Registration:  Outside Rhododendron Room

            9:00 Welcome and Keynote Address:  Rhododendron Room

9:00 Welcome and introduction of Keynote speaker. 
M Duane Nellis, Dean, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, West Virginia University.

9:10 Keynote address: Remote Sensing and geospatial sciences in service of society  
Kamlesh Lulla, NASA.

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Mountaineer Room (9:50-10:10 and 3:00-3:20)

Land Cover Mapping in an Urban Setting:  The integration of IKONOS imagery, image segmentation, and decision trees. 
Tom Miewald, Canaan Valley Institute, Drannon Buskirk, Paxton Creek Watershed Association, and Janette Bennett, Canaan Valley Institute.

The Application of Remotely Sensed Imagery in Archaeological and Historical GIS.
Susan Bergeron, and L. Jesse Rouse, Department of Geology and Geography, WVU.

Using Remote Sensing to Enhance Science Education in West Virginia Middle Schools. 
Michael Ferber, Department of Geology & Geography, WVU.

Analysis of the Urban Forest Structure of Morgantown, WV:  Role of Remote Sensing in Sampling. 
Sandhya Mohan and Jonathan R. Cumming, Department of Biology, WVU.

Integrating Digital Ortho Quad Quadrangle and Interactive Geo-Visualization for Transportation Decision-Making:  A case study of the Appalachian Corridor H transportation development project, West Virginia.
Ram Alagan, Department of Geology and Geography, WVU

Evaluation of Airborne Thermal Infrared Imagery for Locating Mine Drainage Sites in the Lower Kettle Creek and Cooks Run Basins, Pennsylvania, USA. 
Garret A. Veloski, NETL, US DOE, and James I Sams III, USGS, Water Resources Discipline.

10:10   Paper Session 1:  Rhododendron Room

10:10   West Virginia View:  A state remote sensing consortium within the AmericaView Program. 
Timothy Warner, Department of Geology and Geography, M. Duane Nellis, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences & Department of Geology and Geography, and Paddington Hodza, Department of Geology and Geography, WVU

10:25   Censusing and modeling the dynamics of a population of Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) using remote sensing. 
W. Robert Lamar and James McGraw, Department of Biology, WVU.

10:40   Remote Census of Ailanthus altissima (tree of heaven) in West Virginia Using High Spatial Resolution Color Imagery. 
Rick Landenberger, Department of Biology, WVU.

10:55   Remote sensing of forest evergreen understory communities in the central Appalachian highlands. 
Robert Chastain, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Appalachian Laboratory.

11:10  Satellite Imagery  Classification with ER Mapper in the Mountains of Kyrgyz Republic. 
Galina N. Fet, and James O. Brumfield, Geobiophysical Modeling Program, Marshall University.

11:25   Using Landsat imagery and FIA data in an original approach to map and describe forest dynamics in south-central Pennsylvania. 
Clay Baros and Phil Townsend, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Appalachian Laboratory.

11:40   The use of remotely sensed data in the Exploring the Environment online curriculum series. 
Cassie Doty, Center for Educational Technologies.

1:15     Paper session 2.  Rhododendron Room

1:15     Mountain Top Removal Identification and Change Detection Using Remote Sensing Techniques. 
Ryan Langford, The Project for Appalachian Community and Environment ‘PACE’ & Geography Department, Appalachian State University, Eric Woolridge, The Project for Appalachian Community and Environment ‘PACE,’ and Jamie Robertson, The Project for Appalachian Community and Environment ‘PACE’ & Geography Department, Appalachian State University.

1:30     Evaluation of Airborne Thermal Infrared Imagery for Locating Mine Drainage Sites in the Lower Kettle Creek and Cooks Run Basins, Pennsylvania, USA. 
Garret A. Veloski, NETL, US DOE, and James I Sams III, USGS, Water Resources Discipline.

1:45     High- resolution digital imagery for mining impact assessment studies in the central Appalachians. 
Charles B Yuill, Davis College of Agriculture, Forestry and Consumer Sciences, WVU.

2:00     Space Borne and Aerial Image Basemap Selection for Geospatial Representation of GPS collected for Abandoned Mine Inventory of the Monongahela National Forest. 
John R. Ferguson II, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and James O. Brumfield, Department of Biological Science, Marshall University.

2:15     Relative Efficiency of Adaptive Filters in Suppressing Noise and Preserving Sharpness in Multi-Spectral Images. 
Shivaji Prasad, Department of Geography, Frostburg State University.

2:30     Exploring the Linkage between Water Chemistry and Land Cover in Deckers Creek, 1974 – 1999. 
Qingyun Sun and Trevor Harris, Department of Geology and Geography, WVU.

2:45     ARSHUS (Airborne Remote Sensing of Hydrologic Systems Under Stress).
Paige Baldassaro, John Spadaro, Dorene Dixon, and Joe Gardner.  Institute for Scientific Research, Inc., Fairmont. WV.

3:00            Mountaineer Room:  Tea and Coffee Break & Posters 

3:20     Paper Session 3:  Rhododendron Room

3:20     Integration of the Image Based Web Server and Crime Scene Mapping on Transportation Routes. 
Sang H. Yoo, Graduate Geobiophysical Modeling Program, Marshall University, Juan D. Barrios, Nick J. Rahall Appalachian Transportation Institute, Sean Litteral, Nick J. Rahall Appalachian Transportation Institute, Graham Rankin (Forensic Science Program, Marshall University, and James Brumfield, Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences and Geobiophysical Modeling, Marshall University. 

3:35     A comparison of change detection techniques for monitoring land-cover change in an arid urban environment. 
Abdullah Almutairi, Department of Geology and Geography, WVU.

3:50     Remote Sensing of Historic Landscapes: A Case Study of The National Road near Wheeling, West Virginia. 
Brian Renzella, Department of Geology and Geography & Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology, WVU.

4:05     The History of Presque Isle and the City of Erie, Pennsylvania: A Remote Sensing Case Study. 
Chris Schaney, Department of Geology and Geography, WVU.

4:20     An Evaluation of LIDAR Accuracy for Three West Virginia Watersheds.  Michael Shank, TAGIS, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection.

4:35     Enhancing GIS and LIDAR data through Virtual Reality. 
Trevor M. Harris, Department of Geology and Geography, WVU, Vic Baker, West Virginia Virtual Environments Laboratory, WVU, L. Jesse Rouse, Department of Geology and Geography, WVU, and Adam Horne, West Virginia Virtual Environments Laboratory, WVU.

4:50     Identification of individual trees in leaf-off, small footprint lidar data.
Timothy Warner, Department of Geology and Geography, WVU, Tomas Brandtberg, Department of Geology and Geography, WVU, James McGraw, Department of Biology, WVU, and Rick Landenberger, Department of Biology, WVU.