2021

(11/03) NSF team published paper about remote sensing perspective for ecological and microbiome research [link]

(09/24) SJSU SAVI GIS Talk: urban and environmental research with using GIS, drones, and data science [Video]

(08/18) The summer Drone/GIS fieldlwork has been highlighted on UCF research news [link]

(07/29) Presentation in California DroneCamp2021 “Using UAV high-resolution mapping, participatory training, and citizen science for coastal ecosystem monitoring and modeling” [pdf]

(07/04) Drone Team Completed Field Data Collection for NSF Smithsonian Eelgrass Research in Oregon [link]

(06/03) Dr. Yang joined Department of Urban & Regional Planning at San Jose State University [link]

(03/26) The drone education featured at 2021 ESRI Imagery and Remote Sensing Educators Summit [Video]

(03/18) Presentation in Esri higher education web meeting “Teaching with Drones” [Link]

(02/28) Special issue on “Drones for Participatory and Community-Based Sciences” in journal Drones [Link]

(01/25) Paper on developing a UAV mapping and training program highlighted as the cover story in journal Drones [Link]

2020

(12/24) New paper about Spatio-temporal Cokriging algorithm published in Remote Sensing of Environment [Link]

(11/03) New paper published about drone training program for seagrass along the west coast [Link]

(10/19) The west coast UAV mapping for seagrass/eelgrass featured on Cornell CALS news [Link]

(09/16) Summer NSF Pacific coast drone mapping completed safely during COVID-19 [Link]

(07/20) NSF drone mapping finds a change of eelgrass bed in spatial extent and patchiness [Link]

(07/07) Use remote drone mapping and paticipory research in response to COVID-19 [Link]

(04/22) New K12 Teacher Funding for Drones, GIS and Fieldwork from our NSF Grant [Link]

(03/21) Top 5 CSGIS Drone Shots [Link]

(03/13) New paper on IJGIS using geo-statistical method and nightlight remtoe sensing data to predict crime [Link]

2019

(11/18) Celebrate UCF GIS day: Maps, Apps & Drones Tour and GeoBus [Link]

(11/08) Capturing the Beauty of Belize from Above with Smithsonian MarineGEO [Link]

(09/12) The Golden Rule, DroneCat and GeoBus at Central Florida GIS workshop [Link]

(09/12) Citizen Science GIS students present in Central Florida GIS Workshop and win student competition [Link]

(08/07) UAV fieldwork Completes in Alaska: “The Last Frontier” [Link]

(07/27) New paper about UAV-based object-oriented classification for Coastal Management in central Florida [Link]

(07/25) UAV fieldwork finished in Southern California with SDSU and Smithsonian MarineGEO [Link]

(07/16) UAV fieldwork in Bodega Bay finished with UC Davis Team [Link]

(07/01) UAV fieldwork in Oregon finished [Link]

(06/12) UAV fieldwork completed with Cornell team at Friday Harbor Lab, WA [Link]

(06/01) New paper using geo-statistical method for sharpening and forecasting the landuse change [Link]

(04/09) AAG presentation: geo-statistical approach to blend UAV imagery with satellite data [Link]

(04/05) Presentation at at UCF Research Week kick-off event: multi-spectral UAV mapping for Indian River Lagoon [Link]

(03/30) AAG Presentations with Citizen Science GIS [Link]

(03/29) How to create Region of Interest (ROI) in Google Earth Desktop using KML file [Link]

(03/11) Multi-spectral drone mapping fieldwork in Indian River Lagoon [Link]

(02/05) Citizen Science GIS K12 Teacher Academy Success [Link]

2018

(11/28) A Bird’s-Eye View of the Indian River Lagoon [Link]

(10/05) Bo Yang joined Citizen Science GIS team at UCF [Link]