🛰️ Launching the ROSS Club at the University of Alberta
We recently established a dedicated R&D team for remote observation focused research: ROSS (Remote Observation, Sensing & System) at the Multimedia Research Centre (MRC)
mrc.science.ualberta.ca/ross…. The team turns remote signals into decisions, combining satellite, drone, robotic and ground sensing with AI across earth observation, agriculture, infrastructure and environmental monitoring.
The ROSS Club is our student-oriented community, run for students and open to all UofA students with no prerequisites: talks and intro sessions on satellites, drones and multimodal sensing, hack sessions on real datasets, field demos and flight days, and connections with ROSS researchers, industry partners and the wider sensing community.
Our first event: Remote Sensing in Agriculture
🎤 Joshua Billson, PhD Student, MRC
📅 Wed Aug 19, 1:00–2:30 pm (MT)
📍 Hybrid: UCOMM 4-140
@UAlberta + open Zoom (no passcode)
Joshua will cover how satellite, aerial and drone imaging supports crop mapping, plant health assessment, disease detection and yield prediction, plus where the field is heading: multi-temporal learning, foundation models for Earth observation, object-centric approaches and large language models in remote sensing workflows.
Everyone is welcome. Walk-ins welcome in person, the Zoom link is open, and registering helps us plan capacity.
🔗 Details and add-to-calendar:
mrc.science.ualberta.ca/ross…
📬 Newsletter for future events:
groups.google.com/g/ross-clu…
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