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We are pleased to announce that CAGIS just received another award from Charlotte Research Institute Targeted Research Internal Seed Program (CRI TRISP). PIs for this internal grant Development of an Integrated GIS-based Pavement Management System are Drs. Don Chen (Engineering Technology), Wenwu Tang (CAGIS), and Umit Cali (Engineering Technology). CAGIS will be in charge of […]

The Center for Applied GIScience’s (CAGIS) Director of Research and Outreach, Dr. Douglas Shoemaker, talked urban growth to an ethusiastic gathering of Charlotteans as part of “Sustain Charlotte’s Grow Smart CLT” series. Held at Resident Culture Brewing Company in the Plaza-Midwood neighborhood, Shoemaker described the results of three studies: 1) an historical analyses of satellite […]

Center for Applied GIScience (CAGIS) Executive Director Dr. Wenwu Tang recently won, along with colleagues Drs. Shen-en Chen, John Diemer and Craig Allan, funding from NC Department of Transportation to study the application of artifical intelligence to the problem of classifying hydralic structures remotely. Researchers will develop a spatially explicit 3D modeling framework and a […]

Vancover (BC) November 2017. At a recent symposia, CAGIS researcher and Ph.D. candidate Minrui Zheng described her new study on how multi-level statistical techniques, combined with high performance computing, could speed the analyses of spatial modeling built around “Big Data”. Zheng shared her study “Multilevel analysis of neural network-driven spatial models” with an international group […]

CHARLOTTE (NC) September 13. CAGIS researcher and Ph.D. student Adam Griffith was recently tapped by the popular NPR newsprogram Marketplace to comment on the connection between urban development and the recent catastrophic flooding Houston associated with hurricane Harvey. Listen to the article here. In his blog, Griffith describes his methods for measuring increases in Houston’s […]

CAMBRIDGE (MA) August, 2017. Minrui Zheng, a Ph.D. Student and researcher at UNCC’s Center for Applied GIScience, received an Honorable Mention in the Best Paper Competition at the 2nd International Symposium of Spatiotemporal Computing, held at Harvard University. Zheng, who focuses on advanced modeling approaches to understand explore complex problems, won the recognition with her […]

Boston, April, 2017 Dr. Wenwu Tang, current Chair of Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group, announced the results of voting from the recent AAG Annual Meeting. Notably, Alex Hohl was elected as a Director, and Minrui Zheng was elected as a Student Director, for the 2017-2018 term. Congratulations to these excellent CAGIS researchers.

CHARLOTTE NC MARCH 13, 2017. Dr. Wenwu Tang, CAGIS Executive Director unveiled a new, high-performance (throughput) computing cluster/grid, (tentative name: CAGIS-Condor), to support the Center’s CyberGIS initiative. Currently, the CAGIS-Condor cluster has 114 CPUs and 488G memory. Significantly, this cluster is Windows-based–i.e., an ArcGIS capable “supercomputer” for parallel geocomputation! The CAGIS-Condor cluster functions as a […]

BOSTON, APRIL 5 After a particularly grueling day at AAG, several CAGIS researchers attended opening night at the Fenway, and watched the Redsox beat the Pirates 3-0 on a very chilly (38 f) Wednesday night.

Charlotte (NC), USA – January 5, 2017 – Woodland owners in urbanizing areas across the United States are often under pressure to sell their forested lands for development. In North Carolina, a state known for both its scenic tourism and vibrant economy, losses of forest to development could alter the attractive mix city and rural […]