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http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/11131/ GeoEye Award Winners For 2007 Announced By ASPRS
Written by ASPRS
Sunday, 25 March 2007
The 2007 GeoEye Award recipients are Govinda Basnet, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens; Tim De Chant, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley; and James Kellner, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens.
The award will be given to the recipients in May at the ASPRS 2007 Annual Conference in Tampa, Florida
This annual award is presented by the ASPRS Foundation and consists of a grant of satellite imagery data up to 100 square kilometers (a potential value of over $5,000), and a certificate inscribed with the recipient’s name and his/her institution. Funding for this award is provided by GeoEye. The purpose of the award is to support remote sensing education and stimulate the development of applications of high-resolution digital satellite remote sensing data through the granting of GeoEye imagery for applied research by undergraduate or graduate students.
Following the theme of studies on reciprocal interaction of institutional arrangements and environmental outcomes, Basnet conducted a two-year dissertation field research titled “The Struggle for Water Rights in Contested Commons: Changing Institutional Landscape in Upper Mustang, Nepal.†His research project aimed at investigating the dynamics of the struggle for water rights in irrigation systems and the resulting modification of the institutional and environmental landscape. This research employed both comparative and historical approaches integrating qualitative, quantitative and spatial methods. With the use of spatial analysis methods, his study aims to further investigate how different water rights systems influence local land management decisions, by integrating field-collected spatial and qualitative information with high resolution satellite imagery provided by the ASPRS GeoEye Award.
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