Clemson Center for Geospatial Technologies

05/12/2026

We are excited to welcome two new interns for this summer, Kristy and Sanzida! We’ve got some exciting projects lined up that wouldn’t be possible without you, and we can’t wait to see all the amazing things you do. Welcome to our team!

05/09/2026

Want to see some awesome examples and uses of 3D data? Check out the work of the Clemson Data Visualization lab is at Artisphere in Greenville, SC this weekend. Come and learn about their work on 3D point clouds visualization, including activities for all ages and a videogame to test your ability in analyzing point clouds

05/05/2026

We’ve moved! Check out our new CCGT website at http://ccgt.clemson.edu, our home for geospatial technologies at Clemson. Lots of new features thanks to ArcGIS Experience Builder, and a huge thanks also to everyone who made this transition happen!

04/28/2026

We are delighted to announce that Sabyasachi Kar, a Ph.D student in Forest Resources, has been selected to be the ESRI Innovation Program Student of the Year for Clemson. His work uses GeoAI, remotely sensed data, and spatial statistics to assess wildfire risk around the city of Asheville following Hurricane Helene. Check out his project here: https://arcg.is/1qHjLS4
Congratulations, Sabyasachi!

Wildfire risk mapping for Asheville City using GeoAI, LiDAR–SAR–satellite remote sensing, and spatial hotspot statistics.

04/21/2026

Last week, CCGT hosted students from Legacy Early College in Greenville. These students took part in a series of hands-on activities to learn about what we do here at Clemson. Whether they were exploring online mapping, digging in to our terrain mapping sandbox and VR setup, or heading outside to see a drone in action, it was a blast to have such an awesome group come to visit!

04/15/2026

Let’s take a minute to celebrate our fantastic CCGT interns! This semester, we had THREE amazing students working with us to support our GIS workshops and projects, each bringing their own skills and perspectives to our center. Alli Healy played a huge role in the GIS workshops—fielding questions, grading, and making sure our attendees had a positive experience—and worked with a local trails organization to make local history visible through maps and geospatial web apps. Christian Herrman drove our exploration of geospatial AI capabilities and enhanced analysis by exploring new technologies and AI frameworks to speed up processing workflows and create deep-learning models to detect peaches from high-resolution drone imagery. Ryan Statkiewicz helped with ongoing efforts to manage GIS data stored in ArcGIS Online and performed statistical analysis on a massive dataset of GPS points recording the locations of cows to understand movement patterns within their experimental area. We couldn’t do it all without the hard work of our amazing team!

03/31/2026

It’s been a busy semester here at CCGT! We provide guest lectures on GIS topics, and classes across many departments and disciplines have taken us up on this opportunity. Recently, our GIS Analyst, Grisha Post, gave a lecture on Geospatial AI, highlighting the imagery classification and object detection capabilities of ArcGIS Pro. What a great way for students to see the wide range of tools available to them and test them out in a hands-on setting!

03/10/2026

It’s always a treat to see some of the advanced and fascinating tricks that can be done with cartography! A huge thank you to our GeoAmbassador, Dr. Madeleine Bolick, who led a special workshop to cover designing map figures for reports and research articles, working with legends, advanced cartography, and more! In Maps that Speak: Turning GIS Data into Professional Figures, attendees were able to go beyond what we normally cover in the GIS Fundamentals Workshop Series to see how to make their maps that much more impactful. Many thanks to all who attended and to Dr. Bolick for making this possible!

03/03/2026

CCGT had the pleasure of hosting Angie Lee, Brian Baldwin, and Mark Lecher from Esri last week. Angie met with us to learn about CCGT’s current support capabilities and to help guide our mission, to ensure that we are aligned with the latest developments in geospatial technologies. In Brian and Mark’s Brown Bag Lunch session, members of the Clemson community heard about new and exciting developments in Geospatial AI in ArcGIS. They also met with people from across the University to hear about the GIS work that is being done at Clemson! A huge thank you to the students, faculty, and staff who showed off what Clemson has to offer, and to Angie, Mark, and Brian for taking the time to meet with all of us here!

02/26/2026

Today's the day! Come out to Cooper Library 413 at 11:45 to see a live presentation featuring Brian Baldwin, Senior Solution Engineer at , and Mark Lecher, Account Manager at Esri. This Lunchtime Brown Bag session welcomes attendees to bring their lunch and learn about cutting edge developments in geospatial artificial intelligence. We're excited to see you there!

02/24/2026

Join us for our hands-on workshop, Maps that Speak: Turning GIS Data into Professional Figures, led by Dr. Madeleine Bolick, GIS Professor in City and Regional Planning! We will learn how to design map figures for professional reports and published research articles, improve your map legends, apply advanced cartographic techniques, and create layout templates and layer files for repeated figure series using ArcGIS Pro.
The workshop will be held in person in Cooper Library, Room 406A, on Wednesday, March 4th, from 12:00–1:00 PM.
Register at: bit.ly/ccgtworkshops