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Charlotte, NC — Researchers at the Center for Applied Geographic Information Science (CAGIS) have received funding from the Transportation Research Board’s Rail Safety IDEA program for a new project titled RailRisk Advisor: A Web-GIS Tool for Assessing Railroad Trespassing Risk and Recommending Countermeasures. The 18-month, $100,000 project will begin on July 1, 2026, and will […]

The Center for Applied GIScience (CAGIS) is pleased to announce that the project “Digital Twins for Public Health: Coupling Human Mobility and Airflow Dynamics for Indoor Viral Transmission” has received $16,000 in funding from the UNC Charlotte School of Data Science. The project is led by Dr. Yao Li, Dr. Xuyang Li, and Dr. Don […]

Thanks everyone who joined us in recognizing the power of GIScience and the amazing community behind it. This year’s GIS Day was our most dynamic yet, filled with creativity, collaboration, and excitement! 📊 Event Highlights Your engagement made the event vibrant and inspiring! Competition Winners GeoVisualization Competition Undergraduate Competition 🥇 Monica Layug — BRIDGING THE […]

Date: November 19, 2025Time: 10AM – 2PMLocation: McEniry Hall, UNC CharlotteTheme: Exploring the Power of Geospatial AI Add to Calendar Center for Applied GIScience (CAGIS) invites students, faculty, companies, and organizations to celebrate GIS Day 2025, a global event recognizing the transformative power of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The theme of this year highlights the […]

On October 1st, 2025, the Center for Applied GIScience (CAGIS) had the opportunity to showcase some of our exciting technologies at the EEGS Open House. Our team demonstrated:Augmented Reality (AR) Sandbox – allowing participants to explore topography and water flow in real time.Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) – highlighting how UAVs (i.e., drone in the demonstration) […]

Charlotte, NC — September 4, 2025. CAGIS undergraduate Natasha Kroll—a senior double major in Earth & Environmental Science and Data Science, with a minor in Statistics—has been awarded the 2025 North Carolina ArcGIS Users Group (NCAUG) Undergraduate Scholarship. The NCAUG scholarship recognizes undergraduate students whose studies and projects advance North Carolina’s geospatial industry across public […]

With the support of our department and the Center for Applied Geographic Information Science (CAGIS), we are excited to announce that EEGS has become a member of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), making us the second institution in North Carolina to join after NC State. This membership means that all our students, […]

During June 23–27, 2025, CAGIS post doctoral fellow, Dr. Tianyang Chen, participated in the OSG School 2025, held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The week-long summer school offered hands-on training in utilizing HTC system, the national-scale Open Science Pool (OSPool), to execute large-scale computing tasks essential to modern science. Integrating HTC into GIScience For CAGIS, […]

The Center for Applied GIScience (CAGIS) at UNC Charlotte was honored to welcome Dr. Marc P. Armstrong, Professor Emeritus from the University of Iowa, for a campus visit from April 30 to May 2, 2025. Nearly fifty years after earning his master’s degree from UNC Charlotte, Dr. Armstrong—a world-renowned pioneer and leading authority in GIScience—returned to campus. […]

Charlotte, N.C. — April 27, 2025 — The Center for Applied GIScience (CAGIS) engaged students, families, and educators at the UNC Charlotte STEAM Innovation Expo with hands-on geospatial technology: an Augmented-Reality (AR) Sandbox, a mapping-grade drone, and a drone-flight simulator. Visitors sculpted virtual mountains and river valleys in real time with the AR Sandbox, watching […]