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Spatial Computing Successes

Students of USC Spatial’s Yao-Yi Chiang win awards Dr. Yao-Yi Chiang, Associate Professor (Research) of Spatial Sciences in the USC Spatial Sciences Institute, announced the accomplishments of two of his students in his Spatial Computing Lab. Weiwei Duan, a Ph.D. student in computer science and spatial sciences, was one of three winners in the U.S.…
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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

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, landslides, ice…
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