Fernando Gilbes and Roy Armstrong have a long time collaboration of research and education. They are both working with optical properties and remote sensing. As part of this collaboration Fernando gave the lecture titled “Relationship between the inherent and apparent optical properties” in Roy’s graduate course CMOF 8446 (Oceanographic Remote Sensing II) during March 24,…
During March 12, 2008 a bio-optical sampling in Mayagüez Bay was carried out as a teaching experience of the graduate course CMOF 8446 (Oceanographic Remote Sensing II), given by Dr. Roy Armstrong in the Department of Marine Sciences. The students had the opportunity to deploy the bio-optical rosette, make measurements with the GER-1500 spectroradiometer, and…
One of the main research areas of our NOAA-CREST project is to develop a procedure to estimate suspended sediments in Mayaguez Bay using remote sensing. This effort has involved several undergraduate and graduate students that have been testing several sensors and algorithms. The results of this work were presented during the 24th Annual Symposium of…
During the past year ACEER (Alianza Ciudadana para la Educación en Energía Renovable) has organized conferences of renewable energy in the Cultural Center of the Mayaguez City. The main purpose of these conferences is to provide the most current information about this topic to the general public in order to help our island moving toward…
Ocean color of Mayaguez Bay has been part of the research efforts made by the GERS Lab since its foundation. In most recent years the work has focused on testing and validating the MODIS sensor. The results of such work were presented during this year NOAA-CREST Symposium that was held in the University of Puerto…
William Hernandez presented the new GERS Lab Database, called GERSVIEW, during the fifth conference of ESRI Users in Puerto Rico. This activity took place in Caguas during December 11 of 2007 and it was organized by Geographic Mapping Technologies Corp (GMT). William’s presentation along with those given by the Caguas Municipality and the Regulations and…
The hyperspectral sensor AISA flew over Puerto Rico during December 2007. This first-time ever mission, coordinated by the UPRM CenSSIS project (a NSF project), involved multiple research groups that sampled on sea and land. GERS Lab collaborated with the Bio-optical Oceanography Lab to measured the bio-optical properties on different sites over La Parguera Reefs and…
Thirteen (13) graduate students from several Departments of UPRM successfully finished the course Geol 6225 (Advanced Geological Remote Sensing) during fall of 2007. This is the highest number of students that have taken this course since it was created, and it is also considered a large number for any graduate course at UPRM. The course…
Jose Martinez and Natlee Hernandez presented their undergraduate research to the Geology faculty in November 30, 2007. Jose continued his efforts toward generating a site-specific algorithm for the estimation of suspended sediments and Natlee validated the Chlorophyll-a product provided by MODIS and NASA-standard algorithms, both works in Mayaguez Bay. These projects are part of the research…
Fernando Gilbes presented the work entitled “Developing a protocol to use remote sensing as a cost effective tool to monitor contamination of mangrove wetlands” during the Annual Symposium of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) in October 25, 2007. This project is sponsored by the Sea Grant Program and other authors of the…