NGA/USGS Center of Academic Excellence Site Visit Agenda

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