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Donghwan Kim Receives Best Dissertation Award

Kim Receives Awards at Department and College Levels Geosensing Systems Engineering & Sciences Ph.D. graduate Donghwan Kim won the best dissertation award in the Department of Civil…
Donghwan Kim and Hyongki Lee at department ceremony.
GSES Ph.D. Candidates Defend Dissertations

Andrea Albright and Sean Zhu Defend Ph.D. Dissertations in April Two doctoral candidates from the Geosensing Systems Engineering & Sciences (GSES) graduate program recently defended…
Andrea Albright's and Sean Zhu's dissertations with Dr. Craig Glennie.
New NCALM Dataset Northwest of Salmon, Idaho Available

A new lidar dataset covering 42 km2 northwest of Salmon, Idaho is now available on OpenTopography. This lidar dataset was collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (…
3D point cloud colored by elevation of the Dump Creek basin in Idaho. (Credit: OpenTopography)
NCALM Announces 2021 Seed Proposal Winners

2021 Student Seed Proposal Winners Selected The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping surveys multiple projects each year for graduate student PIs whose research would be enhanced by…
National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping
New NCALM Lidar Dataset in Southeastern Sierra Nevada and Inyo Mountains

A new lidar dataset covering approximately 133 km2 north of Ridgecrest, California, in the southeastern Sierra Nevada and Inyo Mountains, is now available on OpenTopography. This lidar…
DTM colored by elevation of a section north of Ridgecrest, California.  (Credit: OpenTopography)
Radar Tech From CEE's Milillo Records Antarctic Glaciers Losing Ice Faster Than Ever Documented Before

By: Sally Strong In a new University of Houston study using an advanced remote imaging system known as synthetic aperture radar interferometry, three glaciers at the South Pole are…
Pietro Milillo, assistant professor of civil engineering at the University of Houston, is joined in the project by University of California Irvine researchers and scientists from NASA, the German Aerospace Center and the Italian Space Agency.
New NCALM Dataset of Eastern Cascade Mountains, Washington Now Available

A new lidar dataset covering approximately 63 sq km of the Eastern Cascade Mountains in Washington State is now available on OpenTopography. The study area is located northwest of…
3D point cloud colored by elevation of the Eastern Cascade Mountains. (Credit: OpenTopography)
New NCALM Dataset Along Coast of Lake Michigan, Wisconsin

A new lidar dataset covering 84 sq km along the coast of Lake Michigan east of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is now available on OpenTopography. This lidar dataset was collected as part of a…
3D point cloud colored by elevation of the Lake Michigan coast east of Milwaukee, WI. (Credit: OpenTopography)
Geosensing Systems Engineering Seeks Faculty for Assistant Professor

Geosensing Systems Engineering & Sciences Faculty Position The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Houston invites applications for one full-…
University of Houston Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Airborne Mapping Identifies Nearly 500 Sites and Patterns, Re-conceptualizing Early Mesoamerica

Through the analysis of airborne laser mapping (lidar), an international team of researchers – including several from the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston –…
Airborne mapping