Sharon Brown, Program ManagerKeisha Wilkins, Research Associate

Elizabeth City State UniversityDixon Hall Room 232Phone: 252-335-3992

Fax: 252-335-3572

http://cerser.ecsu.edu

Remote Sensing Capabilities Within the Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing

Education and Research

Purpose

The intent of the Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and

Research (CERSER) is to develop an innovative and relevant research collaboration focused on coastal,

ocean, and marine research.

This center represents a joint effort by:•Elizabeth City State University (ECSU)

•The Office of Naval Research (ONR)

•The MU-SPIN Office of Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

•The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

•Pixoneer Corporation

•SeaSpace Corporation

•NOAA’s Wakefield Office of the National Weather Service (NWS)

CERSER Highlights• CERSER was established at ECSU in July 2002.• ECSU is the first HBCU to acquire a SeaSpace TeraScan HRPT

system.• ECSU is the only east coast training site for SeaSpace Corporation. • Our system is configured for the reception and processing of HRPT

and SeaWIFS data from polar orbiting satellites.

The CERSER Lab consists of: SeaSpace TeraScan 1.5m HRPT system

System is composed of the following components:

Polar Orbiting Tracking 1.5m Antenna

Global Positioning System (GPS) Antenna/Receiver

Telemetry Receiver

Workstation

Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

TeraScan Software Suite

Laboratory consisting of 15 Computer Workstations containing: LINUX, UNIX and Windows XP

Remote Storage Areas of Research Information

Servers including a local Web Server, Data Server, and an Online Course Server

Pixoneer Geomatics PG-Steamer Software

•Image Processing Software

•Tools allow the user to process, visualize, manipulate and analyze remotely sensed imagery and other geospatial data in a single, integrated environment

•Ability to process AVHRR and SeaWiFS data ingested at CERSER

CERSER Imagery

True Color Image of North Carolina and Virginia

CoastlinesNOAA-15 AVHRR

11-01-02 12:25 GMT

CERSER Imagery

Tropical Storm GUSTAVNOAA-16 AVHRR

09/10/02 18:50 GMT

CERSER Imagery

NOAA-17 AVHRR03/25/03

Color Composite

CERSER ImageryNOAA-17 AVHRR

07/14/03 15:59 GMTNormalized Difference Vegetation

Index (NDVI)

CERSER ImageryNOAA-16 AVHRR

06/30/03 19:36 GMTTropical Storm Bill

NOAA-12 AVHRR06/29/03 22:01 GMTTropical Storm Bill

CERSER Imagery

SeaWiFS True Color Composite

Images

04/04/03 17:53 GMT 04/06/03 17:36 GMT

CERSER Imagery

Hurricane Isabel, as she

approaches the east coast.

09/16/03 NOAA-17 AVHRR09/15/03 NOAA-15 AVHRR

Research Projects• Dolphin Occurrence and Activity on the VA Coastline and

its Relation to Sea Surface Temperature – Summer 2003• Science, Settlement, and Remote Sensing: Locating the

Remains of the Lost Colony of NE North Carolina – Summer 2003

• Correlations Between Right Whale Distribution and Sea Surface Temperature – Summer 2003

• Documentation of the TeraScan Installation & Image Processing – Fall 2002/Spring 2003

Community Viz Training for Pasquotank County Local Government

• Pasquotank County Government employees and ECSU personnel were introduced to plans and software being utilized for the Pasquotank River Watershed.

• Community Viz is a software package that operates on ArcView and has been customized with Pasquotank River Basin natural and cultural resource vector data.

Spatial Analysis and Remote Sensing Workshop• Faculty and staff from ECSU, Virginia State University, and the

US Department of Agriculture were introduced to GIS and Remote Sensing applications, spatial analysis, and GPS.

PG-Steamer Remote Sensing Software Training• CERSER sponsored PG-Steamer Training Workshop with Pixoneer. Dr. Mohamed

Mohamed trained workshop participants on PG-Steamer software for remote sensing education.

Remote Sensing Training• ECSU student researchers are attending training on how to use

TeraVision and PG-Steamer image processing software.