Seminar: Video Change Detection Web Processing Service

30 July 2010 Mr. Zeqiang Chen, a Ph.D. student of Professor Liping Di, gave a presentation about his work on the implementation of video change detection Web Processing Service in the OWS-7 (OGC testbed phase 7).

2010 IEEE IGARSS

25-30 July 2010 CSISS/GMU has two presentations during this symposium: "Persistent WCS and CSW services of GOES data for GEOSS" and "Enhancing Remote Sensing Education with GeoBrain Cyberinfrastructure". Dr. Meixia Deng co-chaired two sessions with Dr. Hampapuram Ramaprian: FR2.L03 GIS Applications and FRP2.PF Geographic Information Science: Applications.

2010 ESIP Federation Summer Meeting and Winner of Annual Mini-grant Competition

20-23 July 2010 There are two posters presented during this meeting: "Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Common Infrastructure (GCI)" (Douglas D. Nebert, Liping Di, Yuqi Bai, Xuanang Cheng) and "Sharing and Analyzing DEM Datasets Through DEM Explorer" (Weiguo Han, Liping Di, Peisheng Zhao, Xiaoyan Li, Yuanzheng Shao, Meixia Deng).
Dr. Weiguo Han attented this meeting. The project titled Sharing and Analyzing DEM Datasets Through DEM Explorer from CSISS won $5,000 award in Annual Mini-grant competition from ESIP FUNding Friday.

Seminar: Crop Yield Estimation Research in China

21 Feb. 2012 Prof. Jianqiang Ren from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, visited CSISS, and gave a presentation.

Seminar: High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing

21 Feb. 2012 Prof. Yan Lei, director of Head of Spatial Information Integration & Its Applications Beijing Key Laboratory, from the RS & GIS Institute of Peking University, visited CSISS, and gave a presentation.

Seminar: Context-aware Sensor Web: Use Cases in South Korea

9 July 2010 Dr. Gil Heo is a visiting scholar from South Korea. He gave a presentation on his research about applying the sensor technology in creating a Ubiquitous Smart Space(USS) for Wellbeing Life and monitoring land using vehicle-mounted-sensors.

OGC OWS-7 Final Report

30 June 2010 CSISS/GMU participated OGC Web Services Phase 7 (OWS-7) of the OGC Interoperability Program Initiative: Sensor Fusion Enablement (SFE) thread and Aviation Thread.
In the SFE thread, we developed an OWS-7 Motion Imagery (MI) Discovery and Retrieval Engineering Report. The report documents the metadata items used for accurate geopositioning of MI in order to enable the discovery, retrieval, and temporal and geometrical linkage of MI with other data sources. We also designed and implemented a Change Detection Web Processing Service (WPS). The WPS compares two MI data streams of the same region from a Sensor Observation Service (SOS) and detects and delineates changes between the two MI.
In the Aviation thread, we contributed to the OGC IP Engineering Report - Aviation Portrayal. We also developed a Web Feature Service (WFS) 2.0, which is based on the severe weather detection model developed by Dr. John F Moses at NASA GSFC.

CESIR First Year Progress Report

1 April 2010 GMU-NOAA Cooperative Center for Earth Science Informatics Research (GESIR) first year progress report was hold in Greenbelt office. NOAA officials, Kenneth McDonald, Lewis D. McCulloch, and Martin Yapur, visited CSISS today. Prof. Liping Di presented the progress report to them about the R&D activities at CESIR in the first year.

OGC OWS-7 Kickoff

19-21 January 2010 OWS-7 Kickoff was hold at George Mason University, Fairfax Virginia campus. CSISS representives, Dr. Peisheng Zhao and Dr. Genong Yu, joined this activities.

OGC OWS-6 Interoperability Day

26 June 2009 CSISS representives, Dr. Peisheng Zhao and Dr. Genong Yu, joined the OWS-6 interoperability day in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Seminar: Model Web

25 March 2009 NASA Ecosystem forecasting program manager, Dr. Gary Geller, visited us and gave a talk on Model web on afternoon of March 25 starting at 1:30pm. After the talk, Liping Di gave him the review on CSISS work on geoprocessing modeling. We agreed to utilize the GeoBrain software products to promote the Model Web concept through some typical decision support scenarios.

USGS Landsat Project Planning Meeting

23 January 2009 Douglas D. Nebert and CSISS director, Prof.Liping Di, along with four CSISS members, Dr.Genong (Eugene) Yu, Xuanang Cheng, Upendra Dadi and Dr.Yuqi Bai, hold thd USGS landsat project planning meeting in USGS headquarter today.
CSISS's flagship geospatial software product, GeoBrain, will be used to build an integrated data discovery, data analysis, data customization, and data dissemination workbench system for USGS landsat images.
During this meeting, a polar ecosystems scenario was defined, and main technical issues were discussed, with the project milestones finialized.