Insured flood loss in Texas has risen rapidly since 1978, totaling nearly $16.4 billion USD by the end of 2021. These losses have been predominantly concentrated in coastal and urban…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…