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, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 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 5:00 PM to 6:00 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 YCEO Lab at ESC 119 before or after a meeting.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| February 4 | Adam Wilson | Using MODIS NDVI to model post-fire ecosystem recovery in South Africa |
| March 4 | Mao-Ning Tuanmu |
Global consensus land cover data for spatial biodiversity research |
| April 1 | Lindsi Seegmiller et al | F&ES Geo SIG presentations |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| October 1 | Dr. Miguel Román | The Suomi National Polar Orbiting Partnership (NPP) Day/Night Visible Sensor: Unleashing A New Era of Nighttime Remote Sensing Applications |
| November 5 | David Butman |
Landscape controls on riverine biogeochemistry |
| December 3 | Noel Aloysius | Use of Remotely Sensed Information in Land Surface Hydrology: A Case Study from the Congo River Basin |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| February 6 | Ron Smith | Regional Climate Mysteries Relating to the Surface Energy Budget |
| March 5 | --- | Recess break - no meeting |
| April 2 | KT Mertes | Rainforest fragmentation in SE Mexico AND Movement decisions reveal fine-grain species-environment relationships for three bird species in Laikipia, Kenya |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| October 3 | Larry Bonneau |
Review of data import routines in ENVI |
| November 7 | Various | A review of Yale Labs using remote sensing; includes FES, EPH, EEB, Anthro, and G&G |
| December 12 | Students | Remote Sensing of Land Cover and Land Use Change student project presentations |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| February 7 | P. K. Joshi |
Geoinformatics for Environmental Studies & Forestry - some experience |
| March 7 | --- | Recess break - no meeting |
| April 4 | Chris Mackey | Chicago Urban Heat Island |
| Larry Bonneau | Landsat gap filling with ENVI software |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| October 4 | —— |
No meeting this month |
| November 1 | Qingling Zhang | Using the NOAA "Night Lights" to map urban sprawl |
| Eliza Little | Looking for Dengue fever vectors | |
| December 6 | Katherine Mertes | The relationship between tree cover and urban temperature in Los Angeles |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| February 1 | Ben Zaitchik | Improving simulations of climate and hydrology through satellite data assimilation |
| March 1 | Moe Myint and Xuemei Han |
Landscape-level mapping of forest stand structure and type by combining multispectral reflectance and radar backscatter: An innovative integration of pixel-based and object based approch using k-mean algorithm |
| April 5 | Sarah Guagliardo | Using Remote Sensing to Extract Environmental Variables in Dengue Fever Research: A Case Study in Merida, Venezuela |
| Will Gardner | A Nomads Response to Social Change: Landsat analysis of Ulaanbatar, Mongolia from 1989 to 2009 |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| October 5 | Stacey Maples |
GIS Updates at Yale |
| November 2 | Dea Doklestic | Assessing the effects of Argentina's 2009 drought and determining the dominant land-atmosphere feedbacks |
| Michele Trickey | Using MODIS Thermal Emissive Bands to detect atmospheric temperature versions over Chile | |
| December 7 | TBD | TBD |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| February 2 | Helen Poulos | Using Remote Sensing to Estimate Birch Canopy Productivity |
| March 2 | Qingling Zhang |
Temporally and spatially complete MODIS BRDF/Albedo product for regional and global applications Regional Climate Change: Land-surface feedbacks in Semi-arid Regions |
| April 6 | Ron Smith, Karen Seto, Marcello Canuto, Marty Gilmore | This month we will host the New England Region ASPRS meeting from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Refreshments at 6:30 PM. All are welcome. |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| September 1 | -- | Labor Day holiday - No meeting this month |
| October 6 | Larry Bonneau | What's new at the YCEO Lab, an update on software, and some exiting new sensors you will want to know about |
| Zach Parisa | Estimating above ground carbon in a highly variable landscape, to a high degree of accuracy, with new AVNIR-II and PALSAR data | |
| November 3 | Karen Seto | Our new F&ES associate professor is an expert in urban growth dynamics and remote sensing. Karen will talk about her current and future work |
| December 1 | Kim Carlson | Using feature extraction tools to classify high resolution multispectral satellite imagery in the tropics |
| 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 |
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