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The RSSG Newsletter AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group The RSSG Newsletter Volume MMI, Issue 1 January 2001 Inside this issue: “Ruminations” from the Chair: The Chair Speaks 1 Thoughts on remote sensing outside of remote sensing... New Editor 1 In my “inaugural” pontifica- implications on air quality, Hydrology and Climate tion in the last issue of the particularly in exacerbating Center where I work, has RSSG Newsletter, I sug- the production of ground been using remote sensing WVU Remote Sensing 2 gested that one of the things level ozone, the people at data on a continental scale, Program I would like to see is more the NCEH wanted to know to evaluate landscape char- interaction between the more about the research that acteristics that may be pre- Meet Jim Merchant 3 RSSG and other AAG Spe- my colleagues and I have cursors for vector-borne dis- cialty Groups that we as re- been doing in the Atlanta eases, such as dengue fever. Tom Farr to Address the 3 mote sensing types don’t metropolitan area for the I had never really thought Business Meeting usually associate with last several years. Much to much, however, about how much. I was recently made my surprise, I found the remote sensing data could What is LaRSEA? 4 more aware of the possible, people whom I talked with be used at a local scale for and even significant, bene- at the NCEH were not re- human health applications. Remote Sensing E-mail 4 fits that can be realized in mote sensing “neophytes” at For example, one of the Lists working with people in all; they knew about remote things that the NCEH is in- these other Groups, when I sensing and were aware of terested in is identifying any EROS A1 Launched 5 had the opportunity to give the important role of remote underlying factors that have a talk on the thermal remote sensing data and analysis in contributed to the alarming sensing and urban heat is- geographic information sys- increase in asthma cases in Online Tutorials 5 land research I’ve been en- tems. Moreover, they really the U.S. They were won- gaged in, to the National opened my eyes to the great dering if the thermal infra- RSSG Sessions at AAG 6 Center for Environmental possibilities of using remote red remote sensing data Health (NCEH) at the Cen- sensing and GIS for human we’ve collected and ana- ters for Disease Control and health applications. This is lyzed for Atlanta could be Other Remote Sensing 8 Prevention (CDC) in At- an idea that I wanted to ex- used in conjunction with air Sessions at AAG lanta, Georgia. Because the plore further, since one of quality data and information urban heat island effect has the researchers at the Global EO-1 Update 10 (Continued on page 2) RADARSAT-2 in 2003 10 Greetings from the New Editor: NIMA presents Earth-info 11 John D. Althausen, Jr. I welcome all of you to my as Jim has done a terrific best to keep the newslet- AAG Workshops 11 first issue as Editor of the job in making the news- ter in the same format RSSG Newsletter. I as- letter a significant part of that Jim provided, and sumed these responsibili- the specialty group. I can over time I will try to add RSSG Website & 11 Discussion List ties from Jim Merchant, only hope that everyone new features that I feel who has served as editor will show me patience will benefit the reader- for two terms (1984 to and provide me with as- ship. With that said, AAG 2001 Annual Meeting New York, New York 1986 and 1990 to 2000). I sistance as I mature in here is Issue MMI, Num- February 27 to March 3 feel I have big shoes to fill this role. I will do my ber 1. Enjoy! PAGE 2 THE RSSG NEWSLETTER VOLUME MMI, ISSUE 1 “Ruminations” from the Chair: Thoughts on remote sensing outside of remote sensing... (Continued from page 1) In short, I found my trip to the NCEH that will enrich the overall focus of obtained from hospital admissions, to to be absolutely fascinating and it remote sensing and enormously expand help identify any spatial patterns of really brought home the fact that we as its horizon of science and applications asthma cases. After hearing what they geographers doing remote sensing re- opportunities. had to say about the desperate need for search, have a truly interdisciplinary spatial information to help them iden- tool that has vast applications outside See you in New York! tify any correlations between asthma of the “dominion” that we’ve all been and possible environmental factors, I working in for many years. I encour- Dale Quattrochi became really excited about the possi- age all of us to think “outside of the NASA bilities of using remote sensing data in box” and begin to visualize how remote Global Hydrology and Climate Center working with these people. As it turns sensing can be used for