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Posts from October 2008

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Call for NCALM Seed Proposals

Posted on Mon, October 20, 2008 by ccrosby in News

The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping has issued their annual call for Seed Proposals from graduate students.

The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) invites graduate students who are interested in research grade ALSM data to make use of the center’s facilities through the Seed Money Projects programme. This year the program will fund 10 seed projects covering area no more than 40 sq. km. each.The motivation for such seed projects is to have graduate students start their preliminary scientific research and subsequently develop larger NSF proposals to make scientific discoveries using observations and data sets from ALSM technology.

The deadline for proposals is October 31st November 10.  More information is available at the NCALM Seed Proposal website

UPDATE (10/27 GilbertClub email):

We have increased our funding number to 10, so there will be greater opportunity than in past years.

In 2009, NCALM will be flying on the island of Hawaii, so for this seed proposal announcement cycle we will welcome requests for
Hawaii.

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New SRTM DEM Version Available

Posted on Wed, October 01, 2008 by ccrosby in Data • News

Ramon Arrowsmith points out that CGIAR-CSI has released a new version (v.4) of their 90m SRTM Digital Elevation Data.

The SRTM data now available from this site has been upgraded to version 4. This latest version represents a significant improvement from previous versions, using new interpolation algorithms and better auxiliary dems. We are confident this is now the highest quality SRTM dataset available.

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