Call for Registration - 2017 CGA Conference: The Drone Revolution in Spatial Analysis

This year's CGA conference aims at illuminating the profound changes drones have brought to mapping practice, from platform and sensor selection, flight path planning, field operations, data processing, image analysis, feature extraction, 3-D model construction, and visualization. Experts will share their experiences with application cases and first-hand operational logistics. The conference preliminary program has been updated. To register, please click here.

Upcoming GIS Technical Training Workshops

CGA offers several non-credit technical training workshops related to GIS (Free to Harvard affiliates but registration is required). The workshops are:

• GPS Data Collection, by Jeff Blossom, 1:30-4:30pm, April 14^th, 2017

CGA's Monthly GIS Presentations - come join the discussion

• ABCD-GIS Presentation Series
  "Social GeoAnnotation with Recogito 2 and the Pelagios Commons", presented by Leif Isaksen, Senior Lecturer in Spatial History, Lancaster University, UK. Thursday, April 20^th, 2017. 12:00-1:30pm. Room S354, CGIS Sputh building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA.
  "Big Data meets Geo-Computation: Combining research reproduecibility and processing efficiency in high-performance computing" , presented by Giuseppe Amatulli, Research Scientist in GeoComputation and Spatial Science at Yale's Center for Research Computing. Thursday, May 4^th, 2017. 12:00-1:30pm. Room S354, CGIS Sputh building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA.
• Geography Colloquium
  "Boston Area Research Initiative", presented by Robert Sampson and Christopher Winship. Thursday, May 18^th, 2017. 12:00-1:30pm. Room S354, CGIS Sputh building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA.

Call for Applications

• 2017 Fisher Prize and Davis Center Award Competition
  The 2017 Fisher Prize for excellence in GIS will be given to one graduate and one undergraduate student who must be enrolled in the academic year 2016-2017 and in good standing to be considered for the award. Group projects are allowed. The Prize is a cash award of $500 given to the best undergraduate and graduate entry. The Davis Center Prize for GIS Projects in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies is also a $500 cash reward, and is being offered in conjunction with the Fisher Prize. For more on the Davis Center Prize, click here. The deadline for both prize is 11:59p.m. Monday, April 24th, 2017. To submit your work, follow the guidelines listed on the Fisher Prize page.

Esri Development Center Student of the Year Award 2017

The 2017 ESRI EDC Student of the Year Award for Harvard University has been awarded to Longfeng Wu, Yonghui Chen, Jung Hyun Woo, Seung Kyum Kim for their paper: "How do pedestrians choose their routes?". Congratulations to the winners! More details can be found here.