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Wednesday June 5, 2013

Landsat 8 imagery now available

Data from NASA’s Landsat 8 is now freely available, enabling researchers and the general public…

Tuesday February 19, 2013

NSF grant to develop software tools to analyze LiDAR data

The National Science Foundation has awarded Idaho State University’s Department of Geosciences Boise Center Aerospace…

Tuesday February 19, 2013

Biomass estimation using full-waveform TLS

BCAL is developing methods to estimate biomass of sagebrush and western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis var. occidentalis Hook) at the…

Tuesday February 19, 2013

Immersive visualization: 3D data fusion

Immersive visualization has emerged as an ideal solution for three-dimensional exploration of remote sensing data…

Tuesday February 19, 2013

UAV-based hyperspectral sensing of dryland vegetation

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based hyperspectral remote sensing capabilities developed by the Idaho National Lab and Idaho…

Friday December 7, 2012

UAV-based hyperspectral remote sensing

BCAL and Idaho National Lab (INL site) are collaborating on developing hyperspectral sensing capabilities on…

Monday November 14, 2011

BCAL and partners awarded $668,000 in grants

Idaho State University geosciences researchers received two grants this fall totaling more than $688,000 to…

Tuesday December 7, 2010

Mapping leafy spurge with field spectroscopy

BCAL has been in forefront of research on mapping leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula L.) and…

Wednesday June 26, 2019

NCA Symposium Date Announced: November 13th

Boise State University’s Raptor Research Center, in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management and…

Friday October 26, 2018

Lidar – An All-Purpose Tool for Assessing Flood, Landslide, and Fire Hazards

Nice article by Alison Tompkins from Nez Perce County!

Sunday October 21, 2018

Several PhD Opportunities to Study Energy, Environment, and Society

Fantastic opportunity for PhD students to pursue their degrees at Boise State in topics of…

Thursday May 31, 2018

3 PhD Opportunities in Remote Sensing of Vegetation and Snow in Mid- to High-Latitude Ecosystems

3 PhD Opportunities in Remote Sensing of Vegetation and Snow in Mid- to High-Latitude Ecosystems…

Friday March 23, 2018

Nayani’s full-waveform RSE pub

Nayani’s just published her full-waveform lidar work from Reynolds Creek. View the article here! A significant…

Monday January 22, 2018

PhD Opportunity to Study Computational Remote Sensing of Forest-Snow Interactions

Graduate Research Assistantship (PhD) Available to Study Computational Remote Sensing of Forest-Snow Interactions Boise State University…

Friday October 20, 2017

PhD Assistantships Fall 2018

Graduate Research Assistantships (PhD) Available We are recruiting for Fall 2018 PhD graduate research assistantships (GRA)…

2nd Annual Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area Annual Symposium on October 30th 2017

Join us for the 2nd Annual Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation…

Thursday July 13, 2017

BCAL PhD student Nayani Ilangakoon receives NASA ESSF!

Nayani Ilangakoon has received a 3-year NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship – Congrats Nayani!

Saturday June 10, 2017

BCAL will be at ESA!

Come check out our talks and posters at ESA in Portland! 1. Remote sensing from…

Zach Uhlmann to present at Snow-Ex

BCAL’s Zach Uhlmann will present Correlating Snow Depth Distribution to Forest Canopy at the SnowEx Workshop…

Wednesday June 7, 2017

Megan Gallagher to present at GEE User Summit!

BCAL’s Megan Gallagher will be attending the Google Earth Engine User Summit in June and…

Monday June 5, 2017

Southeast Idaho lidar acquisition will be underway soon.

The FEMA Region X award to acquire LOTS of lidar data in Southeast Idaho is…

Thursday June 1, 2017

Aihua’s new pub on Aerodynamic Roughness

Wanna read about how aerodynamic roughness can be quantified with lidar? You are in the…

Monday August 29, 2016

MORLEY NELSON SNAKE RIVER BIRDS OF PREY NCA SYMPOSIUM: NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Join us for the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area Annual…

Thursday July 21, 2016

$900K of new lidar will be added to Idaho

A new project in the Clearwater will acquire over 2500 sq miles of lidar data…

Tuesday July 19, 2016

Upcoming NSF NEON Workshops hosted at BSU

Upcoming Workshops NSF NEON Workshop: Mapping Species, Composition (foliar chemistry) and Soil Properties with Spectroscopy…

Tuesday July 19, 2016

New datasets available through ScholarWorks

BCAL’s remote sensing data products will become available through Boise State’s ScholarWorks with DOIs –…

Monday June 13, 2016

MS Student Ann Marie wins 2nd place poster award!

