Geospatial Information Science and Technology
Become a GIST Learning Partner
Partner With Our Students
The Center for Geospatial Analytics invites organizations to participate in the education mission of the Center and the College of Natural Resources. Partnerships are sought to provide client-based, real-world learning experiences for students through structured projects, internships, and other avenues. Becoming a GIST learning partner means working with students to develop solutions in this collaborative problem solving effort, leveraging the expertise of each participant.
Interested in becoming a GIST partner? Contact us. If you already have projects in mind, you may fill out and submit our partner application here.
Meet Some of Our Partners
Elephants on the Line is a community-based conservation program for the Asian elephant population. Partners are using geospatial tools for citizen engagement and education with researchers, forest managers and citizens of the Bhutan-India Transboundary region.
Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition – Open Source application development to visualize the kind, distribution and frequency of published attacks on health workers over a specified time period.
Supports the Government of Kenya’s efforts to make dramatic changes to its health worker education and training systems through visual display and spatial decision support applications across the public and private sectors. Database development links location of training institutions, trained health care workers and professional licensure with the ability to analyze conditions in areas of greatest need.
Daily Precipitation of Hofmann Forest: Process automation to prepare data, run raster analysis for spatial and temporal agreement in precipitation amounts across the forest to compare rainfall estimates from a field gauge network with radar-based models.
Ecological Assessment of Historic Pinehurst #2 Golf Course after restoration to research best management practices for sustainable management of the turf grass and natural areas using native plant material.
Evaluating Routes for North Carolina’s Plug-in Electric Vehicle (PEV) Highway
Visualizing access to pediatric care by vulnerable populations to identify gaps in service that may impact child health.
Spatial distribution of rail corridors to existing trails to evaluate collaborative partnership opportunities
Spatial Analysis of Factors Impacting Use & Perceptions of the American Tobacco Trail
Regional Return on Investment modeling of development scenarios in suburban area
Development of Citizen science data collection tool for monitoring TLC projects
Development of a web friendly application for quantifying conservation benefits for potential projects based by deploying existing models through an interactive tool that permits users to input an area of interest to be modeled.
Community Asset mapping to visualize access to opportunities for physical activity and healthy eating choices
SRTS is an effort to encourage children to walk or bike to school with a goal is to promote physical activity to children and their families.
Food Deserts and distribution of healthy food sources and populations in need as a tool to work across agencies in provision of services
Play Wake! – park finder for Wake County
Testing methods for use of LiDAR data in pedestrian pathway terrain analysis for urban areas.
Improving methods for query, analysis and reporting within the Template for Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Management Options (TACCIMO) Climate Change Tree Atlas
Gateway National Recreation Area– Develop web based management tool for staff to access information and communicate needs to other staff. Capabilities to edit data and add features (e.g. proposed trails), conduct simple analysis, query the park assets, view linked photo libraries and print maps directly from a desktop computer
Shenandoah National Park – “Exploring Park History-One Tract at a Time”, development of a web based interactive application that permits users to search historic land tract database to find former family properties within the park boundaries.
Valley Forge NHP– Interactive Trail Mapping and Terrain Analysis
Appalachian Trail– Development of planning tool in event of Wildland Fire impacting the trail corridor to permit communication about access to the varied jurisdictions responding to the event at the remote locations on both public and private lands.
Cape Cod National Seashore– suitability analysis to determine areas for prescribed fire activities; communicate results to park staff and public
Matching Vacant Lots with Land Activators – Vacant to Vital is a project of the Jamie Kirk Hahn Foundation’s Gathering for Good, a project of Second Saturday.
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