Tran, Trung V

Dr. Tran

Dr. Trung Tran, GISP
Associate Professor of Geospatial Science
Program Coordinator, Geospatial Science Degree Program
Director, USGIF-accredited GEOINT Certificate Program
Office: Lyons Science 201B
Phone: 910-672-2079
Email: ttran1@uncfsu.edu

Biography

Dr. Trung Tran is an Associate Professor of Geospatial Science in the Department of Intelligence Studies, Geospatial Science, Political Science and History at Fayetteville State University. He is the Program Coordinator of the Geospatial Science Degree Program and Director of the USGIF-Accredited GEOINT Certificate Program. He is also the current President of the Potomac Region American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS). Tran received his PhD in Geography (concentrations: remote sensing, GIS, land cover/use change) from the Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Oklahoma (OU, USA), in addition to his master's degree in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and bachelor's degree in Electrical-Electronics Enginnering (concentrating on telecommunication) from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam.

As a geospatial scientist, Dr. Tran's research and teaching interest is to leverage geographic information science (GIScience), geovisualization, remote sensing, and unmanned aerial systems (UASs) to the understanding of transportation-community linkages as well as human-environment interactions across a variety of landscapes from mountains to floodplains and from urban to rural. His past projects have included remote sensing data fusion for forest disturbances, sub-pixel classification for land cover heterogeneity in urbans, satellite remote sensing approach for linking desertification with conflicts, remote sensing to detect war impacts on landscape change in Ukraine, multi-dimensional visualization of mobile objects and epidemics, geospatial analytics of on-demand transportation, and network analysis for understanding of urban expansion impacts on accessibility. Currently funded projects include geospatial data science approach for flood monitoring and management (NASA funded) and geospatial data analytics for upward social mobility in rural areas toward clean energy (NSF funded). He is also the principal investigator and director of the NASA-funded five-year Precollege Summer Institute as well as director of the NASA-funded GLOBES Lab (Geospatial anaLysis & OBserving Earth for Sustainability).

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

  • Remote sensing: UAS, LiDAR, multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing, data fusion, sub-pixel classification, change detection
  • Geographic information science (GIS): spatio-temporal analytics, cellular automata modeling, agent-based modeling, fuzzy sets, geographic representation, geovisualization
  • Land cover/use change: spatial and temporal patterns of land cover/use, human-environment interactions, urbanization impacts and sustainability, natural disaster monitoring, precision agriculture, land change and public health

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. Geography - University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA (11/2013)
  • M.E. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (4/2005)
  • B.E. Electrical – Electronics Engineering - Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (11/2001)

CERTIFICATION AND TRAINING

CERTIFICATION

  • GIS Professional (GISP) by the GIS Certification Institute (9/2015-9/2023)
  • FAA Part 107 Certified UAS Remote Pilot

CERTIFICATES AND WORKSHOPS

  • Grid-based map analysis and GIS modeling. Workshop led by Dr. Robert Gilmore Pontius at the Pecora 17 conference in Denver, Colorado, November 16-20, 2008.
  • Building Geodatabase II. Certificate awarded by ESRI USA (2006).
  • ESRI ArcGIS Instructor. Certificate awarded by ESRI Thailand (2005).
  • Remote Sensing Satellite Technology. Certificate awarded and funded by the Asia-Pacific Workshop on Multilateral Cooperation in Space Technology and Applications and the China Academy of Satellite Technology in Beijing, China (2004).

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Vice President of Potomac Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS, 2022-2023)
  • Member, Professional Development Committee of the North Carolina Chapter of ASPRS (May 2021 – present)
  • Member, USGIF GEOINT Academic Planning Committee (APC)

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

  • 2017-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Intelligence Studies, Geospatial Science, Political Science, and History, Fayetteville State University
  • 2021-2022: Secretary/Treasurer of Potomac Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS, elected, 2021-2022)
  • 2015-2016: Lecturer, Department of History & Geography, Northern Kentucky University
  • 2014-2014: Lecturer, Department of Geography & Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma
  • 2010-2013: Graduate Teaching Assistant (Instructor), Department of Geography & Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma
  • 2007-2010: Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Analysis, University of Oklahoma (OU CSA)
  • 2003-200: Lecturer, Faculty of Environment, Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT)
  • 2002-200: GIS Project Coordinator, HCMUT Center for Developing Information Technology and Geographic Information Systems (DITAGIS)
  • 2000-2002: GIS Analyst, HCMUT Center for Developing Information Technology and Geographic Information Systems (DITAGIS)

