Technical Committee & Chapter Chairs Dinner Wednesday July 24, 19:0021:00 Location: MCEC Room 210
Eastern NC Chapter #03191
Student Chapter #66221
Dr. Linda Hayden, Director
Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and Research
Elizabeth City State University
Elizabeth City, NC 27909
252.335.3696
HAYDENL@MINDSPRING.COM
http://nia.ecsu.edu/ieee/index.html
Dr. Linda B. Hayden, President
Je’aime Powell, Vice President
Jeff Wood, Secretary
Elizabeth City State
Box 672 ECSU
1704 Weeksville Rd.
Elizabeth City, NC 27909
(252) 335-3696 voice (252) 335-3790 fax
Typical meetings include:
• Registration time
• Minutes from previous meeting http://nia.ecsu.edu/ieee/minutes.html
• GRSS and IGARSS updates
• Distinguished Lecturers
• Eastern North Carolina IEEE updates from the Vice President
• Research Poster Session
• Reception and Refreshments
IEEE-GRSS Distinguished Lecture Series
Dr. Reginald Fletcher
USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
"Mapping Invasive Weeds and Their Control with Spatial Information Technologies"
Dr. Reginald Fletcher of the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Weslaco, Texas
presented "Mapping Invasive Weeds and Their Control with Spatial Information Technologies" as
part of the continuing Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by the IEEE-Geographic Remote
Sensing Society. Dr. Fletcher is a soil agronomist studying the science of utilizing plants for food,
fuel, feed, and fiber.
Mr. Eric Baptiste
SeaSpace Director of Civil Space & Special
Projects
"Remote Sensing Satellites and Future
Imaging Platforms"
Distinguished Lecture
Dr. Judy
Qiu
Indiana University
"FutureGrid Education: Using Case
Studies to Develop Curriculum for
Communicating Parallel and Distributed
Computing Concepts
IEEE-GRSS Distinguished Lecture Series
Mr. Clay Swindell
"Modern Digital Orthographic Quarter Quad aerial photography and Ground Penetrating
Radar application to the Cobbs Point-Culpeper Rebellion Archaeology Project”
http://nia.ecsu.edu/ur/2013/130710dls/
"Earth Observation & Geoinformation Sciences for Environment and Development in
Africa: Global Vision and Local Action Synergy"
On October 28, 2012, representatives from Elizabeth City State University, Dr. Linda B.
Hayden, and Miss Patrina Bly traveled to Africa, for the 2012, 9th biennial International
Conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing and the Environment (AARSE)
African Students sponsored at AARSE 2012
Ange Murphy -Central African Republic, Ali Dembele -Ivory Coast, Ngalula Bint KapibiDemocratic Republic of Congo, Shekimah -Democratic Republic of Congo, Liliane UwizeyeDemocratic Republic of Congo, Arthur Lioda-Ivory Coast, Louise Carine B. Bafai-Democratic
Republic of Congo
The ACAN recommended Elizabeth City State University Bay
for approval at its meeting on January 5, 2012 to the U.S.
Board on Geographic Names The name Elizabeth City State
University Bay has been approved for use on maps and other
products of the Federal government. The name was approved
officially at the meeting of the U.S. Board on Geographic
Names on April 17, 2012 and was entered into the Geographic
Names Information System (GNIS), the nation's official
geographic names repository on April 19, 2012.
GRSL-00258-2012, IEEE- JSTARS-2012-00405.R1
Issue 3 • Date June 2013
Reduction and Loss of an Ice Shelf in Elizabeth City State University Bay, Antarctica:
1972–2003LeCompte, M. ; Bindschadler, R. ; Hayden, L.B. ; Jefferson, M. ; Bridgers, Y.S. ;
Lawrence, R. ; Bevins, J. ; Brownlow, J. ; Evans, R. ; Hawk, K. ; Koch, G.
The purpose of WorldMet® is to collect and distribute satellite data to customers.
SeaSpace Corporation WorldMet® service is comprised of two U.S. nodes.
WorldMet® West in Poway California at SeaSpace headquarters
WorldMet® East at Elizabeth City State University (ECSU)
International nodes are currently located in Sevilla, Spain, and Daejon, Korea.
Future nodes will be located in Japan and India.
Current Upgrades
3.6m X/L-Band ground station for the collection of Aqua, Terra, Suomi NPP, andFY-3 data
Two 2.3m geostationary ground stations for the collection
of GOES-East and GOES-West
3.7m C-Band system for the collection of Eumetcast data
from the AB-3 satellite
5.0m DOMSAT system
network upgrades for dedicated bandwidth
Eastern North Carolina
Training Session for Section / Chapter Volunteers
• The Eastern North Carolina Section will be holding a training session on Tuesday,
July 30, 2013 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
• The primary topic will be the steps and available resources for planning and
executing section / chapter / branch meetings.
• The intended audience is current section and chapter volunteer leaders.
(left to right) Orestes Gooden, Mohammad M. Hasan, Kuchumbi Hayden and Je’aime
Powell will represent the ECSU chapter at this training event.