PROJECTS Web Based Educational Program: ICRSEd/Remote Sensing Core Curriculum (RSCC) website www.r-s-c-c-.org and www.icrsed.org. Dynamic effort required to continue updates links, add new content, maintained website for easy browser use. Promotion required, marketing contacts, and proposals submitted for further volumes to be added by international professors and experts in the remote sensing field. RSCC technology presented at conferences and meetings. Number of clients served is thousands, based on the number of hits the websites receive. Publications: Volume 2 continues to be revised Introduced Volumes 6 and 7 in 2005/2006, work continues on content, verifying links. The websites were hijacked at the end of 2007. Significant effort in 2008 to delete Trojan horses, spyware and internet virus which had caused extensive renovation to the URL. www.icrsed.org. In 2009, talks began with the University of Minnesota to update and revise RSCC. Co-sharing of RSCC began in 2010. MOU signed to place the web-site hosting, operations, and maintenance under Professor Joe Knight at the University of Minnesota. http://rscc.umn.edu/ International Educational Activities: International Society of Digital Earth (ISDE) The Society is active in a variety of activities to promote education and expansion of the Digital Earth Vision promulgated by NASA in 1998. ICRSEd president is founding member of society and has provided many volunteer services for this non-profit enterprise. Serve on International Editorial Board. Edit and conduct peer review of selected professional papers for International Journal for Digital Earth (IJDE) Support for International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE#). This entails coordination and planning for speakers and support of the symposium secretary-general. ISDE7 Perth, Australia schedule for August 21-23, 2011 ISDE6 Beijing, China. Attended steering committee, executive committees, and IJDE Editorial Board. ISDE 5 was held in Berkeley, California, 4-9 June 2007. ICRSEd president was the Secretary-General for the ISDE 5. www.isde5.org. ICRSEd staff and associates were mobilize from 2005 for two-year preparation of all planning and management for Symposium. Symposium conference was attended by approximately 200 registered attendees and another 100 volunteers. This project is completed ISDE 4. www.isde-j.com. ISDE- International Symposium of Digital Earth 4, was held in Tokyo, Japan, 28 March – 1 April 2005. This symposium uses the remote sensing technology to showcase various applications. Publications: Symposium conference proceeding. At ISDE 4, ICRSEd was nominated and voted to be the General Secretariat for the ISDE 5 to be held in San Francisco, CA, June 2007 Support for Digital Earth Summit series beginning with first Digital Earth Summit on Sustainability held in Auckland, New Zealand August 27, 2006. Multiple trips to Auckland working with Mayor of Auckland and Prime Minister Helen Clark. Earth Party Earth Party was created to provide a low-technology face for ICRSEd to engage with youth and communities. The Mission of the Earth Party is to engage average citizens around the globe into a consensus compact for reverence and respect for their communities by using remote sensing tools available on the internet. Applying spatial information technology to education, empower, and engage citizens in collecting data about their communities, analyzing the information, and applying spatial information for community-based decision making. Earth Party goals are to make connections and resources available to average citizens and decision makers for a sustainable future with focus on reduce, reduce and recycle to save energy. www.earthparty.org Major Research and Development Projects: Sustainable Housing And Renewable Energy SHARE is a campaign to training inner-city youth to collect energy and water related data for neighborhoods as precondition for green job careers. Working with Holistic Life Foundation to provide academic and vocational pathways for youth. SHARE introduces youth to remote sensing and GIS for data collection and analyzing conditions for communities. This project began in fall of 2009 and continues to be offered to prospective sponsors and collaborators. Florida Keys DATA (Direct Access for Testing and Assessment) Project Florida Keys DATA is ICRSEd’s major program since summer of 2010 working with a coalition of NGOs (Reef Relief, Florida Keys Environmental Coalition) and the academics (Florida Keys Community College and Monroe County School District) and industry (Esri) to create a citizen-science campaign for collecting and reporting on the environmental conditions of the Florida Keys using remote sensing and GIS technology. ICRSEd is creating an education and training program with Florida International University, FKCC, Monroe County, and Esri to provide career pathways and technical training for field data collector volunteers. ICRSEd is the lead corporation for this project. The project genesis began with ICRSEd testifying before members of Congress with the president of Reef Relief in spring of 2010 during the Gulf Oil Spill. Publications of Books and Chapters: Children’s book : The Last Little Polar Bear. 2007 Chapter in Water and Poverty 2007. Ghost writer for Wangari Maathai Chapter in MIT Press: “Gaia in Turmoil: Climate Change, Biodepletion, and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis” (Edited by Eileen Crist and H. Bruce Rinker), “Sustainability and an Earth Operating System for Gaia,” 2010 “History of GIS”in Encyclopedia of Geography, SAGE Press, In press “Evolution and implementation of the Digital Earth vision, technology and society,” International Journal of Digital Earth, Vol.1, No.1, March 2008 Publications for Remote Sensing Community: Imaging Notes Column – Earth Scope is a regular column published by ICRSEd president quarterly. Articles highlight remote sensing applications for distribution to 30,000 subscibers. Educational Keynote Speeches and Presentations: May 20, 2010. Digital Earth and the Greening of Society, 7th TIDES, Taipei, Taiwan. July 30, 2009. Community-Based Sustainable Energy & Conservation, MultiTemp 2009, Groton, Connecticut May 24, 2009. Think Globally, Farm Locally: Local communities and their role in stopping global warming, 2008 Maryland Heartland Sustainable Living Fair, Carroll County Farm Museum, Westminster, Maryland. April 20, 2009. Balancing Energy Audits, Emission Calculators, and Local Sustainability, Cities Go Green, Portland, Oregon February 16, 2009. Balancing Strategies in an Unbalanced Climate, European 2020, Coventry University October 30, 2008. Design for a Better Planet, Environmental Scholars, University of Maryland October 15, 2008. Digital Earths for Sustainability Epistemology, PBI Ambassadors, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada May 24, 2008. Think Globally, Farm Locally: Local communities and their role in stopping global warming, Maryland Heartland Sustainable Living Fair, Carroll County Farm Museum, Westminster, Maryland April 11, 2008. Design of an Earth Operating System, University of Connecticut, CT November 14, 2007. Climate Change and Polar Bears, Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD. November 8, 2007. Panel Member Choices and Challenges: Nuclear Power Reconsidered, Blacksburg, VA. October 20, 2007. From Bangalore to the Bay Area: Mapping Knowledge and Power for the Sustainable City and Countryside of the Future, Bioneers Conference, Marin County, CA. September 14, 2007. Digital Earth and Virtual Worlds, Serious Games Institute, Coventry University, Coventry, UK September 12, 2007. Digital Earth: The New Digital Commons, UK e-Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK June 28, 2007. NASA Earth Science and Applications Program: Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Request and Issues, Congressional Testimony at the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. June 5, 2007. Digital Earth Saga, 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth, Berkeley, California. May 30, 2007 Earth Operating System, Where 2.0 Conference, San Jose, California March 28, 2007 Digital Earth, Remote Sensing, and Modeling, GTN 2007 Conference, Hannover, Germany November 8, 2006. How do we know what we don’t know: Roots for demystifying Global Change myths, Campus Climate Change Initiative, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland. August 28, 2006. Global to Local Challenges and Digital Earth, Digital Earth Summit on Sustainability, Auckland, New Zealand April 5, 2005. History of Remote Sensing, University of Loma Linda, NASA Earth Science System, Redlands, California April 6, 2005. Sensors and Platforms, University of Loma Linda, NASA Earth Science System, Redlands, California April 7,2005. Geobrowsers and Portal, Special ESRI Lectures Series, Redlands, California September 27, 2004. Engaging Conservationists in a Digital Universe, Seventh Annual Society for Conservation (SCGIS) Conference, Shepherdstown, West Virginia November 8, 2004. Challenges for Sustainability at the Local Level, Virginia GIS Conference, Roanoke, Virginia Other Education and Technology Projects NORD/Risk Communication - This project was completed in 2006 Digital Earth/Earth Portal/ Geobrowser (DE). This program was taken over by the National Science Council and Education (NSCE) and the Environmental Information Coalition in 2006. This project was closed 2007 Geobrowser- 3D. This is still a tentative project. ICRSEd continued to identify sponsors and participants to collaborate EarthParks. . No funding has been found to date. This project was closed in 2008 Qinghai-Tibet/Association of Chinese Experts Qinghai-Tibet. This is a project ICRSEd has been working with the Chinese. ICRSEd board members traveled to Tibet in August 2006 and conducted a 10 day long workshop. ICRSEd trained three dozen Chinese students, professors, and government workers on use of remote sensing and GIS for sustainability and development. This was completed in 2006. MapRelief, www.maprelief.org This project was opened with the events of the December Tsunami 2004. ICRSEd board members traveled to Bangkok after requested by the State Department to Bangkok to set up an emergency mapping program using satellite data. Met with AIT (Asian Institute of Technology), made an agreement the AIT to provide remotely sensed images of the disaster. ICRSEd President traveled to Kobe, Japan to attend the UN Disaster meeting, he presented proposal to map the disaster and assist in the mapping of the relief efforts, several expressed interest, but no funding. Chromotrope, to design the website. The project closed in 2006 due to lack of funding. Earth 911 www.earth911.org was a spin-off of the Earth Portal project that entailed a national distributed listing of the recycling centers for north America. The group also handles the state database listings and web-mapping software use for Pets 911 and Amber Alert. Associations and major corporations have shown much interest in supporting this type of facility with advertising related to the recycling education aspects of their products. The Geobrowser forms a primitive fit for the 2-d user interface and will provide a shift in the presentation of information when it migrates to remote sensing based imaging.

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