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

  • Bui TT, Tran TV, Le LHT, Duong HHT, Tran PV. (2018). An Approach to Representing Traffic State on Urban Roads Used by Various Types of Vehicles. In Nguyen NT, Hoang DH, Hong TP, Pham H, Trawiński B (Eds.) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. (pp. 179-188). Springer.
  • Tran TV, Bui TT, Nguyen TDT, Huynh CNT, Tran PV. (2017). Block-Moving Approach for Speed Adjustment on Following Vehicle in Car-Following Model. In CV Phan, HHC Nguyen, V Emil (Eds.) Context-Aware Systems and Applications, and Nature of Computation and Communication (pp. 100-109). Springer.
  • Tran TV, de Beurs KM, Julian JP. (2016). Monitoring forest disturbances in Southeast Oklahoma using Landsat and MODIS images. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 44, 42-52.
  • Tran TV, Julian JP, de Beurs KM. (2014). Land cover heterogeneity effects on sub-pixel and per-pixel classifications. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 3, 540-553.
  • Tran PV, Tran TV, Nguyen HT. (2014). Visualization-based tracking system using mobile device. In J. Sobecki, V. Boonjing, S. Chittayasothorn (Eds.) Advanced Approached to Intelligent Information and Database Systems (pp. 345-354). Springer.
  • Tran PV, Nguyen HT, Tran TV, Tha BT. (2014). On an approach to visualizing data of flying objects. In Proceedings of International Conference Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS) 2014, Kwangju, Korea, December 2-5, p. 212-217.
  • Tran PV, Nguyen HT, Tran TV. (2014). Approaching multi-dimensional cube for visualization-based epidemic warning system-dengue fever. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM), Siem Reap, Cambodia, January 9-11.
  • Julian JP, Davies-Colley RJ, Gallegos CL, Tran TV. (2013). Optical water quality of inland waters: A landscape perspective. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103, 309-318.
  • Tran TV, Tran PV, Tha BT. (2013). Representing uncertain time on space-time cube for bus movement. In Proceedings of International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS) 2013, Nha Trang, Viet Nam, November 25-28, p. 353-357.
  • Nguyen HT, Tran TV, Tran PV, Dang H. (2013). Multivariate cube for visualization of weather data. In Proceedings of International Conference Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS) 2013, Nha Trang, Viet Nam, November 25-28, p. 311-316.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Tran PV, Tran TV, Luu NTTLQ. (2009). Practicing GIS in ArcMap: Vietnam National University Publishing House.
  • Tran TV. (2003). Data queries. In PV Tran et al. (Eds.), Introduction to GIS – Exercises: Viet Nam National University Publishing House, p. 111-144.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Tran TV. (2004). GIS for land-use and housing management, GIS Development, 84, 29-32.

COURSES TAUGHT

FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY

  • GEOG 200 – Weather and Climate (face-to-face and online)
  • GEOG 210 – Principles of Geography (face-to-face and online)
  • GEOG 220 – World Regional Geography (face-to-face and online)
  • GEOG 311 – Spatial Thinking, Cartography, and Data Visualization
  • GEOG 314 – Introduction to Remote Sensing
  • GEOG 317 – Geoprocessing Workflow Design and Automation
  • GEOG 320 – Introduction to GIS
  • GEOG 325 – Applied GIS
  • GEOG 480 – Seminar in Geography
  • GEOG 485 – GEOINT Capstone

NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY

  • GEO 108 – Physical Geography
  • GEO 314 – Maps and Map Interpretation
  • GEO 415 / PAD 515 – Cartography
  • GEO 418 / PAD 550 – Geographic Information Systems
  • GEO 419 / PAD 519 – Introduction to Remote Sensing

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA

  • GEOG 2453 – Introduction to Computer Mapping and Analysis
  • GIS 2023 – Introduction to Spatial Thinking and Computer Mapping
  • GIS 4013/5013 – Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems

GIS WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR

  • Introduction to ArcGIS 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008 20 students Viet Nam
  • Introduction to ArcView GIS 2002 15 students Viet Nam

