The Geospatial Research Laboratory is a component of the

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(ERDC), a

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(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

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in the Humphreys Engineer Center adjacent to

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. The headquarters is located in

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, on the site of an antecedent organization, the

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. 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.

History

In October 1999, the Corps of Engineers established a system of laboratories, called the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). The ERDC was a consolidation of seven, pre-existing laboratories, the Coastal and Hydraulics, Environmental, Geotechnical and Structures, and Information Technology Laboratories in

; the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in

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; the

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; and the Topographic Engineering Center in

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, which became the

(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. ERDC won the Army Research Laboratory of the Year award five times in its first eight years.

List of other ERDC laboratories

* Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory,

* Construction Engineering Research Laboratory,

* Environmental Laboratory,

* Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory,

* Information Technology Laboratory,

References

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External links

ERDC Homepage

ERDC library
with digitized copies of ERDC publications
US Army Corps of Engineers webpage

ERDC DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC)

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