Geography
From the Arctic to Antarctica, and from Africa to the Americas, our faculty pursue research wherever there are issues to understand and problems to solve. Our program has seen five faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences and four to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. We are the only program of Geography to carry this distinction.
Submissions from 2006
Expanding the conceptual, mathematical and practical methods for map comparison, Gilmore Robert Pontius and John Connors
A generalized cross-tabulation matrix to compare soft-classified maps at multiple resolutions, R. G. Pontius and M. L. Cheuk
Can error explain map differences over time?, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Christopher D. Lippitt
Visualizing certainty of extrapolations from models of land change, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Anna J. Versluis, and Nicholas R. Malizia
Submissions from 2005
Modeling the impact of business-to-business electronic commerce on the organization of the logistics industry, Yuko Aoyama, Samuel J. Ratick, and Guido Schwarz
Monitoring vegetation regeneration and deforestation using change vector analysis: Mt. St. Helens study area, Kristopher Kuzera, John Rogan, and J. Ronald Eastman
Rescaling autonomy? reflections on unmaking goliath, Deborah G. Martin
Organizing diversity: Scales of demographic change and neighborhood organizing in St Paul, MN, Deborah G. Martin and Steven R. Holloway
Lawyering landscapes: Lawyers as constituents of landscape, Deborah G. Martin and Alexander Scherr
Using imperfect data to validate a model of land change, Silvia Petrova and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Comparison of the structure and accuracy of two land change models, Gil R. Pontius and Jeffrey Malanson
Multiple scale pattern recognition and the foundation of observation-free statistics, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Hao Chen, and Olufunmilayo Thontteh
Erratum: Comparison of the structure and accuracy of two land change models (International Journal of Geographical Information Science (2005) Vol. 19 (6) (745-748)), Robert Gilmore Pontius and Jeffrey Malanson
Uncertainty in extrapolations of predictive land-change models, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Joseph Spencer
Evaluating image thresholding techniques for land cover modification mapping, Joseph Prah, John Rogan, and Jennifer Miller
Submissions from 2004
Creative resources of the Japanese video game industry, Yuko Aoyama and Hiro Izushi
From mail order to e-commerce: Competition, regulation, and politics of nonstore retailing in germany, Yuko Aoyama and Guido Schwarz
Nonprofit foundations and grassroots organizing: Reshaping urban governance, Deborah G. Martin
Useful techniques of validation for spatially explicit land-change models, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Diana Huffaker, and Kevin Denman
Effect of category aggregation on map comparison, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Nicholas R. Malizia
Calibration and validation of a model of forest disturbance in the Western Ghats, India 1920-1990, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Pablo Pacheco
Detecting important categorical land changes while accounting for persistence, Robert G. Pontius, Emily Shusas, and Menzie McEachern
Remote sensing technology for mapping and monitoring land-cover and land-use change, John Rogan and Dong Mei Chen
Remote sensing for mapping and monitoring land-cover and land-use change-an introduction, Paul Treitz and John Rogan
Submissions from 2003
Sociospatial dimensions of technology adoption: Recent M-commerce and E-commerce developments, Yuko Aoyama
Hardware gimmick or cultural innovation? Technological, cultural, and social foundations of the Japanese video game industry, Yuko Aoyama and Hiro Izushi
Building a database of historic land cover to detect landscape change., M. T. Holden, C. Lippitt, R. G. Pontius, and C. Williams
Using the relative operating characteristics to quantify certainty in prediction of location of land cover change in India, R. Gil Pontius and Kiran Batchu
Estimating the uncertainty of land-cover extrapolations while constructing a raster map from tabular data, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Aditya Agrawal, and Diana Huffaker
Submissions from 2002
An empirical assessment of the informational society: Employment and occupational structures of G-7 countries, 1920-2000, Yuko Aoyama and Manuel Castells
Geographies of development in Latin America?, Anthony Bebbington
Statistical methods to partition effects of quantity and location during comparison of categorical maps at multiple resolutions, R. Gil Pontius
Submissions from 2001
Modeling tropical deforestation in the southern Yucatán peninsular region: Comparing survey and satellite data, Jacqueline Geoghegan, Sergio Cortina Villar, Peter Klepeis, Pedro Mac Ario Mendoza, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, B. L. Turner, and Colin Vance
Identifying conservation-priority areas in the tropics: A land-use change modeling approach, Shaily Menon, R. Gil Pontius, Joseph Rose, M. L. Khan, and Kamaljit S. Bawa
Modeling the spatial pattern of land-use change with GEOMOD2: Application and validation for Costa Rica, R. Gil Pontius, Joseph D. Cornell, and Charles A.S. Hall
Land-cover change model validation by an ROC method for the Ipswich watershed, Massachusetts, USA, R. Gil Pontius and Laura C. Schneider
Deforestation in the southern Yucatán peninsular region: An integrative approach, B. L. Turner, Sergio Cortina Villar, David Foster, Jacqueline Geoghegan, Eric Keys, Peter Klepeis, Deborah Lawrence, Pedro Macario Mendoza, Steven Manson, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Audrey B. Plotkin, Diego Pérez Salicrup, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Basil Savitsky, Laura Schneider, Birgit Schmook, and Colin Vance
Submissions from 2000
Quantification error versus location error in comparison of categorical maps, R. Gil Pontius
