Biography
Robert Rogers | |
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Bob is a retired Emeritus member of Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan, PhD in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University, MS from Southern Methodist University, BS from Tri-State College. Bob and his wife Sandra spend the winter in Hollywood Florida and the summers in Ann Arbor Michigan. Bob is a Korean Conflict vet.1951-1953 (Lt in the Army Signal Corps), coauthor of two patents in field of electronic circuit design, authored and coauthor some 50 or so technical papers in the field of Remote Sensing Applications. During his tenure with ERIM he organized and managed some 20 or more international conferences in areas of applied geologic remote sensing, remote sensing for the marine and coastal environments, geospatial information in agriculture and forestry, airborne remote sensing and global environmental change. The proceedings of these conferences can be found in most university where remote sensing is taught. Bob is one of the pioneers in the development an application of mulispectral sensor system technology and applications. At Bendix, in the late 1960’s, before ERTS/Landsat Bob led a group which assembled the first Bendix multispectral scanner and associated data processing facility and developed the first commercially available airborne multispectral data gathering service He served ASPRS’s Eastern Great Lakes Region as Vice-President and President (1979-1980) and was a member of the Board of Directors (1981-1986).Bob is an Emeritus member of ASPRS and is a member of the US Army Signal Corps OCS Association, Hood’s Texas Brigade Association, San Jacinto Descendants, Sons’ of Confederate Veterans, Sons’ of the Republic of Texas, Sons of the American Revolution and the Jamestown Society. | |
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