ArkansasView, established in 2002, is a consortium of faculty, staff, students, and employees in university, state agency, and nonprofit organizations building remote sensing and geospatial capacity within Arkansas. This work is being accomplished primarily through educational, targeted research and outreach, and other remote sensing and geospatial endeavors that benefit Arkansans. With support from ArkansasView, a new PhD degree in Geosciences with a geoinformatics track began in August 2014. This program allows doctoral students at the state's flagship University of Arkansas to focus more directly on remote sensing and related research questions. For undergraduate students, an ArkansasView-supported proposal to the Arkansas Department of Higher Education led to the August 2014 launch of an undergraduate certificate at University of Arkansas titled "Certificate of Proficiency in Geospatial Technologies," offered completely online. In a new partnership with Communities Unlimited (www.communitiesu.org), a nonprofit serving communities in Arkansas and six neighboring states, ArkansasView is facilitating student intern development of geospatial workflows that address persistently poor rural communities' access to basic water infrastructure. ArkansasView is committed to geospatial provenance and innovative geodata analysis research that simplifies and strengthens remote sensing workflow design.

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GIS, GNSS and Mapping; Image Analysis; Technology Education

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GIS, GNSS and Mapping

This project expands upon the existing prototype by developing the required programming logic and data analyses necessary to allow more complex quantitative and qualitative reporting of these data. The expansion of the Arkansas Watershed Resource Information Management System (AWRIMS) prototype will yield consistent, automated processes capable of summarizing advanced comparative analyses of data within a watershed and between watershed basins within Arkansas, specifically to support and improve the non-riparian permitting process at the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission (ANRC).

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GIS, GNSS and Mapping

The historic Fort Randall Post Cemetery, located in Gregory County, South Dakota, contains well over 100 burials dating to the mid to late nineteenth century. A previous investigation of the site utilizing documentary evidence, aerial photographs, and targeted coring located many previously recorded and undocumented graves within the main fenced area of the cemetery. To locate additional unmarked graves within an area adjacent to the cemetery, a multi-instrument remote sensing investigation of the site was undertaken by CAST and administered through the South Dakota State Historical Society, Archaeological Research Center (ARC). Historic cemeteries are one of the most challenging contexts for remote sensing applications and graves are especially difficult to locate when they lack high contrast materials such as brick burial vaults or metal coffins, which is typical of nineteenth century cemeteries. Multi -instrument approaches offer the greatest likelihood of successfully mapping unknown grave locations. Results of the survey will be published by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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Spatial Archaeometry; Image Analysis; GIS, GNSS and Mapping

During this project CAST worked with the Bicycle Coalition of the Ozarks to develop and host a map and database management system for the Razorback Greenway trail system. CAST provided technical expertise while working with the project team to develop and publish an interactive, user-friendly, regional map with all NWA trails presented within a homogeneous and consistent digital web map infrastructure.

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GIS, GNSS and Mapping

This project funded by the Delegation of the European Union to the United States through the Transatlantic Research and Debates program aiming to engage researchers, producers and the public in the TTIP discussions. During the two year funding period a series of panels will be held in sequence of explanation, each panel building on the knowledge and concepts of the previous. A schedule of ten panels currently planned for the project are listed in the table below; specific dates for each panel will be added as they are planned. As each panel concludes a video and any supplementary materials will be posted to this site.

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GIS, GNSS and Mapping

The expansion of this NEH-funded project focuses on building a more robust interface for georeferencing, as well as storage and distribution of the CORONA images. The study area increased to include Eastern China and those surrounding regions. CORONA image coverage is abundant in these areas and its value to archaeology and other fields has been well-demonstrated; however, other areas of the world are being explored as the project progresses. The large majority of the images we provide come from the KH4B satellites, the latest generation of CORONA missions in operation from September 1967 through May 1972.

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Digital Preservation; GIS, GNSS and Mapping; Spatial Archaeometry, Image Analysis

The Gabii Project is an international archaeological initiative under the direction of Nicola Terrenato of the University of Michigan. It was launched in 2007 with the objective of studying and excavating the ancient Latin city of Gabii, a city-state that was both a neighbor of, and a rival to, Rome in the first millennium BC. CAST researcher Rachel Opitz leads the project's survey and digital data team, and is involved in bringing the project to publication. The Gabii Project is supported by generous grants from from the University of Michigan, the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, the National Endowment for the Humanities, FIAT-Chrysler, the National Geographic Society, the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, and several private donors.

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Spatial Archaeometry; GIS, GNSS and Mapping

CAST Researcher, Rachel Opitz and tDAR Director of Technology, Adam Brin worked to create a functional prototype that demonstrates the NABO discovery tool prototyped in Umeå. The prototype is meant to allow other members of the NABO community to use and provide feedback on whether such a discovery tool is useful to the overall group, and is a useful direction towards larger issues of data-integration and collaboration.

