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Fully Refereed Publications

2007

Brad, M ; Fonstad, M. 2007. “Preface: Complexity (and Simplicity) in Landscapes.” Complexity in Geomorphology. Proceedings of the 38th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium. Amsterdam: Elsevier Press

Brender, JD; Suarez, L; Langlois, PH; Steck, M; Zhan, FB; Moody, K.  2008.  Are Maternal Occupation and Residential Proximity to Industrial Sources of Pollution Related? Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (in press)

Brender, JD; Zhan, FB; Langlois, PH; Suarez, L; Scheuerle, A. 2008. Residential Proximity to Waste Sites and Industrial Facilities and Chromosomal Anomalies in Offspring.  International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health (advance online publication 30 April 2007; doi:10.1016/j.ijheh.2007.02.009)

Chen, X; Zhan, FB. 2008. Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Urban Evacuation: Relative Effectiveness of Simultaneous and Staged Evacuation Strategies. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 59(1): 25-33.

Fuhrmann, S. (Ed.) 2007: Themenheft: Europäische Kartographen in Nordamerika (Special Issue: European Cartographers in North America). Kartographische Nachrichten, 57(2).

Fuhrmann, S; Maceachern, AM; Cai, G. 2007. Krisenmanagement mit modernen Geoinformationstechnologien (Crisis management with modern geoinformation technologies). Kartographische Nachrichten, 57(2): 92-99.

 Fuhrmann, S; Maceachern, AM; Cai, G. 2008. Geoinformation technologies to support collaborative emergency management. In: H. Chen, L. Brandt, V. Gregg, R. Traunmüller, S. Dawes, E. Hovy, A. Macintosh & C. A. Larson (Eds.): Digital Government: Advanced Research and Case Studies, Springer, pp. 395-420.

Fuhrmann, S; Maceachern, AM; Gahegan, M; Downs, R. Geospatial Online Learning Activities for Middle School Students. In: Andrew J. Milson & Marsha Alibrandi (Eds.): Digital Geography: Geo-Spatial Technologies in the Social Studies Classroom, Information Age Publishing, Greenwich, CT. (in press)

Giordano, A; Lu, Y; Anderson, S; and Fonstad, M. Wireless Mapping, GIS, and Learning about Digital Divide: A Classroom Experience. Journal of Geography. (in press)

Giordano, A ; Nolan, T. 2007. Civil War Maps of the Battle of Stones River: History and the Modern Landscape. The Cartographic Journal, 44(1) : 55-70.

Giordano, A ; Wisniewski, L. 2008. Teaching Cartography on the Web with a Multimedia GIS: A New Solution. In: International Perspectives on Maps and the Internet (M. Peterson, ed.). Springer, Berlin, 219-238. (Accepted)

Hanford, EJ; Zhan, FB; Lu, Y; Giordano, A. 2007. Chagas Disease in Texas:  Realizing the Significance and Implications of Evidence in the Literature. Social Science & Medicine, 65: 60-79.

Huang, B; Wu, Q; Zhan, FB. 2007. A Shortest Path Algorithm with Novel Heuristics for Dynamic Transportation Networks.  International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 21(6): 625-644.

Lu, Y; Chen, X. 2007. False Alarm of Planar K-Function when Analyzing Urban Crime Distributed along Streets. Social Science Research, 36(2):611-632.

Marcus, W ; Andrew ; Fonstad, M. “Optical Remote Mapping of Rivers at Sub-meter Resolutions and Watershed Extents”. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (in press)

Metzel, D ; Giordano, A. 2007. The Locations of Employment Services and People with Disabilities in the United States-A Geographical Analysis of Accessibility. Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 18(2): 88-97.

Parsons, J ; Fonstad, M. 2008.  A Geographical Cellular Automata Model of Surface Water Flow. Hydrological Processes, 21(16) : 2189-2195.

Silvan, JL; Wang, L; Zhan, FB. 2008. Representing Geographical Objects with Scale-Induced Indeterminate Boundaries: A Neural Network-Based Data Model.  International Journal of Geographical Information Science (in press)

Suarez, L; Brender, JD; Langlois, PH; Zhan, FB; Moody, K. 2007. Maternal Exposures to Hazardous Waste Sites and Industrial Facilities and Risk of Neural Tube Defects in Offspring.  Annals of Epidemiology, 17(10): 772-777.

Zhan, FB. 2007. Making a Difference Using Geospatial Information Technologies.  Research in Geographic Education, 9(1): 153-158.

