CAST Fiscal Year 2004-2005 Annual Report - Center for Advanced ...

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RESEARCH FUNDING.
A total of 20 new research proposals were
funded in Fiscal Year 2005 with a total award
amount of $1,866,665.
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COMPUTING & RETRIEVING 3D
ARCHEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES FROM
SUBSURFACE SURVEY.
In this project, funded by the National
Science Foundation, CAST staff and
collaborating archeologists from
Universidad Mayor des San Andres,
University of Pennsylvania, University of
Denver, and Harvard University will collect
very large detailed, three-dimensional
geophysical datasets from approximately
60 subterranean acres of Tiwanaku.
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Laser scan of the Kalasasaya at the Tiwanaku ruins in
Boliva.
ARKANSAS LULC MAPPING.
The Arkansas LULC Mapping Project is
developing, through innovative and improved
classification techniques, statewide landuse/land-cover
(LULC) maps representing the
landscape of Arkansas in the year 2004 and
landscape changes from 1999-2004.
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Mosaic of ten Landsat 5 TM scenes collected in the
spring of 2004.
DEVELOPMENT OF AN ONLINE
TRACKING AND MAPPING
SYSTEM OF MALLARD DUCKS.
During the spring of 2004, Arkansas
Game and Fish Commission
biologists placed radio transmitters
on 28 mallards. With the locations of
each transmitter equipped mallard,
they can be measured to within 300
hundred meters on a weekly or even
daily basis and stored in a groundbased
computer.
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Screen shots of Satellite Mallard Tracking webpage.
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