Graduate Students

Publication of Real-time Mapping of Natural Disasters using Citizen Update Streams

Iranga Subasinghe, a third-year Ph.D. student in Spatial Information Science and Engineering, served as lead author on a research article recently published in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science in a special issue on “Real-time GIS for Smart Cities.” The research was accomplished through a team effort among personnel in the UMaine School of […]

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Graduate Student Shirley Stephen Presents at 14th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory

On Sept 12, Shirly Stephen, PhD student in the Spatial Information Science and Engineering program at UMaine, presented the paper “Formal Qualitative Spatial Augmentation of the Simple Feature Access Model” in Regensburg, Germany at the 14th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory. The paper develops an approach for storing and integrating data from spatial expressions […]

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Masters Project Presentation by Kaitlyn Haase

Invitation to Masters Project defense: Kaitlyn Haase When: Friday, Aug 17, 10:00 in Boardman rm 336 Title: Immersive Virtual Haptics for Nonvisual Shape Recognition Abstract: Geometry curricula are typically taught in a visuospatial manner (i.e., students learn spatial properties of shapes through visual information rendered via 2D diagrams). This approach imposes significant barriers for students […]

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