Geospatial Technology Interactions

Experiences in Teaching, Learning, Research and Outreach Using the 3D Immersion and Geovisualization System

We bring together researchers and students and integrate state-of-the-art geospatial technologies in support of teaching/learning and research in the geosciences. Our projects prepare the future generation of geoscientists by developing and incorporating new strategies in data acquisition and visualization of geospatial data. The 3D Immersion and Geovisualization System (3DIG) is a highly interactive tool for discovery and has been used by thousands of students, staff and faculty at the University of Georgia, as well as members of the Athens community. We aim to enable and inspire the young generation of geoscientists by involving young minds in experiential learning. See below for interactions, including classes, demos, publications, conferences and other technical meetings.

Scheduled Interactions

Date Event/Class
4/22/2024 AI Research Day, UGA
4/24/2024 Colloquium - Department of Research and Computational Data Management, UGA
June, 2024 European Grassland Federation 30th General Meeting

Invited Talks, Demonstrations & Panel Participations

  1. 1850s Athens Properties in 3D (November, 2023). Athens-Clarke County Library. Athens, Georgia. (talk and technology demonstration)

  2. Drones and Remote Sensors – System Setup, Flight Preparation and Demonstration (November, 2023). 2023 GIS Day. Athens, Georgia. (demonstration)

  3. Drones, remote sensors and geovisualization strategies for the Geosciences and other fields. (September 2023). Geography Department, University of Georgia. (technology demonstration).

  4. Geospatial data collections, visualization and analyses in support of the Geosciences and other fields: recent contributions by the Disruptive Geospatial Technologies Laboratory (DiGTL). (November, 2022) AI Everywhere (All at Once) meeting. AI Institute-UGA. (invited talk)

  5. Drones and Remote Sensors – System Setup, Flight Preparation and Demonstration (November, 2022). 2022 GIS Day. Athens, Georgia. (demonstration)

  6. Drone-Based Remote Sensing to Assess Vegetation Status and Health in Support of Decision Making. (November, 2022). American Society of Agronomy/Crop and Soil Society of America Conference. (invited talk).

  7. Integration of Technologies Applied to Teaching and Learning (October 2022). Center for Teaching and Learning and Learning Technologies Consortium (demonstration).

  8. Application of Drones and Remote Sensors in Turfgrass Management (August, 2022). UGA Turfgrass Field Day. Griffin, Georgia. (demonstration).

  9. 3FP Teaching Outside of the Box. (March, 2022) Organized by the Center for Teaching and Learning at UGA. Athens, Georgia (panel).

  10. Appplication of Drone Imagery in Photogrammetry and GIS. (November, 2021) 2021 GIS Day. Athens, Georgia (panel).

  11. Drones and Remote Sensors – System Setup, Flight Preparation and Demonstration (November, 2021). 2021 GIS Day. Athens, Georgia. (demonstration)

  12. GIS and Imagery. (November, 2020) 2020 GIS Day. Athens, Georgia (panel).

  13. Drones and Remote Sensors – System Setup, Flight Preparation and Demonstration (November, 2020). 2020 GIS Day. Athens, Georgia. (demonstration)

  14. UAS-Imagery Positioning Strategies: georeferencing and spatial accuracy (January, 2020). Precision Agriculture Technology, Southeastern Fruit and Vegetable Conference. Savannah, Georgia. (panel)

  15. Geospatial technologies and experiential learning at the Center for Geospatial Research (December, 2019). Athens Historical Society. Athens, Georgia. (invited talk)

  16. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - Flight Demonstration. (November, 2019) 2019 GIS Day. Athens, Georgia. (demonstration)

  17. DiGTL: Disruptive Geospatial Technologies Laboratory. (August, 2019). NASA DEVELOP Program Closeout – UGA Node. University of Georgia. Athens, Georgia. (invited talk and demonstration)

  18. GIS Day @ UGA. (November, 2017). Athens, Georgia. (panel)

  19. Incorporating advanced geospatial technologies into education, research and outreach: The 3D Immersion and Geovisualization System (3DIG). (April, 2017). MapTime Athens. Athens, Georgia. (invited talk and demonstration)

