Meetings/Regional Events

Spring 2009 New England Region Technical Meeting

Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
6:30 - 9:00 pm

This meeting at Yale was another great event. There were four very interesting presentations with a surpise fifth presentation. The topics ranged widely, and are listed below.

The presenters were:

• Ron Smith-An Introduction to the Center for Earth Observation at Yale University.
• Marty Gilmore - Wesleyan University- Integrating multi-temporal spectral and structural information to map wetland vegetation in a lower Connecticut River tidal marsh. (Pdf of presentation to follow.)
• Marcello Canuto and Bill Honeychurch - Yale University- From the Tropics to the Steppes: Some Applications of Remote Sensing in Archeology. (Pdf of presentations to follow.)
• Karen Seto - Yale University- Monitoring and Forecasting Urban Land-Use Change.
• Ron Smith - Yale University- Estimating the earth's heat budget from space.

Past Events

Fall 2008 New England Region Technical Meeting

Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire
6:30 - 9:00 pm

The technical meeting of the ASPRS New England Region at Dartmouth College last October was a great meeting. We were thrilled to see so many in attendance! (See map below.)
The presenters were: Presenters:

• Remote Sensing of Midwest and New England Lakes, Dr. Jonathan Chipman, Dartmouth University Geography Department
• TeleAtlas- Use of Remote Sensing in their product development, Don Cooke, founder of GDT, now TeleAtlas
• Dartmouth Flood Observatory, Bob Brakenridge, Director of Dartmouth Remote Sensing of Floods Observatory-- Click here for more info on the Flood Observatory.
• Remote Sensing/GIS at the Cold Regions Research Laboratory- Brian Tracy, US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing/GIS Center, CRREL

For directions click here. A campus map is available here.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - New England Region Spring Meeting and Technical Presentation

Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
6:30 - 9:00 pm

The Technical Meeting at Brown University was an excellent program. Presentations were given discussing exciting remote sensing work being done utilizing hyperspectral data from Mars to support geological research, as well as a project investigating large scale land-use/land-cover change in the Amazon basin. Attendees were also given the opportunity to tour and experience the 8' cube VR simulation "CAVE". On display in the CAVE was data from Victoria crater on Mars. You could even see the tire tracks from the Opportunity rover! In the CAVE, you almost feel like you're walking on Mars! Researchers also use the cave for medical education and research, as well as mission planning for trips to Antartica and hopefully beyond!

For information and pictures from past events, please click here.

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