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TGI Announces New LinkedIn Group: The TGI Research and Technology Hub
by Bob Grant During the week of February 26th, TGI announced a new LinkedIn Group to help researchers, administrators, and others share award opportunities, requests for proposals, emerging geospatial technologies, interesting new publications, and more using the...
TGI Brief: Talking Sense to AI Image Retrieval
by Bob Grant A TGI Fellow and research collaborators are embarking on a project to incorporate natural language and text prompts into AI image retrieval models to better aid investigators. Taylor Geospatial Institute Fellow Abby Stylianou, Ph.D., TGI Research Council...
A Geospatial Journey Marked by Courage: Nadine Alameh’s Story
by Bob Grant Nadine Alameh is the inaugural executive director of the Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI). Here, she reflects on key moments from her life that brought her to this new position and made her a world-renowned geospatial expert. Nadine Alameh, Ph.D., was a...
TGI Spatial Humanities Working Group Maps Beijing’s Underworld to Understand the Intersection of Geospatial and History
Contributed by Fabien Montcher, Saint Louis University The TGI Spatial Humanities Working Group applied modern geospatial best practices and core GIS technologies to better conceptualize the underworld of 1930s and 1940s Beijing. On January 19th, 2024, the TGI Spatial...
TGI Spotlight: Christian Blue, TGI Diversity Fellow
by Bob Grant Christian Blue is a Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI) Diversity Fellow, Harris-Stowe State University (HSSU) senior, and an early career geospatial expert with his sights set on making a global impact across this constantly growing industry. With a rich...
Dispatch from the TGI Consortium: Fred: A Goose on a Mission
by Bob Grant, Executive Director of Communications, Research It’s not every day that you ride your bicycle up to Saint Louis University President Fred P. Pestello, Ph.D. and ask if it would be OK to name woodland creatures after him. That kind of incident has a much...
Using Modern Geospatial Technologies to Uncover Ancient Secrets at Cahokia
by Bob Grant COLLINSVILLE, IL - Cahokia Mounds is a perplexing ancient Native American site containing more than 100 earthen burial and ceremonial mounds. Located east of downtown St. Louis, what is known about the prehistoric native people who constructed the site...
Dispatch from the TGI Consortium: Interactive approach to geospatial search combines aerial imagery, reinforcement learning
by Shawn Ballard, Washington University in St. Louis Communications Specialist When combatting complex problems like illegal poaching and human trafficking, efficient yet broad geospatial search tools can provide critical assistance in finding and stopping the...
Dispatch from the TGI Consortium: Visual Active Search Tool Developed by McKelvey Engineers Combines Deep Reinforcement Learning, Traditional Active Search Methods
by Shawn Ballard, Washington University in St. Louis Communications Specialist In geospatial exploration, the quest for efficient identification of regions of interest has recently taken a leap forward with visual active search (VAS). This modeling framework uses...
Dispatch from the TGI Consortium: Missouri S&T Researcher Works to Improve Geospatial Analytics
by Greg Edwards, Senior Strategic Communications Consultant at Missouri University of Science and Technology Imagine owning a library with every book imaginable—millions and millions of titles—but not having a way to organize the different texts or search for specific...
Saint Louis University, Taylor Geospatial Institute Ramp Up Hiring of Geospatial Faculty
By Maggie Rotermund ST. LOUIS — Saint Louis University will hire 20 new faculty members in core geospatial science and related fields in an ambitious cluster hiring initiative. The new positions, which will be filled over a three-year span, will be hired in...