Department of Geography and GeoInformation Science

Spatial Analysis. GeoSpatial Intelligence. Remote Sensing.
Geographic Information Systems and Science.

GIS Day News

11/2011 - Thank you to all of our students, sponsors, and participants for making GIS Day 2011 a great success! Congratulations to Karen Owen, Xu Lu, Kyle Foster and Brandon Cypress, our student research poster winners!

GIS Day 2011 Photos: Photos courtesy of Duane King


11/2010 - The GGS Department hosted GIS Day 2010 on Wednesday, November 17th at the Center for the Performing Arts.

GIS Day 2010 was a great success!

Check out our Activities Flyer, Program of Events, and pictures (see below). We would like to recognize our Student POSTER COMPETITION participants and winners. Congratulations go to: Fabiana Paez for winning the undergraduate prize for Best Poster, Jing Li and Nancy Perry for winning the graduate prize for Best Poster and David Eckly for winning the graduate prize for Best Poster presentation. All the posters and presentations were great and the judges had a hard time choosing. Thanks to the participants: Qunying Huang, Min Sun, Meredith Hollowell, Xu Lu, Fabiana Paez, Jing Li, David Eckley and David Attaway. The posters are currently hanging in the 2nd floor of the main hallway in the Research Hall building near the GGS Department. Join us for next years GIS Day – November 16th!

See some of the 2010 poster entries:

Be a Citizen Scientist for Climate Change - by Min Sun, et al.

Black Entrepreneurs in Segregated Arlington, VA - by Perry

Venezuela Carabobo State - by Fabiana Paez, et al.

Service Coverage Study of Police Station Location in Washington D.C. - by Xu Lu

Using Cokriging to Estimate Suspended Sediment Concentration in Caofeidian Island, China - by Jing Li, et al.

Utilizing Model Interoperability and Cloud Computing to Enhance Dust Storm Simulation - by Quying Huang, et al.

Spatiotemporal Cluster Analysis on a Network - by David Eckley

Combining Demographic & Political Data - by Brown

GIS Day 2010 Photos: Photos courtesy of Duane King

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