Dr. Joan Lurie

tel: 212 757 1660
E-mail: drjoan@gte.net

Area of Expertise

Satellite and airborne remote sensing, image understanding, hyperspectral imagery applications

Biography

Dr. Joan Lurie is currently an imagery systems consultant dealing with remote sensing, and technology transfer. Her recent projects have concentrated on applications of remotely sensed imagery (with emphasis on hyperspectral data) to several vertical markets and to the military. Dr. Lurie has over twenty years experience in industry and academia in technical management, market analysis and strategic planning for use of satellite imagery data of the earth. She has worked extensively with the intelligence community. She is an adjunct professor at CUNY where she teaches Satellite Remote Sensing to undergraduate engineering students.

Dr. Lurie has recently worked in Business Development for remote sensing at BAE SYSTEMS. She dealt with all aspects of remote sensing imagery systems with emphasis on data exploitation and utility of hyperspectral imagery.

In an earlier position, Dr. Lurie was the Director of Strategic Marketing at Datron/Transco, Inc, an international company which supplied remote sensing ground stations. Her activities included international business development and market assessment for remote sensing and the design of ground station systems capable of processing data from current and future remote sensing satellites.

Dr. Lurie is a fellow of SPIE and an elected member of the Board of Directors. She has served as chair of the Engineering, Science and Technology Policy Committee of SPIE and is currently a member of the Publications and Financial Advisory Committees. She has been a conference chairperson and proceedings editor for numerous Satellite Remote Sensing Symposia.

Dr. Lurie's educational background is in physics. When she received her PhD in solid state physics at Rutgers University in 1967, the University was 201 years old and she was the first female to be granted a PhD by the Physics Department! She is a summa cum laude graduate of CUNY with a BS in Physics. Her other interests include theater, travel, tennis and bridge.

Lecture Title(s)

Satellites - What can we picture and what can we use the data for?
The theme here is to discuss how one matches the available data to the problem at hand. This would be a fairly technical talk describing the limits of the information obtainable by using electro-optical (daylight only), infrared and radar "cameras" to picture the earth. There are at least three possible "flavors" of this talk:

• Agricultural and environmental applications
• Civil applications including mapping, real estate etc where high spatial resolution is desirable
• Military applications

Satellite Remote Sensing as a Media Event
Overview of th use of remotely sensed images in the media, on the web etc including some discussion of legal issues (not primarily technical).

Archiving, Dissemination and Compression of multiband satellite data
This would be a purely technical talk addressing issues of processing, storing and distributing complex data sets.