STUDENT SUPERVISIONS

RESEARCH SUPERVISION

  • Bissen C and Tran TV. 2018. Spatial Pattern of Crimes in the City of Fayetteville (NC) in 2017. GEOINT Symposium, Tampa, Florida, April 22-25. (poster presentation)
  • Frederick A and Tran TV. 2019. Understanding the Impact of Urban Expansions on Accessibility through Network Analysis of Historical Road Data since 1825 in the City of Fayetteville. North Carolina GIS Conference, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, February 27- March 1. (oral presentation, North Carolina G. Herbert Stout Award, FSU Best Oral Presentation Award)
  • Duncan J and Tran TV. 2019. Using Remote Sensing to Detect Urban Transformation in China Between the Years 1999 and 2018. GEOINT Symposium, San Antonio, Texas, June 2-5. (poster presentation)
  • Moore G and Tran TV. 2019. Detecting Urbanization of Seoul, South Korea, using Landsat Imagery Data. GEOINT Symposium, San Antonio, Texas, June 2-5. (poster presentation)
  • Ballard H and Tran TV. 2019. Land Use and Land Cover Change of Cumberland County 2001-2011 Using Remote Sensing. FSU Annual Research Symposium, Fayetteville, North Carolina, April 5. (poster presentation)
  • Brown K and Tran TV. 2019. A Remote Sensing Analysis of Urban Development around a Seminole Casino in Florida. FSU Annual Research Symposium, Fayetteville, North Carolina, April 5. (poster presentation)
  • Stewart K and Tran TV. 2019. Exploring the Lack of Dental Care Services in North Carolina. FSU Annual Geospatial Poster Competition, Fayetteville, North Carolina, November 22. (poster presentation, First Place)
  • Mosley D and Tran TV. 2019. Using GIS to Analyze Spatial Distribution of Pharmacy Stores in North Carolina. FSU Annual Geospatial Poster Competition, Fayetteville, North Carolina, November 22. (poster presentation, Second Place)
  • Knapp I and Tran TV. 2019. Visualizing World Conflicts. FSU Annual Geospatial Poster Competition, Fayetteville, North Carolina, November 22. (poster presentation)
  • Towery S and Tran TV. 2020. A Geospatial Approach To Determine Ideal Soil Collection Sites. S4 Project, April 23. (oral presentation)
  • Jenkins TA and Tran TV. 2020. Fayetteville: A Place Like No Other. Geospatial Capstone Project, May 6. (oral presentation)
  • Towery S and Tran TV. 2020. A Comprehensive Look At United States Government Counter Wildlife Trafficking Efforts. Geospatial Capstone Project, May 6. (oral presentation)
  • Marquez A and Tran TV. 2020. Planned Parenthood and Its Effect on Teen Birth Rates. United State Geospatial Intelligence Foundation GEOINTegration Summit, September 28-29. (poster presentation). Honored with GEOINT Women of Colors Award by USGIF.
  • Knapp I and Tran TV. 2020. A Remote Sensing Approach: Mapping and Linking Desertification with Conflicts in Darfur, Sudan, in 2001-2019. United State Geospatial Intelligence Foundation GEOINTegration Summit, September 28-29. (oral presentation)
  • Syed I and Tran TV. 2022. Using Satellite Imagery to Analyze Damages of A Recent Long-Track Tornado in Kentucky. GEOINT Symposium, Aurora, Colorado, April 24-27. (poster presentation)
  • Jensen R and Tran TV. 2022. War Impacts on Landscape Change in Mariupol, Ukraine. NC ASPRS Conference, Fayetteville, North Carolina, November 14-15. (oral presentation, Undergraduate Student Presentation Award).

INTERNSHIP SUPERVISIONS

  • Summer 2018. Supervised 3 FSU students (Corey Bissen, Emilio Trevino, Tyrek Clark) doing internship at the City of Fayetteville.
  • Summer 2020. Supervised 2 FSU students (Ivy Knapp, James Duncan) doing internship with CoolSpring Downtown District
  • Summer 2021. Supervised 1 FSU student (Samuel Zulu) doing internship at the City of Fayetteville.

