Projects

EnviStor

Digital Archives & History · AI / GeoAI

multiple participants The NSF funded EnviStor is a smart data infrastructure that integrates storage, computation, metadata, and visualization to streamline research data disco

Vegetation mapping of Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands, Phase I

Climate Change · Ecosystems

Vegetation mapping of Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands, Phase I, L-31E Flow way and N Canal Freshwater Wetland Communities.

Abaco Advanced Landscape & Ecosystem Monitoring

Climate Change · Ecosystems

Detection of bird nests using deep learning to support annual colonial bird monitoring efforts within Biscayne National Park

Ecosystems · AI / GeoAI

https://maps.fiu.edu/birdnest/ (BirdNest AI — live dataset dashboard, model performance, and detection demo).

Enhancing suitability analysis of potential living shoreline locations to optimize resilience to sea level rise

Climate Change · Ecosystems · Human-environment Interaction · Sea Level Rise

Enhancing suitability analysis of potential living shoreline locations to optimize resilience to sea level rise

Equitable Transportation Assessment Planner (ETAP)

Climate Change · Sea Level Rise · Transportation Planning

Elizabeth Rockwell, Zhaohui Jennifer Fu, Levente Juhász, Boyuan (Keven) Guan, Julian Gottlieb, Jinwen Xu A suite o

Frost Art Museum Virtual Sculpture Garden

Other

Diana Ter-Ghazaryan (lead), Daniel Frome, Julian Gottlieb This interactive map allows visitors to explore the Fr

Place and Purpose: Art Transformation in Coconut Grove

Other

Diana Ter-Ghazaryan (lead), Daniel Frome This storymap accompanies Frost FIU’s exhibit “Place and Pur

FIU Security Research Hub

Other

Carbon-Neutral City Baseline Scenarios for South Miami and Miami Beach

Climate Change · Human-environment Interaction · Sea Level Rise

Carbon-Neutral City Baseline Scenarios for South Miami and Miami Beach (Integrated Decision Support System)

Coral Gables Sea Level Rise Impact Planning Tool

Other · Sea Level Rise

Levente Juhasz, Technical Lead / Jennifer Fu, PI / Julian Gottlieb, UI / Jorge Sotolongo, Designer A web-based, interactive decision makin

Catch the Tide Miami

Citizen Science · Human-environment Interaction · Sea Level Rise

FIU GIS Center, FIU SLSC (Sea Level Solutions Center), FIU CARTA (Communication, Architecture + The Arts)

Million Orchid Project

Ecosystems

Million Orchid Project (http://millionorchids.fiu.edu) With the help of students and volunteers from the local community, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is working to restore some of South Florida's most rare and endangered orchid species into our urban landscape

Historical USCGS Aerial Photos - South Florida

Digital Archives & History · Other

Historical US Coast and Geodetic Survey (USCGS) Aerial Photographs Download Archive (http://maps.fiu.edu/sfchap)

Vegetation Change Monitoring along Boundary Areas of Everglades National Park

Ecosystems

Daniel Gann, PI / Jennifer Richards, Co-PI / Brittany Harris/ Jed Redwine, Everglades National Park Representative Project Objective The primary objectives of this project are (1) to map species composition/vegetation patterns and

Unearthing St. Augustine's Colonial Heritage

Digital Archives & History

Zhaohui Fu, FIU GIS Center PI -- Subcontractor / Boyuan Guan, FIU GIS Center Developer / John Nemmes, UF PI / Thomas Reed Caswell, UF PI The Univers

WAWASH Knowledge Management System

Other

WAWASH Project Web Site (http://wawash.fiu.edu/) A knowledge management tool developed by the GIS Center to support project reporting tools, project publications, and a project data portal for materials related to the WAWASH Program.

