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American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) & The Florida Surveying and Mapping Society (FSMS) FAU Chapter Planning Meeting

The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) & The Florida Surveying and Mapping Society (FSMS) FAU Chapter will be having its first meeting of 2019 Fall Semester next week!

Wednesday, September 4, 2019
12 PM – 1:00 PM

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Special Issue on “Physical, Economic and Social Vulnerability and Resilience across Scales”

Details of the call for paper can be found on the website of  Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Important Dates:

Submission open: 30 Sep 2019

Submission Deadline: 31 July 2020

Acceptance Deadline: 28 February 2021

Editors:

Dr. Hongbo Su

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Graduate Student position on GIS

Graduate Student position on GIS in Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering, FAU

Job description:

The Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering (http://www.cege.fau.edu/) currently seeks a highly-motivated, high-potential applicant for a Ph.D. or a Master student

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Debojit Biswas passed the oral defense to his dissertation

Congratulations to Debojit Biswas! Debojit passed the defense of his dissertation titled “Real Time Traffic Monitoring System from a UAV Platform” on March 18, 2019.

Debiojit’s Ph.D. study was advised by

PH.D. SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE:
Hongbo Su, Ph.D., Chair
Sudhagar …

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Soil salinity mapping in Everglades National Park using remote sensing techniques and vegetation salt tolerance

A research paper was published by

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C

Summary: Everglades National Park (ENP) is a hydro-ecologically enriched wetland with varying salinity contents, which is a concern for terrestrial ecosystem balance and its nearby urban

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An automatic traffic density estimation using Single Shot Detection (SSD) and MobileNet-SSD

A research paper was published by

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C

Summary: Traffic density estimation is a very important component of an automated traffic monitoring system. Traffic density estimation can be used in a number of …

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Decision support system for urban major hazard installations management based on 3DGIS

A journal article on the application of 3DGIS was recently published by Wenjiang Chen, Hongbo Su, Yong Yan and Zhaoji Hu on

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C

Highlights of the Article:

• A 3D reconstruction method of
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Mapping Historical Changes in Florida’s Coastline from 1875 to 2000

Florida’s beaches are highly dynamic coastal features. They are vulnerable to accretion and erosion over time due to human interaction and climate change stressors such as storm activity.  This research used a well-documented record of historical land surveys and literature, …

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Jason Blankenship was awarded the Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship from ASPRS

FAU Geomatics graduate student, Jason Blankenship, won the Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship from the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) during the ASPRS 2018 meeting in Denver Colorado on Feb. 6, 2018. Jason received $7000 and one-year …

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Piesat 4.1 Software

FAU Geomatics and Beijing PIESAT Information Technology Co., Ltd started a partnership to develop applications based on the software package Pietsat 4.1.

The software can be downloaded from this link.

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