The Committee on Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis was formed in 1975 to assist coordination of remote sensing activities across campus and to oversee the graduate remote sensing minor program. In 1995, the purview of the Committee was expanded to perform a similar function in the related fields of spatial analysis and geographic information systems. Members of the Committee on Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis are:
Dr. William Kolby Smith
Program Chair, RSSA GIDP
Associate Professor, Land - Water - Climate / Geospatial Analysis
Dr. Avelino Arellano
Executive Committee Member of RSSA
Associate Professor, Data Assimilation and Atmospheric Chemistry
Dr. D. Phillip Guertin
Executive Committee Member of RSSA
Professor, Watershed Management
Dr. Willem J.D. van Leeuwen
Executive Committee Member of RSSA
Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment and Geography and Development
Director, Arizona Remote Sensing Center
Interim Director, School of Natural Resources and the Environment