IBS Fellow and Professor in the Department of Geography, Stefan Leyk, has received a grant from the NSF Imola (Intelligent Map recOgnition LAb) project. Leyk received a $499,999 award for the project, “Collaborative Research: HNDS-I: Building Long-term, National-scale Spatiotemporal Data Collections from Historical Map Archives.” The Imola project extracts historical geographic information from US Geological Survey maps published before GPS intelligence, from 1884 to 2006. Read more about the project here.
