The Western New York Chapter of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society was established in 2007 to serve GRSS members and the general public interested in geoscience and remote sensing in the western New York (USA) region and beyond. See the article about our initial activities in the Chapter's Corner of the December 2007 GRSS Newsletter. Please contact the Chapter Chair or your local Section Coordinator if you would like more information or are interested in presenting a technical seminar at one of our chapter meetings. Our meetings are open to the general public; you do not need to be a member of IEEE/GRSS to present or attend.

The Chapter is joint across five IEEE Region 1 Sections: Rochester (parent), Buffalo, Syracuse, Ithaca and Binghamton. Monthly meetings with technical presentations are held throughout the academic year rotating among various locations across the sections.

Chapter Officers

Chapter Chair: Tony Vodacek, Rochester Institute of Technology
Chapter Vice-Chair: Emmett Ientilucci, Rochester Institute of Technology
Chapter Secretary: John Kerekes, Rochester Institute of Technology
Buffalo Section Coordinator: Bea Csatho, University at Buffalo
Ithaca Section Coordinator: Bill Philpot, Cornell University
Syracuse Section Coordinator: Jay Kyoon Lee, Syracuse University
Binghamton Section Coordinator: Open

April 24, 2013

Advanced Methods for Classification of Hyperspectral Data (Dr. Melba Crawford, Purdue University) Time: 16h00-17h00 Location: RIT Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science; Building 76 Room 1125 (auditorium); Henrietta, New York; United States. Please see online map.

March 27, 2013

(Dr. Charles Bachmann, Naval Research Laboratory) Time: 16h00-17h00 Location: RIT Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science; Building 76 Room 1125 (auditorium); Henrietta, New York; United States. Please see online map.

March 27, 2013

(CANCELED due to sequestration) Using Airborne and Space Lasers to Measure Forests (Dr. Ross Nelson, Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Branch, NASA Goddard) Time: 16h00-17h00 Location: RIT Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science; Building 76 Room 1125 (auditorium); Henrietta, New York; United States. Please see online map.

March 13, 2013

(CANCELED due to sequestration) Hyperspectral Target Detection Enhancement Through Radiometric Signature Modeling (Dr. Michael T. Eismann; Senior Scientist; Electro-Optical and Infrared Sensors; Sensors Directorate; Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)) Time: 16h00-17h00 Location: RIT Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science; Building 76 Room 1125 (auditorium); Henrietta, New York; United States. Please see online map.

March 6, 2013

Recent developments in photogrammetric orientation of close-range image networks and high-resolution satellite imagery (Dr. Clive S. Fraser; Program Science Director, CRC for Spatial Information; Dept. of Infrastructure Engineering; University of Melbourne, Australia) Time: 16h00-17h00 Location: RIT Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science; Building 76 Room 1125 (auditorium); Henrietta, New York; United States. Please see online map.

January 23, 2013

Lidar remote sensing of vegetation biophysical parameters at multiple scales: terrestrial, airborne, and spaceborne perspectives (Dr. Sorin Popescu, Texas A"&"M)