The 1742 registered conferees, and nearly 300 guests who participated in the 27th annual International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium held July 6-11 in Boston included children, college students and young professionals, all with their own targeted programming to develop their enthusiasm for Earth science and technology.
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program, in coordination with the Office of
Science and Technology Policy and Council on Environmental Quality, has prepared a draft report on climate change that is open for public comment through August 14, 2008.
Google, Microsoft and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
People can now easily visualize what their next trip or hike will look like; they can readily combine EO data with other kinds of geographic data ; and they can easily save the views they have constructed and send them to other users. However, geospatial technologies are more complex than most people realize.
Earth Observation – The French Connection to GEOSS
Whether for surface imagery, altimetry, studies of aerosols and clouds or recording the Earth’s magnetic field, satellites permit a global view of our Earth and in combination with more precise local in situ measurements offer enormous potential in understanding how the Earth system works from the planet’s core out to the stratosphere, helping us to manage our Earth.
An Earthzine Conversation With Michael H. Freilich
“It’s almost a golden age of Earth observation because these many missions which are flying at the same time are all measuring different aspects of the system at the same time, and most with global extent. This is giving us, for the first time, the fodder for assembling an integrated view of the Earth.”
For The Benefit Of Society
Given the IEEE’s technical scope and global presence, our 375,000 members have a tremendous opportunity to contribute. In fact, our members are already involved in a number of such projects. For example, the IEEE Committee on Earth Observation has since 2005 been involved in the International Group on Earth Observations and its effort to create a Global Earth Observation System of Systems.