Mapping and GIS
Laboratory
Dept. of Civil
& Environmental Engineering & Geodetic Science
College of Engineering, The
Ohio State University
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Ron Li Receives Innovators Award
Professor Ron Li has been awarded the 2008 Innovators Award. The award is presented each year to an individual or team of faculty and/or research scientists who best demonstrate innovation in the development of a product and/or technology originating from the OSU research enterprise. The innovative software system, MarsMapper, developed by Professor Ron Li and his OSU team have gained a tremendous reputation during the four years of mission operations of NASA's Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, by supporting precision navigation, winter haven selection, ingress/egress of Mars craters, and other mission critical tasks. Ron Li Receives Lumley Research Award Professor
Ron Li along with professors Dorota Brzezinska and Charles Toth are the
2008 recipients of the Lumley Research Award. This award is to
recognize faculty and research scientists on the basis of their
research accomplishments during their last five years at The Ohio State
University. Five categories of information are provided in the
committee evaluation that include their research program and
contribution, publications, thesis and dissertations, a listing of
their research grants, and other auxiliary information related to their
research. New Lunar Astronaut Spatial Orientation Research Funded The Lab has received major funding for a NASA NSBRI (National Space Biomedical Research Institute) project "Enhancement of Spatial Orientation Capability of Astronauts on the Lunar Surface. This project represents a collaboration between the OSU Mapping & GIS Lab, the OSU Photogrammetric Computer Vision Lab, the BANKSLAB at UC Berkeley, the Man Vehicle Laboratory at MIT, and the NASA Glenn Research Center. Project objectives and methodology can be found here. Dr. Ron Li Chosen as Participating Scientist of New Lunar Mission Dr. Li has been selected to serve as a Participating Scientist for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission. Dr. Kaichang Di is Co-I. The proposal, “Integration of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) and Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) Data for Precision Lunar Topographic Mapping and Landing Sites Assessment”, proposes to integrate Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) and Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) data to provide the first highly accurate 3-D lunar cartographic maps. These maps are particularly important for the assessment of lunar surface features as possible landing sites for future lunar landed missions. GET-CUT REVERSAL: Mars rovers will keep roaming, NASA says The twin Mars rovers have survived everything the Red Planet could throw at them for four years: massive sandstorms, blistering-hot days and freezing nights.But perhaps their greatest feat has been accomplished millions of miles away on Earth: surviving NASA budget cuts. Click here to read story. ESRI First Place Award Dr. Li and his co-authors Kaichang Di (Research Scientist), Jue Wang (PhD Candidate), Xutong Niu (postdoc), Sanchit Agarwal (MS student), Evgenia Brodyagina (MS student), Eric Oberg (MS student), and JuWon Hwangbo (PhD student) are the First Place recipients of the 2007 ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in Geographic Information Systems for the paper "A WebGIS for Spatial Data Processing, Analysis, and Distribution for the MER 2003 Mission". Presentation of the award certificate will take place during the ASPRS 2008 Annual conference in Portland, OR. Read more here. Latest Mars Traverse Maps The latest traverse maps for the Mars rovers: Spirit (as of Sol 1516) and Opportunity (as of Sol 1496). Full size maps can be viewed by clicking on the appropriate image below.  
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