center for geospatial analytics

Jun 28, 2023

New Tool Maps South Florida Fire Risk Pixel by Pixel

NC State researchers designed a computer model to allow fire managers to map fire risk in South Florida on a day-to-day basis.

Jun 13, 2023

Finding Floods from Space to Support Community Action

Through AGU’s Thriving Earth Exchange, faculty fellow Mirela Tulbure and doctoral students Mollie Gaines and Varun Tiwari have been working with a community science project in Georgia to validate the lived experiences of residents dealing with frequent flooding.

May 8, 2023

Industry Partnership to Assess Climate Change Risks

Tetra Tech, Inc. has selected NC State's Center for Geospatial Analytics to support a five-year, $100 million EPA contract to assess human health and ecological risks associated with global climate change.

May 1, 2023

Graduation to Vocation: Corey White is Democratizing Geospatial Data

After graduating from NC State, Corey White will launch OpenPlains Inc. to provide communities with geospatial modeling tools to make data-drive decisions.

Apr 19, 2023

GIS Tops NC State University’s Graduate Certificate Programs

Over the past four years, over 200 students representing 24 majors and seven colleges have earned the Center for Geospatial Analytics’ Graduate Certificate in GIS, making it NC State University’s most popular graduate certificate program.

Feb 23, 2023

Why the Turkey-Syria Earthquakes Were So Destructive

NC State professor Ashly Cabas examines the factors that contributed to the destructiveness of the two earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria earlier this month.

Feb 7, 2023

First-Year Students Learn the Value of GIS for Environmental Justice

Each year, more than 150 incoming NC State freshmen in the Environmental First Year Program learn how geospatial tools can help reveal and address environmental inequities produced by systemic racism.

Jan 6, 2023

Tweets, News Offer Insights on Invasive Insect Spread

Twitter and online news could help scientists track the spread of invasive insects, a new study from NC State found.

Dec 6, 2022

New Visualization Tool Helps Weather Forecasters and Researchers More Easily Identify and Study Bands of Heavy Snow

Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. candidate Laura Tomkins developed a new way for meteorologists and atmospheric scientists to quickly and easily distinguish heavy snow from mixed precipitation in weather radar imagery, to improve understanding of snowfall during winter storms.

Dec 1, 2022

New Multimedia Story Map Shares Experiences of Veterans in Fire Management

A new interactive story map produced by NC State researchers highlights the experience of five Army and Marine Corps veterans who worked as part of the Veterans Fire Corps to protect landmarks with the National Park Service.