 

2006

Brender, JD; Zhan, FB; Suarez, L; Langlois, PH; Gilani, Z; DeLima, I; Moody, K. 2006. Linking Environmental Hazards and Birth Defects Data. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 12(2), 126-133.

Brender, JD; Zhan, FB; Suarez, L; Langlois, PH; Moody, K. 2006. Maternal Residential Proximity to Waste Sites and Industrial Facilities and Oral Clefts in Offspring. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 48(6), 565-572.

Chen, X; Meaker, JW; Zhan, FB. 2006. Agent-Based Modeling and Analysis of Hurricane Evacuation Procedures for the Florida Keys. Natural Hazards, 38(3), 321-338.

Chen, X; Zhan, FB. 2006. Mapping the Vulnerability to Potential Toxic Substance Releases from Industrial Facilities under Emergency Situations: A Case Study of Galveston, Texas. Geographic Information Sciences, 12(1), 27-33.

Fonstad, Mark.  2006.  Cellular Automata as Predictive Engines at the Geomorphology-Ecology Interface.  Geomorphology 77(3-4), 217-234.  

Joassart -Marcelli, P; Giordano, A.  2006.  Does Local Access to Employment Services Reduce Employment? A GIS Analysis of One-Stop Career Services.   Policy Sciences (in press)

Lin, S; Lu, Y. 2006. Evaluating Local Non-stationarity when Considering the Spatial Variation of Large-scale Autocorrelation. Transactions in GIS, 10(2), 301-318.

Lu, Y. 2006. Choice of Auto Thefts in an Urban Environment. Security Journal, 19(3), 143-166.

Silvan, J; Wang, L. 2006. A Multi-resolution Approach for Filtering LiDAR Altimetry Data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (in press)

Tang, JM; Wang, L; Myint, S. 2006. Improving Urban Classification Through Fuzzy Supervised Classification and Spectral Mixture Analysis. International Journal of Remote Sensing (in press)

Tang, JM; Wang, L; Yao, ZJ. 2006. Analyzing Spatial Fragmentation of Urban Sprawl From Multi-temporal Satellite images: a Case Study of Daqing City, China. GIScience & Remote Sensing (in press)

Tang, JM; Wang, L; Yao, ZJ. 2006. Spatial-temporal Urban Landscape Change Analysis Using Markov Chain and Modified Generic Algorithm. International Journal of Remote Sensing (in press)

Wang, L; Cao, X; Chen, J. 2006. ISVR: An Improved Synthetic Variable Ratio Method for Image Fusion. Geocarto International (in press)

Wang, L; Silvan, J; Sousa, WP. 2006. Neural Network Classification of Mangrove Species from Multiseasonal IKONOS Imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (in press)

Wu, S; Qiu, X; Wang, L. 2006. Using Semi-variance Image Texture Statistics to Model Population Densities. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 33(2), 127-140.

Wu, S; Silvan, J; Wang, L. 2006. Per-field Land Use Classification Based on Tax Parcel Boundaries. International Journal of Remote Sensing (in press)

Zhan, FB; Brender, JD; DeLima, I; Suarez, L; Langlois, PH. 2006. Match Rate and Positional Accuracy of Two Geocoding Methods for Epidemiological Research. Annals of Epidemiology, 16(11), 842-849.

Zhan, FB; Brender, JD; Han, Y; Suarez, L; Langlois, PH. 2006. GIS-EpiLink: A Spatial Search Tool for Linking Environmental and Health Data. Journal of Medical Systems, 30(5), 405-412.

Zhang, YM; Chen, J; Wang, L; Wang, X; Gu, Z. 2006. Mapping Biological Soil Crust in The Gurbantunggut Desert, China with TM imagery.  Journal of Arid Environments (in press)

 

2005

Cai, G; Wang, H; Maceachren, AM; Fuhrmann, S.  2005:  Natural conversational interfaces to geospatial databases, Transactions in GIS, 9(2), 199-221.

Chen, J; Zhang, YM; Wang, L; Shimazakia, H; Tamura, M.  2005. A New Index for Mapping Lichen Dominated Biological Soil Crusts in Desert Areas. Remote sensing of Environment, 96(2), 165-175.

Dunham, S; Fonstad, MA; Anderson, SA; Czajkowski, K.  2005.  Using multi-temporal satellite imagery to monitor the response of vegetation to drought in the Great Lakes region, GIScience and Remote Sensing, 42(3), 185-201.

Fonstad, MA; Reichling, J; Van de Grift, JW.  2005.  Design of a new transparent velocity head rod for rapid and precise stream velocity measurements, Journal of Geoscience Education 53(1), 44-52.

