Anniversary Post: Geospatial Students’ Projects on Sustainability Practices

By on May 29, 2012 in Biodiversity and Environmental Sustainability, Green House Gas (GHG), Infrastructure Asset Management, Natural Disaster, Remote Sensing/Geospatial

Anniversary Post: Geospatial Students’ Projects on Sustainability Practices, Infrastructure Asset Management, and Disasters Impacts.

In May Intersession 2012 I continued my annual geospatial courses for 3 credit hour that I have been offering since 2008 at the University of Mississippi, USA. ENGR597-section 25 is senior/graduate level course. Since 2012 I have been offering CE495 course for undergraduate senior students. During 2012 semester course lectures I motivated the students to use “sustainability” challenges for their geospatial and GIS term projects. Again, like previous years students conducted excellent research and produced outstanding reports on the following topics:

  1. The Environmental Impacts of Oil Refineries – Christopher Betts
  2. Geospatial Analysis of Disaster Evacuation Options using Infrastructure Assessments of Select City School Districts in Mississippi – Seth Cobb
  3. A Geospatial Study of Emission Testing Programs and Transportation Related Air Pollution Indicators – Courtney Cunningham
  4. Geospatial Analysis study of Wetland Loss Along The Coast of Louisiana – Kyle Grantham
  5. Geospatial Mapping of Carbon Dioxide Emissions due to Burning of Fossil Fuels for Different Sectors of U.S. Economy – Sean Levine
  6. Geospatial Analysis of U.S. Gasoline and Natural Gas Among the States – Miller McNamara
  7. Comparison of Current and Future Demands of Electricity Worldwide using Visualization Application Techniques – Whitney Pardew
  8. Geospatial Analysis of Vehicle Miles Traveled by State and How it Relates to CO2 Emissions – Andrew Rose
  9. Geospatial Study of Deforestation Trend in the United States - William Shaw
  10. Geospatial Analysis of United States Highway Fatality Trends by Functional Class – Landon Shows
  11. Geospatial Assessment of Pre-flood Campus Infrastructure, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand – Alper Durmus (M.S. student)

Ms. Carrissa Beasley, CAIT Research Assistant, assisted me in the course. Carrissa will graduate in summer 2012.

Selected guest posts from the above list will be published soon.

Dr. Waheed Uddin’s Geospatial Course, 25 May 2012

Dr. Waheed Uddin’s Geospatial Course, 25 May 2012

About W Uddin

Dr. Waheed Uddin is a professor of civil engineering at the University of Mississippi, USA. Previously an expert for the United Nations, he is the Founder and Director of Center for Advanced Infrastructure Technology (CAIT). He has been conducting research and geospatial applications in infrastructure asset management and disaster mitigation areas for over a decade, such as Hurricane Katrina damage assessment on Mississippi Gulf Coast, tsunami simulation for a coastal city, and great floods of Indus River in Pakistan and Mississippi River in the U.S. He completed a USAID funded transportation management project for the National Academies involving satellite imagery based traffic map and video surveillance technology for Karachi. Dr. Uddin conducted airborne LIDAR survey technology projects for NASA Stennis Space Center and the National Academies/FAA. He developed many applications of remote sensing technologies and geospatial mapping, which can expedite nonintrusive landuse/infrastructure mapping and in-service monitoring.
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