Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Church received the 2018 Isard Award from the North American Regional Science Council at its annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas, November 7-10, 2018. The Isard Award is named in honor of Professor Walter Isard, the founder of the Regional Science Association. The award was established in 1994 to acknowledge “regional scientists who have made significant theoretical and methodological...
Read MoreOn October 5, 2018 the department, alumni and friends celebrated the retirement of Distinguished Professor Richard L. Church. This began with a Roast/Memories session followed by a Reception. The Roast included an overview of Dr. Church’s career at UCSB. Rick began his tenure at UCSB in Fall 1980 and he retired following the Spring 2018 quarter. His addition to the department brought expertise in location modeling, spatial...
Read MoreJorge Chen, who earned his PhD in the Fall of 2017, attended a joint conference called Geo Delft 2018 at TU Delft in the Netherlands from September 30th to October 5th, 2018. He presented one paper dealing with indoor point cloud analysis at 3DGeoInfo 2018 and another on semantic levels of detail for indoor mapping at the 2018 Smart Data and Smart Cities (SDSC) conference. The SDSC paper was a finalist for best paper and...
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