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UWG students win at ASPRS Conference
December 21, 2005
CARROLLTON, GA - University of West Georgia students and alumni came away as winners at the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) fall conference held in Athens.
Four UWG undergraduate students and a UWG alum presented their research and placed in the ASPRS competition held at the University of Georgia.
Dr. Rebecca Dodge, associate professor in the UWG Department of Geosciences, brought the UWG students to the conference and mentored their research.
William Keith Rice of Douglasville and Bryan Victor of McDonough won first place in the undergraduate student poster competition and received $100 and free membership to the AAPRS. The theme of the conference was “A Closer Look at Natural Resource Applications.”
Eric Burger of Conyers placed second in the competition and won $50 and a free membership to the AAPRS. Kevin Hemphill of Bremen won third place in the undergraduate poster competition and received a free membership to the AAPRS.
Chester Jackson, a UWG alum who is currently pursuing a graduate degree at the University of Georgia, won first place in the graduate student competition and also won $100 and a free membership to the AAPRS.
Founded in 1934, ASPRS is an imaging and geospatial information society serving more than 7,000 professional members around the world. Its mission is to advance knowledge and improve understanding of mapping sciences and to promote the responsible applications of photogrammetry, remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), and supporting technologies.
Several of the students’ research used imagery provided
by GeorgiaView and grants from the National Science Foundation and GeorgiaView
funded the trip to Athens and the resources needed for research.
Dodge made a trip to the state capitol in Atlanta to thank legislators
for supporting GeorgiaView programs at UWG and to hand out several of
the award-winning posters.
GeorgiaView is a remote sensing consortium headed by the Department of Geosciences at the University of West Georgia. The GVC is a part of the AmericaView Consortium, which is a nationwide university-led and state-based consortia working together to build a network of state and local remote sensing users.
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