Dr. Kramar, students attend ND Geospatial Summit

Dr. David Kramar from the Department of Anthropology and Earth Sciences and six MSUM students attended the 2019 ND Geospatial Summit conference in Bismarck, ND on Oct 22-23. Dr. Kramar presented his research on using GIS and high-resolution imagery to model above-ground biomass at two Nutrient Network sites at the Regional Science Center. Geosciences undergraduate Asami Minei presented her research […]

Student places in ND Geospatial Summit paper competition

MSUM student Asami Minei won second place in the undergraduate student paper competition at the 2019 North Dakota Geospatial Summit. This award is a wonderful reminder of the quality of work that MSUM students in GIS are producing. Her talk was entitled ” Classification and Calculation of Non-NIR Vegetation Indices from High Resolution UAS Imagery.” Her talk generated significant interest […]

Dr. Kramar, students present research at GIS/LIS conference

Dr. David Kramar from the Department of Anthropology and Earth Sciences presented his research entitled “Estimation of Total Above-Ground Biomass at Two Sites Using High Resolution Imagery, Machine Learning, and Non-NIR Vegetation Indicies” and the 29th Annual Mn GIS/LIS Conference in St. Cloud, Minn. Four students from MSUM also attended the conference: Asami Minei, Yoko (George) Kosugi, Christine Lidenberg (Anthropology […]

Dr. Kramar, Minei present at national conference

Dr. David Kramar and undergraduate Geosciences student Asami Minei attended the 2019 National Conference of the American Association of Geographers in Washington D.C. from April 3 – April 7. At the conference, they presented their research entitled “Application of Object-Oriented Classification and Non-NIR Vegetation Indices to Quantify Prairie Restoration Efforts at Two Sites in Western MN.” Co-authored by Dr. Valquiria […]