December 2006:
GDA Corp. releases RBMapper prototype version 1.0, a semi-automated
GIS Expert System for Land Cover Mapping of Riparian Buffers with
High-Resolution Imagery. [RBMapper]
Dr. Varlyguin to present RBMapper at Coastal GeoTools 2007 Conference in March 2007.
October 2006:
GDA Corp. has been awarded a contract with the USDA National
Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) on "A Pilot Study to Validate
the Prototype CASA-AWiFS Cloud Detection System for USDA / NASS
Operational Activities." For more information on CASA, see the [CASA project] page.
August 2006:
GDA Corp. is awarded an I-99 KIZ Micro Grant from the PA Department
of Community and Economic Development for product development, process
enhancement and system innovation.
July 2006:
GDA Corp. has been awarded a Cooperative Agreement with NASA’s Technology Development & Transfer Office
at Stennis Space Center to extend the GDA Corp. CASA algorithms for
cloud detection to Indian Remote Sensing (IRS)-P6 Advanced Wide Field
Sensor (AWiFS) data. The NASA Dual Use project will serve as a testbed
to design, develop, and validate the CASA algorithms for AWiFS imagery.
It will also allow GDA Corp. to identify steps towards the development
of a commercial-grade AWiFS version of the CASA cloud detection system.
For more information on CASA, see the [CASA project] page.
June 2006:
GDA Corp. wins second consecutive SBIR Phase III award from the USDA
Forest Service to extend our automated feature detection work to the
intelligent generation of riparian buffers and within buffer land cover
mapping with high resolution imagery. [LC MAP project]
GDA Corp. wins a SBIR Phase III award from the U.S. Geological
Survey (USGS) to extend our automated feature detection work to stream
buffer delineation. [STREAM TRACE]
May 2006:
Dr. Varlyguin to present at ASPRS 2006 Annual Conference in Reno, Nevada
March 2006:
Dr. Varlyguin to present at The Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop to be held March 14-16, 2006, at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Visitors Center, Laurel, Maryland.
Dr. Hulina to present at SBIR workshop as a Success Story panelist [Agenda] [Article]
February 2006:
GDA Corp. releases version 1.3 of CASA-Landsat and CASA-Ikonos for automated, per-pixel cloud and cloud shadow detection.