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 Geographic Information
Technology
Faculty in the
Geospatial Information, Analysis and Modeling focus have a range
of research and teaching interests, including cartography,
applications and methods in geographic information technologies
(i.e., geographic information systems, computer cartography,
remote sensing, multimedia), spatial analysis and modeling,
and
hydrological and ecosystem modeling.
Faculty and graduate students conduct research on key societal
and environmental issues. Recent faculty research projects
include geospatial surveillance technologies; controversial
place and feature names in the geographic names layer of The
National Map; societal impacts of map projections;
spatial and temporal variations of suspended sediment transport
in an agricultural watershed;
modeling
the erosion process in beaded streams in a semi-arid bajada;
modeling channel migration;
applications of satellite remote sensing to studies of tropical
forest structure, demography, and certified forestry;
investigation of spatial image-processing methods for
classifying tropical land-cover; GIS mapping of hunger and
related issues in the City of Syracuse. Faculty conduct their
research in a range of sites, including Brazil, Costa Rica, New
York State, Washington, D.C. metro area,
California, New Mexico, and Mississippi.
Current graduate student research includes geospatial data for
emergency management; cartographic construction of the Middle
East; GIS and urban change; spatial and temporal patterns of
foliar nitrogen in the Northeastern United States; and land-use
change in Amazonian Peru.
The department houses the state-of-the-art Geographic
Information and Analysis Laboratory, and employs a dedicated
laboratory manager.
Faculty
Peng Gao (Use of GIS to
model sediment movement and hydraulic changes in river channels)
Mark Monmonier (Geographic information (technology, policy, and societal role),
cartographic communication
and map design, history of cartography in the 20th century,
environmental mapping)
Jane Read
(Geographic information systems, remote sensing, tropical
environments,
land use and land cover change, Latin America)
David Robinson (Webpage
design; changing role of the Internet in distinctive cultural
contexts)
Related Courses
GEO 381
Cartographic Design (Monmonier)
GEO 383 Principles of Geographic Information Systems (Read)
GEO
386 Spatial statistics (Gao)
GEO
388 Geographic Information and Society (Monmonier)
GEO
500 GIS and Hydrological Modeling (Gao)
GEO
583 Environmental Geographic Information Science (Read)
GEO 595 Geography and the Internet (Robinson)
GEO 600 Cartographies of Surveillance (Monmonier)
GEO 681 Map Design (Monmonier)
GEO 683 Principles of Geographic Information Systems (Read)
GEO
686 Spatial statistics (Gao)
GEO
688 Geographic Information and Society (Monmonier)
GEO 700 Seminar in Geographic Information Science (Gao; Read)
GEO 781 Seminar in Cartography (Monmonier)
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