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July 6, 2023: Charlotte’s Division of Research has funded a new initiative within the Center for Applied GIScience designed to accelerate conceptualization and development of research leveraging emerging geospatial technologies and analytics. GeoSAN, or the Geospatial Sensing and ANalytics initiative, is the conception of Drs. Wenwu Tang (GEOG, CAGIS) and Shen-en Chen (CEE), with contributions […]

November 16th is GIS Day at UNC Charlotte which will include a number of talks and activities.

Please join us Thursday, November 3rd at 1:00 to learn more how “place” explicitly influences an individual’s exposure to air pollution. For this Virtual Seminar we will be hearing Dr. Yoo Min Park discuss her study: Personal exposure monitoring using GPS-enabled portable air pollution sensors: A strategy to promote citizen awareness and behavioral changes regarding […]

Update: A recording of this presentation is avaliable at the CAGIS YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfoz4aBkHaMxbhGhO_UZ_Nu9Mujnk_bsU Our upcoming CAGIS Seminar features a practical application of existing technologies to generate novel ways of mapping human activity. On Thursday, October 20th at 2:30*, Charlotte Assistant Professor Lei Zhu will present: Wi-Fi Log Data Processing and Spatial-temporal Analysis for Exploring […]

Our first CAGIS Virtual Seminar of the year is being held in cooperation with the Geography and Earth Science’s Speaker Series on September 9, and the topic couldn’t be more timely. I invite you to attend a Zoom presentation by Dr. Dexter Locke of the USDA Forest Service entitled Urban Forestry and Environmental Injustice: Past, […]

Dr. Stephanie F. Potochnick, Department of Sociology, Charlotte presents highlights from two different projects, both of which focus on advancing young (age 0-5) Latino children’s overall well-being. Do Immigration Raids Deter Head Start Enrollment? (Robert Santillano, Stephanie Potochnick, and Jade M. Jenkins) Using geographic variation in immigration raids, we investigated their deterrence effect on Hispanic […]

Please join us on Friday, April 1,for a joint GES Speaker Series/CAGIS Virtual Seminar that highlights a key research horizon representing both a barrier and an opportunity: examinations of Hybrid Physical-Virtual Worlds, aka “The Metaverse.” A Space-Place GIScience Framework for Human Dynamics Research in a Hybrid Physical-Virtual World We recruited Dr. Shih-Lung Shaw for this […]

02/09/2022 CAGIS researchers have been awarded new funding from Mecklenburg County Health Department to help monitor the progress of COVID-19. The funded project is entitled “Analyzing samples of COVID-19 within Mecklenburg County”. Along with Drs. Cynthia Gibas, Jessica Schlueter, and Kevin Lambirth (all Bioinformatics), the project will focus on the sequencing and analysis of COVID-19 […]

02/04/2022 Executive Director Wenwu Tang announced today that the Center for Applied Geographich Science (CAGIS) will receive substaintial funding from NC Department of Transportation (NCDOT) to explore new ways to streamline roadway maintence and safety sign using computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI). The research group, consisting of Dr. Don Chen (Engineering Technology and Construction […]

Director of research and outreach Douglas Shoemaker was recently featured in the Charlotte Observer’s multipart story on tree canopy loss in the City. Despite a canopy coverage exceeding the national average, Charlotte has been losing more than 3 football fields of forest per day since 2012. The region remains a real estate draw for its […]