https://klgis.com Kangjae's website ]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:13:56 +0000 Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/DU5baunDBPT/ Presenter: Kangjae Lee Presentation: Multidimensional Impacts of Air Pollution: Human Health and Socio-Economic Perspectives Date: Feb 25th, 2026 (Wed) Organized by: National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) & Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) Hosted by: Faculty of Engineering, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Venue: Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, İzmir, Türkiye Activity Details: On February 25th, 2026, a seminar and discussion session was held at the Faculty of Engineering, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, following a formal invitation. The event was attended by faculty members, researchers, and students from the Faculty of Engineering. During the session, Prof. Kangjae Lee from the Department of Location-Based Information System at Kyungpook National University shared insights from his previous air pollution studies, as well as recent ongoing research findings from the "Korea-Türkiye Cooperation Foundation Project" currently funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) and Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK). The seminar was hosted through the gracious invitations of Professor Dr. AZİZE AYOL, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and Professor Dr. Gizem Tuna Tuygun, the partner researcher for the "Korea-Türkiye Cooperation Foundation Project." We look forward to more active academic exchanges in the future and hope that our continued sharing of research results will lead to significant collaborative achievements. ]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:19:55 +0000 Link: https://youtu.be/ZNRFfkNgMa4?si=_QRLsG9lZFQkRln2 JiYeon Hyun, CEO and Executive Coach of Cosoar, conducted professional interviews with international graduate students—Kiki, Wulan, and Khadija—from the School of Convergence & Fusion System Engineering at Kyungpook National University (KNU), at the request of Prof. Kangjae Lee. During the interviews, the students had the opportunity to share their personal reflections on living in South Korea and their experiences within the research laboratory at KNU. These insights were shared with the aim of connecting with and inspiring prospective and current students from around the world. This interview project was conducted with the support of the KNU Leading Department of Education 2.0 Pilot Program, a part of the National University Promotion Project.]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:45:10 +0000 Link: https://www.kyosu.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=145256 Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1618866725003978 A research team led by Prof. Kangjae Lee of the Department of Location-Based Information System at Kyungpook National University (KNU), in collaboration with Prof. Matthew Browning of Clemson University and the nature-data analysis firm NatureQuant, has published a study revealing that U.S. public schools with higher proportions of low-income and minority students have significantly lower access to natural environments. Utilizing 'NatureScore™,' a metric developed by NatureQuant to evaluate the quality and quantity of natural surroundings—including green and blue spaces—for over 65,000 public schools across the United States, the study found a consistent trend: schools serving marginalized student populations scored lower across the board. In urban areas, the gap in NatureScore (on a scale of 0 to 100) between schools attended by wealthy students and those serving underprivileged students reached as high as 20 to 25 points. While the disparity was smaller in rural areas, it remained statistically significant. The joint research team explained that children in marginalized communities face structural barriers to accessing nature, which can negatively impact their stress levels, cognitive functions, and overall health and well-being. The study recommends intensive greening initiatives—such as tree planting, the creation of pocket parks, and nature-based learning—specifically for underserved school districts. "Access to nature is not just an environmental issue; it is a social challenge directly linked to educational equity," stated Prof. Kangjae Lee. "Tailored greening policies for vulnerable students can contribute to improving both health and academic performance." He added, "This research is significant as it presents a new approach to solving environmental and educational inequalities through international collaboration between academia and industry." Prof. Kangjae Lee served as the corresponding author, and Ashraf Khadija, a PhD student in the Department of Convergence & Fusion System Engineering, was the lead author. This study was conducted as part of the Korea-Türkiye Cooperation Foundation Project supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). The findings were published on September 9, 2025 in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, a top-tier international journal ranked in the upper 1.6% of the JCR Forestry category.]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:43:49 +0000 Link: https://www.newsis.com/view/NISX20241104_0002946007 The Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS) announced on the 4th that it will hold the "2024 International Conference on GIS (ICGIS)" on November 6, 2024 at KINTEX in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province. ICGIS is hosted by the Geospatial Information Policy Research Center of KRIHS and organized by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT). The event is held as part of the "2024 K-GEO Festa" (formerly the Smart Geo Expo). Celebrating its 16th anniversary this year, 2024 K-GEO Festa is Asia's largest geospatial information technology exchange expo, running for three days from November 6 to 8, 2024. The theme for this year's ICGIS is "Applications and Challenges of GeoAI for a Better Life." The conference will feature keynote speeches by:

