MAST

Author: David Hansen

  • MAST Awards Two Scholarships to Poster Contest Winners

    The Mississippi Association for Spatial Technologies is pleased to announce the award of two scholarships for the first and second place winners of the 2008 Mississippi Geospatial Conference poster contest. Ashleigh N. Price wins first place and Michael Amelunke wins second place. It is always a pleasure to see participation from our student members.

    Congratulations to Ashleigh and Michael for their winning entries among a varied and competitive field of entries!

     

    Ashleigh N. Price wins 1st place scholarship for her poster: “Vector Data Based Suitability Analysis and Probabilistic Hazard Modeling to Characterize Offender Hazard Vulnerability in Coastal Mississippi” -
    Ashleigh N. Price wins 1st place scholarship for her entry: “Vector Data Based Suitability Analysis and Probabilistic Hazard Modeling to Characterize Offender
    Hazard Vulnerability in Coastal Mississippi”
    Michael Amelunke wins 2nd place in poster scholarship contest with his entry: “Elevation Change of New Round Island” -
    Michael Amelunke wins 2nd place in poster scholarship contest with his entry: “Elevation Change of New Round Island”
    “Unposted: Campaign Signs, Social Media, and the Digital Front Yard” – Chasez, Ashley and Joby Bass, The University of Southern Mississippi
    Photo of “Mapping River Island Alluviation Rates in the Upper Mississippi” - Holt, David, Ashley Chasez, Loren Roman-Nunez, Ian Stewart, and Veronica White,
    “Mapping River Island Alluviation Rates in the Upper Mississippi” – Holt, David, Ashley Chasez, Loren
    Roman-Nunez, Ian Stewart, and Veronica White,

     

    Photo of “Detecting coastal marsh change from aerial imagery using spectral and textural methods: Pascagoula River Marsh, 1955-2014” - Waldron, Maggie, Greg Carter, and Patrick D. Biber,
    “Detecting coastal marsh change from aerial imagery using spectral and textural methods: Pascagoula River Marsh, 1955-2014” – Waldron, Maggie, Greg Carter, and Patrick D. Biber,

  • MAST Meeting June 8th 2018 in Jackson

    We look forward to seeing you at the next MAST Meeting!

    Where:

    MARIS
    Institutions of Higher Learning
    3825 Ridgewood Road
    Jackson, MS
    39211

    When:

    12:30 p.m. until approximately 2:00 p.m.
    Friday 8th of June, 2018

    Agenda:

    – General MAST business
    – Open Discussion

    Pizza and drinks will be provided

    RSVP to:

    Randall McMillen
    MAST Secretary
    randall@gri.msstate.edu

  • MAST Meeting April 4th 12:30 D’Iberville

    Gary Hennington, President of The Geospatial Group, will be presenting at the next MAST Meeting, Friday, April 4th at 12:30.

    Hope to see you there!

    Location:
    D’Iberville City Hall (Court Room 1st floor)
    10383 Automall Pkwy
    D’Iberville, MS 39540
    (Overflow parking is available next to City Hall if needed)

  • USGS National Map Corps

    The mapping crowd-sourcing program, known as The National Map Corps ( TNM Corps), encourages citizens to collect structures data by adding new features, removing obsolete points, and correcting existing data for The National Map database

    If you have access to the Internet and are willing to dedicate some time editing map data we hope you will consider participating!

    https://my.usgs.gov/confluence/display/nationalmapcorps/Home

  • Mississippi Geospatial Conference Registration

    Please join us October 17-18, no rx pharmacy 2013 at the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Park Campus in the Science Building, prostate Long Beach, MS for the Mississippi Geospatial Conference. Please register by October 4, 2013. Registration is $50 (Late Registration: $65.)



     

    Traditional registration:https://mastgis.org/preregister/

    We look forward to seeing you there.

     

    Map of Conference Location

    Click Here for a Map of the Campus (The Science Building is Number 15)

     

    Conference Agenda
    Click Here for Conference Agenda

  • Mast Meetings June 2011

    Dr. David Holt presenting on cemetery based GIS
    Dr. David Holt presenting on cemetery based GIS

    Two meetings took place in the month of June 2011. The Gulfport meeting was held at the Gulf Regional Planning Commission office (GRPC) and the Jackson meeting took place at the Central Mississippi Planning and Development office (CMPDD).

    Gulfport Meeting Notes

    • Charles Meador of the USM Marine Science department presented regarding Marine Science and GIS.
    • Scott Delano, cheap Mississippi representative for district 117, troche discussed data needs and GIS in the state.
    • An announcement was made to the group regarding the need for volunteers for committees.

    Jackson Meeting Notes

    • Dr. David Holt presented regarding a data collection project in Long Beach, MS. The project involved the collection of address points, building foot prints and data related to the city cemetery layout.
    • New data sets have been uploaded to the state GIS data warehouse including street centerlines for many delta counties.

    Charles Meador presented regarding Marine Science and GIS.

  • SpaceStars Interns

    SpaceStars Logo
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    SpaceStars is a program geared toward training high school students for GIS employment. The local chapter at Gulfport High School is in search of intern opportunities for their students this summer. Most students hold certificates backed by an ESRI partner, prostate Digital Quest, buy that ensures a minimum of technician level training in GIS and ESRI software. If you need any digitizing or similar work done and have an opening for an intern, please contact Scott Pfaff at scott.pfaff@gulfportschools.org .

  • Meeting Summary 2/11/11

    Mast Meeting Feb 11, 2011
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    Today’s meeting had 26 people in attendance.

    The agenda for this meeting can be found here.

    The presentation for the meeting can be found here.

    Links to software discussed at today’s meeting:

  • Mast Meeting 2/12/11

    The Mississippi Association for Spatial Technologies will hold a meeting in the SMPDD Conference room. The presenter for this meeting will be Scott Samson. His presentation will be on the subject of gvSIG, sickness which is a free open source GIS software package. Lunch will be provided. Please feel RSVP by email to PBarnes@smpdd.com for by joining us on Facebook and marking yourself as attending for the meeting. Facebook Group Link

  • Mast Meeting 12/17/10

    MAST will hold a December meeting in the MARIS Technical Center Conference room in Jackson at 12:30 PM, case Friday, healing December 17, 2010. Currently there is no presentation scheduled and the meeting will involve networking and an open round table discussion. Lunch will be provided, so please RSVP. Please visit our new web site and join us on Facebook.