Paper written by civil engineer and ECE professor earns accolades
A paper on airborne light detection and ranging (LIDAR) for
airport construction authored by McFarland-Bascom Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering Robert Nowak and National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration scientist Chris Parrish has received two awards from the
American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. The paper earned the
2012 Talbert Abrams Award and the third-place 2012 ERDAS Award for Best
Scientific Paper in Remote Sensing. The paper tackles a civil engineering
problem—inaccurate mapping data for future airport construction sites—and
applies modern filtering techniques Novak developed to better use LIDAR data in
construction planning.
Mark Riechers
2/13/2012