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

CAST’s involvement with EAST Initiative, Inc. is primarily focused around geospatial and visualization technologies, which are applicable to a broad spectrum of student community service projects. CAST research staff collaborate with EAST’s administration to provide a wide variety of training and support services to EAST students and teachers. These include: 2- and 3-day technology workshops for students; full-day visits to EAST schools; student and teacher support through the EAST web forum, e-mail, and telephone; extensive web resources available here; technology introductions for EAST teachers; break-out sessions, presentations, demo and support at the annual EAST Partnership Conference. In addition CAST supports and manages the Northwest Arkansas EAST Training Center located on the second floor of the J.B. Hunt Center for Academic Excellence Buildind (JBHT) at the University of Arkansas.

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Technology Education

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Technology Education

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Technology Education; Spatial Archaeometry; Digital Preservation

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Technology Education; Spatial Archaeometry

Oregon Public Broadcasting enlisted two specialists from CAST as part of their television series Time Team America. The CAST researchers were tasked with 1. documenting a significant prehistoric rock art panel at Crow Canyon in southeast Utah and 2. recording an archaeological dig site focused around a Paleo-Indian bison kill site, known as Badger Hole, in the plains of Oklahoma near the town Woodward. The teams employed laser scanning, RTK and photogrammetric methods to document these sites.

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Technology Education

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

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

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

Researchers in the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas have traveled around the world using their advanced remote sensing technology to provide a 3-D perspective of archaeological sites and historic structures. Time Scanners showcases CAST laser-scanning experts collecting and analyze billions of measurements. They use the data collected by laser scanners to produce what is known as a 3-D point cloud. The six-part documentary series includes full episodes from the Egyptian Pyramids, St. Paul's Cathedral, Petra, Machu Picchu, the Colosseum and Jerusalem. Episodes are available online at http://www.pbs.org/program/time-scanners/.

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Spatial Archaeology, Reality Capture, Technology Education