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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 […]

You are warmly invited to attend the 2025 CAGIS Distinguished Speaker Series. We are honored to invite Dr. Marc P. Armstrong, Professor Emeritus from the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences at the University of Iowa, to visit UNC Charlotte and deliver a talk entitled: “Fifty Years of Geospatial Computing: Retrospect and Prospect” Dr. Armstrong is a world-renowned pioneer and leading […]

The Center for Applied GIScience (CAGIS) proudly participated in the International Association for Landscape Ecology—North American Regional Chapter (IALE 2025) held in Raleigh, North Carolina from April 14 – 17, 2025. This conference brought together leading scientists and practitioners to explore innovations in landscape ecology, with a strong focus this year on the role of […]

Several members of the Center for Applied Geographic Information Science (CAGIS) at UNC Charlotte proudly represented the center at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), held in Detroit, Michigan, from March 24 to 28. The AAG Annual Meeting is one of the largest gatherings of geographers, GIScientists, and spatial thinkers […]

On November 20, 2024, the Center for Applied GIScience (CAGIS) and the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geographical Sciences (EEGS) hosted the annual GIS Day in McEniry Lobby at UNC Charlotte. The event brought together students, faculty, and industry professionals to celebrate the power and potential of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Competition Highlights The day […]

Add to Google Calendar  Date: November 20, 2024Location: McEniry LobbyTime: 10 AM – 2 PM Join us for an exciting day filled with cutting-edge geospatial technology, hands-on experiences, competitions, career insights, and prizes—including a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card for two of the GIS Day attendees! This is your chance to dive into the world of GIS, […]

Please join CAGIS Seminar August, 30 at 12:00pm! For this seminar we will be hearing Dr. Tianyang Chen discuss his study: Explicit Incorporation of Spatial Autocorrelation in 3D Deep Learning for Geospatial Object Detection Dr. Chen’s research focuses on 3D deep learning, spatial analytics, and geocomputation. He has been actively contributing to the practical applications […]

Mangrove forests, which grow in the coastal wetlands of the tropics and sub-tropics, provide essential ecosystem services to humans, ranging from the mitigation of shoreline erosion, to housing nurseries for commercially important fish & shellfish, and by filtering pollutants from land-based runoff. Despite the protective role they play, mangroves worldwide have experienced significant decline, driven […]

Douglas Shoemaker, director of research and outreach at the Center for Applied GIScience, was featured in a WBTV segment February 2 talking about a recent study that measured the loss of Charlotte’s signature tree canopy. In his interview with Jamie Boll, originally recorded in 2020, Doug remarks on his surprise regarding the magnitude of canopy loss, […]

GIS Day 2023 will celebrate innovative applications of geographic information system (GIS) technology in analysis, visualization, gaining insights into geospatial data, and thought leadership across Campus. All events are free to attend. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Vivek Shandas from Portland State University to speak about Urban Heat Islands, and specifically how decision-makers can […]

Stormwater management is an essential urban infrastructure as it helps protects people and property from flooding, improves water quality, and reduces the risk of infrastructure damage. However, stormwater pipeline networks that create these services are complex underground systems that require regular inspection to guide maintenance and maintain integrity. Because the pipeline systems are underground, accurately […]

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 […]