ESRI 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.
A very strong set of applications from across the globe were received and the five ESRI Student Sponsorships were awarded to the following candidates:
- Steven Hancock
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. - Xinlian Liang
Finnish Geodetic Institute, Geodeetinrinne 2, PL 15, 02431 MASALA, Finland
Project title: Improving forest supply chain by means of advanced laser measurements. - Naoko Miura
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. - Piotr Tompalski
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. - Udayalakshmi Vepakomma
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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