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Senior Courtney Fassett reflects on her USC experience with SSI Courtney Fassett’s motivation to become a Spatial Sciences Institute GeoDesign major began before she entered USC as a freshman Presidential Scholar in the fall of 2016. In fact, her interest in the spatial sciences started years before that. In February 2014, Courtney and her family…

Elin Henningsson Named SSI’s Third USGIF Golden Ticket Winner Dr. Steven D. Fleming (far right) of the USC Spatial Sciences Institute celebrates with SSI’s trio of USGIF Golden Ticket winners (L-R) Kevin Mercy, Richard Windisch and Elin Henningsson at SSI’s 2020 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) has announced that…

SSI’s Cass Kalinski wins 2019 UNIGIS International Prize and 2020 EDC Competition Cass Kalinski (M.S. GIST ’19) has recently won not one, but two prestigious awards for his thesis “Building Better Species Distribution Models with Machine Learning: Assessing the Role of Covariate Scale and Tuning in Maxent Models” that he produced in the USC Spatial…