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A screenshot from a Tangible Landscape webinar

Sep 8, 2016

GIS at Your Fingertips: Tangible Landscape Webinar Showcases Open-source Solutions

On August 31st, the GeoForAll Laboratory at the Center for Geospatial Analytics presented a live multi-media webinar to a broad audience of online viewers, showcasing Tangible Landscape and describing how researchers around…

Photos of Anna Petrasova and Vaclav Petras

Sep 6, 2016

Ph.D. Students Anna Petrasova and Vaclav Petras Elected to the GRASS GIS Project Steering Committee

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Dr. Helena Mitasova, Associate Director of Geovisualization at the Center for Geospatial Analytics. Two Ph.D. students at the Center, Anna Petrasova and Vaclav…

An image of a Shenandoah National Park Facebook Post

Aug 25, 2016

Popular Web Map Inspires Community to Explore Shenandoah National Park’s Roots

A web app collaboratively developed by the center and the National Park Service (NPS) is connecting the modern world with Shenandoah’s past. “Exploring Park History – One Tract at a…

A photo Laura Belica using pyranometers to measure solar radiation in a forest.

Aug 23, 2016

Laura Belica Awarded NC Wildlife Federation Conservation Leadership Grant

Center Ph.D. student Laura Belica (Dept. of Forestry and Environmental Resources) has been named the 2016 recipient of the NC Wildlife Federation’s Conservation Leadership award. The $2,500 grant is given…

A photo of Eric Money giving a presentation for students at the North Carolina State University Center for Geospatial Analytics Master of Geospatial Information Science and Technology orientation in fall 2016

Aug 16, 2016

Center Welcomes Record Number of Incoming MGIST Students at Fall Orientation

Last Friday, the Center community joined Associate Director of Professional Education Eric Money in welcoming over two dozen new students to the professional master’s program in Geospatial Information Science & Technology…

A photo of Lindsey Smart

Aug 10, 2016

Ph.D. Student Lindsey Smart Awarded $10,000 Fellowship to Study “Ghost Forests”

Center Ph.D. student Lindsey Smart has been awarded a $10,000 fellowship from NC Sea Grant / NC Space Grant to study the connection between rising sea levels and vegetation die-off…

A partial image of the Remote Sensing book cover

Jul 25, 2016

Remote Sensing Book by Center Researchers a 2015 Top Seller

In 2012, center researchers Siamak Khorram and Stacy Nelson – along with Frank Koch, a research ecologist at the USDA, and Cynthia van der Wiele, currently a senior environmental scientist at the EPA – published…

A photo of Ashwin Shashidharan

Jul 21, 2016

Ashwin Shashidharan Wins Travel Award To Participate In CyberGIS’16 Conference

Center PhD Student Ashwin Shashidharan (Dept. of Computer Sciences) won an $800 travel award to attend the The Third International Conference on CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science in Urbana, Illinois, on…

A photo showing a live demonstration of the Tangible Landscape at the North Carolina State University Center for Geospatial Analytics

Jul 6, 2016

Tours of Geovisualization Lab Spark Discovery and New Partnerships

When you step into the Geovisualization Lab at the Center for Geospatial Analytics at NC State, maps leap off computer screens onto touchable, interactive displays. Virtual reality headsets let you enter…

A photo of Stacy Supak in a meeting at the North Carolina State University Center for Geospatial Analytics

May 25, 2016

Stacy Supak Helps Hackers Help Citizens Get Outdoors

At the 2nd Annual Bayes Hackathon in San Francisco, Dr. Stacy Supak mentored a winning team of interdisciplinary, big data hackers that will be heading to Washington, D.C. to present…