Earth Observation Team Leaders

Professor John Townshend, Chairman, Department of Geography, University of Maryland, and Ms. Nancy Colleton, president Institute for Global Environmental Strategies have accepted leadership of the Earth Observation committee. Townshend’s stellar career in remote sensing and pioneering efforts to create the web-based Global Land Cover Facility (http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu) has help to advance the Earth Observation community into increased collaboration. Ms. Colleton has been leading the industry and NGO participation in the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and is therefore a pivotal player in aligning Digital Earth with the various user community trajectories. This world-class team signifies solid integration of the remote sensing community for the ISDE5 event.