Classes, Presentations, Demonstrations, and Events

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Date Event/Class Audience
11/16/16 GIS Day 2016 (Main Library) ~100
02/17/17 Demonstration to Morgan County High School 47
03/02/17 Demonstration to Geography and Geology 155
03/16/17 Presentation at the annual conference of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 20
03/24/17 Seminar in Advanced Remote Sensing, GEOG 8550, joint with class from College of Environment + Design 22
04/17/17 Introduction to GIScience, GEOG 2011 26
04/25/17 Demonstration at MapTime Athens (Hendershot's Caffee) 10
06/07/17 Demonstration to middle schoolers 22
08/08/17 NASA DEVELOP closeout event 25
09/08/17 Aerial Photographs and Image Interpretation, GEOG 4/6330 21
09/13/17 Demonstration at Science Library (co-sponsored by the UGA Student Chapter of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) 1000*
09/14/17 First Year Odyssey Seminar - Human Impact on Landscapes of the World, CRN 11255 16
09/20/17 First Year Odyssey Seminar - They Know Where You Are! GIScience & GI Technology, CRN 31486 16
09/22/17 Aerial Photographs and Image Interpretation, GEOG 4330/6330 16
09/06/17 Introduction to Physical Geography, GEOG 1111 51
09/25/17 Introduction to Physical Geography, GEOG 1111 51
11/07/17 First Year Odyssey Seminar – Spatial Thinking-Google Maps and Beyond, CRN 36126, (College of Environment + Design 16
11/15/17 GIS Day 2017 (Main Library) 500*
Spring 2018 Directed Problems in Geographic Techniques: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Multispectral Remote Sensing: Theory, Image Acquisition, Processing and Analysis, GEOG 8590 3
01/24/18 Introduction to Physical Geography, GEOG 1111 41
01/25/18 Introduction to Physical Geography, GEOG 1111 41
01/29/18 Introduction to Physical Geography, GEOG 1111 41
01/31/18 Demonstration to Montessori Middle School 42
02/14/18 Introduction to Physical Geography, GEOG 1111 40
02/19/18 Introduction to Weather and Climate, GEOG 1112 20
02/20/18 Introduction to Weather and Climate, GEOG 1112 20
03/05/18 Demonstration to University of North Georgia 16
03/09/18 Geospatial Techniques in Landscape Analysis GEOG8450 + course at the College of Environment+Design 21
03/22/18 Demonstration to Central Washington University + UGA Plant Biology 4
09/04/18 Introduction to Physical Geography, GEOG 1111 58
09/07/18 Aerial Photographs and Image Interpretation, GEOG 4/6330 22
09/14/18 Demonstration to T.R.R. Cobb House and Athens Historical Society 2
09/28/18 First Year Odyssey Seminar Cubesats: Making Space Accessible to Everyone 13
10/05/18 First Year Odyssey Seminar Cubesats: Making Space Accessible to Everyone 13
11/10/18 Aerial Photographs and Image Interpretation, GEOG 4/6330 22
11/24/18 Human Environment Relations, GEOG 8810 4
11/24/18 First Year Odyssey Seminar - They Know Where You Area! GISCience and GI Technology 14
10/31/18 Environmental Phsychology - Behavior and Decision making in a Changing World, PSYC 5100 25
12/06/18 Demonstration to Dr. Dorothy Fragaszy (Dept. of Psychology) 1
11/14/18 GIS Day 2018 (Main Library) 1000*
11/28/18 Geographic Information Science, GEOG 4370 16
12/03/18 Introduction to GIS, GEOG 2011 31
12/06/18 Earth Science for Middle School Teachers, GEOL 4/6750 (Dept. of Geology) 14
Dec 2018 American Geophysical Union - Annual Meeting -
01/14/19 History and GIS, HIST 7500 14
02/05/19 Introduction to Physical Geography, GEOG 1111 30
02/06/19 Introduction to Physical Geography, GEOG 1111 30
02/07/19 Introduction to Physical Geography, GEOG 1111 30
02/11/19 Introduction to Physical Geography, GEOG 1111 31
02/25/19 Demonstration to Georgia Junior Science and Humanities Symposium 14
02/28/19 Demonstration to Lamar Dodd School of Art (presentation to professors, lecturers, art technicians) 8
03/01/19 Comparative and Physiological Psychology, PSYC 4130 (Dept of Psychology) 24
03/04/19 Comparative and Physiological Psychology, PSYC 4130 (Dept. of Psychology) 23
03/08/19 Comparative and Physiological Psychology, PSYC 4130 (Dept. of Psychology) 23
03/21/19 Landscape Engineering, LAND 6340 (Colledge of Environment + Design) 21
03/26/19 Experience UGA event (Clarke Middle School) 298
03/26/19 Experience UGA event (Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School) 282
03/26/19 Experience UGA event (Coile Middle School) 243
03/26/19 Experience UGA event (Hilsman Middle School) 280
04/10/19 Workshop: Drones in Geosciences + Makerspace Technology to support UAV research (Science Library) 24
04/16/19 Workshop: Drones in Geosciences + Makerspace Technology to support UAV research - hands on training on flying 4
