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Purdue GIS Day Presentations

2025

Integrating AI across GIS

Gregory Brunner
Principal Data Scientist
Esri

Who Gets the Water? Historical Patterns of Water Access and Agriculture in United States

Kavitha Srikanth
Graduate student

The Impact of Fluvial Erosion on Archaeological Sites

Max Gosch
Graduate student

Mapping Magical Realism: GeoAI and the Spatial Imagination of Cien Años de Soledad

Sophia Pimentel
Undergraduate student

Poster of Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS) in landscape domain.

A Conceptual Framework for Structuring the Application of Public Participation GIS

Mingyu Zhao
Graduate student

Poster showing research on Multi-Disciplinary GeoAI, Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI), Remote Sensing, LULC, Old Oyo, Cultural Heritage, Adaptive Management

A Multi-Scalar GeoAI Approach: Integrating Climate Vulnerability and Remote Sensing for Sustainable Heritage Management at Old Oyo, Nigeria

Ovie Agezeh
Graduate student

Anthropology


Poster on Eidth Wharton's 1888 voyage on the steam yacht Vanadis and georeferences of her hourney

Cruise of the Vanadis: An Interactive Companion Guide

Catherine Kerton-Johnson
Graduate student


Poster on Indiana's access to relevant geospatial data for effective watershed

An Accessible ArcGIS Experience Builder Site for Indiana’s Watershed Information

Claire Middendorf
Undergraduate student

Environmental and Ecological Engineering


Poster on forest fragmentation from agriculture and urban expansion and how it alters canopy structure and ecosystem function

Quantifying Tree Height Variation Using UAV and Airborne Lidar

Jean Fritz Saint Preux
Graduate student


Poster on comparisons of conventional and resilient agriculture practices for long term changes in soil health

Predicting Soil Health Parameters at Field Scale Using Geospatial Analytics

Lizeng Zhao
Graduate student


Poster on geospatial models to identify and interpret long-term trends in Soil Organic Matter

Geospatial Modeling of Spatiotemporal Variability in Farm-Scale Soil Organic Matter Dynamics

Amiyra Kalra
Graduate student

College of Agriculture


Poster on solar photovoltaic systems to support renewable energy development

GIS-Based Multi-Criteria Decision Framework for Optimal Solar PV Site Selection in Transportation Infrastructure and Right-of-Way

Dahyun Oh
Graduate student

Construction Management Technology


Poster on understanding habitat distribution for effective wildlife management and conservation

Duck and Cover – Duck-umenting Mallard Habitat

Odin Johnson
Undergraduate student


Centimeter-resolution imaging spectroscopy predicts vegetation succession across Retrogressive Thaw Slumps in northern Alaska

Emma Hall
Graduate student


AI-Hydro: Unlocking GeoAI for Intelligent and Reproducible Hydrologic Data Science

Mohammad Galib
Graduate student


Mapping the Human Imprint on Flood Extremes across United States: A Continental-Scale Geospatial Analysis of Non-Stationarity in Peakflow

Joseph Jibin
Graduate student


Poster of julti-depth soil health across fields in Great Lakes Basin area

Evaluating Different Soil Health Parameters for Edge-of-Field Water Quality

Dipesh Giri
Graduate student


Poster on progress in developing machine learning-based models to predict storm surge

Prediction of Storm Surge and Waves on Evolving Landscapes under Climate Change

Mohammad Ahmadi
Graduate student


Poster of effective coastal management in the Great Lakes

Mapping Basin-Scale Potential Alongshore Sediment Transport and Imbalance (ΔQ) Around Lake Michigan, 1979–2023

Muhammad N. Sahvelet
Graduate student


Poster of understanding the functioning of forest ecosystems inpreserving biodiversity and ecosystems services forests provide

Characterizing forest structural and foliar trait diversity relationships across spatial scales and climate gradients in the eastern United States

Zack Horve
Graduate student


Poster of open-source GIS data identifying social and recovery risk-conscious emergency landing sites

Highways and Dead-Ends of Using Open-Source GIS Data for the Selection of Emergency Landing Sites for Urban Cargo Delivery UAVs

Zofia Stawlarska
Graduate student


Poster of smart mapping implementations analyzing GeoAI extensions

Exploring GeoAI Extensions in QGIS: A Comparative Analysis for Smart Mapping

Diana Febrita
Graduate student


Poster of research on Pacific Islands and climate change

Project oCEANIC – Computing Environmental Adaptation and Navigation in Island Communities

Marlo Weber
Undergraduate student


Poster of feasibility of using Connected Vehicle-estimate International Roughness Index (IRI) for long-term statewide pavement monitoring on local Indiana roads.

Evaluation of Connected Vehicle Pavement Roughness Data for Statewide Needs Assessment

Andrew Thompson
Undergraduate student


Poster of geospatial framework for estimating, quantifying and mapping last-mile package delivery demand for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)

Visual Privacy-Preserving Drone Delivery using Open-Source GIS Data

Javid Mardanov
Graduate student


Poster of climate change altering geographic ranges of plant species

Trait-integrated Joint Species Distribution Modeling of Selected Quercus spp. across the Contiguous United States

Ananda Adhikari
Graduate student


Poster of mapping forest edges and cores across Indiana classifying edge zones by adjacent land use

Parking Lots and Cornfields: Do Forest Edges Know the Difference?

Bowen Li
Graduate student


Poster on aerial fire detection and fire localization methods

Fire Evaluation Reconnaissance and Direction Analysis (FERDA)

Abhishek Kaushikkar
Undergraduate student


Poster capturing shoreliine dynamics and water quality processes in the Great Lakes

Characterizing Shoreline Changes of Lake Huron with Small-Sat Imagery

Kendahl Heji
Graduate student


Using GIS Across the Solar System to Unlock the Geologic History of Planets

Ali Bramson
Assistant Professor of Planetary Sciences
Purdue University

Data to Science: Open source ecosystem for GeoAI

Jinha Jung
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Geomatics
Purdue University

QGIS on HPC Clusters

Xiao Liu
Senior Research Software Engineer at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing
Purdue University

Geospatial on AWS

David Conklin, Solutions Architect
Brian DeKemper, Enterprise Account Executive
Luke Coady, Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Hamilton County’s GeoAI Journey – 2024 Basemap Update Project Acquisition to Application

Joan Keene
GIS Director
Hamilton County, Indiana Government

GIS at the State of Indiana: The Role of the Indiana Geographic Information Office

Daniel Council, Geographic Information Outreach Coordinator
Shaun Scholer, GIS Technical Specialist (Programs and Outreach)
Indiana Geographic Information Office