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| New Ph.D. Student Opportunities in Geosensing Systems Engineering & Sciences The Geosensing Systems Engineering & Sciences (GSES) graduate research program in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Houston, in conjunction… |
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| NCALM Announces 2017 Seed Proposal Winners 2017 Student Seed Proposal Winners Selected NCALM maps multiple project areas each year for graduate student PIs whose research would be enhanced by airborne lidar data and visible imagery… |
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| UH Professor and Other Experts Discuss Cheaper Lidar for Self-Driving Cars Lidar experts, including Dr. Craig Glennie, discuss the challenges and cost barriers of lidar for commercial, self-driving cars in an article from Ars Technica. With many… |
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| NCALM Invites Seed Project Proposals from Graduate Students The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping invites proposals from graduate students seeking airborne lidar data covering limited areas (no more than 40 km2) for use in research toward… |
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| McMurdo Dry Valleys Lidar Data Now Available OpenTopography has released lidar point cloud and DEM data covering over 2,700 km2 of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica. The data was collected by NCALM in 2014–2015 and includes Taylor… |
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| Buried Shallow Fault Slip from the South Napa Earthquake Revealed A new USGS-led study suggests that earthquake-related deformation just below the Earth's surface can be quite different from how it is expressed at the surface. The study was completed… |
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| NCALM Announces 2016 Seed Proposal Winners The winners of the annual Seed Proposal program have been selected. Eight students will have their projects mapped by NCALM in the coming months. Congratulations to this year's winners!… |
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| Twelve New NCALM Datasets Available Through OpenTopography OpenTopography has released a dozen new datasets collected by NCALM. Among the data are eight student seed grant projects and two Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) projects. See the news… |
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| Request for NCALM Seed Proposals from Graduate Students The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, funded by the National Science Foundation, invites proposals from graduate students seeking Airborne Laser Swath Mapping observations… |
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| OpenTopography Releases New NCALM Dataset from New Zealand OpenTopography has released a dataset from the South Island of New Zealand. The data are part of the Marlborough Fault System and were collected by NCALM in March, 2014. Access to the data… |
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