Welcome to RDX ’06 / CNY-ASPRS RS Symposium

1. Welcome to RDX ’06 / CNY-ASPRS RS Symposium

2. Welcome to Rochester and Remote Sensing Across the Great Lakes: Observation, Monitoring and Action

3. Thank you

4. Thank you Steering Committee Program Committee

5. Thank You Silver Sponsors

6. Thank You Gold Sponsors

7. Housekeeping Issues: • Agenda Revisions • Exhibitor Locations • Scheduled Breaks • Restrooms • Questions/Concerns – Registration Table

8. RDX Objectives: • Provide forum for professional discourse • Promote integration of regional data libraries • Promote integrated and distributed web access • Promote development and implementation of multi-jurisdictional data exchange agreements

9. Past RDX Events: • July 2003 RDX Workshop – Ann Arbor, MI • October 2004 RDX Conference – Detroit, MI “Decision Support for the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence System for the New Millennium” • April 2005 Workshop – Chicago, IL “Land Use / Land Cover Mapping Coordination” • November 2005 Workshop – Chicago, IL “Distributed Web Mapping for the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River Basin”

10. Future RDX Events: • October 2006 RDX Workshop– Sioux Falls, SD “Distributed Image Catalogues for the Great Lakes” • April 2007 RDX Conference – Toledo, OH “Digital Rights Management and Other Legal Issues”

12. Evaluations / Questionnaires

13. We are all about numbers! Early this morning, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date was: 01:02:03 04/05/06 This won’t happen for another century!

14. Have a great Conference !!