Western New York GRSS Chapter Status and Activities 2017 Emmett Ientilucci, Ph.D., Chapter Chair Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Lab Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/rochester/grss
Western New York Chapter History Officially formed by Dr. John Kerekes of RIT on May 27, 2007 WNY Chapter spans 5 IEEE Sections of Region 1, Area D: Rochester, NY (Rochester serves as the parent Section) Binghamton, NY Buffalo, NY Ithaca, NY Syracuse, NY
Current Chapter Officers and Membership Chapter Chair: Emmett Ientilucci, RIT Chapter Vice-Chair: Sildomar Monteiro, RIT Chapter Secretary: John Kerekes, RIT 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 Membership and Promotion 20 members current One person attends the Rochester IEEE Section monthly meeting An additional venue for advertising our activities (2 pages in RES) Eases interfacing with the Section Treasurer to access Chapter funds
GRSS Sponsored Seminars in 2017 March 1, 2017 Sunnier than a Sunny Day: Recet Advances in Hyperspectral Image Simulation for Partly Cloudy Scenes Dr. Robert Sundberg, President Spectral Sciences, Inc. Burlington MA October 18, 2017 Candidate Imager Architectures for Sustainable Land Imaging Jeffery Puschell, Principal Engineering Fellow, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, El Segundo, CA October 20, 2017 The 2017 STRATUS Workshop Dr. Emmett Ientilucci, General Chair, RIT December 6, 2017 Thermal Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging: Instrumentation and Applications Martin Chamberland, Vice President of Technology, Telops, Inc., Quebec, Canada
2017 IEEE GRSS STRATUS Workshop Systems and Technologies for Remote Sensing Applications Through Unmanned Aerial Systems Aim is to facilitate interaction between academic researchers, industry researchers and students working in Remote Sensing utilizing UAS 81 people registered 23 Entities (company, university, etc. Last year 13) 2 Keynote Speakers (Headwall Photonics and RIT) 12 Oral presentations 29 students 2 Days of Sold Out tutorials Labsphere on Calibration Pix4D on Photogrammetry and mapping
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Looking at 2018 March 28, NIST. Hyperspectral Imaging Standards and Alternative Methods of Sensor Evaluation, David Allen, NIST March 28, MX1: A Nnew Multi-Modal UAS Payload System with High Accuracy GPS and IMU, Timothy Bauch, RIT September 19, Dr. Michael Gazarik, VP Engineering, Ball Aerospace October 3, Prof. Joseph Shaw, Montana State University STRATUS will be Feb 2019. Much larger committee. RIT, Cornell University, Univ. of Buffalo, Syracuse University Also, Entertaining the Distinguished Lecture Program