing and GIS enhancement of the Hungarian soils and terrain (SOTER) database," poster presented at Geological Society of America (GSA) National Convention, November 6-9, 1995, New Orleans, Louisiana. Abstract published in GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 27, No. 6, October, 1995.

Todd gave a presentation at NASA's SISIC Conference during that same time and this is the paper that he presented:

Helt, T., Dobos, E., Micheli, E., Baumgardner, M.F., Johannsen, C.J. "Integrated datasets and technologies for global change research database development," presented at NASA Science and Information Systems Interoperability Conference, November 6-9, 1995, College Park, Maryland.

LARS Visitors:

Jan. 9, David Cressman, Ecologistics, Waterloo Canada
Jan. 12, Jeffrey H. Drake, Geography Department, University of Wyoming
Jan. 16, Joe Knight, NRES Student, Purdue University
Jan. 23, Jane Frankenberger, ABE, Purdue
Jan. 26, Ron Hochstetler, Conrad Aviation, Kensington MD and Larry Hollst, Conrad Aviation, Centerville OH
Jan. 29, Katie Williams, Student, Fowler IN
Feb 16, Lisa Kurtzhals, FNR Student, Purdue Univ
Feb. 16, Andrea Easter-Pilcher & Marty Spetich, FNR, Purdue Univ
Feb. 19, Dr. Erika Micheli, Godollo Agricultural University, Hungary
Feb. 22, Wayne Bugg, Monanto, Noblesville IN
Feb. 22, Skif Peterson, Private Consulting, West Lafayette IN
Feb. 23, Tiffany Strait, Horticulture student, Purdue Univ
Feb. 23, Robert Bastain, MS student, Purdue Univ.
Feb. 29, Victor Haertal, Director, Center for Remote Sensing and Meteorology (CEPSRM) Brazil
Mar. 1, Tom Bechman, Indiana Prairie Farmer, Indianapolis IN
Mar. 14, Emmett Barker and Darrin Drollinger, Ag Electronics Assoc. Chicago IL

CONFERENCES/WORKSHOP DATES

(* = New listing)

Please note that we are not repeating conferences/ workshops mentioned in previous newsletters except those of Professional Societies/organizations that appear to be of special interest to our faculty/students.

1996:: *+Apr 1-3. GIS in Action '96. ASPRS Columbia River Region and URISA Oregon Chapter, Portland, OR. Contact: Fax: 503-797-1909; drc@metro.or.gov; +Apr 9-14. 92nd Annual Meeting. AAG, Charlotte, North Carolina. Contact: 202-234-1450; +Apr 14-19. 8th Brazilian Symposium of Remote Sensing, SELPER and INPE, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Contact: 55-123-25-6067/68; fax 55-123-25-6460/22-9325; sbsr@ltid.impe.br.; +Apr 15-19. SPOT Int'l Conference, SPOT, Paris, France. Contact: 33-1-44-88-25-25; fax 33-1-40-26-04-44.; *+Apr 19-21. 1st International Conference on GIS in Urban, Environmental & Regional Planning, National Technical University of Athens, Samos, Greece. Contact: 30-1-772-1601; timos@theseas.ntua.gr; *+Apr 19-21. The Thompson Symposium. The Photogrammetric Society, University of York, England. Contact: Roger Kirby, 031-650-2518, Fax: 031-650-2524; *+Apr 20-24. GIS Frontiers in Business and Science. Masaryk University and Forest Bank GIS, Czech Republic. Contact: 42-5-42128317, Fax: 42-5-42128300; brnogis@dior.ics.muni.cz; http://www.porthos.geogr.muni.cz; +Apr 20-26. 1996 ASPRS/ACSM Annual Convention, Baltimore, MD. Contact: 301-493-0200, Fax: 301-469-3360.; *+Apr 30-May 3. 9th Conference of the Quebec Assoc. of Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing in Geomatics, Quebec, Canada. Contact: 418-656-5491, 418-656-3607; Email: crg@crg.ulaval.ca; *+May 1-2. 1996 Pennsylvania GIS Conference, Penn State, Harrisburg, PA. Contact: 717-948-6505, Fax: 717-948-6276.; +May 20-24. Sixteenth Annual ESRI User Conference, Palm Springs, CA. Contact: 909-793-2853 ext. 2006, FAX: 909-793-5953; Email: ucregis@esri.com; +May 21-23. Second International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Fort Collins, Colorado. Contact: H. Todd Mowrer, 970-498-1100, Fax: 970-498-1010.; +May 27-31. IGARSS'96, Lincoln, NE. Contact: 713-291-9222, FAX: 713-291-9224; Email: stein@harc.edu; *+May 28-30. 5th Annual Natural Resources GIS/GPS Training, Conference and Exhibition. US Forest Service, CA Dept. of Conservation, Columbia College, Condor Earth Tech, Columbia, CA. Contact: 209-532-0361; *+June 3. 1996 GPS Conference. Center for GPS Research, Dunwoody Institute, Minneapolis, MN. Contact: David Zenk, 612-374-5800, Fax: 612-374-4128; zenkx002@maroon.tc.umn.edu; +June 10-14. GIS/LIS '96 Central Europe, Budapest, Hungary. Contact: North American Secretariat, 36 1 202 3128, Fax: 36 1 155 4171; +Jun 23-26. 3rd International Conference on Precision Agriculture, Bloomington Minneapolis, MN. Contact: Gene Anderson 612-625-7084 or 800-367-5363, FAX: 612-625-2207; Email: eanderson@mes.umn.edu; +Jun 24-27. 2nd International Airborne Remote Sensing Conference and Exhibition, ERIM, San Francisco, California. Contact: 313-994-1200 x3234; fax 313-994-5123; +Jul 9-19. ISPRS: Spatial Information from Images. ISPRS, Vienna, Austria. Contact: Karl Kraus 43 1 58801; fax 43 1 505 6268; email: isprs96@email.tuwien.ac.at; +Jul 27-Aug 1. URISA '96, Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, Salt Lake City, Utah. Contact: 202-289-1685; +Jul 30-Aug 1. Information Agriculture Conference, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. Contacts: Registration-Mary Hughes (913-776-0273); Program/Exhibits---Harold Reetz, (217-762-2074)/e-mail--- hreetz@uiuc.edu; +Aug 19-22. Human Interactions with the Environment: Perspectives From Space, PECORA Thirteen, Sponsored by USGS, NASA, NOAA, EPA and CIESIN, Sioux Falls, SD., Contact: 605-594-6040, Fax: 605-594-6083, Email: pecora13@edcserver1.cr.usgs.gov; +Sep 9-11. Spatial Technologies, Geographic Information, and the City, (A Research Conference), Baltimore, MD. UCGIA. Contact: Dr. Helen Couclelis, (805) 893 2196, Fax:(805) 893 8617, email: cook@geog.ucsb.edu; *+Sept 22-26. 32nd Annual Conference & Symposium: "GIS and Water Resources", Amer. Water Resources Assoc., Fort Lauderdale, FL. Contact: 703-904-1228.; *+Oct 2-4. Trimble '96 Surveying * Maping Users Conference & Exposition, San Jose Conv. Ctr. Contact: 408-481-8465. Fax: 408-481-8488.; +Nov 4-7. Eco-Informa '96-Global Networks for Environmental Information, ERIM, Eco-Informa Foundation, Epcot Science & Technology, USDA, NASA, US EPA, US Army COE, Lake Buena Vista, Florida. US Contact: 313-994-1200 ext. 3234. Europe contact: 49-921-552-245/155; fax 49-921-546-26.; +Nov 16-22. GIS/LIS '96 Annual Conference and Exposition. AAG, ACSM, AM/FM International, ASPRS, URISA, Denver, Colorado. Contact: GIS/LIS '96 301-493-0200; fax 301-493-8245
1997:: +Mar 21-27. AM/FM International Annual Conference, AM/FM International, San Antonio, Texas. Contact: Paula Delie 303-337-0513; +Apr 4-6. ASPRS/ACSM Annual Convention. ASPRS, ACSM, Seattle, Washington. Contact: 301-493-0200; +Jul 7-10. IGARSS '97. Cannes, France. Contact: 703-917-8655; fax 703-917-8656; khazenie@chrpisis.gsfc.nasa.gov

--Chris J. Johannsen, Director
  Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing (LARS)
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