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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 […]

Geography Masters Student and CAGIS Research Assistant Elizabeth Major was recognized for her poster “Florida Panther Vehicle Crash Mitigation” at the recent meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (SEDAAG) Annual Meeting held recently in Columbia SC. The study arose from work Elizabeth conducted as part of her graduate Spatial Statistics […]

UNC Charlotte’s hosting of GIS Day 2016 celebrated all things GIS. The theme that emerged over the course of day was “Spatial Thinking”, a concept that reflects a growing consensus that the utility of GIS in solving problems is only limited by the imagination of users and practitioners. Events ranged from a panel discussion around […]

CAGIS upgrades to a new high-performance Windows-based cluster, Sapphaire, based desktop grid technology. For more information, see: Resources

Dr. Douglas Shoemaker is the new CAGIS Director of Research and Outreach. Dr. Shoemaker is an innovator in the field of land system science. Co-author of the FUTURES urban growth model, he has worked to establish an empirically-based understanding of how cities evolve using a fusion of ecology, remote sensing and demographics. As Coordinator of […]