Dr. Vo Presents at GeoDelft

Last week, the urban modeling group’s senior researcher, Dr. Anh-Vu Vo, traveled to the Netherlands to take part in GeoDelft. GeoDelft combined the ISPRS Technical Commission (TC) IV symposium, the 3D GeoInfo conference, the 3D Cadastres workshop, and the 3rd International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities. Dr. Vo delivered a talk on A 6-dimensional hilbert approach to index full waveform LiDAR data in a distributed computing environment at the ISPRS TCIV symposium. 

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“I had the pleasure to meet all the people working on the frontline of spatial data, urban data integration, and 3D data visualization in Europe,” said Dr. Vo, “to me personally, it was also a trip to catch up with many fellows in TU Delft’s Department of OTB (particularly in Prof. Peter van Oosterom and Prof. Sisi Zlatanova’s teams) whom I met and worked with during my 2-month visit to TU Delft 4 years ago. It was also great to see some of my PhD works in point cloud data management strategies under Prof. Laefer’s supervision is providing some insight and inspiration to some current PhD students in TU Delft.” 

Continued engagement with the international remote sensing and mapping community remains a key priority for NYU CUSP’s Urban Modeling Group; we look forward to the 2019 ISPRS TCIV symposium.

US-Russia International Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering

On May 17-18th at the US-Russia International Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering in St. Petersburg, Professor Laefer spoke on Vertical Data Integration for Tunnelling and met with leaders in geotechnology from both the US and Russia. She was also delighted to take part in excursions to visit underground construction projects as well as a flood protection project in Kronstadt, and to tour the city more broadly. 

At the symposium, the heads of the two delegations Professor V.A.Ilyichev and Professor Jean-Louis Briaud agreed to further cooperation between the national societies working in geotechnology in the US and Russia over the coming three years.

To read more: http://www.spbgasu.ru/en/news/3919/

Kavli Futures Symposium: Sensing the City

The prestigious Kavli Foundation is sponsoring a CUSP symposium led by Prof. Debra Laefer. The symposium “Kavli Futures Symposium: Sensing the City” will convene leaders across scientific disciplines who are exploring the development and use of sensors and the integration of sensor networks throughout cities. The symposium aims to explore best practices in creating, storing, indexing, and exploiting sensor network data.