The Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Lab is holding an open house in Carnegie Hall this afternoon from 4-6. This will be the VEMI lab’s second annual open house, and guests will have the opportunity to learn about the lab’s latest research and development advances. Last years event was very successful with a large turnout, […]
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Meet Torsten Hahmann, a new assistant professor at the University of Maine working in the spatial informatics program of the School of Computing and Information Science. Professor Hahmann began working at UMaine in November of 2013. In his position as assistant professor, he has several roles at the university: teaching courses, conducting research, and writing […]
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Presentation: Geospatial Business Intelligence and Big GeoData Who: Dr. Yvan Bedard, Professor, Laval University (and UMaine alumnus) <http://yvanbedard.scg.ulaval.ca/?lang=en> When: Noon, Thursday, September 18 Where: Room 336 Boardman Hall Please come and discuss with Yvan his perspectives and approaches for addressing big geodata challenges.
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Taro Ubukawa, Alex De Sherbinin, Harlan Onsrud, Andy Nelson, Karen Payne, Olivier Cottray, and Mikel Maron, A Review of Roads Data Development Methodologies, Data Science Journal, Vol. 13: 45-66, 2014.
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Mark Royer, Sudarshan S. Chawathe, Andrei V. Kurbatov, Paul A. Mayewski. A Java library for dynamically loading and executing remote Octave functions. Borns Symposium, April 2014. Abstract: We describe a technique for loading and executing Octave functions remotely from a Java application. There are many scientific re-sampling techniques developed for Octave, and new functions are constantly being […]
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George Markowsky, In Praise of Small Data, International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Predictive Organization and Big Transformations Stanford, CA, USA, May 27, 2014 (in press) Abstract: Big Data tools can give “explanations” of complex and elaborate data sets. There is the danger that we might be content with the explanations that these tools produce. It is […]
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Joshua A. Lewis and Max J. Egenhofer. Oriented Regions for Linearly Conceptualized Features in: “Geographic Information Science — Eighth International Conference,” GIScience 2014, Vienna, Austria. M. Duckham, E. Pebesma, K. Stewart and A. Frank (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, September 2014 (in press). Abstract: Spatial scenes are abstractions of some geographic reality, focusing on the spatial […]
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J. L. Fastook and J. W. Head. Concentric crater fill: Rates of glacial accumulation, infilling and deglaciation in the amazonian and noachian of mars. Lunar and Planetary Science XXXXV, #1227, 2014. Introduction: Concentric Crater Fill (CCF) [1-6] is one of many features on Mars that are thought to either contain ice, or to have been formed by […]
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J. L. Fastook and J. W. Head. Late noachian icy highlands: Patterns of ice accumulation and flow. Lunar and Planetary Science XXXXV, #1115, 2014. Introduction: The record of non-polar ice deposits throughout the Amazonian suggest a cold and dry climate not significantly different from the present climate observed on Mars [1], where latitudinal movement of ice is […]
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J. L. Fastook and J. W. Head. Amazonian mid- to high-latitude glaciation on Mars: Supply-limited ice sources, ice accumulation patterns, and concentric crater fill glacial flow and ice sequestration. Planetary and Space Science, 91:60–76, doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2013.12.002, 2014. Abstract: Concentric crater fill (CCF) occurs in the interior of impact craters in mid- to high latitudes on Mars and […]
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