In this full-day workshop, attendees will learn the basics of collecting and processing drone data. In the morning session, participants will visit nearby Lake Wheeler to learn about data collection and drone setup through a live demo led by ASPRS Certified UAS Mapping Scientist Inia Jeziorska. In the afternoon session, attendees will learn to process…
Unfortunately, due to complications in planning this event around COVID-19, the 2021 Triangle GIS Social has been cancelled.
The Spatial Connect Virtual Career Fair provides an opportunity for prospective employers to connect with students interested in geospatial analytics and spatial data science. The event will feature a variety of companies, nonprofits and government organizations. Admission is free to all job seekers, who will be able to officially schedule meetings starting in the Fall.…
Come learn about some of the most widely adopted machine learning methods used for clustering of spatial data. This forum will illustrate how the algorithms work, how to interpret the results, and how and when to apply them. We’ll go beyond the basics of several key spatial data science techniques, including density-based clustering and multivariate…
Exploring Race and Place through Data: The W.E.B. Du Bois Visualization Exhibit In addition to his substantial contributions to sociology and civil rights activism, W.E.B. Du Bois was an early champion of using data to investigate and highlight the history and reality of Black Americans. In particular, Du Bois’s visualization contributions to the 1900 Exposition…
The Center for Geospatial Analytics is holding a virtual poster competition highlighting our graduating MGIST students' capstone projects. Members of the Center community can view and vote on their favorite poster anytime during the two-day event.
Dissertation Title: Mapping forest host species distributions and understanding their effects on forecasts of disease spread Co-Advisors: Dr. Ross Meentemeyer, Director of the Center for Geospatial Analytics and Goodnight Distinguished Professor of Geospatial Analytics; Dr. Josh Gray, Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources Abstract: Emerging infectious diseases of…
Presented by Austin Stone, Customer Success Manager for Education & Research at Planet Labs 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 global images at near-daily intervals. That’s right, global. Not only are these images…
Cucurbit downy mildew exhibits significant long distance dispersal within the continental United States. The disease is characterized by annual extinction and recolonization cycles that make it an excellent model system to understand and quantify epidemic expansion in both time and space. Using disease records collected as part of a cucurbit downy mildew monitoring system, the…
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 areas where changes in extreme precipitation coupled with rapid population growth at the coastal margin and in upland areas have dramatically altered the hydrologic response…