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Our Mission is to understand Earth's natural and managed systems and provide comprehensive solutions for socioeconomic and environmental requirements, leading to an
improved quality of life.

Our Vision is to be a world leader in advancing the state-of-the-art in
spatial technologies
and resource management.

GRI researchers are recognized annually in an official awards ceremony to celebrate their exemplary efforts.


NGI Hotel KeyCard Program Educates Coastal Visitors

Overnight visitors to the Mississippi Gulf Coast are learning about its natural resources in a very unique way - from their hotel room keycards. Funding provided by the National Marine Sanctuaries Foundation has allowed the Northern Gulf Institute to display various educational ...


Visualization Techniques Improving Public Understanding of Severe Storms

One of many projects sponsored by the Northern Gulf Institute at the GeoResources Institute is Dr. Robert Moorhead’s project which deals with Visualization Techniques for Improving Public Understanding of Severe Storms. For states along the Gulf of Mexico this naturally brings ...


Student Engineering Team Ranked Among Top 5 Worldwide

Dr. Lori Bruce's student team is the sole U.S. entry ranked among the top 5 in recent worldwide computing competition attracting more than 2,000 submissions. MSU also is the only one among the five with an all-student team in the 2008 Data Fusion Contest, a part of the International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium held this year in Boston, Mass. Final ...

 •  GIS Tutorials Available
 •  New GRI Research Fellows

 •  GRI Remote Sensing Seminar - Dr. Lori Bruce - August 27, 2008
 •  GRI Remote Sensing Seminar - Dr. Surya Durbha - September 3, 2008
 •  GRI Remote Sensing Seminar - Dr. Robert Ryan - September 10, 2008
 •  SPIE Europe Remote Sensing 2008 - September 15-18, 2008
  
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