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GRS-S Publication Awards Presented at IGARSS 2009 Banquet

The IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society’s 2009 Publication Awards were presented at the IGARSS Awards Banquet in the Ballroom of the Mount Nelson Hotel on Thursday, July 16 in Cape Town, South Africa. The Mount Nelson Hotel, situated on nine acres of tranquil gardens…

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IEEE GRS-S Interactive Session Prize Paper Award

The GRS-S established the Interactive Session Prize Paper Award to recognize the author(s) who posted at the GRS-S Symposium (IGARSS) an exceptional paper in terms of content and impact on the GRS-S. In selecting the paper, other factors considered are originality, clarity and timeliness of…

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Call for Nominations for the GRS-S Administrative Committee

The Nominations Committee calls upon our membership to nominate members to serve on the GRSS Administrative Committee (AdCom). The GRSS AdCom consists of 18 elected persons, each of whom serves for three years. Their terms are overlapping to ensure continuity. Additional information on the society…

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Professional Organizations – Public, Private, Academia

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
Aerospace Industries Association (AIA)
American Astronautical Society (AAS)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
American Meteorological Society (AMS)
American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)
Geological Society of America (GSA)
Geospatial Information…

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Centralized Remote Sensing In 2030 – our struggling institutional systems

The centralized satellite and aircraft observing systems we have historically used to understand the environment are struggling to address this ‘scale gap’. Such systems are increasingly limited by their cost and complexity; society’s growing need for knowledge that spans global to local is simply outpacing…

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Distributed Remote Sensing In 2030 – augmenting the institutional systems

An emerging solution to the ‘scale gap’ is to call on the capabilities of community (citizens and non-professionals) to ‘augment’ centralized remote sensing systems. Centralized systems will remain critical to our knowledge base, but community remote sensing (CRS) may be the only means to bridge…

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Private Sector’s Role In 2030 – brief editorial

What role will the private sector play in remote sensing two decades hence? Over the last twenty years, the private sector’s traditional role as a contractor for government-led projects has evolved markedly. We have witnessed a rapid growth of purely private-sector offerings, from commercial satellites…

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Applications In 2030 – the ‘scale gap’

Technology evolution will have an enormous impact on what we do by 2030, but demand-driven changes are probably even more important. The ability of governments and businesses to improve efficiency and grow productivity requires increasingly sophisticated information about the world they work in – implying…

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Remote Sensing History 1990-2010 – the evolving private sector role

Two decades ago, remote sensing was largely a government-led activity. The private sector provided most aerial photogrammetry, but otherwise supported government programs mainly by building spacecraft and developing applications under government contracts. The first big change occurred with the emergence of commercial remote sensing satellites…

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