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October 2020
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
INDUSTRY
NEWS
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
URISA is pleased to announce the results of its 2020 URISA
Board of Directors’ election. Brent Jones will serve in the posi-
tion of President-Elect and Kathryn Brewer,
Xan Fredericks
,
and Steve Steinberg will serve as Directors. They will all begin
their three-year terms at the conclusion of
which
will be presented virtually this year.
Brent will serve as President-Elect for one year and his term
as President will begin at the conclusion of GIS-Pro 2021.
Newly-elected URISA Board of Directors:
• Kathryn
Brewer,
GISP,
Principal/GIS
Project
Manager,
Spatial
Relationships
LLC,
Boston
Massachusetts
• Xan Fredericks, GISP, Lidar Coordinator/Associate
National Map Liaison, US Geological Survey, St
Petersburg, Florida
• Steven J. Steinberg, Ph.D., MPA, GISP, Geographic
Information Officer (GIO), County of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles, California
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Atlantic is pleased to announce Nickolas Fusco, PLS, PSM as
our most recent addition to the Executive Leadership team. Nick
brings decades of proven surveying and engineering experience
and will focus on bringing that expertise to all Atlantic clients.
“I am so excited for Nick to join the Atlantic Team,” said
Dennis Hall, Atlantic’s Vice President of Business Development.
“Nick’s 45+ years of experience in the geospatial industry will
be invaluable to our team. I believe his experience and licensure
in the surveying field will open doors to us and will expand
our service offering to our clients. We are looking forward to
leveraging his extensive experience with the US Army Corps of
Engineers and State Departments of Transportation to further
build our clientele.”
For more information, please visit
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EQUIPMENT & TECHNOLOGY
SPECTRAL EVOLUTION prov i des por tab l e spec-
troradiometers that can be used to take albedo mea-
surements in the field. Spectroradiometers include
the SR-6500, RS-8800, RS-5400, PSR+, RS-3500 and
PSR-1100f. These spectroradiometers and FOV lenses are cali-
brated to NIST standards for absolute radiance measurements.
Using a calibrated straight or right angle diffuser, a spectra of
the downwelling irradiance can be accurately measured.
Albedo is a measurement of the electromagnetic solar radi-
ation reflected by the earth’s surface divided by the radiation
incident on its surface. It is a fraction of the incident sunlight
that a surface reflects. Albedo has a value from zero to one, with
zero being a black totally absorbing surface and one being a
mirror-like completely reflecting surface. Bright earth albedos
like snow, clouds and ice have albedos ranging from 50% to 90%
while dark surfaces such as asphalt roads, dark soils and forests
have albedos ranging from 5% to 20%.
For more information on measuring albedo, visit:
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The SPECTRAL EVOLUTIONRS-8800 field spectroradiometer
now works with a wide range of our accessories for
in situ
measurements for remote sensing applications.
The RS-8800 is uniquely equipped with SPECTRAL
EVOLUTION’S
Sensaprobe™
grip which features a tilt angle
sensor, auto-rangefinder and camera to automatically pho-
tograph and record field of view of scanned image displayed
on your personal cell phone. This unique capability provides
researchers with a convenient way to see exactly what they
are measuring.
The RS-8800 field spectroradiometer is a full range (350-
2500nm) high resolution/high sensitivity system including an
Internet of Things (IoT) operating system that allows you to
operate the system by iPhone, Android device, or tablet.
The RS-8800 uses its IoT operating system to control our
accessories so that any user can get consistent scans. The IoT
uses a WiFi network accessed by an Android device, iPhone or
tablet for controlling the system and downloading data stored
on the instrument.
Formoreinformationvisit:
CALENDAR
• 30 November - 4 December 2020,
Climate Change and
Disaster Management — Technology and Resilience
in a Troubled World
, Sydney, Australia. For more
information, visit
ccdm2020.
• 28 January - 4 February 2021,
43
rd
COSPAR Scientific
Assembly
, Sydney, Australia. For more information, visit
/.
• 7-11 June 2021,
URISA GIS Leadership Academy
,
Minneapolis, Minnesota. For more information, visit
-
academy/.
• 16-20 August 2021,
URISA GIS Leadership Academy
,
Portland, Oregon. For more information, visit https://
-
academy/.
• 8-12 November 2021,
URISAGIS Leadership Academy
,
St. Petersburg, Florida. For more information, visit www.
urisa.org/education-events/urisa-gis-leadership-academy/.
• 23-25 April 2021,
GISTAM 2021
, Prague, Czech Republic.
For more information, visit
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