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...
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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...
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...
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....
A River Runs Through It
Jordan Neeley, a junior studying environmental earth science at Washington University in St. Louis, once asked the same question that many visitors ask: What is a shut-in? Rock formations called shut-ins confine a section of a river, forcing water to flow between the...