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Geospatial Forum with Bill Wheaton

Jordan Hall 5103 2800 Faucette Drive, Raleigh, NC, United States

Synthetic populations are geospatially explicit representations of households and persons. RTI’s nationwide synthetic populations are derived from American Community Survey (ACS) demographic estimates and ACS Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS). These synthetic populations match household spatial distributions at 100M grid cell resolution and household demographic distributions at the census block group resolution. Synthetic populations are…

Geospatial Forum with Dr. Katie Holliday

Jordan Hall 5103 2800 Faucette Drive, Raleigh, NC, United States

Combining GPS units with accelerometers is becoming a common method of objectively assessing adult physical activity locations. However, few best practices have been proposed for designing these studies. Using accelerometer and GPS data collected from over 200 adults in five cities, 10+ minute bouts of physical activity were given location codes with a Google Maps-based…

Geospatial Studio: Soil and Water Assessment Tool for Ecohydrological Modeling

Jordan Hall 5119 2800 Faucette Drive, Raleigh, NC, United States

Join us for a special two-day Geospatial Studio on ecohydrological modeling for land conversion studies, using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). Changes in land use affect the sustainability of ecosystems by altering the availability of resources upon which human well-being depends. Ecohydrological models are suitable for quantifying the effect of land use change…

Geospatial Forum with Dr. DelWayne Bohnenstiehl

Jordan Hall 5103 2800 Faucette Drive, Raleigh, NC, United States

The combination of physical and biological sounds that form the ambient acoustic environment is increasingly recognized as a fundamental element of habitats. Marine soundscapes are known to influence key ecological processes such as reproduction, larval recruitment and trophic interactions, and there is increasing interest in the use of passive acoustic monitoring as a non-destructive habitat…

Geospatial Forum with Dr. Perver Baran

Jordan Hall 5103 2800 Faucette Drive, Raleigh, NC, United States

Originally developed in the fields of architecture and urban design, space syntax is a concept and method used to describe and analyze patterns of space at both the building and urban levels. In particular, space syntax helps us understand the role of spatial configuration within buildings and cities in people’s experiences and use of these…

Geospatial Forum with Dr. Birgit Peterson

Jordan Hall 5103 2800 Faucette Drive, Raleigh, NC, United States

Wildland fire plays an important role in shaping landscapes across the US. As such, land managers are confronted with numerous questions and issues regarding the management of wildland fire on their lands. These issues involve pre-, during- and post-fire stages of wildland fire and require reliable sources of geospatial data to be addressed. Various agencies,…

Geospatial Forum with Dr. Joseph Hummer

Jordan Hall 5103 2800 Faucette Drive, Raleigh, NC, United States

Autonomous vehicles will be here soon and will cause major changes when they arrive, similar to the building of the Interstates in the 1950s. AVs will bring safety, ease congestion, and provide mobility for many people who now find it difficult to travel. They will also erase many jobs, erode highway funding, and take customers…

Geospatial Analytics Dissertation Defense: Vaclav Petras

Jordan Hall 5119 2800 Faucette Drive, Raleigh, NC, United States

Dissertation Title: Geospatial Analytics for Point Clouds in an Open Science Framework Advisor: Dr. Helena Mitasova, Associate Director of Geovisualization, Center for Geospatial Analytics; Professor, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences   Abstract: Point clouds acquired by LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) or created from UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) imagery have transformed how the Earth's surface…

MGIST Spring 2018 Digital Symposium & Professional Showcase

Jordan Hall 5103 2800 Faucette Drive, Raleigh, NC, United States

The Professional Showcase is an opportunity for our graduating students to present their Capstone projects in front of the geospatial community at NC State. This includes student peers, alumni, faculty and staff from across the university, and our community and industry partners. This is a tremendous professional development and networking opportunity for our students. The…