Boreal and temperate forests have experienced substantial climate change over the last several decades. However, understanding of how changes in climate are affecting these ecosystems is incomplete. Remote sensing provides an important source of information that can help address this information gap. We present results from recent studies that use three decades of Landsat imagery…
Participatory research methods are increasingly used to better understand complex social-environmental problems and design solutions through diverse and inclusive stakeholder engagement. But, participatory research rarely engages stakeholders in co-development and interpretation of computational models that describe system dynamics essential for conceptualizing complex processes and envisioning scenarios of alternate action. Even fewer participatory projects have engaged…
Emergency managers rely on fast and accurate storm surge predictions from numerical models to make decisions and estimate damages during storm events. One of the challenges for such models is providing a high level of resolution along the coast without significantly increasing the computational time. Models with large domains, such as the Advanced CIRCulation (ADCIRC)…
The Visit NC State Program, to be held from December 2-4, 2018, is designed to offer prospective graduate students, and particularly those interested in the Ph.D., an opportunity to visit our campus, at no cost, to learn more about current research of our faculty and graduate students, and to experience the quality of our graduate programs.…
Located in South Texas along the Gulf of Mexico coastline, the Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science at Texas A&M University (TAMU-CC) is actively integrating unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to address regional problems. This forum presentation will provide an overview of such activities, including coastal and maritime reconnaissance, crop and rangeland scouting, and research…
The disproportionate concentration of human populations along coasts and river mouths make coastal basins hotspots of change. One of the most visible ways in which mounting human pressures translate into negative consequences for coastal and estuarine ecosystems is through changes in nutrient and phytoplankton concentrations. This presentation will highlight results from recent studies that applied…
Discover the latest advances in cloud-based geospatial processing with Google Earth Engine. This forum covers the background of Earth Engine and presents datasets, platform capabilities, internal use cases, and a brief literature review. The event should be of broad interest to anyone with a geospatial component to their research, teaching, or study. Note that this event precedes a…
This hands-on training is for people who would like to learn about using Google Earth Engine to analyze big geospatial datasets, satellite imagery and/or vector data. Activities focus on accessing imagery, creating composites and running analyses over stacks of images. The training will consist of coding using the Earth Engine Javascript code editor. Previous coding…
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…