NGA/USGS Center of Academic Excellence Site Visit Agenda

October 25, 2016 News and Events, School News
All students and faculty are invited to attend the Center of Academic Excellence in Geospatial Sciences site visit presentations that start at 1:30 pm on Wednesday Oct 26 in Room 336 Boardman Hall. We look forward to seeing you there.

NGA/USGS Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) Site Visit Agenda

October 26 2016
1:30 Introductions and updates – 336 Boardman Hall

·      From USGS: Dalia Varanka

·      From NGA: Doug Sheldon, Chris Farrah

2:00 Grad student presentations

  • Chris Dorr: “Towards Shape Reasoning with Challenging Data”
  • Joshua Lewis: Point Partitions: A Qualitative Representation for Region-Based Spatial Scenes in R^2
  • Shirly Stephen: Analyzing and improving geospatial data standards using Domain Reference Ontologies: The Case of the Ground Water Markup Language.

3:30 Barbara Wheatland Lab tour – Nutting Hall – Dan Hayes and Cyndy Loftin

4:30 Undergraduate Center of Excellence Proposal

Thursday October 27

9:00 VEMI Lab tour: Rick Corey and Nick Giudice

10:30 Wrap up