EDUCATION

Feature Analyst^® Provides Classroom Solutions for SDSU

San Diego State University (SDSU) faculty and students are taking advantage of the benefits of Visual Learning Systems' automated feature classification software for a wide spectrum of research and classroom applications.

The Feature Analyst software's impressive combination of accuracy, speed and ease of use is enabling SDSU researchers to tackle complex mapping problems such as the surveillance of wilderness trails along the U.S.-Mexico Border to benefit the U.S. Border Patrol.

"Our students are using Feature Analyst for extracting roads, trails, habitat disturbance, mapping pervious versus impervious surfaces, different vegetation classes, and even counting people on our local beaches," said SDSU NASA ARC Program Coordinator, John Kaiser.

"Based on what I am seeing, I anticipate that many agencies will be adopting Feature Analyst as a basic adjunct to their GIS operations," said Kaiser.

SDSU is one of nine universities chosen by NASA as an Affiliated Research Center, or ARC university; the Department of Geography at SDSU is a national leader in the fields of remote sensing and GIS research.

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