Lecturer: Dr. James Frew, Associate Professor from Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara

　　Date：14:30-16:00, Nov. 18th, 2014

　　Introduction of Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UCSB by Dr. James Frew

　　Academic Cooperation Agreement

　　Date：16:00-17:00, Nov. 18th, 2014

　　Moderator: Dr. Jiancheng Shi

　　Venue：Room A503, Olympic Park, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, RADI, CAS

　　Dr. James Frew received all his degrees (B.A. in 1977, M.S. in 1980 and Ph.D. in 1990) in Geography at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He is now an Associate Professor in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UCSB, and a Principal Investigator (PI) in UCSB's Earth Research Institute (ERI). His research interests lie in the emerging field of environmental informatics, a synthesis of computer, information, and Earth sciences. He is interested in information architectures that improve the discoverability, usability, and reliability of distributed environmental information. Trained as a geographer, he has worked in remote sensing, image processing, software architecture, massive distributed data systems, and digital libraries. His current research is focused on geospatial information provenance, science data curation, and applications of array databases, using remote sensing data products as operational test beds.