Geological Remote Sensing Group – GRSG

GRSG Student Award Winners!

It is our pleasure to announce the following Student Awards 2016 winners:

Patrick Carson (University College London): Deep Convolutional Neural Network Approach for Landmine Recognition in UAV Captured Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) imagery

Saeid Asadzadeh (University of Campinas): The detection of natural and anthropogenic petroleum using SWIR bands of the WorldView-3 satellite data

Rebecca Collins (University of Worcester): A very high resolution analysis of the evolution of form roughness and its influence on river bank erosion and channel change

Each year the Geological Remote Sensing Group (GRSG) offers up to three awards of £750 each. Our thanks go to all those who applied for our award this year. With 10 different countries represented this year, it is great again to have such a spread of applications from both the UK as well as international institutions.

The application for GRSG student award 2017 will be announced at our GRSG next AGM in December 2016.
Congratulations to all of you! We look forward to seeing an article in upcoming issues of the newsletter or at a GRSG event in the future.