Research at CEO

  Over thirty faculty members and investigators from various departments at NCSU use CEO facilities in their research activities.  Topics include natural resources, forestry, environmental studies, agriculture, oceanography, meteorology, biotechnology, veterinary medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and engineering.  Many projects are conducted in-house at the CEO, including: 

• Environmental remote sensing projects, such as applications of airborne and satellite data to land use/land cover inventory and change detection, surface water quality and groundwater contamination modeling, forest resources inventory and management, ecosystems analysis,  forest health monitoring, wildlife habitat mapping, wetland mapping, and thematic accuracy assessment; 
• GIS projects, such as technical support for the National Park Service, GIS for regional planning and natural resource management, and instructional technology for GIS and environmental education;
• Development of educational technologies that range across many disciplines and are based on multi-media applied to instruction in spatial analyses;
• Automated and intelligent remote sensing and image processing systems that span the entire remote imaging process from phenomenology through acquisition and data analysis, including automated systems for image classification and change detection, computer understanding of images, neural networks and artificial intelligence, environmental data visualization, and multisource data fusion; and
• Database projects such as design and development of relational database for National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program investigators.

Links to selected current and recent project descriptions:

Accuracy Assessment of Regions 4 and 5 of the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium's National Land Cover Data (NLCD)(1999-2000)

National Park Service GIS Technical Support Center

Applications of Simulated Annealing Minimization Technique to Unsupervised Classification of Remotely Sensed Data (Janurary 1999-December 1999; Cray Research, Inc.)

Instructional Technology for GIS and Environmental Education

Watershed-Level Land Use and Land Cover Mapping in the NC Piedmont

Automated Roadway Feature Extraction from Remotely-Sensed High-Resolution Satellite Imagery (1997-1998; National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), the National Research Council)

Development of a GIS Database for Forest Research, Management, and Damage Assessment (1998, NCSU and College of Forest Resources)

Automated Multisensor and Multitemporal Image Registration (1996-1998; Internal)

GIS for Regional Planning

Development of Linkages Between Remote Sensing Data and Regional Forest Ecosystem Models (the USDA Forest Service Southern Global Change Program)

Algorithms and Methodologies of an Automated Spatial Change Informaiton Extraction System from Satellite Imgaery using Artificial Neural Networks (January 1997-December 1997; Cray Research, Inc. and NCSC)

Use of Geographic Information Systems to Improve the NC Division of Forest Resources Pre-Suppression Fire Planning (NC Division of Forest Resources)

Change Detection for Coastal North Carolina Using Landsat TM Data (1994-1997; NOAA)

North Carolina Gap Analysis Project

 

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