GHRC News

Dr. Rahul Ramachandran has been elected to serve as the chair of the IEEE Geosciences & Remote Sensing Society's (GRSS) Data Archiving and Distribution Technical Committee (DAD TC) for a two-year term.  This committee provides recommendations and responses to issues related to the archiving and distribution of remotely sensed geospatial and geotemporal data.  More information is available at the committee’s web site [http://www.grss-ieee.org/community/technical-committees/data-archival-distribution/].  Hampapuram Ramapriyan of NASA ESDIS is the outgoing DAD TC Chair.  Dr. Ramachandran is a senior research scientist with the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s Information Technology and Systems Center (ITSC) and the Global Hydrology Resource Center, a NASA data center jointly operated by Marshall Space Flight Center and ITSC.

Helen Conover and Rahul Ramachandran attended a Browse Imagery, Visualization, Data Discovery Technical Interchange Meeting in Hampton, VA, sponsored by NASA's Earth Science Data and Information Systems project.  The meeting was hosted by the NASA Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center, and involved several Earth science data centers including the Global Hydrology Resource Center, a partnership between NASA MSFC and UAH ITSC.  Ms. Conover presented systems currently in operation at GHRC, while Dr. Ramachandran showed current ITSC research slated to be adopted at GHRC in the future. Discussions with the other DAACs and the GIBS team explored possibilities for future collaboration.