USC SSI teams win NGA Los Angeles hackathon Two teams from the Spatial Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California captured the top prizes at the March 25-26, 2017 hackathon presented by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in Los Angeles, California. The hackathon challenge was how to use geospatial information to better understand, model,…
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2017 Geospatial Summit
Capturing the geospatial potential in the digital revolution To kick off the USC Spatial Sciences Institute February 24, 2017 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, Manish Dasaur, managing director for Accenture Digital for North America, delivered the opening keynote on the enormous potential for the geospatial industry in the digital revolution. An expert in using analytics to…
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International “Old Maps” Keynote
Dr. Yao-Yi Chiang, assistant professor (research) of spatial sciences with the USC Spatial Sciences Institute, delivered a keynote address at the Second International Workshop on Exploring Old Maps (EOM 2017) at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany, on April 6, 2017. In his address "Querying Historical Maps as a Unified, Structured, and Linked Spatiotemporal Source," Dr.…
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Ground-breaking Results When Surveying Intersects With GIS
WMATA GIS Manager Ed Wells, left, and USC GIST alumnus Anthony Leimeister present their innovative approach at the 2015 URISA conference Anthony Leimeister (GIST Graduate Certificate ’14) makes a unique contribution to survey monument management with GIS The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is one of the busiest and biggest transit authorities in the…
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