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Maeve Hickok

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Tom Wiener on the IEEE’s World Vision and Work with GEO

IEEE joined the ad hoc Group on Earth Observations in 2004 to help define an entirely new and “virtual” structure, a Global Earth Observation System of Systems. When completed, GEOSS will provide a framework for Earth observation data collected worldwide by thousands of instruments and in-situ methods. This vast cache of information will be catalogued and made accessible through functional interoperability to ensure that everyone in the world can use it—for free or minimal cost. In this Earthzine interview, Dr. Thomas F. Wiener, Chair of the IEEE Committee on Earth Observation, discusses how IEEE’s involvement with GEO has grown.

Maeve Hickok, posted on July 12th, 2010
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Announcement – “Making Citizen Observations a Global Vision” Annual College and University Student Essay and Blogging Contest

This preliminary announcement introduces Earthzine’s second global essay and blogging competition for college and university students. More detail is linked here and will become available in the next few months.

Maeve Hickok, posted on June 2nd, 2010
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Announcement – Call for Papers: Global Human Health

www.Earthzine.org is soliciting articles worldwide for its theme issue on observing and monitoring Global Human Health, including contributions addressing current issues, techniques and applications of remote sensing, GIS, and geovisualization. The theme issue is scheduled for the third quarter of 2010, June 21 – September 21. Guest Editor is Assaf Anyamba, PhD.

Maeve Hickok, posted on April 26th, 2010
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SumbandilaSat EO satellite shows South Africa’s Space Mettle

South Africa is moving quickly to put itself and Africa among the nations using satellites by demonstrating its growing capacity to design, build and launch the latest generation of small and medium satellites, and to educate and retain a new generation of space engineers.

Maeve Hickok, posted on January 11th, 2010
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Group on Earth Observation Measures GEOSS Progress at GEO Plenary VI

The GEO Plenary VI in Washington, DC Nov. 17 and 18 drew an international and dedicated assembly of delegates from its 80 Member nations, the European Commission, and 56 affiliated organizations who reported their progress toward achieving the goals of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems by 2015. Read more here.

Maeve Hickok, posted on December 1st, 2009
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SSIT President Janet Rochester Observes Earth and the Implications of Technology

Janet Rochester is a senior member of the IEEE leadership and president of the Society on Social Implications of Technology. In this interview she shines a spotlight on the range of SSIT members’ interests, and on her own intellectual considerations and concerns.

Maeve Hickok, posted on November 9th, 2009
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Kuruom vidyalaya: the Power of One in a Billion

In Korown, an Uttar Pradesh India farming village where little has changed for hundreds of years, a 21^st century school opened its doors for the first time in July to 100 girls and boys in grades 1-4, 6, and 7. Kuruom vidyalaya is the bricks-and-mortar embodiment of the Hindu goddess Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge, and testimony to one man’s spirit and commitment. That man is Bal Ram Singh, Ph.D., 51, once a child of the village and now a successful biophysical chemist at a U.S. university (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) and director of its Center for Indic Studies, who built the school himself without government assistance. Deeply engaged as a Hindu, a family man, a professor, research scientist, and a U.S. citizen, he is also determined to prove that “one little man” can change the status-quo in India for the better.

Maeve Hickok, posted on August 26th, 2009
Economy, Education, Featured Person, Millennium Development Goals, People | 14 Comments »

La Vie de Josiane Zerubia: A Very Modern Woman of Science

Josiane Zerubia is a director of research, first class, at INRIA, the premiere French public research institute in applied mathematics and computer science. Her contributions to Markovian modeling in image processing and remote sensing were recognized by IEEE with her elevation to Fellow in 2003. But her story really begins in Cannes, France where she was taught at an early age by her mother Jeanne and grandmother Louise that she could do whatever she wanted if she worked hard enough. La Vie de Josiane Zerubia: A Modern Woman of Science begins here.

Maeve Hickok, posted on July 27th, 2009
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Announcing the 2009 Student Essay Competition Sustainability through Earth Observation and Engineering

Earthzine will host its first essay competition for college and university students with the goal of supporting and advancing the twin themes of sustainability in the 21st century: social equity and environmental protection.

Maeve Hickok, posted on July 13th, 2009
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IEEE Committee on Earth Observation Standards Working Group (ISWG) is recruiting volunteers to build GEOSS

Imagine a world where adoption of uniform standards for all manner of Earth observation systems and services made universal interoperability the rule, not the exception. Working towards this goal, the international community of volunteers who comprise ISWG has been meeting regularly since May 2005. As it moves forward, ICEO has a call for volunteers to participate as a team of experts to establish best practices for the taxonomies and ontologism of Earth Observation.

Maeve Hickok, posted on May 21st, 2009
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