Ann Marie Raymondi won 2nd place research poster award at the Great Basin Native Plant…

Saturday January 23, 2016

New Tool Will Help Idaho Vineyards Grow Better Grapes

Remote sensing to help Idaho vineyards!

Saturday January 9, 2016

PhD Assistantship Available

Graduate Research Assistantship (PhD) in Remote Sensing Ecosystem Science The Department of Geosciences at Boise…

Postdoctoral Fellow in Ecosystem Modeling, Boise State University

Position Summary The Department of Geosciences at Boise State University is seeking a qualified and…

Friday November 20, 2015

BCAL student Ann Marie receives NASA graduate fellowship

Our very own Ann Marie Raymondi received a NASA fellowship for her work with remote…

Monday September 21, 2015

Video of bat cave habitat and TLS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc-Pr79Q97M A brief introduction to whitenose syndrome and a demonstration of the multiple ways…

Monday August 3, 2015

Soraya @ ICUR

Soraya, our Computer Science student intern, presents her work on BCAL Lidar Tools at the…

BCAL at SPRUCE!

Luke Spaete was recently at the DOE SPRUCE site (http://mnspruce.ornl.gov/) to collect TLS data on…

Lidar workshop at UNAM, Mexico City

Nancy participated in a fun lidar workshop at the National Autonomous University of Mexico with…

Monday May 18, 2015

Check out the new pub on hyperspectral + lidar with a forward looking perspective for HyspIRI!

Mitchell et al., 2015

Saturday February 14, 2015

Come check out all our posters at GBC4 Feb 17-19: http://environment.unr.edu/consortium/conference4.html

Saturday February 14, 2015

BCAL Students Participate in STEM Exploration Day

BCAL graduate students Shital Dhakal and Nayani Ilangakoon set up our TLS and video in…

Saturday January 31, 2015

LiDAR for the Critical Zone: new HESSD paper now open for Interactive Public Discussion

Check out the new Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussion paper on LiDAR for the…

Friday December 5, 2014

‘Can You See Me Now?’ – Mapping the ‘fearscape’ with terrestrial laser scanning

As the two foolish pigs learned before running to their brother’s solidly built house of…

Wednesday July 30, 2014

Graduate Research Assistantships Available!

We have several graduate research assistantships available for students interested in pursuing a MS or…

Monday July 14, 2014

New research grant from NASA EPSCoR looks at new ways to monitor the hydrosphere

It contributes to the rise and fall of dynasties and shapes both the landscape and…

Thursday June 5, 2014

Czech Globe scientists visit Boise State University

Boise State University’s Department of Geosciences recently hosted faculty and students from the Czech Republic’s…

Tuesday June 3, 2014

Sage School Students Experiment with 3D Scanning

The Boise State University Department of Geosciences hosted 60 middle and high school students from…

Thursday May 29, 2014

UAV project to study potato stress

Eastern Idaho potato growers hope to discover stresses to their crops before symptoms are visible…

Monday May 12, 2014

Boise State Researchers receives $748,000 NASA Grant

Climate change, population growth and fire affect the vegetation of Western dryland ecosystems. For example,…

Wednesday September 25, 2013

A demonstration of integrating Airborne LiDAR, Terrestrial Laser Scanning, and 3D GIS for application to the potential Weiser River dam, Idaho. Produced in partnership with the Idaho National Laboratory, Boise.

BCAL moved to Boise State University

We have recently moved to Boise State University and can be found in the Geosciences…

Friday March 8, 2013

BCAL researchers, partners receive grants to help agencies manage Idaho’s natural resources

Idaho State University researchers at the Boise Center Aerospace Laboratory have been awarded grants totaling…

Friday February 22, 2013

BCAL and INL recently published a paper on unmanned aircraft systems

Idaho State University’s Department of Geosciences Boise Center Aerospace Laboratory (BCAL) and the Idaho National…

Sunday February 10, 2013

BCAL-INL partnership: Integrated GIS & remote sensing solutions

Integrated GIS & Remote Sensing Solutions is a collaborative partnership leveraging the complimentary strengths of…

Friday December 7, 2012

Interactive Water Quality Map

An exploration of water quality, water sources and topography in Google Earth. Produced for the…

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