The National Cemetery Administration awarded a contract to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station as part of their Veterans Legacy Program to engage students in developing an immersive and interactive digitized national cemetery experience.
Researchers will develop Geographic Information System-based applications to memorialize veterans interred in three national cemeteries: Houston National Cemetery and San Antonio National Cemetery in Texas, and Alexandria National Cemetery in Virginia.
“Capturing U.S. veterans’ legacies and enabling virtual visits to their headstones through technology requires a transdisciplinary approach,” said Dr. Stacey Lyle. “By transcending disciplinary boundaries between history, geoscience and engineering, we will preserve and make accessible the stories of American veterans’ great contributions to our freedoms, for all people to experience.”