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IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Special Issue on Radio Frequency Interference: Identification, Mitigation, and Impact Assessment

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IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Special Issue on “Radio Frequency Interference:  Identification, Mitigation, and Impact Assessment”

Due to sharing of allocated bands, limitations in hardware, and transmissions outside of allocations, remote sensing observations experience radio-frequency interference…

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IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Special Issue on 12th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment

Special Issue on the 12th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment

Manuscript submissions are solicited for a Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS) dedicated to expanded versions of the papers (both oral…

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Winners of 2011 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest Announced

 
 

The 2011 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest was designed to investigate the unique benefits that very high spatial resolution multi-spectral imagery can bring to remote sensing scientists and the greater community. Hundreds of scientists participated in the Contest conducting independent research.

The…

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New software tools for NASA Earth Science

Tools to Support the Reuse of Software Assets for the NASA Earth Science Decadal Survey Missions
Chris A. Mattmann1,4, Robert R. Downs2, James J. Marshall3,
Neal F. Most
3, Shahin Samadi3

1Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91109, USA

2CIESIN

Columbia University
Palisades,…

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Keeping an Eye on Volcanic Ash

Claus Zehner, European Space Agency, ESRIN, Italy.
Neil Fletcher, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany.

The recent ash clouds from Iceland’s Eyjafjälla volcano grounded hundreds of flights across Europe causing travel chaos and costing the European airline industry billions of Euros. The volcanic ash, which caused such turmoil…

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IEEE GOLD Remote Sensing Conference

Maurizio Migliaccio
Università di Napoli “Parthenope”, Italy.

The IEEE South Italy GRS Chapter has organized at the Italian Naval Academy in Livorno the fourth edition of the biannual IEEE GOLD (Graduate Of Last Decade) Remote Sensing Conference. The conference has been held on April 29…

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RISAT-1: A Fully Polarimetric C-band SAR Mission of ISRO

R.R. Navalgund, Space Applications Centre,
Jodhpur Tekra, Ahmedabad 380 015, India

RISAT (Radar Imaging Satellite)-1 is a series of Indian radar imaging reconnaissance satellites being built by ISRO to provide all-weather surveillance using Synthetic Aperture Radars (SAR). Radar imaging satellite (RISAT-1) is scheduled to be…

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Spotlight on Community Remote Sensing

IGARSS 2010 (http://www.igarss2010.org/), to be held July 26-30 in Honolulu, will spotlight the emerging field of Community Remote Sensing (CRS) with a plenary session entirely dedicated to the topic (supporting the conference theme “Remote Sensing: Global Vision for Local Action”). During the year leading up…

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Top Reviewers from TGARS and GRSL Recognized

The Editorial Boards of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGARS) and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL) have decided to resurrect a custom practiced in the past of annually recognizing their best anonymous peer reviewers. Recently, all Associate Editors of the…

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Study Calls for Improved Spectrum Management to Protect Earth Obseravtions

by Albin J. Gasiewski and Marshall H. Cohen

During the past two years a committee of the U.S. National Research Council has quietly and painstakingly assessed the use of the radio spectrum for scientific purposes. The foci of the study were the two broad scientific…

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