Fuhrmann, S; Ahonen-Rainio, P; Edsall, RM; Fabrikant, SI; Koua, EL; Tobon, C; Ware, C; Wilson, S.  2005.  Making Useful and Useable Geovisualization: Design and Evaluation Issues. In: Dykes, J., A. M. MacEachren & M.-J. Kraak (Eds.): Exploring Geovisualization, Elsevier, London, pp 553-566.

Fuhrmann, S; Pike, W.  2005.  User-centered design of collaborative geovisualization tools.  In: Dykes, J., A. M. MacEachren & M.-J. Kraak (Eds.): Exploring Geovisualization, Elsevier, London, pp 591-609. 

Giordano, A.  2005. The People and the Plan: Intended Reactions to a Nuclear Emergency in New York State.  Risk Management: An International Journal, 7(3), 41-56.

Jordan, DC; Fonstad, MA.  2005.  Two-dimensional mapping of river bathymetry and power using aerial photography and GIS on the Brazos River, Texas, Geocarto 20(3), 1-8.

Lu, Y. 2005. Identifying Hot Link between Crime and Crime-Related Locations, in Fahui Wang (eds.) Geographic Information Systems and Crime Analysis, Chapter XV: 253-269. Hershey, PA: IDEA Group Publishing.

Metzel, D; Giordano, A.  2005. The Locations of Employment Services and People with Disabilities in the United States. A Geographical Analysis of Accessibility.  Journal of Disability Policy Studies (in press) 

O'Kelly, M; Lee, W.  2005.  Disaggregate Journey-to-work data: Implications for Excess Commuting and Jobs-housing Balance.  Environment and Planning A (in press)

Tang, JM; Wang, L., Zhang, S.W. 2005. Investigating Landscape Pattern and its Dynamics in 1990-2000 of Daqing, China using Remote Sensing and GIS.  International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(11), 2259-2280.

Wu, S; Qiu, X; Wang, L. 2005. Population Estimation Methods in GIS and Remote Sensing: A Review. GIScience and Remote Sensing, 42(1), 58-74.

Wu, S; Xu, B; Wang, L. 2005. Urban Land Use Classification using Variogram-based Analysis with an Aerial Photograph. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (in press)

Zhan, FB; Noon, CE; Chen, X; Wu, G.  2005.  A GIS-Enabled Comparison of Fixed and Discriminatory Pricing Strategies for Potential Switchgrass-to-Ethanol Conversion Facilities in Alabama.  Biomass & Bioenergy, 28(3), 295-306.

Zhan, FB; Lu, Y; Giordano, A; Hanford, EJ. 2005. Geographic Information System (GIS) as a Tool for Disease Surveillance and Environmental Health Research. Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Services Systems and Services Management (ICSSSM’05), 2, 1465-1470.

2004

De Lima, I; Lu, Y. 2004. Investigating the Spatial Relationship between Drug Possession Arrests and Residential Burglaries in Austin, Texas. Southwestern Geographer, 7, 1-25.

Legleiter, CJ; Roberts, DA; Marcus, WA; Fonstad, MA.  2004.  Optical remote sensing of river channel morphology and in-stream habitat: physical basis and feasibility, Remote Sensing of Environment, 93, 493-510.

Lu, Y; Tang, JM. 2004. Fractal Dimension of Transportation Network and Its Relationship with Urban Growth: A Study of Dallas � Fort Worth Area.
Environment and Planning B, 31(6), 895-911.

Wang, L., Gong, P; Biging, GS.  2004.  Individual Tree-Crown Delineation and Treetop Detection in High-Spatial-Resolution Aerial Imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 70(3), 351-357.

Wang, L., Sousa, W; Gong, P. 2004. Integration of Object-based and Pixel-based Classification for Mapping Mangroves with IKONOS Imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 25(24), 5655-5668.

Wang, L; Sousa, W; Gong, P; Biging, GS. 2004. Comparison of IKONOS and QuickBird Images for Mapping Mangrove Species on the Caribbean Coast of Panama. Remote Sensing of Environment, 91(3-4), 432-440.

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2003

M. A. Fonstad and W. A. Marcus. Self-Organized Criticality in Riverbank Systems. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 93(2), 281-296.

Giordano, Alberto and Richard Gelpke. Geographic Information Technologies and the History of a Shoreline: The Case of Chapter 91 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The Professional Geographer, 55(3), 329-342.

Horner, Mark W. and Murray, Alan T. A Multiobjective Approach to Improving Jobs-Housing Balance. Regional Studies, 37(2), 135-146.

