The Remote Sensing User Group is an informal assembly of students, faculty, and staff at Yale University who have a common interest in the field of satellite-based remote sensing. The purpose of the group is to exchange ideas, share experiences, and improve communication among the diverse remote sensing community here at Yale. These areas include Foresty & Environmental Science, Geology & Geophysics, Archeology & Anthropology, Epidemiology & Public Health, the Genocide Study Program, the Environmental Studies Program, and several other organizations around the campus.
User Group meetings are held on the first Monday of each month, from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM, in the Environmental Science Center classroom ESC 110. Anyone wishing to learn more about remote sensing is encouraged to attend a meeting. You may also want to contact Larry Bonneau to arrange for a brief tour of the CEO Lab at ESC 119 before or after a meeting.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| February 4 | Jung Hyo Chae | Seasonal variation of the tropical cloud-top height from MISR observation |
| Will Gardner | Remote Sensing Survey of Prehistoric Land Cultivation In the Yampa and White River Drainage Basins | |
| March 3 | Dr. P. K. Joshi | Ecological Mapping in India using temporal satellite remote sensing data and other inputs |
| April 7 | Canceled | |
| May 5 | Noel Aloysius | Predictability of Vegetation Growth Conditions based on Climatic Conditions |
| Roland Geerken | TBD |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| September 3 | Labor Day holiday - No meeting this month | |
| October 1 | Larry Bonneau | Solar Illumination and Mountain Micro Climates |
| TBD | TBD | |
| October 15 Special Seminar! |
Roland Fletcher University of Sydney |
Angkor - urban landscape, economy and environment |
| November 5 | Karina Yager | Using remote sensing in landscape ecology studies in Sajama National Park, Bolivia |
| Zack Parisa | Sustainable forest and rangeland management in Armenia | |
| December 3 | Tom James | The Darhad Valley of Mongolia as seen from Landsat and Horseback |
| Brenna Vredeveld | The benefits of remote sensing to prepare for field work in Quito, Ecuador |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| February 5 | Ted Holford | Spatially integrated exposure modeling |
| Russ Schimmer | Remote sensing - a new tool for genocide research and studies | |
| March 5 | David Butman | Estimating Biomass Across Large Scales...trials and tribulations... |
| Abe Parrish | GIS Education Offerings at Yale | |
| April 2 | Neung-Hwan Oh | Using GIS and remote sensing to study carbon transport in riverine systems |
| Maria Diuk-Wasser | Climate modeling for Lyme disease risk mapping | |
| May 17 | Rhead Enion | Processing images with "R" to create generalized linear models to estimate secchi disc transparency, chlorophyll a and total suspended solids in Chesapeake Bay and Long Island Sound |
| Special date/time | Thursday 11 AM -- ESC 110 |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| August 8 | Larry Bonneau | Image Analysis and ArcGIS - a demo and discussion of remote sensing education at Yale |
| September 12 | Helen Mills | Advanced classification using CART and decision trees |
| Emily Goble | The truth about ground truthing | |
| October 10 | Jason Nesbitt | Using ASTER to study archaeological landscapes |
| Heidi Brown | Comparing vegetation indices across 3 sensors (ASTER, Landsat, and Hyperion) | |
| November 14 | David Griffith | Studying carbon sequestration in the Hudson River |
| Roland Geerken | A global LCLU classification scheme for NDVI time series | |
| December 12 | Andrew Niccolai | Development of automated tree identification methodology in high spatial resolution remotely sensed imagery |
| Kim Carlson | Using high-resolution hyperspectral data to predict plant biodiversity in tropical forests |
25 April 2008