OTHER SUPERVISIONS

  • Faculty advisor of the Fayetteville State University Geoscience Student Association (GeoSA)

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

  • Fayetteville State University College of Humanities and Social Sciences Teach of the Year (2021 – 2022)
  • Fayetteville State University Digital Resource Fellowship (2018)
  • Fayetteville State University Outstanding Online Course Design Award (2018)
  • South Central ArcUser Group Collaborative Scholarship by the South Central ArcUser Group (2009)
  • Conference travel grant by the University of Oklahoma Graduate Student Senate (2009,2011,2012,2013)
  • Sooner Heritage Scholarships by the University of Oklahoma (2007-2012)

GRANT ACTIVITIES

  • Toward the sustainable development of Fayetteville Metropolitan Area: Characterizing the spatial and temporal patterns of land surface temperatures through time-series remote sensing data. Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards. 2018. Principle Investigator. Total amount requested: $5,000. Not selected.
  • Integrating Drones into Geospatial Education to Enhance STEM Skillset for Students at Fayetteville State University. Department of Defense Research and Education Program for Historically Black College and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions
  • Equipment/Instrumentation. 9/3/2019 – 9/2/2020. PI with Dr. Adegoke Ademiluyi (FSU) and Dr. Juan Ma (FSU). ACCEPTED. Total amount awarded: $182,142.
  • Curriculum Developer for the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Award DUE ATE 1304591, 1644409, 1700496 to the GeoTech Center. Course developed: Data Visualization in GEOINT. AWARDED: $3,000.
  • STEM-WTGeo: Minorities and Minority Women To Geospatial Science as a STEM Discipline. Department of Education Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP). 2020-2023. PI with Dr. Adegoke Ademiluyi (FSU), and Dr. Frederick Ayivi (FSU). Total amount requested: $642,828. Not selected.
  • Transit and Maas Role in Improving Economic and Healthcare Access for Underserved Populations. North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT). 8/1/2020-7/31/2022. Researcher. Amount awarded $28,700. Lead PI: Dr. Kai Monast (NC State University). Total amount requested: $320,189. ACCEPTED. This is one of the three themes of the NCDOT awarded proposal entitled North Carolina Center for Excellent, led by Dr. Billy Williams (NC State University).
  • Improving Mathematics Pathways at Fayetteville State University. University of North Carolina (UNC) Math Pathways Implementation Grant. 9/23/2019 – 12/27/2019. Researcher. AWARDED. Amount awarded: $2,000. Lead PI: Dr. Radoslav Nickolov (FSU).
  • AI Institute: Planning: AI-Augmented Learning in Geospatial Intelligence and Related Fields. National Science Foundation (NSF). 2021-2022. FSU Subaward PI. ($48,403). Lead PI: Dr. Camelia Kantor (USGIF). Total amount requested: $484,301. Not selected.
  • Spatial Humanities Approach to Develop Geodatabase and Toolset for Preservation and Visualization of Multisource Data. National Endowment for The Humanities (NEH). 2021-2023. PI with Dr. Kelli Walsh (FSU). Total amount requested: $74,809. Not selected.
  • NASA MUREP Precollege Summer Institute: Drones, remote sensing, and GIS to map and analyze CO2 and land change for climate change and public health decision making. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 6/6/2022 – 12/5/2022. PI. ACCEPTED. Total amount awarded: $64,147.
  • Army Education Outreach Program (AEOP) UNITE Program at Fayetteville State University. Army Education Outreach Program. 6/1 – 7/1/2022. Geospatial Instructor. AWARDED. Amount awarded $4,185. Lead PI: Ms. Kendra Simon (Program Director FSU TRiO Talent Search I Program). Amount awarded: $26,872.
  • Army Education Outreach Program (AEOP) Apprentice Program at Fayetteville State University. Army Education Outreach Program. 6/13 – 7/22/2022. Geospatial Mentor. AWARDED. Amount awarded $1,000. Lead PI: Ms. Kendra Simon (Program Director FSU TRiO Talent Search I Program).
  • Fayetteville State University’s STEM Enrichment and Exploration Camp (FSU-SEEC). Burroughs Wellcome Fund – Student STEM Enrichment Program. 6/20/2023 – 5/20/2026. Co-PI. PI: Dr. Justin Graham (FSU). ACCEPTED. Total amount awarded: $179,682.
  • Generation Z exchanges to negotiate power and relevance of co-cultural research environments at HBCUs and PWIs. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 12/1/2022 – 12/31/2024. FSU Subaward PI. ($60,454). Lead PI: Dr. Uruthira Kalapathy (Claflin University). Total amount requested: $249,561. Not selected.
  • The Intelligence Community Centers for Academic Excellence at the Pennsylvania State University, the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, Fayetteville State University, and the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore. Office of the Director of National Intelligence – Intelligence Community Centers for Academic Excellence. 8/15/2022 – 8/14/2023. FSU Subaward PI. ($52,108). Lead PI: Dr. John Hodgson (Penn State). Total amount requested: $400,000. Not selected.
  • Clean Energy to Generate Innovative New Economic Systems (Clean ENGINES). National Science Foundation (NSF), Regional Innovation Engines Program. 5/1/2023 – 4/30/2025. FSU Subaward PI. ($50,000). Lead PI: Dr. Michael Mazzola (UNC Charlotte EPIC). Total amount requested: $1,000,000. Submitted and pending.
  • DEAP Institute: Harnessing Data Science for Flood Monitoring and Management. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) MUREP Data Science Equity, Access and Priority for Research and Education (DEAP). 3/15/2023 – 3/14/2026. FSU Subaward PI. ($304,989). Lead PI: Dr. Leila Hashemi Beni (UNC A&T). Submitted and pending.
  • Geospatial analysis of access barriers to opioid abuse medication-assisted treatment. UNC Collaboratory Program. 1/1/2023 – 12/31/2024. PI. Total amount requested: $189,706. Submitted and pending.

FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS TO STUDENTS UNDER MY SUPERVISION

  • Samuel Zulu. Received paid internship from the City of Fayetteville to work under my supervision in the project: Developing Quality of Life Map for the City of Fayetteville. Summer 2021.
  • Stephen Towery. Awarded $1,500 by the Strengthening STEM Student Success (S4) NSF-Funded Program for the research: A Geospatial Approach To Determine Ideal Soil Collection Sites. Spring 2020.
  • Alfie Frederick. Awarded $100 for Best Oral Presentation by North Carolina G. Herbert Stout Award Program for the research: Understanding the Impact of Urban Expansions on Accessibility through Network Analysis of Historical Road Data since 1825 in the City of Fayetteville. Spring 2019.
  • Ross Jensen. Awarded for Best Undergraduate Presentation by North Carolina Chapter of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing for the research: War Impacts on Landscape Change in Mariupol, Ukraine. Fall 2022.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

SERVICES TO FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY

  • Department of Intelligence Studies, Geospatial Science, Political Science, and History
  • Chair of Departmental Academic Affairs Committee (Fall 2019 – present)
  • Director of the USGIF-accredited GEOINT Certificate program (January 2019 – present)
  • Coordinator of Geospatial Science B.A. program (Fall 2018 – present)
  • Member of the Departmental Academic Affairs Committee (Fall 2018 – Spring 2019)
  • Responder of the FSU Inquiry Management Portal for the Geospatial Science and GEOINT programs (Spring 2018 – present)
  • Member of the Departmental Black History/African American History Month Committee (Fall 2020 – present)
  • Member of the Departmental Website Committee (Fall 2017 – present)
  • Member of the Geospatial Science Search Committee (Spring 2020)
  • Member of the Intelligence Studies Search Committee (Fall 2018, Spring 2019)
  • Member of the Political Science Search Committee (Fall 2021)
  • Founder and coordinator of the FSU Geospatial Poster Competition 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
  • Founder and coordinator of the Annual FSU Geography Awareness Week and GIS Days 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
  • Co-presenter of the Intellus Workshop on April 26, 2018 (other presenters included Dr. Rich and Dr. Blanche; other 9 faculty members attended)

University Services

  • Member of the FSU Institutional Research Board (IRB) Human Rights in Research Committee (Fall 2018 – present)
  • Member of the Faculty Panels for UNC Common Numbering System (Fall 2021)
  • Member of the Credit for Prior Learning Initiative (Spring 2021)
  • Member of CLO Review Natural Science Committee (Spring 2022)
  • Flying and processing drone aerial photos of FSU parking lots for the Facility Management Department.
  • Commencement Marshal (Spring 2018)

Community Services

  • Judge of the STARward STEM Design Challenge led by Research Triangle Institute (RTI) and funded by Department of Defense STEM Office (March 2022)
  • Did presentation about ArcGIS Online and Story Maps at Brown Summit Middle Schools and helped middle school students for the 2022 North Carolina GIS Competition for Grades 4-12 (Spring 2022)
  • Geospatial talk entitled Geospatial Science & Technologies to Improve Our Society to high school students of the FSU AGORA program on March 9th, 2019.
  • Geospatial talk entitled Putting Geospatial Data & Technologies into Context to high school students of the FSU Trio Talent Search Program on March 16th, 2019.

SERVICES TO NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY

  • Poster judge for the 101st Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting. November 13-14,
    2015.

