The ESTC group, led by Prof. John J. Qu, the director of ESTC, attended SPIE 2009 Optics + Photonics Conference in San Diego, CA, August 2-6, 2009. Dr. Qu chaired the session of "Ecological Remote Sensing Theory, Techniques, and Applications III" and gave a presentation entitled "Real-time fuel moisture and fire danger monitoring with satellite remote sensing measurements". ESTC research scientists, Dr. Xianjun Hao and Dr. Lingli Wang, and graduate students, Ms. Min Li and Mr. Di Wu, presented their works in three different sessions. Dr. Raymond Hunt, Jr., one of the ESTC partners, chaired the session of "Ecological Remote Sensing Theory, Techniques, and Applications II" and presented an invited talk on "Remote sensing of canopy water content: scaling from leaf area to MODIS", which was co-authored with ESTC members.
(Pictured are, from left, Dr. Xianjun Hao, Dr. Lingli Wang, Dr. Raymond Hunt, Jr., Mr. Di Wu, and Ms. Min Li in the SPIE conference break)