FDOT District Six Pedestrian Safety Web GIS Application

Transportation Planning

Boyuan Guan, PI / Julian Gottlieb, UI This web application includes: 1) The Top 20 Pedestrian Crash Locations; 2) The FDOT Crash Reporting Tool; 3) The FDOT Online Document

Monitoring of Tree Island Condition in the Southern Everglades

Ecosystems

Mangrove Ecotone Vegetation Monitoring

Ecosystems

Evaluating High-Resolution Aerial Photography Acquired by Unmanned Aerial Systems for Use in Mapping Everglades Wetland Plant Associations

Ecosystems

GLOWS Web Page

Digital Archives & History · Other

Boyuan Guan, PI / Julian Gottlieb, UI A knowledge management system developed by the GIS Center to support project reporting tools, project publications, and a project data portal for materials related to the Global Wat

Coral Gables Virtual History

Digital Archives & History

Jennifer (Zhaohui) Fu, Principal Investigator / Jamie Rogers, Co-Principal Investigator / Roberto Rovira, Co-Principal Investigator Florida International University has partnered with the City

Sea Level Rise Toolbox

Other

Zhaohui Fu, FIU GIS Center PI / Peter Harlem, FIU GIS Center Specialist / Dan McGillicuddy, Main Developer / Susan Jacobson, Funding Partner, FIU School of Journalism and Mass Communication This interacti

Evaluation of WorldView-2 and Landsat Data to Differentiate and Map Freshwater Marsh Plant Communities at Different Spatial Scales for Two Everglades Landscapes

Ecosystems

Remote Sensing Supported Vegetation Detection in the Hole-in-the-Donut Restoration Areas

Ecosystems

Daniel Gann, PI / Himadri Biswas, Research Associate / Evan Cook, Research Associate / Jonathan Taylor, Everglades National Park Representative Evaluation of re

Faculty Residence Map Application

Other

Faculty Residence Map Application (http://maps.fiu.edu/fiufacultyresidence/) This interactive mapping application provides the number of faculty residences by county and census blockgroups.

WalkSmart Route Planner - Safe Routes to Schools

Transportation Planning

David Henderson, Program Manager / Julian Gottlieb, UI & Designer The "WalkSmart Route Planner" is a Web application that dynamically identifies the designated elementary school for a given home location and computes the safest route to that designated school.

Transportation Outreach Planner

Transportation Planning

Zhaohui Fu, FIU Principal Investigator / Elizabeth Rockwell, Miami Dade MPO Program Manager / Dan McGillicuddy, Main Developer The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA)

BIKE – Bicycle Knowledge Explorer (Broward County)

Transportation Planning

Zhaohui Fu, FIU PI / Dan McGillicuddy, Main Developer / Hartwig Hochmair, UF PI This route planner, funded by the Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), is a joint effort by the Florida International University GIS Center and the University of Florida Geomatics

BIKE – Bicycle Knowledge Explorer (Palm Beach)

Transportation Planning

Zhaohui J. Fu, PI / Hartwig Hochmair, PI / Boyuan Guan, Main Developer This route planner, funded by the Palm Beach Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), is a joint effort by the Florida International University GIS Center and the University of Florida Geomatics Progr

BIKE – Bicycle Knowledge Explorer (Miami-Dade)

Transportation Planning

Zhaohui J. Fu, PI / Hartwig Hochmair, PI / Boyuan Guan, Main Developer This route planner, funded by the Miami-Dade Metropolitan Planning Organization(MPO) , is a joint effort by the Florida International University GIS Center and the University of Florida Geomatics Progr

Vegetation Trends in Indicator Regions of Everglades National Park

Ecosystems

Plant Community Classification from Satellite Imagery for the Greater Everglades Freshwater Wetlands & Community Abundance, Distribution and Hydroperiod Analysis

Ecosystems

Regional Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (R-EMAP) IV: Greater Everglades Whole-Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment

Ecosystems

Geo-Spatial Data Preparation Modules of Remote Sensing Methods for the Implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction Modeling

Other

Daniel Gann, PI / Liya Mango, Research Associate / Ximena Mesa, Research Associate / Juan Pablo Sarmiento, Bell Program Director The FIU GIS Center, in c

Regional Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (R-EMAP): Greater Everglades Whole-Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment - Interactive Web Application

Ecosystems

LiDAR Elevation Data Download App

Other

Keqi Zhang, IHRC / Zhaohui Fu, GIS Center The Florida International University International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC) and the GIS Center provide access and tools to facilitate download of the Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) LAS dataset created by the State of