Area(s) of Expertise

• High resolution, 3D coastal terrain mapping using lidar technology
• Analysis of coastal erosion and sand redistribution from time series of lidar-based digital elevation models
• Barrier island storm vulnerability mapping
• Sustainable land use management and design
• Geospatial analytics and visualization
• Open source geospatial software development as one of the founding laboratories in the OSGeo
• Research and Education Laboratories (OSGeo REL) worldwide network

Research Summary

The researchers and students from the NCSU OSGeo REL in collaboration with the NCSU-Kenan Natural Hazards Mapping Program developed new metrics for analysis of barrier island topographic change and are currently working on Coastal Dynamics Toolbox for open source GRASS GIS.

Publications

• A geospatial analysis comparing wastewater-monitored sewershed and statewide populations for 32 states participating in CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System, 2021-2024 , PLOS Global Public Health (2026)
• GRASS , Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2026)
• Technologies and Applications of Geocomputational Tangible User Interfaces , ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (2026)
• Carbon estimation of old-growth bald cypress knees using mobile LiDAR , Frontiers in Forests and Global Change (2025)
• Splines and Radial Basis Functions Interpolation , Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (2025)
• Active Remote Sensing Assessment of Biomass Productivity and Canopy Structure of Short-Rotation Coppice American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis L.) , Remote Sensing (2024)
• Estimating Rates of Change to Interpret Quantitative Wastewater Surveillance of Disease Trends , medRxiv (2024)
• Estimating rates of change to interpret quantitative wastewater surveillance of disease trends , The Science of The Total Environment (2024)
• An open-source platform for geospatial participatory modeling in the cloud , Environmental Modelling & Software (2023)
• Integrating GRASS GIS and Jupyter Notebooks to facilitate advanced geospatial modeling education , Transactions in GIS (2023)

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