The Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society seeks to advance geoscience and remote sensing science and technology through scientific, technical and educational activities. The Society strives to promote a high level of technical excellence among its members by exchange of information through conferences, meetings, workshops, publications, and through its committees to provide for the needs of its members.

The first meeting of the Eastern North Carolina Chapter of the IEEE-GRSS was held on 13 November, 2003 in the Center of Excellence for Remote Sensing Education and Research (CERSER) Lab. IEEE-GRSS has sponsored several lectures and workshops in CERSER's lab including the following:

• Spring 2003 Lecture Series, Dr. Sonia Gallegos, "Optical Models Developed for the Yellow Sea Between the Coasts of China and the Korean Peninsula"
• Fall 2003 Dr. Malcolm LeCompte, "Views & Visualization of Earth from Space"
• Fall 2003 Distinguished Lecture Series, Sivaprasad Gogineni, Ph.D., “Microwave Remote Sensing and Applications"
• Spring 2004 Distinguished Lecture Series, Dr. Keith Raney, "Mapping Sea Bottom Topography with Radar Altimetry from Space"
• Fall 2004 IEEE-GRSS Lecture series, Dr. Glenn Prescott of the University of Kansas, "Polar Research and Remote Sensing Education and Research Opportunities"
• Fall 2004 CERSER Distinguished Lecture Series, Dr. Phil Dunstan, “Remote Sensing of Coral Reefs and Change Detection”
• Spring 2005 IEEE-GRSS Lecture Series, Dr. Scott Hensley of the Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL), "Mapping the World’s Topography from Space – The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission"
• Fall 2005 IEEE-GRSS Lecture Series, Dr. Janet Campbell of the University of New Hampshire, "Ocean Color Remote Sensing"
• Spring 2006 IEEE-GRSS Lecture Series, Dr. Ken Jezek of Ohio State University, " Antarctica: Its Ice, Land and Ocean as viewed by RADARSAT-1"
• Summer 2006 IEEE-GRSS Lecture Series, Dr. Robert McCoy, "New Low-cost Microsatellite Initiatives at ONR"
• Fall 2006 CERSER Lecture Series, Dr. Geoffrey Fox, " Implementation of a Polar Science TeraGrid Gateway for SAR and other CReSIS Data Sets"
• Spring 2007 IEEE-GRSS Lecture Series, Dr. Robert Bindschadler, "Understanding the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from Space: Beyond Dogsleds and Frozen Toes "
• Summer 2007 CERSER Lecture Series, Dr. Ali Omar, "Career Opportunities in the Geosciences"
• Fall 2007 CERSER Lecture Series, Dr. Derrick Lampkin, "Monitoring the Antarctic Ice Shelf Energy Balance using Robotic Rovers"
• Spring 2008 IEEE-GRSS Lecture Series, Dr. Richard Moore, "Microwave Remote Sensing from its Beginning to its Current State of the Art"

Future workshops and lectures can be found on the "Upcoming Events" page.

For further information please contact chapter officers: