SPIE Remote Sensing 2011

Remote sensing is a fast-growing technology using highly sophisticated sensors on satellites and other elevated platforms as well as on the ground, together with adapted signal and image processing, to deliver many practical applications hardly to be conceived of a few decades ago. The SPIE Remote Sensing Symposium has become the largest and most prestigious annual international meeting on this subject in Europe with more than 600 attendees and each year sees comprehensive coverage of scientific topics, applications, sensors, systems, and satellite platforms and more than 25 countries are represented.
+ Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology
+ Remote Sensing of the Ocean, Sea Ice, Coastal Waters, and Large Water Regions
+ Sensors, Systems, and Next-generation Satellites
+ Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere
+ Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems
+ Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology
+ Lidar Technologies, Techniques, and Measurements for Atmospheric Remote Sensing
+ Addressing Natural Disasters and Sustainable Resources Using Satellite Data
+ High-Performance Computing in Applied Remote Sensing
+ Special Joint Session on Airborne Remote Sensing
Co-located with the SPIE European Symposium on Defence & Security, this event will provide an excellent opportunity to explore new opportunities to collaborate with new partners from other related fields of activity.
Co-located Symposium – SPIE Security+Defence
Two great meetings in one great location! Your registration fee gains you access to all the conferences in both Remote Sensing 2011 and Security+Defence 2011.

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YouTube Remote app released, controls Leanback on GTV or PC from your Android phone

By Richard Lawler posted Nov 9th 2010 4:47PM We weren't completely in love with Google TV's YouTube Leanback experience when we gave the platform a run through, but that could change now that the YouTube Remote app has been released to the Android Market. Users pair the devices simply by signing into YouTube Leanback on the TV or PC and the app on the phone with the same account, then select a video on the phone and send it to the bigger screen with a press of a button. At least, that's how it should work. TechCrunch got a hands on with the new app and a new Topics sorting system for the site during a demo and found some potential, however trying it on one of our devices elicited a slew of crashes before we eventually got everything synced up and working. QR code's after the break so you can have a go of your own.

Update: Once we got everything rolling, we were able to get a better impression of the app. While it was a bit slow to open on our Galaxy S phone, once it is up, it worked smoothly, scrolling side to side through various queues of types of content and our favorites list. While the task of pulling up Leanback in a browser window or even on a Google TV device makes it ill-suited for viewing just one video at a time, where it excels is building a up a queue of videos and sending them over all at once. It will work on multiple screens at the same time as well, but there's no Airplay-style syncing to be had, if one of them starts to slow down or buffer it will simply continue lagging behind, and without any volume controls or ability to reach other functions, you'll still need to keep other remotes handy.

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