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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 […]

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.