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NC State University doctoral researcher Will Reckling prepares to launch a drone on Roan Mountain, NC, to map the area for endangered high-elevation plants - Keeping Track of Rare Mountaintop Plants with Drones - Center for Geospatial Analytics at NC State University

Nov 5, 2021

Keeping Track of Rare Mountaintop Plants with Drones

Researchers from the Center for Geospatial Analytics have devised a method to more safely and efficiently monitor endangered high-elevation plants, by predicting their likely locations and then flying drones in high-probability areas to collect imagery.

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 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…

May 14, 2014

Special Topics course in Social Network Analysis – Fall 2014

CEO Faculty Fellow Jordan Smith will be offering a 3-credit special topics course this fall focused on social network analysis for natural resource management and governance. Below is a brief course description:…