Managing natural resources is fraught with uncertainty around how complex ecosystems will respond to management actions and a changing climate. A range of scientific tools can help grapple with different aspects of this challenge, but they are often used independently. This forum presentation describes a series of projects that have leveraged the complementary strengths of…
The increasing volume and diversity of sources of geospatial data have created both opportunities and challenges for environmental management studies. Combining and extracting the information contained in these rich multisource data enable novel views and the development of a comprehensive and detailed knowledge basis of the environmental dynamics of both rapidly changing events (e.g. floods)…
The discipline of land change science has been evolving rapidly in the past decades. Remote sensing has played a major role in one of the most critical components of land change science, which includes observation, monitoring, and characterization of land change. In this forum presentation, Dr. Zhu will first introduce a new remote sensing perspective…
Long-Term Outcomes of Recognizing Indigenous Property Rights to Water Summary: Restoring natural resource access for Indigenous groups has become a recent policy focus. We combine satellite data and robust difference-in-difference methods to estimate the causal effect of water right settlements on Native American reservations in the western United States over 1974-2012. Settlements increase agricultural land…
Oppressive Infrastructures: Mapping Racism and Inequity in the Built Environment Summary: This Forum presentation features research produced in DIY Cartography, a graduate-level research seminar at NC State’s College of Design from Spring 2022 led by Professors Tania Allen and Sara Queen, which examines the history of inequity in our built environment. The featured maps highlight…
Introduction to Planet Labs, Platforms and Near-Daily Imagery Summary: The space industry is undergoing a rapid transformation, one that allows us to see our world like never before. Planet Labs is a revolutionary satellite image provider, capturing the Earth’s landmass at a near-daily pace. Not only are these images being collected daily but they consist…
Meet the New NC State Data Science Academy Summary: The mission of the NC State Data Science Academy is to operationalize the concept that at NC State, data science is for everyone. In this forum talk Dr. Levy will share developments from Year 1 of the first NC State Academy, which was launched in July…
GIS Week: Scaling Planetary Insights with Geospatial Data Note: Dr. Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño will present and take questions virtually, and we will have an in-person watch party with refreshments in JHA 1216. Summary: We live in incredible geospatial times with revolutionary computation and a proliferation of growing historical archives and more sensors. We never had…
Including Family-owned Forests in the Fight Against Climate Change Summary: While the economic forecast for 2023 might be gloomy, the demand for carbon offsets continues to grow. As North America’s leading developer of forest carbon offsets, Finite Carbon is pioneering technological advancements that leverage geospatial information to automate the carbon project development process. These innovations…
Applying Geospatial Analysis to Studies of Communicable Diseases Summary: Infectious/communicable diseases have (re)emerged at local, regional, and global scales within the context of contemporary global environmental change, globalization, urbanization, and environmental problems. Geospatial analysis can play a major role in analyzing, modeling, and predicting epidemics and pandemics. In this forum presentation, Dr. Shi will use…