Current Research Interests
- NSF-funded research to model how economic activity affects land-use change and hence
nutrient flows in the Long Term Ecological Research site in Ipswich,
Massachusetts.
- Development and use
of GEOMOD2 to simulate land-use change in Costa Rica and two locations
in India in order to examine how deforestation threatens biodiversity.
- Collaboration with
Oxfam America to use GIS both to secure land rights for indigenous
people in the Amazon and to carry out joint implementation projects to
abate carbon dioxide emissions.
- Training of middle
and high school teachers and students to use GIS for community
development projects in order to address gang violence and urban
pollution.
Selected Publications
Pontius, Gil R., Jr., and J. Malanson. 2005. Comparison of the structure and accuracy of two land change models. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 19 no. 2: 243-265.
Pontius, Gil R., Jr., E. Shusas, and M. McEachern. 2004. Detecting important categorical land changes while accounting for persistence. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment 101 (2-3): 251-268.
Pontius, Gil R., Jr., A. Agrawal, and D. Huffaker. 2003. Estimating the uncertainty of land-cover extrapolations while constructing a raster map from tabular data. Journal of Geographical Systems 5 (3): 253-273.
Pontius, Gil R., Jr., and K. Batchu. 2003. Using the relative operating characteristic to quantify certainty in prediction of location of land cover change in India. Transactions in GIS 7 (4): 467-484.
Pontius, Gil R., Jr. 2000. Quantification error versus location error in comparison of categorical maps. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 66 no. 8: 1011-1016.
|
