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GIS Conquest for Humanitarian Aid

(L-R) Abriannah Aiken, Precious Nwaoha, Andy Rutkowski, Natalie Millstein, and Alex Chen As part of the International GIS Day observances on Wednesday, November 15, 2017 – and as part of Challenge Week leading up to the annual USC-UCLA football game – spatially-oriented USC Trojans took on their UCLA counterparts in the first annual “Battle of Maps”…
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Undergraduate Researchers

USC Spatial faculty put a high priority on involving undergraduate students in their research. Our student not only gain valuable research experience, but also directly contribute to the creation of new knowledge as scholars in their own right. Here are some highlights from this fall semester: Dr. Travis Longcore leads a research group on light…
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Supporting Hurricane Relief

[su_lightbox type="image" src="https://spatial.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Beaumont_Map_14_5.jpg"][/su_lightbox]Two USC GIST students have lent their knowledge of geographic information science (GIS) toward relief efforts following this fall’s natural disasters. Gina Rock (Geospatial Intelligence Graduate Certificate) has more than a decade of disaster response experience, and, over that time, has been deployed to 32 disaster declarations serving victims of flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes,…
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Bruins vs. Trojans: Map Battle for Puerto Rico

USC Dornsife undergrads will complete against UCLA spatial students in the first annual Battle of Maps. The stage is set for Wednesday, November 15th (international GIS Day), from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. It's perfect SSI precursor for the Big Game that Saturday! USC Spatial Science Institute students will gather in the Polymathic Innovation Lab…
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