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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.

Update: recording of this talk is avaliable at the CAGIS YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfoz4aBkHaMxbhGhO_UZ_Nu9Mujnk_bsU 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 […]

Update: A recording of this presentation is avaliable at the CAGIS YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfoz4aBkHaMxbhGhO_UZ_Nu9Mujnk_bsU Our upcoming CAGIS Seminar features a practical application of existing technologies to generate novel ways of mapping human activity. On Thursday, October 20th at 2:30*, Charlotte Assistant Professor Lei Zhu will present: Wi-Fi Log Data Processing and Spatial-temporal Analysis for Exploring […]

Our first CAGIS Virtual Seminar of the year is being held in cooperation with the Geography and Earth Science’s Speaker Series on September 9, and the topic couldn’t be more timely. I invite you to attend a Zoom presentation by Dr. Dexter Locke of the USDA Forest Service entitled Urban Forestry and Environmental Injustice: Past, […]

Dr. Stephanie F. Potochnick, Department of Sociology, Charlotte presents highlights from two different projects, both of which focus on advancing young (age 0-5) Latino children’s overall well-being. Do Immigration Raids Deter Head Start Enrollment? (Robert Santillano, Stephanie Potochnick, and Jade M. Jenkins) Using geographic variation in immigration raids, we investigated their deterrence effect on Hispanic […]