User:Pbeaty

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Paul Beaty's research, teaching, and consulting activities are primarily in remote sensing, photogrammetry and GIS modeling. He is a member of ASPRS, URISA and a former board member for Georgia URISA, a former Councilperson (SC) for ASPRS Mid-South Region, served as the Basemap Committee Chairman on Georgia’s GIS Coordinating Committee, and served in developing national standards for a GIS Certificate in conjunction GIS Certification Institute.

Mr. Beaty's professional experience is in many aspects of digital geographic information processing. These include projects in automated mapping, facilities mapping, GIS, remote sensing, and photogrammetry. His undergraduate studies were in International Political Science and Technical Geography. Paul studied digital and traditional mapping technologies in the Geography masters program at the University of South Carolina where he studies under John Jensen and David Cowan. He is currently employed with Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging; and his past employment includes Georgia Institute of Technology Center for GIS, ERDAS, South Carolina DNR, and Computer Mapping Image Processing, Inc.

Paul's most recent research topics include: methods of mapping landcover change on a zonal basis, extracting impervious surface data from digital imagery, Lidar, and ancillary GIS data, producing Georgia's statewide color-infrared DOQQs, mapping gorilla habitats in both Rwanda and Congo, and evaluating ecosystem damage along Angola's coastline. Topics from Paul's past efforts include statewide landcover mapping from SPOT satellite imagery, forest clear-cut mapping, forest vigor mapping, hurricane damage assessment, and creating telephone and sewer utility databases.

Random Personal Note

I have no time for video games. I have no time for IM. I have no time for email chains. I spend my free time with my wife, children, parents, siblings, parents-in-law, extended family and in general serving my fellow mankind in church, scouts, schools, the community, and strangers I meet along the way. (In reality I have never met a stranger, just friends I have yet to discover.)

Smile, life is wonderful.

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