ST. LOUIS – Registration is now open for Geo-Resolution 2024, the annual event that brings together the geospatial community in the St. Louis region and beyond. The day-long conference, which is cosponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Saint...
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TGI Spotlight: Rethinking Multimodal Localization
By Bob Grant Localization, precisely pinpointing the position of a person, autonomous vehicle, or anything else on planet Earth, is one of the holy grails of geospatial technology. There are various localization methods, including GPS, beacon-based localization,...
Who Do You Call When Your 15-Foot Dinosaur Needs a Doctor?
by Bob Grant, Executive Director of Communications, Research Researchers at Saint Louis University and the Taylor Geospatial Institute are answering the call to ensure that future generations of visitors to the Saint Louis Science Center will be amazed by their...
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...
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...
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...
A Geospatial Welcome
By Nadine Alameh I’ll start this message the same way I would likely start and end all my communications with the amazing consortium that is the Taylor Geospatial Institute—with a thank you! Thank you for your warm welcome, thank you for your commitment to TGI’s...
Taylor Geospatial Career Guide Series Kicks Off with an Impassioned Presentation of the Potential of Geospatial Science from TGI Executive Director Nadine Alameh
by Bob Grant ST. LOUIS — The Taylor Geospatial Institute launched its Geospatial Career Guide Series by welcoming students, professionals, and anyone else interested in exploring geospatial careers to listen and engage in the first installment on September 14, 2023....
Dispatch from the TGI Consortium: Teamwork Takes Flight at New Field Research Site
by Kristina DeYong, Communications Specialist at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center New Ground for Growth It has been just over a year since the Danforth Center acquired the 140-acre farm that became the home of the new Danforth Center Field Research Site....