O'Kelly, Morton E., and Horner, Mark W. Aggregate Accessibility to Population at the County Level, U.S. 1940-2000. Journal of Geographical Systems, 5(1), 5-23.

Lu, Y. Getting Away with the Stolen Vehicle: an Investigation of Journey-after-crime. The Professional Geographer, 55(4), 422-433.

Lu, Y. and Jean-Claude Thill. Assessing the Cluster Correspondence between Paired Points. Geographical Analysis, 35(4), 290-309.

Wilcock, P.R., and J.C. Crowe. A Surface-based Transport Model for Sand and Gravel. ASCE, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 129 (2), 120-128.

Xu B., P. Gong, S. Liang, E. Seto, R. Spear, 2003. Snail Density Estimation for Schistosomiasis Control by Integrating Ffield Survey and Multiscale Satellite Images. Geographic Information Sciences, 9(1-2), 97-100.

Xu B., P. Gong, R. Pu., Crown Closure Estimation of Oak Savannah in a Dry Season with Landsat TM Iimagery: Comparison of Various Indices through Correlation Analysis. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24(9), 1811-1822.

Xu B., P. Gong, E. Seto, R. Spear. Comparison of Gray Level Reduction Schemes with a Revised Texture Spectrum Method for Land-use Classification Using IKONOS Imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 69(5), 529-536.

Pu R., B. Xu, P. Gong. Oakwood Crown Closure Estimation by Unmixing Landsat TM data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24(22), 4433-4445.

Zhan, F. B., and H. Lin. Topological Overlay of Two Simple Polygons with Indeterminate Boundaries. Transactions in GIS, 7(1), 67-81.

Zhan, F. B. Geographic Patterns of Cancer Mortality in Texas: 1990-1997. Texas Medicine, 99 (8), 58-64.

Zhan, F. B. GIS-Based Spatial Allocation Analysis of Population Growth in Regional Water Resource Planning. Geographic Information Sciences, 8(2), 97-107.

Zhan, F. B. Cognitive Evidence of Vagueness Associated with Some Linguistic Terms in Descriptions of Spatial Relations. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 4(2 and 3), 241-257.

Pimpler, E., and F. B. Zhan. Drop by Drop: Modeling Water Demand on the Lower Colorado. GeoSpatial Solutions,. 13(5), 38-41.

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2002

Mark W. Horner. Extensions to the Concept of Excess Commuting. Environment and Planning A, 34(3), 543-566.

Mark W. Horner and Alan T. Murray. Excess Commuting and the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem. Urban Studies, 39(1), 131-139.

Noon, C. E., F. B. Zhan, and R. L. Graham. GIS-Based Analysis of Marginal Price Variation with an Application in Ethanol Plant Location. Networks and Spatial Economics, 2, 79-93.

M.E. O’Kelly and D. Bryan. Interfacility Interaction in Models of Hub and Spoke Networks. Journal of Regional Science, 42(1), 145-164.

Seto E., B. Xu, S. Liang, R. Spear, P. Gong, W. Wu, G. Davis, D. Qiu, X. Gu. 2002. The Use of Remote Sensing for Predictive Modeling of Schistosomiasis in China. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 68(2),167-174.

Tian Q.J., B. Xu, P. Gong, X. Wang, Q.X. Tong, H.D. Guo. Reflectance, Dielectric Constant and Chemical Contents of Selected Sedimentary Rocks. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 23(23), 5123-5128.

Yue T.X., S.P. Chen, B. Xu, Q.S. Liu, H.G. Li, G.H. Liu, Q.H. Ye. 2002. A Curve-theorem Based Approach for Change Detection and its Application to Yellow River Delta. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 23(11), 2283-2292.

Zhan, F. B. Are Deaths from Liver Cancer, Lung Cancer, Kidney Cancer, and Leukemia Clustered in San Antonio? Texas Medicine, 98(10), 51-56.

Zhan, F. B. Monitoring Geographic Concentration of Female Breast Cancer Using Cluster Analysis: The Case of New Mexico. Papers and Proceedings of Applied Geography Conference, 25, 1-8.

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2001

Mark W. Horner and Morton E. O'Kelly. Embedding Economy of Scale Concepts for Hub Network Design. Journal of Transport Geography, 9(4), 255-265.

Mark W. Horner and Tony H. Grubesic. A GIS-Based Planning Approach to Siting Urban Rail Terminals. Transportation, 28(1), 55-77.

Wilcock, P.R., Kenworthy, S.T. and J. C. Crowe. Experimental Study of the Transport of Mixed Sand and Gravel. Water Resources Research, 37 (12), 3349-3358.

