2003 Joint Remote Sensing Seminar

Universities and Organizations Participating:

Purdue University
Indiana State University
Mississippi State University
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
University of Nebraska
John C. Stennis Space Center
Stoneville Delta Research & Extension Service
USGS EROS Data Center

Date:

Seminar Topic:
August 27 Charles O'Hara, Earth Resouces Center, Mississippi State University, "Remote Sensing and Spatial Data for the CSX Railroad Relocation EIS"
September 3

Roger King, Mississippi State University, "Lessons learned from a year as a Washington Bureaucrat".

After a year of work within the Washington beltway what have I learned besides not to drink Potomac water? I will share some of my experiences and lessons learned from such a wide ranging field of topics as:
- How to avoid being shot by a sniper or ran over by a white van.
- OMB vs congress - Who has the real power?
- Why is it that in Washington if you are asked to organize a meeting that you're not high enough to speak at it?
- Can I affect the budget process?

Dr. King recently returned from a 1 year assignment at NASA HQ in Washington, DC. At NASA he served as the Chief Technologist for the Earth Science Enterprise's Applications Division. While at NASA HQ he was assigned to work on a variety of topics ranging from the NSPD on commercial remote sensing to the recent Earth Observation Summit to managing the Division's $70M research budget.
September 10 Bryan Pijanowski, Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, "Modeling land use changes and impacts at regional scales using GIS, remote sensing, and artificial intelligence tools"
September 17 Lori Bruce, Mississippi State University, "Data Reduction and Rapid Analysis of Hyperspectral Datasets"
September 24 Dan Reynolds, Mississippi State University,"The Use of Precision Agriculture in Mississippi Cotton Production"
October 1 Gilbert Rochon, Purdue University, "Real Time Remote Sensing for Time Critical Applications"
October 8 David Evans and Robert Moorhead, Mississippi State University, "Spatially-Immersive Visualization of Remote Sensed Forestry Data"
October 15 Kevin Gallo, NOAA/NESDIS, USGS EROS Data Center, "Land Use and Seasonal Green Vegetation Cover of the Conterminous USA for Use in Numerical Weather Models" (2.6 mb)
October 22 Kelly Dupont, InTime, Inc., "Times Are Changing ... Prescription Farming Through Remote Sensing"
October 29

Al Peters, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Forecasting Vegetation Greenness with Satellite and Climate
Data" (3.8 mb)

The work is based on Lei Ji's doctoral dissertation and papers that he and Al Peters have coauthored recently. Lei is currently with the Institute for Cooperative Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University, and he is housed at the EDC with Kevin Gallo.
November 5 Larry Biehl, Purdue Univesity, "A Look at MultiSpec, LOOC, Classification Feature Space, Classifier Complexity and more"
November 12 Tim Warner, West Virginia University, "Remote Sensing of Individual Trees using Lidar"
November 19 Doug Miller, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Weed Detection and Mapping – Remote Sensing Tools for Consultants and Researchers"
November 26 Thanksgiving Holiday
December 3 Presentations by Students
December 10

Presentations by Students

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