2022 GIS and Remote Sensing Symposium

Dr. Wenhong Li, Associate Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University.

Dr. Betsy Middleton, Mission Scientist, NASA (Emerita).

Presentation Title: Climate Change Impacts on Wetlands through Hydrological Perspectives.

Dr.  Wenhong Li obtained her bachelor's degree in Atmospheric Sciences from Peking Univ, PhD in Climate Dynamics from Georgia Institute of Technology. She is now an associate professor at Nicholas of the Environment, Duke University. Dr Li research interests focus primarily on climate dynamics, land-atmosphere interaction, hydroclimatology, and climate modeling. Her current research is to understand how the hydrological cycle changes in the current and future climate and their impacts on the ecosystems, subtropical high variability and change, unforced global temperature variability, and climate and health issues. 

Presentation Title: Chlorophyll from Space: The Most Important Land Surface Essential Climate Variable.

NASA Emerita Dr. Elizabeth M. Middleton was the Mission Scientist for the Earth Observing One (EO-1) satellite, including its ground-breaking visible through shortwave infrared (VSWIR) spectrometers for the Hyperion demonstration instrument, for 13 of its 17-year lifetime. She had leadership roles on the HyspIRI (Hyperspectral and InfraRed Imager) and the SBG (Surface Biology and Geology) mission development teams and served as the sole US scientist for 13 years on the ESA (European Space Agency) Mission Advisory Group for the upcoming Earth Explorer-8 FLuorescence EXplorer (FLEX) satellite mission, among other NASA and ESA programs. She worked on early Landsat teams (1–5), and was a PI on several large NASA ecological studies (e.g., FIFE, BOREAS). She was also lead collaborator/manager for 20 years on fluorescence and related research with scientists at USDA's Beltsville-Agricultural Research Station in Beltsville, MD and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, MD. She was the organizer/convener of annual NASA workshops for the hyperspectral remote sensing community (2010–2019), and is a frequent reviewer for several prestigious remote sensing journals. Her degrees were in Biology and Physical Science from the University of Maryland. .

Dr. Kang Xia, Professor, Virginia Tech School of Plant and Environmental Sciences.

Seth Peery, Senior GIS Architect, Virginia Tech Enterprise GIS Department

Presentation Title: The Center for Advanced Innovation in Agriculture (CAIA)mate Change Impacts on Wetlands through Hydrological Perspectives.

Dr. Xi is a professor in Environmental Chemistry who also serves as the Associate Director for the Center for Advanced Innovation in Agriculture (CAIA) in CALS. Her research focuses on understanding the occurrence, fate, and environmental impact of organic compounds. She teaches two water quality related undergraduate courses and one graduate course. .

Presentation Title: A review of current geospatial support services provided by Virginia Tech Enterprise GIS.

Seth Peery is Senior GIS Architect in the Enterprise Systems unit of the Virginia Tech Division of Information Technology.

Seth manages the technology stack supporting the scalable storage, sharing, and dissemination of GIS data, maps and apps - so that you don't have to. The value proposition of his small but dedicated unit is to lower barriers to the use of GIS at an institutional scale, make faculty more competitive in their research, embrace geospatial methodologies in teaching and learning across the disciplines, further the outreach missions of the university, and improve its internal operations. His team supports GIS server infrastructure, integration between GIS and other enterprise information systems, application development and advanced spatial analysis. From ArcIMS to ArcGIS Online, from the datacenter to the cloud, he has evolved the campus's GIS infrastructure in concert with the waves of innovation in computing over time that are then applied towards geospatial problems. He represents the university through the ESRI Innovation Program, and works to keep Virginia Tech at the forefront of the geospatial state of the art within our peer institutions.

Title: The effects of historical redlining on present-day neighborhood social vulnerability in the United States .
--Oluwatosin Ogunmayowa  

Title: Creating a global dam dataset for river network integration
--Elizabeth M.  Prior   

Title: Linear spectral unmixing for vegetation estimates at different spatial resolutions
--Shashank Karki 

Title: Estimating Occupancy Probability of Northern Long-eared Bats in Maine
--Jesse De La Cruz 

Title: Construction and Geovisualization of 3D Thermal Models of Urban Areas
--Gunjan Barua 

Title: Use of Pycnophylactic Interpolation to Determine the Number of Households in Redlined Districts in Roanoke City Virginia that Lack Complete Plumbing 
--Charles Sterling 

Title: Identifying Meander Scars through Lidar and Multispectral Imagery
--Yohtaro Kobayashi 

Title: Appalachian Trail Layout and Terrain Metrics from Publicly Available Airborne Lidar Datasets
--Fletcher Meadema 

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--Tharathip (Kazuki) Mitsunaga 11

Title: Broadband access in Appalachia
--Leon Krug 

Title: Gwinnett County, GA: Rise of Multigenerational Housing in Response to Economic and Demographic Conditions. What Are the Tangible Qualities That Contribute to this Trend and its Implications? 

--Quyngina Zhang 

Title: Par for the course? Soft industry, amenity migration, and gentrification in semi-rural Appalachia
--Thomas Mattson 

Title: Pittsburgh: Economic Restructuring and neighborhoods
--Haodong Zhang 

Title: Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Shoreline Forecasting Performance
--Md Sariful Islam 

Title: Federal Assistance in Appalachia's High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area
--Elena Ahwee-Marrah 

Title: The Social Cascades of Exposure to Flood Induced Natech Events on Vulnerable Populations in Hampton Roads, Virginia
--Margaret Crawford 

Title: The Evolution and Distribution of Precipitation during the Tropical Cyclones Landfalls using the GPM IMERG product
--Samrin Sauda 

Title: Seeing an Elephant in the Dark- How much does the policy-evaluation outcome depend on the source of deforestation data?
--Nilesh Shinde 

Title: Investigating detection limits of Antarctic microbial communities using remote sensing data 
--Sarah Power

Title: Is There a Correlation Between Rural Exodus and Clean Water Act Violations
--Adia Long 

Title: Low-Cost, Open-Source Sensor Platforms for Structure from Motion Photogrammetry and Mobile Lidar
--Johanna Arredondo 

Title: Least Cost Path Modeling between Inka and Amazon Civilizations
--Colleen Lewis 

Title: Indoor Mapping
--Shashank Karki 

Title:  Point Cloud Processing and Visualization for Landscape Architecture
--Chandler  Carruthers 

Title: Remotely quantified forest functional traits and diversity as predictors of gross primary productivity in forested ecosystems across the US
--Paige Williams 

Title: Assessing the utility of NAIP digital aerial photogrammetric point clouds to create reliable canopy height models of managed loblolly pine stands in the southeastern United States
--Alison Ritz 

Title: Spatial & Temporal Variations in Spectral Recovery of Southeastern Pine Stands Following Stand-clearing Disturbance
--Daniel Putnam 

Title: Reconstructing Hurricane Sally (2020) maximum-wind field with tree-lean azimuths
--Troy Swift  

Title: Assessment of cyclone damage to Mangroves in West Bengal, India: a study using the combined Radar and Optical Imagery using Google Earth Engine
--Poonam Tajanpure 

Title: Biophysical environments of undone science: How highway construction impacts human health
--Danielle DuChesne 

Title: Age-height relationships for pines in the Southeastern U.S. using ICESat-2 and Landsat products
--Sonia Banjade 

Title: Respondent experience and willingness to pay: Reconciling stated preference data with scientific evidence
--Zhenyu Yao 

Title:  Establishment fertilization effects on leaf area development variations in loblolly pine plantation stands
--Matthew House