SPEAKER: Dr. Wenwu Tang, Executive Director, Center for Applied Geographic Information Sciences, and Professor, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geographic Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

TITLE: Agent-based land change modeling: Considering the impact of landscape visibility

ABSTRACT: This study investigates the role of landscape visibility in agent-based modeling of land use and land cover change. The utility of cyberinfrastructure-enabled high-performance computing in addressing the big data-driven computational challenge is demonstrated.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Wenwu Tang is the Executive Director of the Center for Applied Geographic Information Science (gis.charlotte.edu) and Professor at the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geographical Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He holds a doctorate degree from the University of Iowa and was a post-doc and research scientist at the U.S. National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Tang’s research interests include cyberinfrastructure and high-performance geocomputation, agent-based modeling, land change modeling, Web GIS, and their geospatial applications. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and three edited books. Tang’s research has been supported by federal and state funding agencies (about $6.76 million in total), including USDA Forest Services, U.S. CDC, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, NCDOT, NC Forest Service, and Electric Power Research Institute. Relevant courses that Tang has taught include CyberGIS and Big Data, Spatial Statistics, and Web GIS. He is the editorial board member of Landscape and Urban Planning and guest editor of three special issues (Sustainability, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Land).

EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, download the 2024 Fall Seminar Calendar or request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.

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