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Eastern North Carolina Chapter Salutes
Distinguished Lecturers Sonia Gallegos,
Richard Moore and Sivaprasad Gogineni
See also http://nia.ecsu.edu/ieee/index.html

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he first meeting of IEEE-GRSS Eastern North Carolina Chapter #03191 was held on 13 November 2003
in the Center of Excellence for Remote
Sensing Education and Research (CERSER) facility on the campus of Elizabeth
City State University. The chapter sponsors distinguished lectures, seminars
and workshops related to remote sensing. CERSER also serves as the home of
GRSS student branch #66221.
Dr. Sonia Gallegos was the first
scientist to participate in the distinguished lecture series. She spoke on
"Optical Models Developed for the
Yellow Sea Between the Coasts of
China and the Korean Peninsula." Dr.
Gallegos continued her work with Dr.
Malcolm LeCompte and members of
the Eastern North Carolina student
chapter through a pilot study undertaken to determine
the spatial and temporal variability of chlorophyll concentrations in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. The
chlorophyll parameter was obtained from daily Level-3
estimations of Sea-Viewing Wide-Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) data computed by the Naval Research
Laboratory. An empirical eigenfunction (EOF) analysis
was performed on the data using the Karhunen-Loeve
(KL) algorithm. Ten empirical eigenfunctions, temporal coefficients, and variance spectrum were computed.
This analysis revealed that 15% of the variance around
the mean is accounted for by the first empirical eigenfunction, which is identified with chlorophyll fluctuations around the Mississippi Delta, Lakes Pontchartrain
and Borgne, the Mississippi Sound, and the Mobile,
Pensacola, and Choctawhatchee Bays. The eigenfunc-

tion analysis shows that the chlorophyll in near-shore
water is changing more rapidly than the rest of the shelf
waters. The study was presented during IGARSS 2005 in Seoul Korea.
Drs. David Goodenough, Robert Bindschadler, Ken Jezek, Geoffrey Fox, Keith Raney, Malcolm
LeCompte, Scott Hensley, and Sivaprasad Gogineni are among those
who have been a part of the Eastern North Carolina Chapter distinguished lecture series.
We continued our IEEE-GRSS
Distinguished Lecture Series by welcoming Dr. Richard Moore, Professor Emeritus of Computer and Electrical Engineering at the University
of Kansas (now deceased).
Dr. Moore's talk centered around
the developments that took place in remote sensing
both in the United States and other countries. He is
credited with many of the terms used today in remote
sensing. The Distinguished Lecture was webcast to all

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