Canadian Atlantic Section 2021 Annual General Meeting (AGM)

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The IEEE Canadian Atlantic Section invites you to its 2021 Annual General Meeting, to be held online on Thursday, December 16th. Networking will begin at 18:00h, followed by a welcome and keynote presentation. The Annual General Meeting will commence after our CAS Awards ceremony recognizing outstanding contributions and volunteers involved in IEEE and CAS activities. The Annual General Meeting will be virtual to follow the IEEE and provincial regulations on holding events.
 
The event will be held over the WebEx platform. Following your registration, an email with the WebEx login details will be provided to you one day prior to the AGM.
 
Please review the attachment at the bottom of this event page outlining the 2021 IEEE CAS Executive Committee Call for Nominations as well as information on the IEEE CAS Awards nomination process. Thank you!

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  • Date: 16 Dec 2021
  • Time: 06:00 PM to 09:00 PM
  • All times are (GMT-04:00) Canada/Atlantic
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  • Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Canada
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  • Starts 22 November 2021 07:17 PM
  • Ends 16 December 2021 09:00 PM
  • All times are (GMT-04:00) Canada/Atlantic
  • No Admission Charge

  Speakers

Dirk Werle, SMIEEE

Topic:

A Long View of Canada’s RADARSAT Earth Observation Satellite Program and Connections to Atlantic Canada

Biography:

Dirk Werle is a Senior Member of IEEE and its Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, joining the IEEE in 1987. He has been a geoscientist and partner with Ærde Environmental Research for more than 30 years. He started out as a young researcher at Canada's RADARSAT Project Office in the mid 1980s after receiving his MSc in Physical Geography and Remote Sensing from McGill University in Montreal. He has worked on numerous satellite-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) projects here in Canada and overseas, involving a host of space agencies, government departments and research institutions. He is currently working as a senior Earth observation expert with the Canadian Space Agency. His talk illuminates some historic elements of radar and Canada’s RADARSAT program, notably the development of its environmental monitoring side, and highlights most recent accomplishments of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission.




Agenda

18:00 – 18:15: Join Event and Networking

18:15 – 19:15: Welcome address and Technical Talk

19:15 – 19:30: Awards

19:30 – 21:00: Annual General Meeting


  Media

CAS 2021 AGM NOMINATIONS 62.07 KiB
IEEE_CAS_2021_AGM_Agenda 202.34 KiB