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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…

An image of a landscape demonstrating the spread of Sudden Oak Death

May 20, 2016

The Hard Realities of Controlling an Epidemic

New research on sudden oak death disease published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Ross Meentemeyer and colleagues from Cambridge and UC Davis models disease transmission in…

May 5, 2016

Brian Pickard Elected US Graduate Student Representative for US International Association of Landscape Ecology

At the 2016 US International Association of Landscape Ecology conference in Asheville, NC, Brian Pickard (FER and CGA PhD Student) was elected as the US graduate student representative for a two-year…

Apr 22, 2016

Aaron Hipp Featured Plenary Speaker at 2016 mHealth@Duke Conference

Center Fellow Dr. Aaron Hipp participated as featured plenary speaker at the 2016 mHealth@Duke conference in Durham, NC, where he shared his work using the Archive of Many Outdoor Scenes to measure human physical…

Apr 4, 2016

Bill Slocumb Delivers Keynote Address at 2016 GIS for Transportation Symposium

Center researcher and graduate and professional GIS&T instructor Bill Slocumb delivered the keynote address at the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials 2016 Geospatial Information Systems for Transportation Symposium, held this…

Two images of the Tangible Landscape at the North Carolina State University Center for Geospatial Analytics

Jan 4, 2016

First-Of-Its-Kind Book on Tangible Modeling Puts the Power of Open Source GIS in Your Hands

Center researchers and co-authors Anna Petrasova, Brendan Harmon, Vaclav Petras, and Helena Mitasova have published “Tangible Modeling with Open Source GIS,” a groundbreaking new book on the Tangible Landscape, an innovative tangible geospatial…

Nov 18, 2015

Spatial Scale Of Climate Change Impacts Influences How Individuals Perceive Those Impacts

New research by Center Faculty Fellow Jordan W. Smith and graduate students Karly Bitsura-Meszaros and Rosemary Keane explores the relationships between individuals’ political ideologies, the information sources used to learn about…

A photo of Helena Mitasova giving a presentation

Oct 19, 2015

Helena Mitasova Elected To Open Source Geospatial Foundation Board Of Directors

Dr. Helena Mitasova, a Center Faculty Fellow and the Associate Director of Geovisualization, was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo. This…

Oct 9, 2015

Ashwin Shashidharan Wins NSF Travel Grant To Attend ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Center PhD Student Ashwin Shashidharan (Dept. of Computer Sciences) was awarded an $800 NSF Student Travel Grant to attend the 23rd Annual ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information…