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766 October 2016 PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
ASPRSNEWS
• Strategic Objective 2: develop a framework of
contemporary interdisciplinary themes, topics, and
issues which could benefit from marine applications of
remote sensing.
• Strategic Objective 3: maintain a bibliography of works
supporting Strategic Objective 2, with attention to
visibility of paradigm shifts, concepts, definitive results,
analytic resources, and tools.
Academic Working Group
Chair, Dr. Giorgos Mountrakis, State University of New York
College of Environmental Science and Forestry,
(315) 470-4824,emailgm@esf.edu.
Vision — Seamless integration of commercial, governmental
and societal needs in academic experiences
Mission — The mission of the Academic Engagement
Committee (AEC) is to facilitate a dialogue between academic
institutions and external stakeholders such as government
agencies, commercial companies and non-profit organizations.
• Goals
- Establish guidelines for independent studies and
internships.
- Establish guidelines for minimum outcomes from an
undergraduate/graduate RS-related degree.
- Identify/develop low-cost software that provides basic
remote sensing functionality.
- Establish collaboration mechanisms where external
stakeholders provide data/expertise for class projects.
- Develop, in collaboration with an industry sponsor, a
classification competition.
- Develop a repository where interested parties can
upload/download reference data for algorithmic
development (similar to the UCI Machine Learning
Repository)
Climate Change Working Group
Contact John McCombs,john.mccombs@noaa.gov,for
information on the Climate Change Working Group. Chair
and Assistant Chair positions are open.
Vision — Remotely sensed imagery and other geospatial
data will be accurately acquired and appropriately used for
monitoring and modeling climate change at global, national,
continental, and regional scales.
Mission — The Climate Change Committee falls under
the Remote Sensing Applications Division. Its purpose
within ASPRS is to develop guidelines and best practices
for the acquisition, documentation, dissemination, and use
of remotely sensed and geospatial data within the arena
of climate change; promote the understanding and use of
geospatial data for climate change; provide an avenue for
ASPRS to become more active in national and international
climate change organizations and activities.
Emergency Response/Humanitarian Aid
Please contact John McCombs,john.mccombs@noaa.gov , for
information on this new proposed working group. Chair and
Assistant Chair positions are open.
Not a current Working Group, but has been talked
about and interest has been shown.
• Tap into the expertise of ASPRS/RSAD combined with
data from vendors, cloud access, open platforms for rapid
response in times of need
• Would ask companies to open part of their platform/data
to selected users for tool/application/product development
• RSAD would have to develop a directory of “expertise/
SME” and determine volunteer willingness to participate
• Organizations (NGA, FEMA, Red Cross, etc.) could tap
into expertise
• Coordinate with GISCorps, Civil Air Patrol, UN-SPIDER
(United Nations Platform for Space-based Information
for Disaster Management and Emergency Response),
Doctors without Borders
• Need to consider software and data requirements,
cloud location, MOUs (big topic), licensing, privacy,
infrastructure, etc.
• Need to avoid duplication of effort. Maybe create a “suite”
of products that ASPRS/RSAD could produce in certain
situations.
• ASPRS becomes liaison between government, business,
agencies, etc. A “neutral” location that can lower barriers
for cooperation
• Some mention that DigitalGlobe may have performed a
multi-user based image classification. “20 sets of eyes on
an image, instead of 1 set.
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