SERVICES TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA

  • Poster judge for the GIS Day 2014 at the University of Oklahoma. November 13, 2014.
  • Event assistant for the GeoCa$h contest of the GIS Day 2009 at the University of Oklahoma. November 17-19, 2009.
  • Assistant for the Geography Awareness Week/GIS Day Student Expo at the University of Oklahoma. November 18, 2008.

COURSE DEVELOPER AND REVIEWER

United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF)

  • Member of Essentials Exam Review and Preparation Committee
  • Geospatial course developer (2020)
  • Accreditation reviewer (Spring 2019)

National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • Proposal reviewer (Spring 2020)

North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles (NC DMV)

  • Technical report reviewer (Fall 2020)

IRB Reviewer

  • Summer 2019: 2 applications
  • Fall 2019: 3 applications
  • Spring 2020: 1 application
  • Summer 2020: 1 application
  • Fall 2020: 1 application
  • Spring 2021: 2 applications
  • Fall 2021: 1 application
  • Spring 2022: 2 applications
  • Fall 2022: 1 application

Journal reviewer of

  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • Information Fusion
  • Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Member of

  • Association of American Geographers (2008-present)
  • American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2006-present)
  • Kentucky Academy of Science (2015-2016)
  • Kentucky Association of Mapping Professionals (2015-2016)
  • U.S. Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (2013)

Others

  • Volunteer for the Glossary of the Mapping Sciences, 2nd Edition.
  • Conference coordinator of the Vietnam International GIS Conference. 2003, 2004.

PRESENTATIONS TO PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

  • Tran TV, Adivar B, Monast K, Scott K. 2021. Spatio-Temporal Impact of COVID-19 on Demand Response Transit In Northeastern North Carolina. North Carolina Department of Transportation Summit, Chapel Hill, NC, October 5-6.
  • Tran TV. 2018. Flipping GEOINT Classes: Is it needed? Panel discussion on Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER) approach to improve geospatial teaching and learning. Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 10-14.
  • Tran TV. 2016. Characterizing population change and its impacts on land cover change in Louisville, Kentucky since 1990. Kentucky Academy of Science – 102nd Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY, November 4-5.
  • Tran TV. 2016. Impacts of land cover heterogeneity on remote sensing classifications. Kentucky GIS Conference, Covington, KY, October 18.
  • Tran TV, Truong TV, Meyer T. 2016. Understanding the spatio-temporal patterns of pedestrian crashes along an urbanization gradient. North Carolina Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Annual Meeting, Greensboro, NC, May 11-13.
  • Tran TV, Julian JP, de Beurs KM. 2016. Monitoring Forest Disturbances In Southeast Oklahoma Using Landsat And MODIS Images. Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 28-April 2.
  • Tran TV, de Beurs KM, Julian JP. 2014. Monitoring and classifying forest disturbances in southeastern Oklahoma from 2000 to 2011 using high spatiotemporal resolution imagery. Southwest Division of the American Association of Geographers, Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, October 23-24.
  • Tran TV, de Beurs KM, Julian JP. 2013. Detecting rapid forest disturbance in a mixed-forest landscape: Southeast Oklahoma 2000-2011. International Association of Landscape Ecology, Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, April 14-18.
  • Tran TV, Julian JP, de Beurs KM. 2012. Effects of landscape characteristics on the accuracy of subpixel classification. Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, New York, NY, February 24-28.
  • Tran TV, Julian JP. 2011. A subpixel approach to understand land cover change in the Arkansas Red River Basin. Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, April 12-16.
  • Tran TV. 2010. Investigating water use from satellite images in Oklahoma. Oklahoma University Student Research and Performance Day, Annual Meeting, Norman, OK, March 26.
  • Tran TV. 2009. GeoCIP® – Data conversion & standardization of independent layers into a geodatabase. Annual Oklahoma South Central ArcUser Group, Annual Conference, Norman, OK, October 20.
  • Tran TV, Camilli P, Caliskan S, Yuan M, Sexton M, Hines K, March S. 2009. The GeoCIP® data standardization process: A three-level, pair-matching approach. Oklahoma South Central ArcUser Group, Annual Conference, Norman, OK, October 20.
  • Tran TV, Yuan M. 2006. How Bien Hoa City, Viet Nam, grows? A preliminary analysis based on data from historical maps and contemporary SPOT images. GISnet’12, Annual Meeting, Ho Chi Minh city, Viet Nam.
  • Tran TV. 2004. An application of fuzzy theory to a network analysis problem in geographic information systems. Advanced Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Ha Noi, Viet Nam, December 15-16.
  • Tran TV. 2003. GIS for land-use and housing management. Map Asia, Annual Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 13-15.
  • Bui C, Kim T, Tran TV. 2002. Some choice processes in multicriteria group decision making using linguistic dominance degrees. 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and 3rd Viet Nam-Japan Symposium on Fuzzy Systems and Applications, Ha Noi, Viet Nam, December 3-5.

