SilviLaser 2008 Conference: ESRI student sponsorships

 

ESRI have kindly offered five student bursaries worth £275 each to cover the costs of conference registration and three nights accommodation at Heriot-Watt University for attendance of SilviLaser 2008. Please note that these bursaries do not cover travel costs to and from the conference.

We are pleased to announce that after a very strong set of applications from across the globe, the five ESRI Student Sponsorships have been awarded to the following candidates:

Name: Steven Hancock
Address: Departments of Geography and Space & Climate Physics, University College London (UCL) Gower Street, London, United Kingdom.
Project title: Understanding the measurement of forests with waveform lidar through ray tracing.

Name: Xinlian Liang
Address: Finnish Geodetic Institute, Geodeetinrinne 2, PL 15, 02431 MASALA, Finland
Project title: Improving forest supply chain by means of advanced laser measurements.

Name: Naoko Miura
Address: School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, RMIT University GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia
Project title: Using LiDAR to determine landscape level biodiversity metrics.

Name: Piotr Tompalski
Address: Faculty of Forestry, Agricultural University of Krakow Al. Mickiewicza 21, 31-103 Krakow, Poland
Project title: Vegetation mapping of the reclamation areas using airborne laser scanning technology.

Name: Udayalakshmi Vepakomma
Address: Institut des sciences de l'environnement Université du Québec a Montréal (UQAM) Montréal, Canada.
Project Title: Spatiotemporal charaterisation of gap dynamics and boreal forest responses using multi-temporal lidar data. .

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