About Our Geospatial Offerings
Using ESRI and free and open source (FOSS) geospatial applications, VISR offers support for geospatial research from conception to publication. We collaborate on a wide breadth of research projects including mobility and density analyses, georeferencing and digitization, hot spot analyses, creation of web applications for geospatial data collection, creation and deployment of geospatial mobile applications, and configuration of open data portal sites.
Project Portfolio
Movement corridors in the SE USA among persons living with HIV in Tennessee 
Geographic Variation in Access to Cardiac Rehabilitation, published June 2023. Collaborators: Meredith Duncan, Natalie Robbins, Steven Wernke, Robert Greevy Jr., Sandra Jackson, Alexis Beatty, Randal Thomas, Mary Whooley, Matthew Freiberg, Justin Bachmann. 
Peripartum mobility and maternal/child separation among women living with HIV in South Africa, published Dec. 2023. Collaborators: Kate Clouse, Sandisiwe Noholoza, Sindiswa Madwayi, Megan Mrubata, Natalie Robbins, Carol Camlin, Landon Myer, and Tamsin K. Phillips. 2023. 
How do coalitions stop pipelines? Conditions that affect strategic action mobilizations and their outcomes. Published 2023. Contributors: David J. Hess, Yu-Ri Kim, and Kaelee Belletto. 
‘Cup of Excellence’ Guatemalan coffee competition path with smallholding coffee producers numbered. Map 7 from “Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value,” by Edward F. Fischer. 
Evolution of the European landscape compared to birth and death locations of famous female Jewish authors during WWI and WWII. Collaborator: Allison Schachter. 
Student movement density with space-time cube model of person student movement paths from a two week period in Fall 2020. Collaborators: Rogers Hall, Ben Rydall Shapiro.
Websites & Open Data Portals Created by VISR
- Battle of Nashville Open Data Portal: https://battle-of-nashville-gis-vanderbilt.hub.arcgis.com
- Huari Mapping Project Open Data Site: https://www.huarimappingproject.org
- The Science Communication Media Collaborative: https://scicommgci.as.vanderbilt.edu
- Parsing the Pandemic: https://covidgci.as.vanderbilt.edu
- Forgetting to Remember: https://www.forgettingtorememberproject.org
Recent VISR-Supported Publications
- SYSTEMATIC AERIAL IMAGING AND DOCUMENTATION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF HUARI: AN UPDATE AND PERSPECTIVES FOR THE FUTURE, Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena, March 2024
- Statewide Water System Maps: An Important Public Health Effort to Improve Drinking Water Justice, Journal of Environmental Health, July 1, 2024
- Characterizing residential mobility among people with HIV in Tennessee and its impact on HIV care outcomes, AIDS, March 01, 2024
- Participatory Mapping of Holistic Youth Well-Being: A Mixed Methods Study, Sustainability, February 04, 2024
- Peripartum mobility and maternal/child separation among women living with HIV in South Africa, AIDS Care, December 18, 2023
- Geographic Variation in Access to Cardiac Rehabilitation, Journal of American College of Cardiology, March 21, 2023