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GIS, GNSS and Mapping; Network Analysis

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GIS, GNSS and Mapping

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GIS, GNSS and Mapping

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Reality Capture; GIS, GNSS and Mapping

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Image Analysis; GIS, GNSS and Mapping

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Image Analysis; GIS, GNSS and Mapping; Spatial Archaeometry

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GIS, GNSS and Mapping

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GIS, GNSS and Mapping

In June 2011, this NSF-funded, collaborative effort helped to preserve the first reported occurrence of theropod trackways, as well as numerous sauropod trackways, in The Natural State. The dinosaur trackways were exposed over an area of approximately 6000 m2 on a thin (ca. 0.5 - 0.7 m thick) limestone layer within the De Queen Limestone member of the Trinity Group (early Cretaceous Periods, approximately 120 - 115 million years old). CAST developed a website that presents an interactive visualization of the main portion of the trackway site (approximately 4200 m2) derived from the high-resolution LiDAR data. Viewers can zoom and pan to investigate tracks and trackways. The apparent illumination and shading can be altered using the check boxes in the legend to better highlight tracks and trackways; depending on their orientation, visibility of tracks and trackways can be enhanced by changing the apparent azimuth of illumination.

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Digital Preservation; GIS, GNSS and Mapping; Reality Capture

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GIS, GNSS and Mapping

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3D Reconstruction; GIS, GNSS and Mapping

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GIS, GNSS and Mapping; Network Analysis

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Spatial Archaeometry; 3D Reconstruction; Reality Capture; Network Analysis; GIS, GNSS and Mapping; Technology Education; Digital Preservation; Image Analysis

Focusing on the northern Fertile Crescent, a study region of more than 200,000 sq km extending from the eastern Mediterranean to northern Iraq, the project brings together specialists in archaeology, environmental remote sensing, and geomatics to explore settlement and environmental histories through an innovative remote-sensing based series of analyses aimed at creating a model of dynamic trends in land cover and environmental change, or land surface phenology, over the past 30 years based on gridded climate data available through NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) and remote sensing-based vegetation series derived from AVHRR and Landsat satellite data. In a region like the northern Fertile Crescent, where nearly all pre-industrial settlement was dependent on highly variable and relatively sparse precipitation, documenting the full effects that minor variations in climate can have is critical to understanding settlement and land use in the past and present. Our methods will enable us to map the actual effects that years or seasons with higher or lower than average rainfall had on land cover throughout the study region.

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Image Analysis; Spatial Archaeometry; GIS, GNSS and Mapping

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GIS, GNSS and Mapping

The CI-TRAIN project is a partnership of institutions of higher education to transform the practice of information technology services for enabling scientific discovery. The CI-TRAIN project was founded by institutions in Arkansas and West Virginia in a partnership that builds on common research in nanoscience and geosciences and leverages complementary expertise.

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Spatial Archaeometry; 3D Reconstruction; Reality Capture; Network Analysis; GIS, GNSS and Mapping; Technology Education; Digital Preservation; Image Analysis

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Technology Education; GIS, GNSS and Mapping

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GIS, GNSS and Mapping

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Image Analysis; Reality Capture; GIS, GNSS and Mapping

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GIS, GNSS and Mapping; 3D Reconstruction

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GIS, GNSS and Mapping

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Reality Capture; GIS, GNSS and Mapping

CORONA images preserve a high-resolution picture of the world as it existed in the 1960s, they constitute a unique resource for researchers and scientists studying environmental change, agriculture, geomorphology, archaeology and other fields. This NEH-funded project focuses on the Middle East and surrounding regions, areas where CORONA coverage is abundant and where its value to archaeology and other fields has been well-demonstrated; however, other areas of the world are being explored as the project progresses. The large majority of the images we provide come from the KH4B satellites, the latest generation of CORONA missions in operation from September 1967 through May 1972.

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Digital Preservation; GIS, GNSS and Mapping; Spatial Archaeometry

While the Center is involved in a broad range of geospatial research and development of new approaches to the acquisition, management and analysis of spatial information, a key focus area is also our public outreach initiatives within Rural America. We are able to accomplish these community and local government "decision support" initiatives through a long-term USDA-NIFA funded effort called "The National Consortium for Rural GeoSpatial Innovations (RGIS)". Though this initiative has now ended, CAST continues to persue public outreach initiatives within the community.

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Technology Education; GIS, GNSS and Mapping

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Network Analysis; GIS, GNSS and Mapping

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Network Analysis; GIS, GNSS and Mapping