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In response to the COVID-19 global pandemic, recent CAGIS graduates Alex Hohl and Michael Desjardins teamed-up with Faculty Associate Eric Delmelle to conduct geostatistical analyses of outbreaks in the United States. The team then produced maps of “active” and “emerging” clusters nationwide needed to allocate medial resources in a timely matter. They published their results […]

We invite you to an interesting, two-part Seminar next week which discusses new applications for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), sometimes referred to as “drones”. In part 1, Dr. Srinivas Akella talks about coordinating multiple UAVs for disaster response. In part 2, Dr. Yutin Chen describes the new role UAVs are playing in the construction industry, […]

We welcome UNCC GES alums Danny Yonto and Claire Schuch to our CAGIS Seminar to give a talk regarding their efforts to map gentrification in Charlotte. Gentrification has been increasingly studied, but disagreement continues on how best to define and measure it, particularly in regards to how scale influences detection. In this presentation we hear […]

We welcome Ph.D. Candidate Michael Desjardins to hear about his investigations into the time/space dynamics of dengue, chikungunya and Zika outbreaks in Cali, Colombia. Abstract: Dengue, chikungunya, and Zika are mosquito-borne diseases that infect an estimated 390 million people worldwide each year, and 100,000 in Colombia alone. Despite the human costs, these diseases are particularly […]

We are pleased to welcome Justin Lane from the Urban Institute for our next CAGIS Seminar. Justin will be talking about one of the most influential mapping projects to date, the Opportunity Atlas, with special attention to how the maps are being used in Charlotte. We would enjoy seeing you at 1:00 in the CAGIS […]

By Tianyang Chen. Editors’ note: Tianyang Chen is 2nd year PhD student and CAGIS research assistant advised by Dr. Wenwu Tang. This past summer, Chen attended the SDSC Summer Institute, a week-long workshop that focuses on a broad spectrum of introductory-to-intermediate topics in high performance computing and data science. It was a beautiful weather, sunny […]

Charlotte, May 2019. During the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences’ annual awards banquet, CAGIS researcher Michael Desjardins received one of the two “Outstanding Doctoral Student in Geography” awards. This annual award recognizes and honors the outstanding performance and contributions of a PhD in Geography student whose academic excellence, service, and leadership have made an […]

We cordially invite you to attend Technology for Good: Jobs, Mobility and Smart + Connected Tech for Greater Charlotte Summit to be held on October 9th at UNC Charlotte’s Center City Building in Uptown. In cooperation with the Center for Applied GIScience (CAGIS), our NSF Smart and Connected Communities Team has created a summit and […]

Washington DC, April 2019. CAGIS researcher Michael Desjardins (PhD Student) received a 2019 AAG Dissertation Research Grant to support his dissertation titled “A mixed-methods approach for vector-borne disease surveillance in Colombia”. From Desjardin’s upcoming dissertation: Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) affect more than 1 billion people a year worldwide, cause over 1 million deaths, and result in […]

On Wednesday, April 10, PhD Candidate Nastaran Pourebrahim from UNC Greensboro will present, “Social Media Analysis for Urban and Transportation Planning” Twitter is one of the most popular social media platforms that changed the way people create, disseminate, and share information. Twitter use has been growing rapidly, but the effectiveness of this system for urban […]

Please join us tomorrow to hear Keri Shearer from the City of Charlotte talk about the City’s Shared Data Pipeline. The City of Charlotte has a wealth of data and tools. The Shared Data Pipeline is a tool we developed to help grow the City’s technical capacity. In casting data in space, we provide common […]

Please join us on February 27th to hear Dr. Dimitris Papanikolaou present his comparative analyses of MoDs and traditional ride hailing services.

Charlotte, December 2018. Allergic rhinitis (or hay fever) effects roughly 15 out of 100 Americans, but sufferers have had little guidance on how to avoid the pollen outbreaks that aggrevate thier symptoms. Blooms of trees, grasses and herbaceous plants are to blame, but seasonality and variations in climate have made it hard to understand where […]

An edited book entitled “High Performance Computing for Geospatial Applications” has been approved by Springer. Editors are Drs. Wenwu Tang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) and Shaowen Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Here is the background information of the book. High Performance Computing (HPC) allows for the use of advanced computer systems to […]

Charlotte, October 2018. In a new paper, CAGIS researcher and lead author Michael Desjardins describes new methods to visualize the complex, spatio-temporal dynamics of outbreaks in mosquito-born illnesses in Colombia. Outbreaks of chikungunya and dengue fever (both transmitted by the same two mosquitoes) occur unevenly across municipalities both geographically and in timing, presenting substaintial challenges […]

Artificial intelligence has been increasingly used to support the study of coupled land systems, which are complex adaptive spatial systems driven by land use and land cover change. These artificial intelligence approaches comprise: 1) Machine learning (e.g., artificial neural networks, decision trees), 2) Evolutionary computation (e.g., genetic algorithms, evolutionary algorithms), 3) Distributed artificial intelligence (e.g., […]

CAGIS made its presence felt at the Annual Association of American Geographer’s Conference in New Orleans, April 10-14. CAGIS students, faculty and associates made eight representations on a range of subjects: Zheng, M., Tang, W., 2018. Multilevel analysis of spatially explicit model. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, USA. April […]

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 […]