NCSU GIS/MEA582:
Geospatial Modeling and Analysis

Projects Spring 2021

  • Conklin: Modeling Hydrology at the Fayetteville Technical Community College Fire Training Academy
  • Doyle: The Downstream Effects of High-Risk Hog Farm Flooding in Eastern North Carolina
  • Faircloth: The Effects of Land Use on Coastal Hurricane Flooding Vulnerability
  • Farrell: Barrier Island Dune Change Analysis After 2018 Hurricane Florence on Masonboro Island, NC
  • Fields: Impervious Area and Urban Expansion of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
  • Ising: Solar Energy Potential Analysis for the North Davidson Neighborhood in Charlotte, NC
  • Johnson: Charleston, South Carolina Urban Expansion from 1995-2021
  • Jordan: Coastal Erosion Analysis From Lidar Time Series After Beach Nourishment on the Outer Banks
  • Leftwich: Island Erosion and Potential Effects to Indigenous Communities
  • Masters: Leveraging UAS Data as a Price Estimation Tool in the Construction of a Solar Farm
  • McNulty: Neuse River 100-yr Floodplain Update
  • Moy: Creating an Interpolated DSM of Meadowmont Neighborhood in Cary, NC from Lidar Data
  • O'Leary: Modeling Wildfire Spread on the Gila National Forest, New Mexico
  • Parrish: Using Least-cost Path to Analyze a Presumed Historic Route
  • Pelfrey: Assessing Accuracy and Quality of Various Sources of Building Footprints (NCEM, OpenStreetMaps, Microsoft)
  • Perry: Creating a Cost Surface Analysis of Jezero Crater from Perseverance Rover to Rim Based on Slope and Travel Speed
  • Pesta: Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Atlantic Beach Using Different Model Types
  • Richardson: Assessing seasonal solar photovoltaic energy potential in Lusaka, Zambia
  • Rutkowski ?? Risk analysis of catastrophic flood due to dam failure
  • Sawtelle ?? Forest density and canopy height from lidar
  • Spore: Effects of Land Cover Type on Sustained Flooding Events in the Chesapeake Bay
  • Webster ??
  • Welch: Karst Topography: Flooding and Prevention in Northwest Alabama
  • Wingler ?? Suitable Locations for Solar Energy Generation in Caldwell County Neighborhood
  • Yoder ?? Cabarrus County Public Safety drive Time Analysis
  • Yun: Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Site Selection using GIS in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Organized by topic

Coastal and marine environment analysis, hurricane impacts

  • Faircloth: The Effects of Land Use on Coastal Hurricane Flooding Vulnerability
  • Farrell: Barrier Island Dune Change Analysis After 2018 Hurricane Florence on Masonboro Island, NC
  • Jordan: Coastal Erosion Analysis From Lidar Time Series After Beach Nourishment on the Outer Banks
  • Leftwich: Island Erosion and Potential Effects to Indigenous Communities

Hydrology and flooding analysis

  • Conklin: Modeling Hydrology at the Fayetteville Technical Community College Fire Training Academy
  • Doyle: The Downstream Effects of High-Risk Hog Farm Flooding in Eastern North Carolina
  • Spore: Effects of Land Cover Type on Sustained Flooding Events in the Chesapeake Bay
  • Welch: Karst Topography: Flooding and Prevention in Northwest Alabama

Land use and land cover mapping and analysis, urban and habitat modeling

  • Fields: Impervious Area and Urban Expansion of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
  • Johnson: Charleston, South Carolina Urban Expansion from 1995-2021
  • O'Leary: Modeling Wildfire Spread on the Gila National Forest, New Mexico
  • Pelfrey: Assessing Accuracy and Quality of Various Sources of Building Footprints (NCEM, OpenStreetMaps, & Microsoft)

Transportation, infrastructure, least cost path applications, solar energy and siting analysis

  • Ising: Solar Energy Potential Analysis for the North Davidson Neighborhood in Charlotte, NC
  • Parrish: Using Least-cost Path to Analyze a Presumed Historic Route
  • Perry: Creating a Cost Surface Analysis of Jezero Crater from Perseverance Rover to Rim Based on Slope and Travel Speed
  • Richardson: Assessing seasonal solar photovoltaic energy potential in Lusaka, Zambia
  • Yun: Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Site Selection using GIS in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina