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: Jan van Aardt, Rochester Institute of Technology
Chapter Vice-Chair: Anthony Vodacek, 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

January 11, 2012

The National Ecological Observatory Network's Airborne Observation Platform - integrating hyperspectral and lidar remote sensing for vegetation assessment (Dr. Tom Kampe, Scientist & Product Team Lead for NEON AOP) 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.

July 14, 2011

The ICESat-2 Mission: Laser altimetry of ice, clouds and land elevation (Thorsten Markus and Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Time: 11h00-12h00 Location: RIT Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science; Building 76 Room 1125 (auditorium); Henrietta, New York; United States.

July 21, 2011

An Autocorrelation Analysis Approach to Detecting Land Cover Change using Hyper-Temporal Time-Series Data (Waldo Kleynhans, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa) Time: 16h00-17h00 Location: RIT Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science; Building 76 Room 1125 (auditorium); Henrietta, New York; United States.

May 31, 2011

Web-enabling the ingestion, archiving, cataloguing, and automated image processing chains for radio- and geometric correction and classification of remote sensing imagery (Wolfgang Lück; South African National Space Agency) Time: 15h00-16h00 Location: RIT Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science; Building 76 Room 1125 (auditorium); Henrietta, New York; United States. This meeting was hosted jointly with the ASPRS Central New York section.

April 22, 2011

Localizing Tunnel Positions Under Rough Surfaces with Underground Focused Synthetic Aperture Radar (Prof. Carey Rappaport; Northeastern University) Time: 14h00-15h00 Location: RIT Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science; Building 76 Room 1125 (auditorium); Henrietta, New York; United States. This meeting was hosted jointly with the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, Western NY.

March 29, 2011

2011 Rochester Section Joint Chapters Meeting Time: 4:30-9:00pm Location: RIT Inn & Conference Center; 5257 W. Henrietta Road; Henrietta, New York; United States Topics: Chapter Technical Presentations: GRSS session talk by Dr. Anthony Vodacek (RIT) - Remote Sensing of Geohazards in the African Rift Valley Keynote Presentation: Dr. Stephen D. Senturia, MIT & former Polychromix CTO: MEMS - Where Everything You Ever Learned Is Relevant This was a meeting of IEEE Chapters in Rochester that featured concurrent technical presentations followed by a social period, dinner, and our keynote speaker, Steve Senturia from MIT.

February 11, 2011

"The Use of GIS and Imagery Information in Emergency Management featuring the Monroe County GIS Technology Vehicle" Time: 12-4 pm Location: Monroe County Public Safety Training Facility; Office of Emergency Management; 1190 Scottsville Road; Suite 200 (2nd floor); Rochester, NY, 14624. Agenda: Justin Cole (Monroe County GIS Services Division): GIS & disaster response Don McKeown (RIT): Real-time airborne imagery for disaster response applications Tour: Monroe County GIS Technology Vehicle This meeting was joint with the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Central New York Region.

January 19, 2011

Terapixel Imaging (David Brady, Duke University) 4 pm, Carlson Auditorium, Carlson Building, RIT Campus. Click here for directions. This meeting is joint with the Center for Imaging Science Weekly Seminar Series. Video: Dr. Brady's talk can be viewed here and is hosted by the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science seminar webite.

November 8, 2010

Advancing waveform lidar sensing through improved understanding of complex signals for ecological applications such as structural unmixing, species classification, and biomass estimation (Jan van Aardt, Rochester Institute of Technology) 6 pm, 1275 Carlson Building (76), Rochester Institute of Technology.

Additional meetings will be announced in the near future.