Shaojun He Presents Dissertation Research
Lab member Shaojun He successfully presented his dissertation research on December 2. He will receive his Ph.D. degree in March, 2012.


Pictured are Dr. Alper Yilmaz, Shaojun, Dr. Ron Li, Dr. Carolyn Merry, and faculty representative Dr. Gerald Gregorek.


The PRoVisG Project - a collaboration between OSU and the European Union
Seven Talks Chaired by Dr. Ron Li of the Mapping & GIS Lab
Join researchers from OSU and the European Union on Monday, December 5 from 1:30 to 5:30 pm in room E100 of Scott Laboratory, 201 W. 19 Avenue for a series of talks explaining the Planetary Robotics Vision Ground Processing (PRoVisG) project supported by the European Union. Presentation times can be found here, and abstracts of the presentations can be found here.

 

Statistical Methods for Structure from Motion presented by Mr. Pierre Moulon and Dr. Pascal Monasse,

IMAGINE, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France

PRoViP ‑ Overview and Functionality presented by Mr. Gerhard Paar, Joanneum Research, Austria

PRoViP ‑ Demonstration presented by Mr. Gerhard Paar, Joanneum Research, Austria

CTU Structure from Motion & Multi View Stereo Pipeline presented by Dr. Tomas Pajdla,

Czech Technical University of Prague, Czech Republic with contributions from C. Albl, M. Havlena, J. Heller, M. Jancosek, Z. Kukelova, J. Knopp, and A. Torii

PRoGIS ‑ Overview presented by Dr. Jeremy Morley, University of Nottingham, UK

PRoGIS ‑ Demonstration presented by Dr. Jeremy Morley, University of Nottingham, UK

Data Processing Workflow to Produce a High-Resolution Local DTM from Multiple MER Stereo Pairs presented by Dr. Dongjoe Shin, University College London, MSSL, UK

Lab Makes Presentations at 2011 Geography and GIS Fair
On November 15, students made poster presentations at the Ohio Union for the 2011 Geography and GIS Fair on recent research being conducted at the Mapping & GIS Lab. Presentations on our work for the NASA MER 2003 mission, the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, and the European Space Agency ExoMars mission as well as work on NASA/NSBRI lunar astronaut navigation and a new Mars panoramic scanning system were presented.

Shaojun He Receives Duane C. Brown 2010 Junior Award
Shaojun, a graduate research associate at the Mapping & GIS Lab and PhD Candidate, has been awarded the 2010 Duane C. Brown Junior Award. The Duane C. Brown Award was established to “promote and stimulate scientific activity in photogrammetry” at The Ohio State University. Annually, awards are made to a senior and a junior person, one  “who has most successfully forwarded the cause of photogrammetry and strengthened the reputation of the Department of Geodetic Science and Surveying in the field of photogrammetry.” The senior award went to Dr. Brent A. Archinal of the U.S. Geological Survey (see his seminar here).

Congratulations to Lin Yan
Congratulations to Lin Yan, who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation Region-based Geometric Active Contour for Classification using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Images. Dr. Yan has accepted a postdoctoral researcher position at South Dakota State University.

New Honor for Dr. Ron Li
Dr. Ron Li has just been elected as as ASCE Fellow. This election from the American Societyof Civil Engineers is a considerable honor. ASCE fellows are practitioners, educators, mentors, and most of all leaders. They have distinguished careers that have contributed significantly to the Civil Engineering profession. The accomplishments of Fellows have left their marks on their communities, society, and future engineering professionals.

New Track in Civil Engineering
The OSU Civil Engineering program has just announced a new MS and PhD track in Geoinformation and Geodetic Engineering that covers one or more areas of research using photogrammetry, image understanding, mapping, geographic information science, satellite geodesy, and remote sensing. Read the announcement here.