04/17/19 Geographic Information Science, GEOG 4370 16
04/17/19 Workshop: Drones in Geosciences + Makerspace Technology to support UAV research - hands on training on flying 1
07/17/19 History Summer Fellows 8
07/07/19 NASA DEVELOP closeout 15
09/06/19 Aerial Photographs and Image Interpretation, GEOG 4330/6330 20
Fall/2019 Course: Directed Problems in Geographic Techniques: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Optical Multispectral, Thermal and LiDAR Remote Sensing - from system configuration to applications, GEOG 8590 13
09/09/19 Introduction to Physical Geography, GEOG 1111 62
09/10/19 Introduction to Physical Geography, GEOG 1111 93
09/11/19 Introduction to Physical Geography, GEOG 1111 62
09/12/19 Introduction to Physical Geography, GEOG 1111 16
09/16/19 NASA DEVELOP - fall 2019 term 7
09/20/19 University of Georgia Student Aerospace Initiative 2
10/30/19 First Year Odyssey Seminar - They Know Where You Are! GIScience 13
11/13/19 GIS Day 2019 (Main Library @ UGA) 1000*
Dec 2019 American Geophysical Union - Annual Meeting (San Francisco, California) 30*
02/06/20 Introduction to Physical Geography, GEOG 1111 180
11/17/20 GIS Day 2020 - Drone and Sensors - System setup and flight demonstration 37
11/17/20 GIS Day 2020 - GIS in Imagery (panel) 46
Dec 2020 American Geophysical Union - Annual Meeting -
Spr 2021 Elementary Psychology, PSYC 1101 300
Spr 2021 Comparative and Physiological Psychology, PSYC 4130 80
Spr 2021 Demo T.R.R. Cobb House 2
04/20/21 PSI CHI Convention
09/20/21 Introduction to Physical Geography, GEOG 1111 60
10/06/21 Faculty Research Seminar, GEOG 6950 22
10/18/21 Introduction to Principles and Applications of Geographic Information Science, GEOG 2011 24
10/21/21 First Year Odyssey Seminar: Hurricanes, Tsunamis, and More: Studying Planet Earth from the Vantage Point of Space, FYOS 15
11/17/21 GIS Day @ UGA - Drones and Remote Sensors – System Setup, Flight Preparation and Demonstration 25
11/18/21 GIS Day @ UGA - Drones and Remote Sensors – System Setup, Flight Preparation and Demonstration 25
11/18/21 GIS Day @ UGA - Application of Drone Imagery in Photogrammetry and GIS (panel) 20
Dec 2021 American Geophysical Union - Annual Meeting -
03/18/22 3FP Teaching Outside of the Box (panel) 20
03/24/22 Paleocommunities, GEOL 8130 4
04/04/22 Geology/Anthropology 6700 - Archaeological Geology 22
09/23/22 Aerial Photographs and Image Interpretation, GEOG 4330/6330 25
09/27/22 International Plant Phenotyping Symposium -
10/14/22 Geography Department Open House 9
10/20/22 Learning Technologies Consortium 20
10/07/22 Technical visit by Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo, Ecuador 8
11/09/22 Conference (invited): American Society of Agronomy/Crop and Soil Society of America -
11/16/22 GIS Day @ UGA - Geospatial analyses and integration of technologies for teaching, learning and research 60
11/16/22 GIS Day @ UGA - Drones and Remote Sensors – System Setup, Flight Preparation and Demonstration 10
11/17/22 Research Day: AI Everywhere (All at Once) 80
Dec 2022 American Geophysical Union - Annual Meeting -
Feb 2023 Conference: North American Plant Phenotyping Network -
Mar 2023 Internship: Athens Montessori Middle School 1
03/20/23 Presentation and demonstration to Pope High School Globalization Academy 16
Apr 2023 44th Annual Psi Chi Convention of the Behavioral Sciences -
Aug 2023 Introduction to the Disruptive Geospatial Technologies Lab: incoming graduate students 12
09/13/23 Forestry Research Institute of Ghana 1
09/22/23 Aerial Photographs and Image Interpretation, GEOG 4330/6330 18
09/22/23 Shallow Geophysics, GEOL 4660/6660 7
11/01/23 Department of Energy Savannah River National Laboratory BSRA (Battelle Savannah River Alliance) -
11/15/2023 GIS Day @ UGA - Drones and Remote Sensors – System Setup, Flight Preparation and Demonstration 1000
11/19/2023 Project release at Athens-Clarke County Library: "1850s Athens Properties in 3D" 42
Jan 2024 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union -
Jan, 2024 Annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society -
02/07/24 Workshop: Successful Image-Based Vegetation Studies With Drones: Project Setup and Best Practices 11
Feb, 2024 2024 Southeastern Teaching of Psychology Conference -
03/14/24 45th Annual PSI CHI Convention of the Behavioral Sciences -
03/20/24 Workshop: From Pixels to Point Clouds: Harnessing Drones for Imaging, 3D Reconstruction and Visualization 12
04/08/24 Conference - Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities -
04/19/24 Climate and Water Slam, UGA -
Total 9000+