Tapio Kallonen new CEO for Specim Spectral Imaging
Tapio Kallonen will join GRSG Member company, Specim to lead it after significant investments in new products for the next phase of its ongoing rapid growth plan. Together with the senior management and skilled personnel, he will inspire and ensure Specim’s continued commitment to its clients and partners, providing an unrivaled range of competitive hyperspectral instrumentation and imaging solutions for [...]
Student Awards Deadline Looms
The deadline for the GRSG student awards 2018 is fast approaching, but we are still taking applications up until the 15th April! The GRSG is offering up to three awards of £1,000 each, to reward and aid students who are engaged in geoscientific remote sensing research. These awards may be used to support a wide range of activities but may [...]
GRSG Chairman is Coming Up Trumps for the Geological Society
The Chairman of the Geological Remote Sensing Group (GRSG) Charlotte Bishop, will be giving the next Geological Society Public Lecture at Burlington House on London’s Piccadilly once in the afternoon and again in the evening of Wednesday 28th March. Under the title; Satellite Top Trumps: The Geological Edition, Charlotte will take the audience through a brief history of commercial satellite [...]
In Memoriam – Bob Agar
Robert (Bob) Agar, who died on 19th March in Perth, Western Australia, was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, studied geology at Liverpool, and completed his PhD on the monzonitic rocks of the Coastal Batholith of Peru, and associated mineralisation, in 1978. Bob and Hilda arrived in Zambia, working from 1978 for the Minex Department of Mindeco, the state mining corporation. His [...]
The Getech Group Joins the GRSG
The Getech Group, providers of natural resources exploration data and expertise, has joined the Geological Remote Sensing Group (GRSG) as a Corporate Member to help widen the understanding of how satellite derived geoscience data can provide huge benefits to both explorationists and research staff. The GRSG is a special interest group of the Geology Society of London and the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry [...]
Conferences, Castles and Carbonates
GRSG's own Xu Teo gives his account of the last AGM and Conference: 'Held in the beautiful, historic city of Lisbon, the recent GRSG International Annual Conference revolved around the theme “Applied Geological Remote Sensing”. This conference focused on a wide range of remote sensing applications, tools, latest developments and sensors Held over a period of 3 days, the event [...]