Satellite Remote Sensing and Image Analysis Activities at the Bangalore Section IEEE GRSS Chapter
Satellite Remote Sensing and Image Analysis Activities at the Bangalore Section IEEE GRSS Chapter
We organized a one-day workshop on Satellite Remote Sensing and Image Analysis: Activities at the Bangalore Section IEEE GRSS Chapter during 12th June 2017. Dr. Paul A. Rosen and Prof. William J Emery, Colorado University, delivered the keynote talks along with other members of GRSS members including Dr. B. S. Dayasagar and Dr. Jaya Nair.
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- Date: 12 Jun 2017
- Time: 04:46 AM UTC to 11:30 AM UTC
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- Systems Science and Informatics Unit
- Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road R. V. College Post Bangalore-560059
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- India
- Starts 12 June 2017 04:30 AM UTC
- Ends 12 June 2017 04:45 AM UTC
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Dr. Paul A. Rosen
SRTM and NISAR: Measuring Earth’s Topography and its Change
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States have embarked on the formulation of a proposed Earth-orbiting science and applications mission that will exploit synthetic aperture radar to map Earth’s surface. The mission’s primary objectives are the study of Earth land and ice deformation, and ecosystems, in areas of common interest to the US and Indian science and applications communities. The science requirements demand complete coverage of land and ice covered surfaces at fine spatial resolution, sampled at least twice (ascending and descending orbits) each 12 day repeat cycle. This leads to over 1 petabyte of raw radar data acquired each year, which expands by several factors after processing. This talk will discuss the nature of the science problems this mission is attempting to address with these spatially and temporally dense time series, and some of the statistical methods that are being employed to discovery and understand the characteristics of these unprecedented data sets, and extract scientific knowledge from the data products.
Biography:
Paul Rosen is currently Project Scientist for NASA-ISRO synthetic aperture radar mission concept at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Until 2012, he was the manager of the Radar Science and Engineering Section and Project Scientist for the DESDynI Mission Concept at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His assignments at JPL have centered on scientific and engineering research and development of radar instruments and applications. Dr. Rosen was a team leader on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, for which he received NASA's Exceptional Service Medal (2001) and NASA's Exceptional Achievement Medal (2002). Prior to JPL, Dr. Rosen spent two years at Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan. He received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and his M.S. and B.S in Electrical Engineering from University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Rosen is a visiting faculty member and lecturer at the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at Caltech, and has served on the UCLA Extension Program faculty. He was recently elected Fellow of the IEEE, and is a member of the American Geophysical Union. He is an author on over 40 journal and book chapter publications, and over 100 conference papers. Dr. Rosen was a Team Leader of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, for which he received NASA’s Exceptional Service Medal (2001) and NASA’s Exceptional Achievement Medal (2002).
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Address:Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 91109 USA,
Prof. William J. Emery of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO 80309-0431, USA
Author Education
This topic serves a two-fold purpose: 1. To inform the audience about the best way to write a research paper, and 2. Things to avoid as incorrect practices. He will also talk about the editorial process in IEEE.
Biography:
William (Bill) J. Emery (M’90–SM’01–F’03) is the current Chairman of the IEEE Periodical Committee, which is responsible for all 192 IEEE publications. he has been an editor for various publications for 42 years. The presentation is intended to help Indian authors to write and submit successful papers. He received the Ph.D. degree in physical oceanography from the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, in 1975. After working at Texas A&M University, he moved to the University of British Columbia, in 1978, where he created a satellite oceanography facility and education/research program. In 1987 he was appointed a Full Professor in aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is an Associate Member of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and
Space Physics, an Affiliate Member of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, and an Affiliate Member of the Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences. He is also an Adjunct Professor of informatics with Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy. He is active in the analysis of satellite data for oceanography, meteorology, and terrestrial physics (vegetation, forest fires, sea ice, urban change detection, etc.). He has authored over 170 refereed publications and two major textbooks. He is a member of the Science Advisory Team for the U.S. National Polar Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System program. His research focus areas include satellite sensing of sea surface temperature, mapping coastal ocean surface currents from altimetry and sequential imagery (infrared and ocean color), sea ice motion, and terrestrial surface processes. He has recently been working in urban image analysis using high-resolution optical imagery (with DigitalGlobe) and synthetic aperture radar data. Dr. Emery is a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) and was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS (GRSL) from 2003–2008. He continues to serve as an Associate Editor for GRSL and for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING. He is an At-Large Member of the Boulder Faculty Assembly and a member of the CU-System Faculty Council. He was recently named Chairman of the CU-System Personnel Committee. He is also currently serving as the Chair of the Front Range Chapter of the IEEE GRSS. He received the GRSS Educational Award in 2004 and its Outstanding Service Award in 2009. He is the PACE Vice President of the Denver Section of the IEEE. He was also a recipient of the BFA Excellence in Research Award in 2009 and was elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 2010.
Email:
Address:Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO 80309-0431, USA,
Agenda
Schedule:
12th June 2017, Monday:
10:00-10:15 REGISTRATION & COFFEE BREAK
10:15 -10:20 Welcome Address and a few words about Indian Statistical Institute by Prof. TSSRK. Rao, Head, ISI-BC 10:20-10:30 A few words about Bangalore Section IEEE GRSS Chapter and Introduction of Paul Rosen and William Emery by Dr. Saroj K. Meher, SSIU, ISI-BC 10:30-11:30 SRTM and NISAR: Measuring Earth’s Topography and its Change by Dr. Paul A. Rosen, JPL-NASA
11.30-11.45 COFFEE BREAK
11.45-13.00 Author Education by Prof. William J Emery, Colorado University
13.00-14.15 LUNCH
14.15-14.45 Mathematical Morphological Analysis of Chandrayaan Digital Elevation Model: Some Early Results by B. S. Daya Sagar & Athira, Indian Statistical Institute
14.45-15.15 Mathematical Morphology with Graph theory perspective by Sravan Danda, Aditya Challa, Indian Statistical Institute 15.15-15.30 COFFEE BREAK 15.30-16.00 Visual Analytics of Airborne Lidar Point Clouds by Jaya Nair, International Institute for Information Technology 16.00-16.30 Remote Sensing Image Classification with Granular Neural
Networks: Some Results and Discussion by Saroj K. Meher and Arun Kumar, Indian Statistical Institute 16.30-17.00 SNACKS