2004 RSSG Student Honors Paper Competition Winners

First Place

Elena Tarnavsky - San Diego State University (Presenter)
Presentation Title: Fidelity of Scanned and Direct Digital Imagery in a Land-cover Change Context

Second Place

 Qinghua Guo - University of California Berkeley (Presenter)
Presentation Title: An object-based classification method in detecting Sudden Oak Death

Third Place

Claudia M. Stickler - University of Florida (Presenter)
Presentation Title: Predicting the Complexity of Primate Habitat Selection in Kibale National Park, Western Uganda, Using Multi-scale Spatial Analysis and Remote Sensing

Undergraduate Award

Christopher Lippitt - Clark University (Presenter)
Presentation Title: A method to distinguish real landscape change from map error during map comparison

2004 Cartography/GIS/RSSG Student Illustrated Paper Competition Winners

First Place

Erik Strandhagen - University of Oregon (Presenter)
Presentation Title: Views of the Rivers; Representing Hydrological data of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Second Place

Carl J. Legleiter - Geography Department, University of California Santa Barbara (Presenter)
Presentation Title: Remote mapping and geostatistical analysis of river channel morphology and change in Yellowstone National Park

Third Place

Christopher Zanger - Oregon State University (Presenter)
Presentation Title: Ecoregion delineation: Using a GIS to identify and model the dominant ecoregion variables in Southern Oregon / Northern California