Zhan, F. B. Childhood Cancer Clusters in New Mexico, 1973-1997. The Southwestern Geographer, 5, 31-48.

Zhan, F. B. Approximate Characterization of Topological Relations Between Fuzzy Regions and their Corresponding Linguistic Descriptions. Systems Analysis Modeling Simulation, 41(1), 1-17.

Zhan, F. B. GIS for Air Quality: It's a Particulate Matter. Geospatial Solutions, 11(5), 24.

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2000

Zhan, F. B. 2000. The Ribbon and the "Beige Region": GIS Development for Epidemiology Analysis Along the Texas-Mexico Border. SOCIOTAM: International Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 10(1), 209-220.

Zhan, F. B., and E.C. Noon. 2000. A Comparison Between Label-Setting and Label-Correcting Algorithms for Computing One-to-One Shortest Paths. Journal of Geographic Information and Decision Analysis, 4(2), 1-11.

Zhan, F. B. 2000. Educating Geographers with GIS Skills for the Real World: Some Feedback from Geography Graduates at Southwest Texas State University. Geocarto International, 15(3), 75-79.

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1999

D. Bryan and M.E. O’Kelly, 1999. Hub and Spoke Networks in Air Transportation: An Analytical Review. Journal of Regional Science, 39(2), 275-295.

Gong, P., Greg S. Biging, S.M. Lee, X. Mei, Y. Sheng, R. Pu, B. Xu, K-P Schwarz. 1999. Photo-ecometrics for Forest Inventory. Geographic Information Sciences, 5(1), :9-14.

S.R. Holloway, D. Bryan, R. Chabot, D. Rogers, and J. Rulli. 1999. Race, Scale and the Concentration of Poverty in Columbus, Ohio, 1980 to 1990. Urban Geography, 20(6), 534-551.

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1998

D. Bryan, 1998. Extensions to the Hub Location Problem: Formulations and Numerical Examples. Geographical Analysis, 30(4), 315-330.

S.R. Holloway, D. Bryan, R. Chabot, D. Rogers, and J. Rulli. 1998. Exploring the Effect of Public Housing on the Concentration of Poverty in Columbus, Ohio. Urban Affairs Review, 33(6), 767-789.

M.E. O'Kelly and D. Bryan. 1998. Hub Location with Flow Economies of Scale. Transportation Research B, 32(8), 605-616.

Spear, R., P. Gong , E. Seto, Y. Zhou, B. Xu, D. Maszle, S. Liang, X. Gu. 1998. GIS and Remote Sensing for Schistosomiasis Control in Sichuan, China. Geographic Information Sciences, 4(1-2), 14-22.

Zhan, F. B., and C. E. Noon. 1998. Shortest Path Algorithms: An Evaluation Using Real Road Networks. Transportation Science, 32(1), 65-73.

Zhan, F. B. 1998. A Family of Spatio-Temporal Location Analysis Problems in Mobile Trading. Papers in Regional Science, 77(1), 1-18.

Zhan, F. B. 1998. Approximate Analysis of Topological Relations Between Geographic Regions with Indeterminate Boundaries. Soft Computing, 2(2), 28-34.

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Publications prior to 1998

Crowe, J.C., and Sharp, J.M., Jr. 1996. Hydrogeological Delineation of Habitats for Endangered Species: the Comal Springs/River system. Journal of Environmental Geology, 30 (1/2), 17-28.

Fotheringham, A.S., and F. B. Zhan. 1996. A Comparison of Three Exploratory Methods for Cluster Detection in Spatial Point Patterns. Geographical Analysis, 28(3), 200-218.

M.E. O'Kelly, D. Bryan, D. Skorin-Kapov, and J. Skorin-Kapov. 1996. Hub Network Design with Single and Multiple Allocation: A Computational Study. Location Science, 4(3), 125-138.

M.E. O'Kelly and D. Bryan, 1996. Agricultural Location Theory: von Thünen's Contribution to Economic Geography. Progress in Human Geography, 20(4), 457-475.

Zhan, F. B., and B. P. Buttenfield. 1996. Multi-Scale Representation of a Digital Line. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, 23(4), 206-228.

Zhan, F. B. 1997. Three Fastest Shortest Path Algorithms on Real Road Networks: Data Structures and Procedures. Journal of Geographic Information and Decision Analysis, 1(1), 69-82.

Zhan, F. B., and B. P. Buttenfield. 1995. Object-Oriented Rule-Based Symbol Selection for Visualizing Statistical Information. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, 9(3), 293-315.

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