Description

Research and graduate study in GIS, remote sensing, spatial analysis, and mapping sciences is focused on applying geographic techniques to solve substantive geographical problems in physical/environmental, socio-economic, and public health domains. The Department supports a GIS, remote sensing, and computer cartography laboratory running ENVI/IDL, ERMapper, ARCView, ARC/INFO and other GIS and image processing software on both workstations and networked PCs. The individual areas of emphasis are evident in the faculty listings and the listing publication. Recent research has been supported by NASA, NSF, EPA, CDC, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, and National Park Service and DOE, among others.

Affiliated Faculty

• A. Filippi
• A. Klein
• H. Liu
• D. Sui

Faculty Research Projects

• Antarctica (Klein)
• Visualizing and analyzing public health data using value-by-area cartograms (Sui/Holt)
• Legal and ethical dilemmas of tracking kids, dogs, old people, and everybody in between using the latest geospatial technologies (Sui)
• Small world characteristics in geographical, virtual, and epidemiological spaces: A comparative analysis (Sui/Xu)
• The Development of a GIS-based Bayesian approach for fatal traffic crash analysis (Sui)

Field and Research Photos