1、International Directors,AESS Board of Governors Meeting April 22-23, 2016 Orlando, FL,Maria S. Greco Lead Director, AESS,AESS International Directors,R8-Europe-Leo LigthartR8-UK and Ireland-Hugh GriffithsR9-Argentina-Jos BolanosR10-Australia-Joe Fabrizio,Duties and responsibilities of the Internatio
2、nal Directors:Provide interaction between the academia, industry, government and the professionals in innovative manner.Provide means for global interaction of professionals in new and emerging areas of concern for AESS.Provide forums for discussing means for enhancing the quality of life globally u
3、sing AESS technological areas , and educating the professionals accordingly.Encourage involvement of industries in AESS events for mutual benefit, including the practice of systems engineering and system-of-systems approach.Provide a comprehensive package of achieving AESS membership growth, and cha
4、pter growth.,List of sessions/AESS chapters: http:/ieee-aess.org/chapters/all,R8- Europe- ID: Leo Ligthart,R8- Europe- ID: Leo Ligthart,Reports from: Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Russia (Northwest), Ukraine, Italy, Denmark, Benelux, Croatia All these Countries have meetings/ workshops and lecture
5、s.5 Countries did not respond: Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Russia (Siberia) and Sweden. Wrong addresses?Serbia, Macedonia, Finland, Slovenia and Switzerland have not any section/AESS chapter. No critical mass for establishing an AESS chapter. Suggestion: why dont we publish all the session/AESS chapt
6、er activities on our website?,R8- UK and Ireland ID : Hugh Griffiths,Joint Chapter with GRS and OE. New chair Professor Nick Wright, University of Newcastle. Activities: Lectures: noneWorkshops: Vectors in Radar Technology: two-day workshop held at UCL on 10/11 November, supported by ONR (Global), A
7、FOSR and the Australian High Commission in London. 80 attendees. Report has been accepted for publication in in AES Magazine.Chapters/Session meetings: nonePlans: DL by Alfonso Farina, Defence Academy,14 June 2016Why this chapter is not listed among the others on our webpage?,R10- Australia ID: Joe
8、Fabrizio,South Australia ChapterActivities: Lectures/Technical meetings: 7, with an average of 20 attendees each.Workshops: Introduction to HF Over the Horizon Radar: 1-day workshop Speaker: Joe FabrizioChapters/Session meetings: 5 administrative meetings,R10- Australia ID: Joe Fabrizio,Queensland C
9、hapterActivities: Lectures/Technical meetings: 1) Space Exploration: EMI/EMC Problems /Solutions NASA Past/Present/Future Missions “Orion” Mars/Moon Dr John Norgard of NASA - 12 May 2015 2) Improved image and signal filtering techniques for tracking mining equipment Dr Garry Einicke of CSIRO - 2 Oct
10、 2015 3) GLS (GPS based ILS) - Gordon Young/Ken Morris (Air Services) Planned for May 5th Workshops: Introduction to HF Over the Horizon Radar: 1-day workshop Speaker: Joe Fabrizio Planned for Mid July 2016Chapters/Session meetings: none,R9- South America ID: Jos Bolanos,Argentina Session, Chapter A
11、ES10Activities: Lectures/Technical meetings: Meeting for the constitution of a Cordoba UAV Group. This Group is being organized by the Ministry of Industry, Trade, Mining and Scientific and Technological Development, Province of Cordoba- February 18, 2015, 60 attendees.Workshops: within RPIC 2015 1)
12、Plenary Session entitled “Setup and Applications of Weather Radars in Argentina”, October 6, 2015, 28 attendees. 2) Plenary Session: Panel Discussion on “Social Impact of Technology”, October 8, 2015, 17 attendees.Plans: Participation with an AESS Track in the ArgenCon 2016 Meeting Conversations are
13、 being held to organize a joint activity with the Cordoba Radar Working Group. This Group is made of Professors and PhD Students from the National University of Cordoba, Argentina. The purpose of the group is to strengthen the knowledge on Weather Radars and exchange experiences related to this topi
14、c,10,R7- Canada Information provided by Erik Blash,For the IEEE DASC, significant activity was conducted between ICAO, IATA, and the Royal Aeronautical Society. Through the interaction of IEEE members, there is opportunity in the Montreal area to increase IEEE members for avionics activities. Jack D
15、ing (DRDC-Ottawa) hosted a fusion event in Nov 2015. Since that time, he started a cognitive science working group (e.g., cognitive radar) which has over 70 members, but the growth has gone beyond the 20 people in Canada to a large world-wide group. Hence, some management is needed, but the first in
16、teractions were linking people in the Toronto and Ottawa regions MONTREAL hosted interchange meetings revolving around ICAO and IEEE-DASC OTTAWA the center of the CSWG for which they had four meetings and the primary members are IEEE members.,International Liaisons:Provide means for interaction betw
17、een the academia, industry, government and the professionals in their region Provide forums for discussing means for enhancing the quality of life globally using AESS technological areas , and educating the professionals accordinglyEncourage involvement of industries in AESS events for mutual benefi
18、t, including the practice of systems engineering and system-of-systems approach Help the BoG in achieving AESS membership growth, and chapter growth in their region.,We need International Liaisons for many Countries. In particular:China, Japan, India, BrazilProposal for International Liaison China:
19、Prof. Shunjun Wu,International Liaisons,International Directors/Liaisons Event in China,In conjunction with the 2016 CIE Radar Conference, technically sponsored and strongly supported by AESS, October 10-13 Guangzhou, prof. Shunjun Wu invited some of the AESS DLs to give their distinguished lecture and he asked AESS for oversea traveling expenses.Proposal: Organize the first day of the conference an AESS Event in the framework of International Directors/Liaisons initiatives. Smaller impact on the DLs funds More visibility for the Society For the Society the expenditures would be the same.,
