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CAGIS seminar (October 16th): Criminal Justice

Dr. Shannon Reid from UNC Charlotte's Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology will present on the use of GIS in mapping and spatial analysis of Crime. When: Oct. 16th 1:00pm to 2:00pm  Where: CAGIS’ collaboration room (McEniry 307). CAGIS seminar (October 16th): Criminal Justice Read more >>

Call for Paper: Sustainability Special Issue: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Study of Land Use and Land Cover Change

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... Call for Paper: Sustainability Special Issue: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Study of Land Use and Land Cover Change Read more >>

Alex Hohl, Claudio Oswego and Michael DeJardin (L to R) presented their work at AAG in New Orleans in April.

CAGIS goes to AAG

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: CAGIS goes to AAG Read more >>

New Funding

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 developing a cutting-... New Funding Read more >>

CAGIS Director talks urban growth for Sustain Charlotte's "Grow Smart CLT" Series

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 imagery for... CAGIS Director talks urban growth for Sustain Charlotte's "Grow Smart CLT" Series Read more >>