ConnecticutView
Connecticut recently became the newest Affiliate member of the AmericaView consortium, following a unanimous vote by the AmericaView Board of Directors. Mr. James Hurd, Jr., Research Associate, is the ConnecticutView Principal Investigator and the Director of the Laboratory for Earth Resources Information Systems (LERIS) in the Center for Land use Education And Research (CLEAR), Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. James works closely with Dr. Dan Civco, Professor and Director of CLEAR. James and Dan have worked together for almost twenty years. Mr. Michael Howser, GIS Librarian in the Map and Geographic Information Center (MAGIC), is also a major ConnecticutView participant.

CLEAR and LERIS have strong connections to remote sensing education and applied research. Both James and Dan have extensive experience with coastal wetland and estuary ecosystem mapping, and have done nice work in forest landscape and urban systems mapping and assessment. ConnecticutView already has two academic partners, the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at Wesleyan University in Middletown, and the Center for Earth Observation at Yale in New Haven. Mr. Hurd, Dr. Civco, and Mr. Howser bring strong theoretical and applied remote sensing and mapping skills to the consortium, and have identified additional academic, government, and non-profit partners to complement and enhance what promises to be a very strong and diverse statewide consortium.

James, Dan, and Michael, welcome to AmericaView!

AmericaView Fall Technical Meeting - October 5th and 6th, 2009
AmericaView members, hosted by the USGS, and partnering with the Upper Midwest Chapter of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), met recently at the EROS Data Center in beautiful Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  More than 80 AV and ASPRS members, students, USGS employees, and Congressional staff members learned about remote sensing research and applications, shared information on efforts to provide funding for AmericaView, and presented an award for K-12 GIScience Education.

Final Agenda
Abstracts
Powerpoint Presentations
K-12 GIScience Educator Award

July 22, 2009
Jay Morgan, MarylandView PI, was awarded a University System of Maryland endowed professorship to develop an emergency mapping tool application for Maryland using Google Maps. Morgan’s  application incorporates information such as evacuation routes, bus routes and flood hazard areas, in addition to the locations of evacuation centers, hospitals, police stations, gasoline stations, hotels and motels, and other important facilities and services. Combined with Google Map’s ability to generate driving directions, this application would provide freely accessible, easy to use, and important information to the public in the event of an emergency.   More

May 19, 2009
AmericaView welcomes its 35th and 36th members:  VermontView and WashingtonView. More

March 5, 2009
Daily Aqua and Terra MODIS Imagery is now available for 33 AmericaView states in both true and false color composites thanks to WisconsinView.  More

February 20, 2009
Dr. Sam Batzli, WisconsinView PI, was recognized with a "Friend of Land Records Award" by the Wisconsin Land Information Association (WLIA). In 2008, Dr. Batzli and Dr. Jonathan Chipman of Dartmouth College used an innovative radar image analysis technique to assess the flooding extent over the southern half of Wisconsin. In the process, Dr. Batzli coordinated with the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs, US Geological Survey, and other agencies to acquire disaster event data and make assessment products available to others.  More