On behalf of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRS-S), I would like to invite you to participate in our annual International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2010). IGARSS is being held this year in Honolulu, Hawaii from July 25-30 (please refer to www.igarss10.org for more information). Since this is the 30th anniversary of IGARSS, we are anticipating a particularly large attendance and a very interesting conference. As a result of a very careful review process, an outstanding technical program has been organized with several highlights. The theme for the plenary session will be “Community Remote Sensing”. Our society has fostered and promoted Community Remote Sensing over the last year to illustrate how the Internet, social networks, and other technologies will change the field of remote sensing by augmenting our traditional centralized satellite and aircraft data sources with citizen-supplied information and analysis. The keynote address during the plenary session will be given by two prominent officials from the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP): Mr. Aneesh Chopra, President Obama’s Chief Technology Officer, and Ms. Shere Abbott, Associate Director for Energy & Environment. Their presentation will focus on the “Community Remote Sensing” theme as well, a concept that has been embraced by OSTP as a key future capability to provide the information needed to address national and global issues. With excellent planning underway by a highly dedicated organizing committee, we expect this symposium to become the best IGARSS that we have ever had!
Our Mission
The Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society seeks to advance science and technology in geoscience, remote sensing and related fields using conferences, education, and other resources.
Fields of Interest
The fields of interest of the Society are the theory, concepts, and techniques of science and engineering as they apply to the remote sensing of the earth, oceans, atmosphere, and space, as well as the processing, interpretation and dissemination of this information.
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The advances of desertification is a menace to agriculture and urban settlements in many areas of the world. Urban areas, natural resources and crop monitoring and critical for our development and sustainability.
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Oceans cover 97% of the Earth’s surface and water controls the planet’s climate regulating it. Oceans contain the largest food and energy stocks, necessary for the development of an increasing population.
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Katrina’s hurricane is a clear example of a devastating event due to an uncontrolled atmospheric event. Predicting hurricane trajectories helps save hundreds of lives and goods.
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The cryosphere contains an immense amount of solid water. During the past decades the amount of ice has been continuously decreasing, while the mean sea level has been slightly rising. Cryospheric monitoring provides the clues of the past of our planet, and may provide a clear indication of its future.
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Data gathered from a number of remote sensors must be processed before it is converted into usefull information. Classification techniques help in this process.
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Remote Sensors are all based on some sort of electromagnetic phenomena (scattering or emission). Understanding the propagation of the electromagnetic waves and their interaction with matter is critical to design new sensors and understand the measurements.
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Active and passive sensors, either in the microwave or in the visible and infrared parts of the spectrum are systematically used to gather data of a number of physical phenomena from ground, airplane and space.
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Information (mainly from remote sensors) for the benefit of society is the moto of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems.