• Prof. Ayman Habib (Purdue University, USA): "Proximal and Ultra-Proximal Sensing for Sustainable Environments: Opportunities and Challenges"
• Prof. Song Gao (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA): "Opportunities and Challenges of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence"
• Prof. Weng Qihao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University): "Earth Observation and GeoAI Technologies for Making the Planet's Urban Environments Sustainable"

The keynote sessions will be followed by invited presentations from Prof. Kangjae Lee (Kyungpook National University), Prof. Li Na (Hanyang University), Prof. Yoshihide Sekimoto (The University of Tokyo), Associate Research Fellow Johan Chang (KRIHS), and Prof. Jaeho Kim (Sejong University). The presentations will cover five key areas:

• The Role and Application of Explainable AI (XAI) in the GeoAI Era
• Geospatial Intelligence for Future Cities: Linking Urban Form, Climate, and Energy
• Sustainable Development of Urban Digital Twins
• Convergence of Virtual and Reality: Designing the Future City
• Opportunities to Redefine AI Ethics through GeoAI

]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:03:25 +0000 Link: https://www.knu.ac.kr/wbbs/wbbs/bbs/btin/viewBtin.action?bbs_cde=28&btin.bbs_cde=28&btin.doc_no=1330539&btin.appl_no=000000&btin.page=10&btin.search_type=&btin.search_text=&popupDeco=&btin.note_div=row&menu_idx=214 Hyeok-gyu Kwon and Dong-seop Lee, student interns at Prof. Kangjae Lee’s lab in the Department of Location-Based Information System, College of Science and Technology, received the Excellence Award (Minister of Korea Forest Service Award) at the "23rd Digital Forest Utilization and Idea Contest" hosted by the Korea Forest Service on November 2, 2023. The contest was organized to discover innovative forest management cases and ideas utilizing digital technology, big data, and remote sensing (satellites, drones, LiDAR, etc.), aiming to "realize advanced forest management through the digital transformation of forestry." Following two rounds of expert evaluations, the winners were selected, and the award ceremony took place during the "23rd Digital Forest Conference" on November 2, 2023. The team, consisting of Hyeok-gyu Kwon and Dong-seop Lee, proposed an innovative idea for "Building a Forest Fire Prevention System through Digital Twinning of Combustion Times Between Tree Species for Transitioning to a Preventive Disaster Management System." They sought to enhance forest fire prevention and response capabilities by developing a combustion time model for various tree species using Digital Twin technology and machine learning. "We are incredibly happy to have achieved such a great result in our first contest," the winning team remarked. "Our project demonstrated the potential of digital solutions for forest fire prevention and suggested a new direction for forest conservation. This experience allowed us to deeply understand the importance and potential of utilizing satellite information, and we are now motivated to further refine and perfect our winning idea. We are grateful to our teammates and those who provided us with this opportunity, and we will continue to strive for meaningful achievements in the future."]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:57 +0000 Link: https://www.lecturernews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=116389 Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935123000063 Kyungpook National University announced that a research paper co-authored by Prof. Kangjae Lee of the Department of Convergence & Fusion System Engineering, Prof. Matthew Browning of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at Clemson University, and Prof. Yoo Min Park of the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at East Carolina University, was published in January 2023 in Environmental Research, an international journal ranked in the top 10% of the JCR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES category. Prof. Kangjae Lee, the lead and corresponding author of this study, designated South Korea as the research area and confirmed spatiotemporal non-stationarity in the relationship between green spaces and stress. As the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly highlighted the impact of green spaces on human mental health, such as stress, this study identified regional heterogeneity in the relationship between stress and green spaces from 2018 to 2021, accounting for both temporal shifts and spatial administrative boundaries (Si-Gun-Gu). Distinguishing itself from previous research, this study categorized green spaces into three types—forests, grasslands, and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)—and examined how these different types of vegetation related to perceived stress in South Korea before and after the pandemic. The research team discovered that forest cover consistently maintained a negative correlation with perceived stress on a global scale. In contrast, grasslands and NDVI showed mixed associations with perceived stress at the global level. The research team emphasized that these findings underscore the necessity for local governments to develop diverse urban greening strategies for health promotion that respond to specific sociodemographic and existing environmental conditions.]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:59:07 +0000