discovering SD60 out, we identified a host of possible new research opportunities by interact- Marshall Space Flight Center applications for remote sensing to local ing with other areas of geographical Huntsville, AL 35812 scale human health problems, and research, for example, medical geogra- (256) 961-7887 we’re now in the process of formaliz- phy and cultural ecology, that we have [email protected] ing a closer working relationship with not really taken full advantage of to each other so we can further explore date. In doing so as I learned, we will these areas of mutual interest. find intriguing possibilities for research Program in the Spotlight: Remote Sensing at West Virginia University Remote sensing is growing rapidly at an investigation of object-based classi- dergraduates and graduate students to West Virginia University (WVU). The fication of high spatial resolution im- France for remote sensing courses. Geography program has recently ex- agery. Seven students have been Three additional students will be at- panded to three faculty members spe- awarded Masters tending the 2001 course in cializing in remote sensing, and four in degrees in the last “The WVU remote sensing Greece. In addition, GIS. Duane Nellis, a recipient of the two years, and cur- WVU has hosted seven RSSG Outstanding Contributions rently there are educational program is students from the Euro- Award, and nominee for the Vice- three PhD students enriched by strong pean Union in 1999, with Presidency of the AAG, is Dean of the and one MA stu- a second group of students Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, dent. Graduates of international links through the due to arrive in June of and leader of the remote sensing group. the remote sensing Earth Imaging Consortium.” 2001. Tomas Brandtberg, a recently hired re- program have ob- search assistant professor, is a recent tained employment with Federal agen- Current research projects focus on the winner of the prestigious Linne´ Prize cies, private corporations, educational spatial aspects of imagery. In a project from the Swedish Royal Society of Sci- institutions and foreign research agen- sponsored by the NSF and NASA ence for his dissertation on forest map- cies. EPSCoR, with assistance from Kam ping with high spatial resolution im- Lulla (NASA JSC), the WVU remote agery. Tim Warner is a recipient of a The WVU remote sensing educational sensing group is assembling a high spa- College Outstanding Teacher Award. program is enriched by strong interna- tial resolution, multitemporal (ADAR, The Geography remote sensing pro- tional links through the Earth Imaging IKONOS, Landsat and Shuttle photog- gram also has strong links to the forest Consortium (www.earth.wvu.edu), raphy), and hyperspectral (AVIRIS and ecology program in the Department of funded by a grant from the US Depart- HyMAP) archive of imagery of a WVU Biology. ment of Education and the European Forest test site. The combined data set Union. Under the auspices of this pro- will allow us to investigate fundamen- The remote sensing program recently gram, WVU is developing an interna- tal questions about the relative value of graduated its first PhD student, Jong tional remote sensing curriculum, and spatial, temporal and hyperspectral Yeol Lee. Dr. Lee’s dissertation was in the last two years has sent five un- (Continued on page 3) VOLUME MMI, ISSUE 1 THE RSSG NEWSLETTER PAGE 3 Member in the Spotlight: Dr. James W. Merchant Jim Merchant is Pro- Department of Agricultural Meteorol- digital multispectral satellite data, (2) ogy. Jim received a B.A. in Geography spatial and contextual analysis of digi- fessor and Associate Director of the Center from Towson State University and both tal images, and (3) the design of spatial for Advanced Land his M.A. and Ph.D. in Geography from models that can be employed in geo- Management Informa- the University of Kansas. graphic information systems to aid in management of natural resources. tion Technologies He has been engaged in basic and ap- (CALMIT) at the Uni- plied research in remote sensing and Jim was been a recipient of many hon- Dr. Jim Merchant versity of Nebraska- Director of CALMIT GIS since 1971. Through his research, ors. In 1999, he received the Univ. of Nebraska Lincoln (UNL). Jim's Jim has become well known in the re- "Outstanding Contributions Award" academic homes at mote sensing field. He is well pub- from the Nebraska GIS/LIS Associa- UNL include the School of Natural Re- lished and, with his collaborators, has tion. This followed on the heels of his sources, Conservation and Survey Divi- received over two million dollars in receiving the RSSG's "Outstanding sion, and Institute of Agriculture and grant monies over the last five years.
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