GEOSPATIAL WORK EXPERIENCES

Since 2000, I have involved in many GIS projects and gained various experiences regarding GIS
software system design and development, geodatabase design, spatial programming, report
development, cartographic design and mapping, as well as GPS.

GIS system design/Strategic plan development

  • Selected related projects: GeoCIP® - Developing a computer-based decision support system for capital assets management for the Oklahoma’s Capital Improvement Program
  • Selected achievements: GIS system design composing of multiple use-case diagrams and their descriptions. The diagrams were developed based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The diagrams determined what functions to be incorporated in the GeoCIP® system as well as their priorities and interactions. The diagrams were included in the official GeoCIP® strategy plan.

Geodatabase design

  • Selected related projects: GeoCIP®, CSA Geospatial Information Service System (CSA GIS)
  • Selected achievements:
    • GeoCIP® UML-based data models (40 feature classes, 9 tables, 55 relationship classes, 53 domains, and a utility network) of structures and buildings, water system, waste-water system, and solid-waste system. These models are now being used officially in the third phase of the GeoCIP® project.
    • CSA GIS UML-based data model designed with Microsoft Visio and ArcDiagrammer and implemented in MS SQL Server.

Data standardization

  • Selected related projects: GeoCIP®
  • Selected achievements: methodology and software tools to do data standardization, which were presented at the 12th Annual Oklahoma South Central ArcUser Group Conference on October 20th, 2009 in Norman, Oklahoma.

Spatial programming

  • Selected related projects: GeoCIP®
  • Selected achievements: methodology and software tools to do data standardization, which were presented at the 12th Annual Oklahoma South Central ArcUser Group Conference on October 20th, 2009 in Norman, Oklahoma.
    • My spatial programming experiences have been growing since 2000 when I started working for DITAGIS as a GIS Analyst. I have used programming in almost all of my work and my research. I have extensively used Python and Visual Basic, the two popular programming languages nowadays. For example, one of my achievements for the GeoCIP® project was the development of a series of GIS software tools to update, process, and output data. Especially, I proposed the three-level, pair-matching conceptual framework to automate the GeoCIP® data import process. The framework was presented at the South Central ArcUser Group Conference in 2009. Moreover, I have also developed numerous codes to automate my research tasks using Python and IDL.

Report development

  • I have also gained experiences in writing reports. For example, I accomplished a technical document describing in detail the GeoCIP® tool set. I also completed a scenario-based help document for the geospatial information service system project.

Cartographic design and mapping

  • I have gained knowledge and experience in cartographic design and mapping through my practical works and teachings. In fact, I have taught a class of Introduction to Computer Mapping and Analysis (2010-2013) and another class of Introduction to Spatial Thinking and Computer Mapping (2014-present) at the University of Oklahoma.

GPS experiences

  • My GPS experiences have evolved from my works at DITAGIS and OU CSA as well as from my PhD research. I have trained high school students (10 students) to use Trimble GeoXT GPS units to collect point and line data. I am able to (1) develop field-trip plan in GPS as waypoints predefined in a GIS software (e.g., Google Earth, ArcMap), (2) create data dictionaries, (3) use GPS to collect land use/cover data, and (4) integrate GPS data into a GIS software for further spatial analyses.

GEOSPATIAL SKILLS

  • System design and data modeling language/tool: Unified Modeling Language (UML), MS Visio, ArcDiagrammer
  • Spatial programming languages: Python, Visual Basic.NET, Visual Basic for Applications (MS Word, MS Excel, ArcGIS), IDL, Avenue, Windows API
  • Web development: HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver
  • GIS software: QGIS, GRASS, ArcGIS, ArcExplorer, ArcPAD, ArcGIS Online
  • Remote sensing software: ENVI, ERDAS IMAGINE
  • Land-use modeling: CLUE
  • Agent-based modeling: NETLOGO
  • Statistics: SAS, SPSS, ArcGIS Spatial Statistics, R