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FIGURE 6. A probability map of sustained RFI occurrences for February 2014 from the European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean

Salinity mission's descending passes. (Image courtesy of Roger Oliva.)

NEW PROJECT
CHAIR: ROGER OLIVA
The Frequency Allocation in Remote Sensing TC of the GRSS
is consulting with stakeholders in the microwave remote
sensing community to determine the best approach and optimal content for a standard that Earth-observing sat missions
could follow in assessing, mitigating, and reporting radio-frequency interference (RFI) in bands dedicated to remote sensing (Figure 6). The TC received a seed grant from the Committee on Standards of the IEEE Technical Activities Board.
VOLUNTEER EFFORT
The standards development projects described previously
are supported by experts from remote sensing companies,
instrument manufacturers, research institutions, and national standards institutes and are developed through a
transparent, consensus-based process that relies on volunteer efforts. Manufacturers have an interest in working on
standards so as to have well-defined requirements to which
they can claim conformance. Individuals are willing to
dedicate their time and expertise to developing standards
in a desire to shape the direction of an emerging technology, improve the quality and availability of remote sensing

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products, stay current on the state of the art, and network
with others working on a particular problem. There is a
common, overarching motivation that volunteers share,
which is to advance the utilization of Earth-observation
data for the betterment of humanity by helping to make
those data more consistent, accessible, and applicable for all
those who can benefit from their use.
To become engaged with any of these projects, contact
the chairs. To learn more about what the GSEO TC does
and how it operates, visit the committee webpage at https://
www.grss-ieee.org/community/technical-committees/
standards-for-earth-observations/ and/or sign up to the
mailing list at https://www.grss-ieee.org/tc_lists/tclist
_signup.html?tc=SEO.
AUTHOR INFORMATION
Siri Jodha S. Khalsa (sjsk@nsidc.org) is a research associate at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of
Colorado, Boulder.
REFERENCE
[1] "Developing standards," IEEE, Piscataway, NJ. [Online]. Available: https://standards.ieee.org/develop/index.html
GRS

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