Publications

The Space between Us brings the connection between geography, psychology, and politics to life.

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Spatio-temporal streaming data harvesting and visualization.

This paper presents the preliminary achievements of an on-going effort to develop a free archive of ground-based air pollution data collected from real-time monitoring stations in China and India.

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Asynchronous processing and task queues in the WorldMap system.

BACKGROUND:

Novel approaches to health care delivery that leverage community resources could improve outcomes for children at high risk for obesity.

Abstract  The goal of this chapter is to evaluate and compare Geospatial Software as a Service (GSaaS) platforms oriented toward providing basic mapping capabilities to non-GIS experts.

Presentation at the 38th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine

San Diego, CA

March 30, 2017

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An overview of WorldMap development, system architecture and recently added functions, such as HHypermap Search of WMS layers.

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This project addresses the need to manage real-time streaming flows of Big-Data, and presents a method for storing, indexing, visualizing and querying a test dataset of archived Geo-tweets.  The  Billion Object Platform(BOP) provides a client and API to browse and search the latest 1 billion geot

An introduction to the GeoNode geospatial data system.  Presented at the Secondary Cities Symposium, Harvard University.   

Presentation by the CGA to the ABCD Technology in Education Working Group.

This presentation introduces the basic concepts of GIS and how to use it, services offered by the CGA, and past projects performed for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and in the Middle Eastern part of the world.

Oral presentation on the 1st International Symposium on Spatiotemporal Computing, Fairfax, Virginia., July 13-15, 2015.

Abstract:

MapReduce-type approaches using Hadoop have been explored for solving sets of computational problems that were previously too large for traditional GIS systems to handle. Three cases are introduced in this study to demonstrate the implementation of this approach.

Active commuting to school increases children’s daily physical activity. The built environment is associated with children’s physical activity levels in cross-sectional studies. This study examined the role of the built environment on the outcomes of a “walking school bus” study.

Walks the user through making a map layout with a primary map, vicinity map, scale bar, north arrow, legend, picture, custom symbols, and splined text

Oral presentation on the 2014 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida, April 8-12, 2014

presented at 2013 UCGIS Symposium

This paper examines changes in disaster response and relief efforts and recent web-based geospatial technological developments through an evaluation of the experiences of the Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, of the Sichuan (2008) and Haiti (2010) earthquake responses.

Why should historians be interested in looking at space through the geographer's lens?  A  tool such as GIS helps the historian see what was not apparent before.

Without a department of geography, Harvard University established the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) in 2006 to support research and teaching of all disciplines across the University with emerging geospatial technologies.

what's needed for a career in GIS.

This article discusses an opportunity to engage in new forms of collaborative research made possible by widespread access to the web and mapping technologies.

Founded in 1818, the Harvard Map Collection (HMC) is the oldest map collection in America, holding 400,000 maps, more than 6,000 atlases and thousands of reference books.

In this paper, I propose a new methodology for analysing landscape drawing methods using a GIS. The subject of my analysis is the genre of Japanese screen paintings known as rakuchu rakugai zu ¯ , created between the 16th and 18th centuries.

This study explores an innovative approach in teaching operational GIS to students who have taken only one introductory GIS course. It brings real world cases into university classrooms and exposes students to practical solutions of multiple scenarios.

Oral presentation on the CPGIS Workshop, Nanjing, China, May-June 2009.

Keynote address on, and in the proceedings of, the Third International Symposium on Health GIS at Niigata University, Niigata, Japan. March 12, 2008.

Topic is related to success in ArcIMS implementation.