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EARSeL Newsletter September 2002 - Number 51
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NEWS FROM THE ASSOCIATION AND ITS MEMBERS
2.1 New EARSeL partners in Ukraine
In June 2002 we had the pleasure of welcoming
to our annual symposium in
Prague, Dr. Alexey Sakhatsky, representing
Professor Vadim Lyalko, Head of the Scientific
Council for Remote Sensing in the
Ukraine, and the EARSeL representative
for the Centre of Aerospace Research of the
Earth (CASRE) in Kiev, Ukraine. Prof.
Lyalko invites EARSeL colleagues to visit
their facilities in Kiev with a view to closer
co-operation between our two organisations,
which of course the Bureau welcomes.
Prof. Lyalko can be contacted by
e-mail at casre@casre.kiev.ua.
New EARSeL member – Ukrainian Land
and Resource Management Centre
(ULRMC)
Another member from Ukraine has recently
joined EARSeL: the Ukrainian Land and
Resource Management Centre (ULRMC).
ULRMC is an International Association
which is a non-profit, non-governmental
joint venture between the Environmental
and Resources Research Institute of
Ukraine (ERRIU) and the Environmental
Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM),
USA. ULRMC is initially being funded by
ERIM under a grant from USAID. Since its
founding as a Ukrainian scientific and technological
NGO in January 1999, ULRMC
has continually promoted the importance
of sharing data and information in Ukraine
and throughout the region.
ULRMC is located at 13 Chokolivsky
Boulevard, Kyiv 03680, Ukraine. The staff
comprises twenty-five persons, including
scientists, software and GIS engineers, environmentalists,
technicians, financial experts,
and support personnel. In the USA,
ULRMC is represented in Washington,
D.C., and in Ann Arbor, Michigan, by its
American shareholder, ERIM.
ULRMC applies remote sensing (RS), GIS,
digital mapping and other information
technologies to land and resource management
issues at national and local
scales. ULRMC's applications are relevant
for many industries and challenges, in-
cluding agri-business, environmental
management, natural resources stewardship,
emergency response, capital investments,
infrastructure development,
privatisation, and land use management
and planning.
Using its capabilities, ULRMC provides information
products and decision support
systems needed to: monitor crop production
and support agribusiness production
and policy; detect and help mitigate environmental
contamination; produce digital
topographic, land cover, land use and other
data; plan and monitor commercial industrial
development; support transportation
development.
In support of its activities, ULRMC owns
and operates a High Resolution Picture
Transmission (HRPT) Station that acquires
Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor
(SeaWiFS) and Advanced Very High Resolution
Radiometer (AVHRR) data on a daily,
real-time basis from SeaStar (Orbital Sciences
Corporation) and NOM (USA government)
satellites. ULRMC has also developed
a significant archive of high-resolution imagery
from Landsat, IRS, SPOT and other
satellites. For more information concerning
ULRMC, please contact: Mr. Eric P. Luhmann
or Dr. Oleksandr A. Kolodyazhnyy (email:
e.luhmann@ulrmc.org.ua / o.kokod
yazhnyy@ulrmc.org.ua; web: www.ulrmc.
org.ua).
2.2 News from the Special Interest
Groups
SIG Coastal Zones
Following the 23rd EARSeL Symposium in
Ghent, Belgium (2-6 June 2003), a Workshop
focusing on coastal zones will be held
on 6-7 June. This continues the tradition of
the thematic workshops on Lidar Remote
Sensing of Land and Sea (1991-2000) and
the workshop Remote Sensing and GIS for
Coastal Zone Management (1994), and covers
all methods of remote sensing suitable
for this complex environment, with emphasis
on methods, technology and applications.