From sbaden@natresnet.org Sun Dec 14 14:56:19 2003
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 22:19:47 -0800
From: Steve Baden
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Subject: What's New at RESNET
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What's New At RESNET
Sessions to be Offered at the 2004 RESNET Conference Posted on RESNET
Conference Web Site
The RESNET Conference is the premier national forum on home energy
ratings, residential energy efficiency financing, and building
performance business development. The 2004 RESNET Conference will bring
together the national experts on home energy ratings, energy mortgages,
and high performance homes from across the nation. The conference will
take place on March 1 - 3, 2004 at the Shelter Pointe Hotel and Marina in
San Diego, California.
The 2004 RESNET Conference will address the emerging opportunities and
challenges facing the home energy rating industry. Sessions will explore
the opportunities and share strategies for meeting the growing demand for
rating services while maintaining the quality of our services. Sessions
will include:
* Tax Credits for Residential Energy Efficiency
* New Directions for the Rating Industry
* Rating Technical Issues
* Innovative Business and Marketing Strategies
* Financing
* Energy Code Compliance
RESNET has posted the preliminary listing of sessions that will be
offered at this year's conference at
www.natresnet.org/conference/2004/sessions.htm
There will be limited seating available for the 2004 RESNET Conference.
Register now and take advantage of the "early bird" discount. You can
register on-line by clicking on
www.natresnet.org/conference/2004/registration.htm
RESNET has reserved a block of rooms at the Shelter Pointe Hotel and
Marina for a special conference rate of $139 per night. To secure the
special conference rate reservations must be made by February 1, 2004.
To make your reservations call 1-800-566-2524. Please identify your
reservation as being under the RESNET rate.
2004 RESNET Conference to Offer Special Companion Events
A special feature of this year's conference is planned companion events.
The events include a water taxi across the beautiful San Diego Bay to
downtown San Diego's exciting water front and a charter bus to the world
famous San Diego Zoo and Balboa Park. For more information go to
www.natresnet.org/conference/2004/companion.htm
Plan to have some fun and come early to discover America^Òs finest city,
San Diego. For information on what you can see and do in San Diego, click
on www.natresnet.org/conference/2004/aboutsd.htm
RESNET Board Adopts Rating Financial Interest Disclosure Form
With the dynamic growth in the demand for home energy ratings and
increasing likelihood of federal tax credits for residential energy
efficiency, a critical issue for the rating industry is meeting this
demand while maintaining the quality of the industry's services. This
requires shoring up of the industry's quality assurance procedures.
As part of this effort, the RESNET Board of Directors has adopted a
Rating Financial Interest Disclosure form that raters should use to
disclose to their clients, the rater's financial interest in the home
being rated. The current standards "prohibits undisclosed conflicts of
interest" but allows waivers from the rating provider with advanced
disclosure. Prior to the RESNET Board's action there was no uniform
disclosure form.
The rating disclosure form is currently a nationally recommended standard
for rating providers and raters, but is not required. An amendment to
the RESNET rating provider standard, however, is being proposed that
would require raters to use this form. The proposal will be included in
the set of amendments that will be going to public review and comment in
March 2004.
The RESNET Rating Disclosure Form and instructions are posted on RESNET's
web site at www.natresnet.org/disclosure
Energy Mortgages to be Featured on North Carolina Statewide Broadcast
OPEN/net is an educational television that is carried by cable channels
throughout the state of North Carolina. On Tuesday, December 9 OPEN/net
will air a program on "Energy Efficient Mortgages in North Carolina" from
8:00 - 9:00 p.m. The program will explore how energy mortgages can
help consumers improve their homes and save energy and money. The
program will feature Jim Taylor, Director of Product
Innovation for Fannie Mae, Starlette Brown, Section Chief of the State
Energy Office and Steve Baden, Executive Director of RESNET. These
guests will answer questions and respond to comments live on the air.
Viewers can send in their questions and comments by email to
open@ncmail.net or call in, toll free, to 1-888-228-6736. To find your
local cable channel that carries OPEN/net go to
http://www.doa.state.nc.us/doa/apt/cablelst.ht
Updates to RESNET's Web Site:
November Member News
+ 25th Anniversary of the Energy Training Center - Stockton
+ Building Design & Construction White Paper on Sustainability
+ Bloomington, Illinois Energy Expo
+ Touchstone Energy's 2004 Energy Management Conference
+ Environmental Business Association of New York State Green Building
Programs
+ Fuel Cell Yearbook
View these news features at http://www.natresnet.org/news/mn2003-12.htm
New Accredited Rating Providers
+ CalCERTS (California)
Renewed Accredited Rating Providers
+ Building Science Corporation
+ Competitive Resources
+ ConSol
+ Energy Designed Homes
+ Energy Services Group
+ G&S Testing
+ Metro Code Analysis
View this update at http://www.natresnet.org/accred/registry.htm
New RESNET Members
+ CalCERTS
+ LaGrange Consulting
+ Wisconsin Energy Efficiency Bureau
View these new members listings at
http://www.natresnet.org/dir/members/default.htm
Directory Of Certified Raters
Updated listings for:
+ North Carolina
+ Ohio
View these updates at http://www.natresnet.org/dir/raters/default.htm
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Season!
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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 18:06:37 -0600
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IKONOS imagery for mapping transportation infrastructure | p. 4625
D. O. Fuller, R. A Williamson, M. Jeffe
Detecting and discriminating impervious cover with high-resolution IKONOS
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4627
M. E. Cablk, T. B. Minor
Spatial resolution improvement of remote sensing images by fusion of
subpixel-shifted multi-observation images | p. 4647
Yao Lu, Minoru Inamura
A knowledge-integrated stepwise optimization model for feature mining in
remotely sensed images | p. 4661
J. C. Luo, J. Zheng, Y. Leung, C. H. Zhou
Geometric processing of hyperspectral image data acquired by VIFIS on
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Y. Gu, J. M. Anderson
Simple calibration of AVIRIS data and LAI mapping of forest plantation in
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R. Pu, P. Gong, G. S. Biging
Weathering sequence of soils developed from basalt as evaluated by
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A practical algorithm to infer soil and foliage component temperatures
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J. W. Ma, Y. Xue, C. F. Ma, Z. G. Wang
Remote sensing of the 1998 mudflow at Casita volcano, Nicaragua | p.
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N. Kerle, J.-L. Froger, C. Oppenheimer, Van Wyk De B. Vries
Characterization of rainfall-induced landslides | p. 4817
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Remote sensing of agriculture change in Oman | p. 4835
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Classification of wheat crop with multi-temporal images: performance of
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F. M. Danson, C. S. Rowland, F. Baret
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R. J. Van Der A, A. J. M. Piters, R. F. Van Oss, C. Zehner
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