This workshop will be conducted in Boulder, CO on June 12-14. The due date for abstracts has been extended to March 30, 2012. There is still time for submittal.
The aim for the workshop is the creation of a four year, multi-disciplinary program that…
The IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference is taking place in Seattle on October 31 through November 2, 2011 at the Renaissance hotel in down town Seattle.. You can attend selected sessions through the web. The selected sessions will be announced on…
First presentation – September 21, 2011 at 14:00 UTC. This is the first of a series of web presentations on advances in environmental information and its impacts on our lives, both locally and globally. The first presentation is by an internationally…
The IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference will take place in Seattle, WA USA, October 30 – November 1, 2011. Read GHTC Message 090611
A workshop on the socio-economic benefits of GEO-GEOSS is planned for July
11-13 at the Joint Research Center in Ispra Italy. The purpose of the workshop is
to identify a program of activities to undertake during 2011-14 to support the
GEO 10-year…
The Group on Earth Observations Ministerial Summit was held in Beijing, China on 5 November 2010. The IEEE Delegation was led by Professor Moshe Kam, 2011 IEEE President and CEO. The IEEE participated in the deliberations and hosted an exhibit. Prof Kam…
Earthzine is recruiting a motivated individual with interest in environmental issues to serve as Science Editor to support the development of its technical content. Earthzine is an on-line publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, a…
Interoperability is usually thought of as standards and interoperability arrangements. Another important aspect of interoperability is the implementation practices – call them either “best practices” or “common practices”. IEEE sponsors the best…
The Group on Earth Observation has selected four IEEE proposals as part of an international initiative to support research and development for societal benefit areas of agriculture, water, human health and energy. The selections included:
JR Sharma -…
The IEEE Foundation has awarded a grant to ICEO for continuing and expanding the water for food security and health in Rajasthan, India. The project is for a baseline survey in Rajasthan to create a geo-spatial database using earth observation data sets of…
A number of upcoming conferences and workshops have been added to the calendar. See details under calendar/events:
PASSIVE 2010 Workshop in Brest, France (June 23- 25)
IPCC 2010 – IEEE PCS conference in Enschede, Netherlands (July 7 – 9)
IMBER…
Welcome Tom Wiener as the new chair of ICEO and read the first 2010 newsletter . ICEO Newsletter February 2010
The Division of Earth and Life studies at the National Academies is looking for a Program Officer to work for the Oceans Studies Board (OSB) in Washington D.C., USA. More information
ICEO supports a proposal to the European Commission on Science and Technology networks. In a Framework 7 call response for GEO Science and Technology Support, IEEE joined with ten European partners for a two-year program to facilitate networking in Europe and…
IEEE, South African DST and NRF approve plan for assessing human capital development in Space Systems and Applications at a recent Steering Committee meeting. A six-month review of University and professional capabilities will include workshops in South Africa…
A new Training Center in India focuses on water harvesting and capacity building. Although used thousands of years ago, water harvesting all but disappeared and is being revived. Training in water harvesting and conservation is vital for semi-arid subsistence…
Ellsworth LeDrew from the IEEE Committee on Earth Observation gave the User Interface Committe (UIC) Report to the GEO plenary in Washington DC on November 18th, 2009. See the UIC presentation to plenary .
The GEO Secretariat is seeking a contractor for short-term support for its work in Societal Benefit Area of Disasters. Deadline for the application is January 15, 2010. For more information see Contractor for Disasters SBA or go to the GEO web site .
There are a lot of events during the AGU. Below are some of the ones our IEEE members are participating in (See Details at: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/).
Union Session: Science and Technology in GEO and GEOSS Thursday and Friday.
Town Hall…
ICEO, together with the GEO secretariat, OGC, ISPRS, and others are planning the GEOSS workshops for 2010. We are currently looking at workshops in Europe, North and South America, and possibly Africa. Most of the workshops will be pre-conference events…
The news letter published by the eis-Africa secretariat stresses the success of the AfricaGIS conference held in October in Kampala, Uganda. One of the pre-conference events was a GEOSS workshop on disaster management and humanitarian assistance. Read the EIS…
Funding available for environmental research and development! The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is seeking to fund environmental research and development proposals. Proposals responding to the…
The J-STARS issue on Fostering Applications of Earth Observation of the Atmosphere is nearing publication. This issue fosters the ability of researchers to identify critical environmental areas, promote understanding of how data and research are used in…
IEEE and other organizations sponsored a Health and Environment (H&E) workshop in Geneva in July, 2009. Proceedings of the workshop summarize the outcomes, which include launch of a GEO health and environment community of practice, recommendation for a…
The Standards Coordinating Committee sponsored by ICEO (SCC40) has submitted a a project authorization request to develop a standards guide for electric-sourced transportation infrastructure. This document provides guidelines that can be used by utilities,…
The Committees of GEO are meeting in Melbourne, Australia the week of September 14, 2009 to address progress as GEOSS matures into an operational information system. The work plan updates for 2009-11 will have expanded tasks focused on system implementation…
Earth information scientists and world leaders are attending the World Climate Conference-3 (WCC-3) in Geneva, Switzerland, 31 August – 4 September 2009. The theme of the conference is “Climate prediction and information for decision-making”. [Learn More..]…
Welcome to the new ICEO website. We have listened to you, our readers, and have developed a web site with more currencheapest cialist information and more news about our activities and projects. We invite you to look around and send us your comments.…
