Best paper Award for ITC alumnus Gayantha Kodikara
The University of Ruhuna (Sri Lanka) at the Seventh Academic Sessions and Vice Chancellor's Awards Ceremony during 17 and 18 March 2010 awarded Applied Earth Sciences MSc graduate Gayantha Kodikara the Best Paper Award for a publication on Mapping evaporite minerals and associated sediments in Lake Magadi, Kenya, using Hyperspectral Hyperion data.
This paper, born out of the MSc research of Mr Kodikara was co-authored by faculty ITC staff members Tsehaie Woldai, Frank van Ruitenbeek and Freek van der Meer, Keith Shepherd (ICRAF, Nairobi) and G.J. van Hummel (MESA+, University of Twente).