from the editor By James L. Garrison
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elcome to the June issue of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. Our feature in this issue is on the Multioutcrop Sharing and Interpretation System (MOSIS), an innovative application of virtual reality technology to the geosciences. MOSIS provides a three-dimensional immersive interpretation environment for geology, allowing a user to be virtually transported to the field. This provides field experience without the safety concerns or risk of poor weather when one is on site. In addition to obvious applications in education, MOSIS has utility for practicing geologists and geophysicists. It works with head-mounted displays and uses a client-server architecture to allow worldwide sharing and collaboration on a variety of platforms, including desktop computers and mobile devices. Our “Technical Committees” column comes from the Frequency Allocations in Remote Sensing (FARS) Technical Committee. Here, the very important role of spectrum management in protecting microwave frequencies for scientific use is presented. The structure and operation of the International Telecommunication Union, an agency of the United Nations responsible for regulating frequency allocations to various purposes, is described. This column concludes with a listing of specific items that may affect Earth remote sensing on the agenda of the upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference, taking place in November 2019 in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. All of us working in active or passive microwave remote sensing should read this column and be aware of the potential impact of these proposed changes. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MGRS.2018.2841788 Date of publication: 9 July 2018
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Finally, Dr. David Le Vine describes the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Distinguished Lecturer Program. Chapters are encouraged to take advantage of this program, which brings recognized speakers to their meetings to lecture on a wide variety of topics related to MOSIS provides a threethe remote-sensing field. dimensional immersive Furthermore, I would like to interpretation environencourage continued input from ment for geology, allowour GRSS members. Articles can ing a user to be virtually be submitted through ScholarOne transported to the field. at http://mc.manuscriptcentral .com/grsm. Tutorial and feature articles intended to inform and educate readers in the broad remote-sensing community are welcome, as are contributions to our regular columns: ◗◗ “Chapters” ◗◗ “Space Agencies” ◗◗ “Women in Geoscience and Remote Sensing” ◗◗ “Education” ◗◗ “Software or Data Sets” ◗◗ “Conference Reports.” Proposals for special issues are encouraged and should be sent to me at
[email protected]. Original research articles, however, are best suited for one of the Society’s journals (IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, and IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing). grs
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