LARS Newsletter

September 1996

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JOHANNSEN ON SABBATICAL

As you receive this Newsletter, my thoughts are thinking about the next 6 months when I am on sabbatical leave with Space Imaging Corp as a Visiting Research Scientist. I am looking forward to the "change of pace" and will send you my comments about that change in the next LARS Newsletter. My email will be monitored and forwarded to me as needed. (I decided that I need a "sabbatical" from the 40-50 messages/day that I have been receiving!)

TODD HELT AT EARTHSAT

Todd Helt began an Applications Scientist, Environmental/GIS Services position on August 1 at Earth Satellite Corp, Rockville, MD. He is "working on a Landsat TM-based habitat classification for two watersheds in Northwest Colorado, and has been assisting with a TM-based landcover classification for the state of North Carolina. And trying to wrap up and package the thesis, of course! In short, I have been keeping very busy."

VISITING SCHOLARS

Professor Jin-Il Kim, Department of Computer Engineering, Dong-Eui, University, Pusan, Korea and Professor Victor Haertel, Center for Remote Sensing and Meteorology, Federal University, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, arrived recently to spend a study period as visiting scholars at the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering. They are working in the Multispectral Image Processing Laboratory with Professor David Landgrebe serving as their host. Prof. Kim will be here for one year, and Professor Haertel for 6 months. Welcome to both Scholars!

THOSE LARSIANS OF OLD...THEY KEEP SURFACING

Dave Snyder, a LARS student employee and later Systems Analyst (1980-82), found us on the web and reported on his world today. He is Information Systems Manager for Electronic Data Systems (EDS), as part of their Utilities Services business unit. They provide total information solutions (systems development & support, integration, consulting, and operations) to thousands of companies around the world and have over 90,000 employees. Dave can be contacted at "DLS@atl.ema.eds.com".

Dave now lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife Karen and three kids (Nick, Stacey, and Shawn). They really enjoyed the Olympics in Atlanta this year (said not to believe all the negative media hype). Every year they return to central Indiana to "subject both sets of grandparents to their grandchilden". Nice to hear from you, Dave!

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:: *+Oct 2-4. ESRI European User Conference, ESRI, London, England. Contact: 01923-210-450; fax 01923-210-739; csmith@esriuk.com .; +Oct 2-4. Trimble '96 Surveying - Maping Users Conference & Exposition, San Jose Conv. Ctr. Contact: 408-481-8465. Fax: 408-481-8488.; +Oct 7-9. Detection of Abandoned Landmines Conference: A Humanitarian Inperative Seeking a Technical Solution, Edinburgh, UK, The UK Institution of Electrical Engineers. Contact: Sheila Griffiths or http://www.iee.org.uk/LSboard/Conf/program/mineprog.htm; +Oct 27-Nov 1. Visualiztion, IEEE, San Francisco. Contact: 510-486-5093, Fax: 486-5548, nejohnston@lbl.gov; +Oct 28-29. 1996 Symposium on Volume Visualization, Livermore National Lab, San Franciso. Contact: Fax: 510-423-8704, crawfis@lbl.gov; *+Oct 28-31. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, GSA, Denver, CO. Contact 303-447-2020, Fax: 447-0604; meetings@geosociety.org; +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 4-8. Second United Nations Regional Conference on space Technology for Sustainable Development in Africa, United Nations (Office for Outer Space Affairs), Government of the Republic of South Africa and the European space Agency (ESA), Pretoria, Republic of South Africa. Contact: 43-1-21345-5631; fax 43-1-21345-5830; hgeorge@unov.un or www.un.or.at/OOSA_Kiosk/sched/sched.html; +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; *+Nov 18. 6th Annual GIS in Illinois Conference, IL GIS Association, Dekalb, IL. Contact: 815-753-1906.; *+Nov 19-22. 4th Color Imaging Conference, Soc for Information Display, Scottsdale, Arizonia. Contact 703-642-9090, info@imaging.org or www.imaging.org; +Nov 19-22. Rs, GIS & GPS in China. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Contact: Mr. Mi Zhaohui, 8610-5051582, Fax: 8610-5051582.; +Nov 20-22. First European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, Technical Uni of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. 303-425-5610, Fax: 303-425-5610.; +Dec 9-11. 1996 Texas GIS Forum, Austin, TX. Contact: 512-463-7314, Fax: 475-4759.; *+Dec 11-13, SoFor GIS '96, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Contact: fax 706-542-6645.
1997:: +Jan 26-30. Space Technology & Applications International Forum (STAIF-97). NASA et.al, Albuquerque, NM. Contact: Prof Mohamed S. El-Genk, Uni of New Mexico, (505) 277-5442, Fax: 277-2814, Email: mgenk@unm.edu; +Feb 9-14. Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, IS&T and SPIE, San Jose, CA. Contact: 703-642-9090 Ext. 10.; +Mar 17-19. Fourth International Conference on Rmote Sensing for Marine & Coastal Environments: Technology and Applications. ERIM, Orlando, FL. Contact: raeder@erim.org, Web: http://www.erim.org/CONF/conf.html; +Mar 21-27. AM/FM International Annual Conference, AM/FM International, San Antonio, Texas. Contact: Paula Delie 303-337-0513; +Mar 24-27. 2nd Int'l Symp - The Expansion of Remote Sensing Market, Assoc. Aeron & Astron of France, Paris, France. Contact: AAAF- Celine Douchez, 33(1) 47 23 58 11, Fax: 33 (1) 47 23 89 11; +Apr 1-5. Association of American Geographers Annual Mtg, AAG, Fort Worth, TX. Contact 202-234-1450, Fax: 234-2744, gaia@aag.org. Web: http://www.aag.org; +Apr 4-6. ASPRS/ACSM Annual Convention. ASPRS, ACSM, Seattle, Washington. Contact: 301-493-0200; *+Apr 7-10. Geospatial Information Age--1997 ACSM/ASPRS Annual Convention and Exhibition, Resource Technology Institute Annual Conference, Auto Carto 13, Seattle, WA. 301-493-0200; lhachero@aol.com; or autoc13@u.washington.edu; http://weber.u.washington.edu/~autoc13/; *+Apr 29-1 May, ASPRS 16th Biennial Workshop on Color Photography and Videography in Resource Assessment, Weslaco, TX. Gerald Anderson, 210-969-4834, gl-anderson@tamu.edu; http://rsru2.tamu.edu/rsru/workshop/workshop.htm; +May 26-29. GIS AM/FM '97 and Geo-informations '97, Chinese Geographic Information Society, Taipei, Twiwan. Contact: jglay@ccms.ntu.edu.tw; *+July 7-10. Third International Airborne Remote Sensing Confernence and Exhibition, ERIM, Copenhagen, Denmark. Contact: 313-994-1200, ext. 3234, Fax: 994-51123. wallman@erim.org Deadline for Call for Papers: December 13, 1996.; +Jul 7-10. IGARSS '97. Cannes, France. Contact: 703-917-8655; fax 703-917-8656; khazenie@chrpisis.gsfc.nasa.gov; *+July 7-11. Seventeenth Annual ESRI User Conference. San Diego, CA. Contact: www.esri.com; uc97@esri.com; 909-793-2853 ext. 1-1363; *+Sept 22-26, 46th Photogrammetric Week, Zeiss, Stuttgart, Germany. Contact: 49-711-121-3201; fax 49-711-121-3297.

--Chris J. Johannsen, Director
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