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Geological Remote Sensing Group
GRSG SIG Annual Report 1998-1999
The Geological Remote Sensing Group (GRSG) is jointly affiliated to the Remote Sensing and Geological Societies. It aims to foster the use of earth observation data by all geoscientists. Over the past year GRSG maintained its membership database at around 200 members, including many from overseas.
GRSG started 1998 in good form by participating in the Mineral Deposit Study Group’s meeting held in Greenwich in January. GRSG contributed speakers to the mineral exploration session, these speakers outlined the latest remote sensing and ground spectroscopy developments applied to mineral exploration.
GRSG finished the year by holding a one day “Research in Progress” meeting at Oxford Brookes University in November 1998. A number of students presented papers at this meeting, outlining their current research fields.
The Oxford Brookes meeting was also the venue of the 1998 AGM. This was quite an important AGM, as a number of officers who had served on the committee for a considerable time period stepped down to allow new people to take their places, a task which will not be easy considering the effort and commitment these officers have shown GRSG.
The major positions on the committee are now held by: Dr. Stuart Marsh (Chairman), Dr. Anthony Denniss (Secretary) and Mr. Ross Smail (Membership and Finances). The GRSG committee is now comprised of five officers from commercial remote sensing organisations, one from government and four from academia, including a new student representative (Mr. Rob Wright).
This reorganisation means that there are now a couple of places on the committee needing to be filled! If you feel like volunteering, please contact the Secretary (contact details in Annex 4).
GRSG also maintained its popular newsletter throughout 1998, publishing three editions. This newsletter has now been running for 8.5 years, and is regarded by many in the geological remote sensing industry as a valuable source of information.
GRSG has already got 1999 off to a good start with a meeting held in March at the Vancouver ERIM’99 conference.
GRSG will also be involved in RSS ’99 and a joint meeting with the Geological Society’s North West Regional Group, and a one day specialist meeting in November on The Geological applications of Radar (contact the Secretary for more information).
GRSG will continue to produce its newsletter during 1999, however the committee are currently looking at ways to improve it: suggestions welcomed. It is hoped that a colour section will be added by the year 2000: this will improve the reproduction of the satellite imagery, on which our subject rests.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all GRSG members for supporting this SIG.
Anthony Denniss
