Brown Bag Seminar to feature Doug Olsen/ISSAC

A Brown Bag Luncheon Seminar featuring Doug Olsen, SpSt alum, and current Associate Director, Center for People & the Environment, UND Aerospace will be  held as follows:

Topic:  ISSAC

Date:  Monday, February 28, 2011

Time:  Noon

Location:  Space Studies Library

About the Topic:  UND’s Earth System Science and Policy Dept has been developing a payload for use on the International Space Station (ISS) for several years.  An upgraded sensor for the International Space Station Agricultural Camera (ISSAC) was recently launched via the HTV-2 from Japan and is now onboard the ISS; Earth imaging operations are expected to begin late this semester. Current project status and future plans will be presented.

More details are found at the ISSAC website at http://www.umac.org/sensors/agcam/index.html