Jorge 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...
Read MoreThe whole application process started last winter quarter after I saw a post in the geography newsletter to apply for the fellowship. As a project lead, I had to form a team of students who were interested in bringing solar to a community serving non-profit in the area. As a team, we will be hosting a series of events and outreach campaigns to raise awareness about our crowdfunding project so that we can raise the money for the...
Read MoreWhat made you decide to be a geography major? I decided to become a Geography major because I like picture books. As a kid, I really disliked flipping through wordy books to find the pictures, so I preferred an atlas mostly because it was easy to understand, visually interesting, and gave my imagination a world size sandbox to explore. What has been your favorite course so far? My favorite course so far has been GEOG 176C GIS Design...
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