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PhD Candidate, Varun Tiwari’s work is currently being highlighted by NC State’s Center for Geospatial Analytics.

PhD Candidate Varun Tiwari’s first PhD paper has been published in the Journal of Environmental Management

Lab members Mirela, Rebecca, Mollie, and Júlio travelled to San Francisco, CA to present at the American Geophysical Union.

Varun has progressed to being a PhD Candidate with his dissertation entitled, ‘Leveraging Satellite Data and Machine Learning for Understanding and Quantifying the Linkage Between Flooding, Food Security, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Rice Cultivation in Bangladesh’

Dr. Mirela Tulbure contributed to a new article that is currently in pre-print entitled “Taking it further; leveraging pseudo labels for field delineation across label-scarce smallholder regions.”

The GAEC Lab’s flood research in Georgia was featured in an Australian Science Show and in an article on NC State’s News website.

In 2021-2022 the top cited paper in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation was Regional matters: On the usefulness of regional land-cover datasets in times of global change.

The journal article Can we detect more ephemeral floods with higher density harmonized Landsat Sentinel 2 data compared to Landsat 8 alone? was selected for the 2022 Highlights in ISPRS.

We are looking for a highly motivated undergraduate research student to join our Geospatial Analysis for Environmental Change lab at NC State on a project using geospatial analytics for social good.