About

We are a student run (but not limited to students) group focused on promoting geospatial sciences, technologies and information at the University of Washington.

There is no formal membership process with the club, but you will likley bump into us at one of the UW eSciences Institute Special Interest Group on Satellite Image Analysis events or hackathons. You can also sign up for our geospatial jobs‘email list.

Our History

The UW Geospatial Club was established in 2007 by the student in Dr. Moskal’s Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory (RSGAL). It was associates with the Puget Sound ASPRS, The Imaging and Geospatial Information Society till 2010, and hosted the CUGOS  (the official Cascadia chapter of OSGeo) at UW for many years. The founding officers of the club were:

• President: Akira Kato, now a professor at Chiba University, Japan
• Vice President: Alicia Sullivan  is currently with Carmera (Seattle)  which is the only company building fully regenerative, production HD maps, via crowd sourced, camera-only updates, for the world’s autonomous vehicle leaders today.
• Treasurer and Secretary: AJ Frye is with the National Geospatial Agency, at the US Army European Headquarters in Germany