GIS & Remote Sensing | Department of Geography and the Environment

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GIS & Remote Sensing

The GIS faculty at UNT has core expertise in spatial analysis and modeling, remote sensing, and computational geography that support our BS programs in Geography and GIS+CS, our MS programs, as well as our GIS Certificates. Our interests cover health and medical geography, environmental analysis, and location intelligence and modeling.

Current research projects include:

  • Emergency response planning and analysis (Tiwari & Mikler)
  • Disease mapping and modeling (Tiwari & Oppong)
  • Applications of LiDAR for disaster and environmental assessment (Dong & Liang)
  • Citizen science and applications of GIS and remote sensing (Dong & Liang)
  • Applications of UAV and sensor technologies for environmental monitoring (Liang)
  • Location intelligence for retail location and business applications (Rice & Tiwari)

Learn more about our GIS certificates here.

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