Geospatial Research Laboratory

The Geospatial Research Laboratory is a component of the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), a US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) laboratory organization whose mission is to "Provide science, technology, and expertise in engineering and environmental sciences in support of our Armed Forces and the Nation to make the world safer and better." The laboratory is colocated with the Army Geospatial Center in the Humphreys Engineer Center adjacent to Fort Belvoir. The headquarters is located in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on the site of an antecedent organization, the Waterways Experiment Station. GRL conducts geospatial research, development, technology and evaluation of current and emerging geospatial technologies that will help characterize and measure phenomena within the physical (terrain) and social (cultural) environments encountered by the Army. GRL research areas and capabilities include terrain analysis and reasoning; passive and active spectral signature analysis; fluorescence; photogrammetry; terrain visualization; precision surveying and mapping; image analysis; data management; geographic information systems; data/image fusion; and spatio-temporal reasoning and numerical analysis.[1]

Engineer Research and Development Center
EstablishedOctober 1999 (October 1999)
Research typeResearch in support of the Army Corps of Engineers mission
DirectorGary W. Blohm
Address7701 Telegraph Road
LocationAlexandria, Virginia, U.S.A.
38°44′48″N 77°08′43″W
22315-3864
Websitewww.erdc.usace.army.mil/Locations/GRL.aspx

History

In October 1999, the Corps of Engineers established a system of laboratories, called the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC).[2] The ERDC was a consolidation of seven, pre-existing laboratories, the Coastal and Hydraulics, Environmental, Geotechnical and Structures, and Information Technology Laboratories in Vicksburg, Mississippi; the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois; the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, New Hampshire; and the Topographic Engineering Center in Alexandria, Virginia, which became the Army Geospatial Center (AGC) and started reporting directly to the Corps of Engineers as of 2009. As of 2014, ERDC still maintained a Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL) collocated in Alexandria with AGC. [3] ERDC won the Army Research Laboratory of the Year award five times in its first eight years.[4]

List of other ERDC laboratories

References
  1. ERDC Public Affairs Office, Mission Statement, retrieved 2016-07-25
  2. ERDC Public Affairs Office, ERDC History, archived from the original on 2011-07-21, retrieved 2011-01-09
  3. Public Affairs Office. "U.S. Army Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL), Alexandria, Va". ERDC. Retrieved 2014-10-30.
  4. ERDC Public Affairs Office (September 30, 2009), ERDC Named 2009 Army Research Laboratory of the Year -- 3rd Consecutive Year, archived from the original on 2011-01-24, retrieved 2011-01-09
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