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National Consortium on
Remote Sensing in Transportation Meeting Announcement NCRST-E will hold a fall research and advisory board meeting in Starkville, MS, beginning on the afternoon of August 26 and continuing through the 27th. The afternoon meeting on the 26th will begin at 2:30 pm and will comprise a review of transportation corridor research opportunities including a summary of the Memphis Workshop. This afternoon session will provide background and context for the meeting on the 27th when future research directions will be discussed and crafted into deployment proposals. There will be an opportunity for all attendees to enjoy Mississippi farm grown catfish during a dinner to be provided the evening of the 26th. The meeting on the 27th will be devoted to discussing future consortia research directions, acquiring input about industry directions, research needs, and partnering opportunities from industry participants. The results of these discussions will be carried forward for consideration for funded research in the next cycle of DOT remote sensing research. The afternoon will be highlighted by a presentation on "Remote Sensing and the CSX Railroad Relocation EIS Project" which will be jointly presented by DMJM + Harris and NCRST-E researchers. This presentation will be featured as part of a "Distance Learning Seminar" which will be attended by multiple participating Universities. The meeting will be held at the Mississippi State University ERC in room 30. Meeting Purpose: Preparing for the Future For the next stage of the RS Program, the "Environmental Assessment"
consortium has been directed to develop research deployments that "Streamline
Environmental Impact Information Collection , Assessment and the Planning
Process for New Transportation Corridors and Relocations (MSU Consortia)." Our
research plans will be presented at the 2003 DOT-NASA Joint Program Oversight
Committee (JPOC) meeting scheduled for October 9th and 10th at the National
Academy of Sciences 10th Floor Conference Room, 500 5th Street NW. Washington
DC. Consortia briefings at the meeting will be designed to convey the technology
readiness for deploying Remote Sensing and Spatial Information (RSSI)
Technologies using satellite, aerial and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ( UAV)
platforms. The objective is to meet SAFETEA goals for achieving smarter
transportation services at significantly reduced project cost and project time.
During the JPOC meeting each consortium will present their technical
briefing on deployment proposals. The Consortia briefing package will outline
proposed technical plans for RSSI deployment in partnership with state agencies,
industry or service providers. In preparing deployment proposals, we have been
asked to follow the deployment
priorities discussed at the Woods Hole meeting. A typical deployment
project will contain several stages including but not limited to technology base
development and verification, deployment design, trial experiments, metrics to
measure results, and impact before the final deployment. Plans will include the
following major parts: SUMMARY: August meeting participants asked to present should prepare a short presentation that will brief the consortium on their topic of interest. Each presenter should develop a 1 page briefing and an accompanying 15 to 20 slide presentation (20 minutes per presentation) on your topic. Please consider that our past successes have been built upon developing strong relationships with "on-the-ground" partner agencies with real projects and data vendors who wish to understand how to provide services that turn their data into information products useful to transportation planning and environmental streamlining processes. Potential Research Proposal Areas Although you may feel free to develop deployment proposals along other lines, as a straw man, the following areas of research are provided for your consideration in developing your thoughts and specific proposal ideas: Corridor Projects: 6) Software Development Project Activities: 7) Policy and Data Product Project Activities: The Comfort Suites and Hampton Inn are the two newer hotels in town. If you would like financial assistance with housing or your travel to MSU please let me know and I will work with you to get something set up. The local airport is at Columbus, MS (Golden Triangle Regional). The following hotels are available in Starkville.
Tuesday, 26 August 2003 2:30 Welcome & Introductions –
Roger King, Director, NCRST-E Wednesday, 27 August 2003 11:50 Industry Directions and Needs: Project Opportunities -- Intergraph and Keigan Systems (Orlando McDowelle) 12:10 Lunch (Barbeque -- Please email Chuck with your preference of pork, chicken or vegetarian) 1:15 Future Research Discussions -- (Chuck O'Hara, Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz, Charlotte Coker)
2:00 Background: The CSX Relocation EIS Project – K. Thirumalai
and Claiborne Barnwell To use our time efficiently and to be able to concentrate on strategic planning for our meeting, the requested PowerPoint presentations and documents should be provided by COB 21 AUG 2003. Presentations and documents will be organized, materials prepared, and put on the web for review by our board before arriving. This will permit us optimal time to focus on research directions and strategy issues. Any presentations not sent early should be provided on CD so that we can easily stage materials to our presentation system and ensure that we have copies of all presentations. Powerpoint presentations will be provided (and linked below on this page) as they become available and materials should be available for each project in advance of the meeting. Presentations will be provided so that attendees may review presentations prior to the meeting and so that we can organize all presentations and ensure that the meeting flows smoothly. Thank you in advance for your preparation for and participation in this meeting. |