Technical Committee & Chapter Chairs Dinner Wednesday July 24, 19:00-21:00Location: MCEC Room 210

Eastern NC Chapter #03191Student Chapter #66221

Dr. Linda Hayden, DirectorCenter of Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and Research

Elizabeth City State UniversityElizabeth City, NC 27909

252.335.3696HAYDENL@MINDSPRING.COM

http://nia.ecsu.edu/ieee/index.html

Dr. Linda B. Hayden, President

Je’aime Powell, Vice President

Jeff Wood, SecretaryElizabeth City State

Box 672 ECSU1704 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

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.

Dr. Reginald Fletcher USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS)

"Mapping Invasive Weeds and Their Control with Spatial Information Technologies"

IEEE-GRSS Distinguished Lecture Series

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 SeriesMr. 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 Kapibi-Democratic Republic of Congo, Shekimah -Democratic Republic of Congo, Liliane Uwizeye-Democratic 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.

Current Upgrades3.6m 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

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.

• 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.

Eastern North Carolina

Training Session for Section / Chapter Volunteers

(left to right) Orestes Gooden, Mohammad M. Hasan, Kuchumbi Hayden and Je’aime Powell will represent the ECSU chapter at this training event.