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Past Seminars and Events

2011 Seminars and Events:

Dr. James Gleason presented the seminar "NPP - The Nation's Next Earth Observing Satellite" at 3:30pm, December 1, 2011 at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center.

The presentation can be downloaded here, in PDF format (3.50 MB).

NASA Goddard Tour offered on August 30 and September 6 respectively.

The tours were formed at the Goddard Visitor Center, and the group was bused from there to the tour locations on the Goddard Campus: Building 7 and Building 29.

Building 7: The Spacecraft Testing & Integration facility, built in 1962, is comprised of facilities for spacecraft and instrument testing, laboratories and office space. It also houses diverse special projects that are responsible for planning, organizing, controlling and directing those projects from concept development and definition through design, fabrication integration, testing, launch and orbital operations. This building contains cleanrooms and special chambers that simulate the environment conditions of space ¨C thermal vacuum chambers, vibration platforms, and acoustics chambers. The Spacecraft & Test Engineering and Integration Branch, the Cryogenics and Fluids Branch, and the Thermal Engineering Branch offices are located in this building.

Building 29: Spacecraft Systems Development & Integration Facility (SSDIF) is the world¡¯s largest class 10,000 cleanroom). This building was constructed in 1990. The SSDIF is an 86,000 square foot facility designed to provide support for the integration and testing of spacecraft hardware. The High Bay Cleanroom has the capacity to simultaneously accommodate two Space Shuttle payloads. It is 1,000 times more sterile than a hospital operating room, and was used to prepare for all four Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Missions.

2010 Seminars and Events:

Dr. Thomas F. Wiener presented the seminar "GEO, GEOSS, and the IEEE" at 3:30pm, June 11, 2010 at NASA Goddard Visitor Center.

The presentation can be downloaded here, in PPT format (9.62 MB).

Dr. James B. Garvin presented the seminar "The NASA/Northrop Grumman Radar Partnership" at 3:30pm, May 5, 2010 at NASA Goddard Visitor Center.

2009 Seminars and Events:

Dr. R. Keith Raney presented the seminar "The Lunar Mini-RF Radars and their Hybrid Polarimetric Architecture", followed by Mr. Frank Monaldo's presentation on "Remote Sensing in the JHU/APL Space Research Branch" at 4:30pm, May 19, 2009 at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

The presentation can be downloaded here, in PDF format (6.53 MB).

James J. Reis (GeoSAR Chief Scientist, Fugro Earthdata International, Frederick, MD) presented the seminar " Extending the Landsat Legacy; Progress Towards an LDCM LaunchAn introduction to the GeoSAR X-band/P-band single pass IFSAR Mapping Instrument" at 3:00pm, March 24, 2009 at Fugro Earthdata International, 7320 Executive Way, Frederick MD, 21704.

Dr. James R. Irons (LDCM Project Scientist) presented the seminar " Extending the Landsat Legacy; Progress Towards an LDCM Launch" at 3:30pm, January 21st, 2009 at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center.

The presentation can be downloaded here, in PDF format (39.24 MB).

2008 Seminars and Events:

Dr. Robert F. Cahalan (Head of the Climate and Radiation Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD) presented the seminar "Earth's Changing Climate - What's been happening in recent decades? What might we do about it?" at 3:30pm, June 4, 2008 at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center.

The presentation can be downloaded here, in PDF format (13,442,901 bytes).

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2007 Seminars and Events:

Dr. Yuqi Bai (Research Assistant Professor, CSISS/GMU) presented the seminar "Effective discovery of geospatial data: a geospatial catalogue's perspective" at 3:30pm, October 31, 2007 at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center. He repeated this presentation at George Mason University in Room 161, Research I Building at GMU Fairfax Campus on November 5, 2007. The power point presentation can be downloaded here.

Dr. Joseph Guerci (IEEE Fellow) presented the seminar "Radar Horizons" at 7:00pm, November 1, 2007 in Room 1N100 of the MITRE 2 Building, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA. We co-soponsoreded this meeting with the Signal Processing Society.

Mr.Paul Richards (GOES-R Observatory Manager/PDRR COTR) presented the seminar "View of Earth from Space; an Astronaut's perspective" at 3:30pm, March 28, 2007 at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center.

2006 Seminars and Events:

We co-sponsored a meeting with the W/NV Chapter of AESS on November 30th at 5:30pm. Dr. A. Fenner Milton, Director, Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate, presented the seminar "Advances in Infrared Technologies."

Ms.Kathy Fontaine of the Global Change Data Center (Code 610.2), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center presented the seminar "Global Earth Observation Systems of Systems" at 3:30pm, November 1, 2006. The meeting was held at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center. The power point presentation can be downloaded here.

Drs: Klaus Seidel (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland) and Mihai Datcu (German Aerospace Center, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany) presented the seminar "Image Information Mining: The Semantic Gap" at 4:30pm, September 28, 2006. The meeting was held at the George Mason University Fairfax Campus, in Building Research I, Room 301.

"Understanding the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from Space: Beyond dogsleds and frozen toes," by Dr: Robert Bindschadler, Chief Scientist, Hydrospheric and Biospheric Science Laboratory (Code 614), NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD. This seminar was presented at 3:30pm, March 1, 2006, at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center.

2005 Seminars and Events:

"Novel Self-Adaptive Applications Strategies using Smart Satellites," by Dr: Richard Gomez, of the School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University. This seminar was presented 3:30pm, October 18, 2005 in Conference Room F (3^rd floor) of the George Johnson Center (campus map), George Mason University (directions), Fairfax, VA.

"Mapping Beneath the Vegetation: The GeoSAR Mapping Instrument," by Dr: Scott Hensley, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This seminar was presented at 3:30pm, June 8, 2005, at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center.

2004 Seminars and Events:

"Sea Surface Velocity Retrieval Using Dual beam Interferometry: First Demonstration," by Dr: Mark Sletten, Naval Research Laboratory. This seminar was presented at 12 NOON, December 9, 2004, at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center.

"USN Silver Fox, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle," by Dr: Keith Krapels, Office of Naval Research (co-sponsored with the W/NVChapter of the Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society). This seminar was presented December 1, 2004.

The Dr. Alfred T. C. Chang Memorial Symposium, in memory of Dr. Chang's contribution to Earth Science,October 12, 2004 at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center. For more information click here.

Last Updated: June 4, 2008