Robert Pontius

About

Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr is Professor of Geography at Clark University, where he has been since 1998. He holds a Doctorate in Environmental Science and a Masters in Applied Statistics. His expertise includes Geographic Information Science, Land Change Science, Ecological Modeling, and Statistics. His team receives funding from MapBiomas, the United States National Science Foundation, and the National Aeronautical and Space Administration. His solo authored book is entitled Metrics That Make A Difference: How To Analyze Change and Error.

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Clark University
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Education

State University of New York
United States of America

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Doctorate in Environmental Science

The Ohio State University
United States of America

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Master of Applied Statistics

University of Pittsburgh
United States of America

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Bachelor of Science

Publications

The Bayesian operating characteristic curve for feature analysis applied to urban land cover change

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Environmental Modelling & Software

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Accounting for alternation in temporal quality analysis in MapBiomas Brazil

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International Journal of Digital Earth

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A call to interpret disagreement components during classification assessment

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International Journal of Geographical Information Science

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DynamicPATCH: method and software for spatially explicit dynamic patch transition characterization

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Landscape Ecology

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Best Practices for Applying and Interpreting the Total Operating Characteristic

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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

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Best Practices for Applying and Interpreting the Total Operating Characteristic

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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

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Methods to compare sites concerning a category’s change during various time intervals

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GIScience & Remote Sensing

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Analyzing the Losses and Gains of a Land Category: Insights from the Total Operating Characteristic

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Land

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Analyzing the Losses and Gains of a Land Category: Insights from the Total Operating Characteristic

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Land

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Performance of CA_Markov and DINAMICA EGO models to evaluate urban risk in Antofagasta and Mejillones, Chile

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Natural Hazards

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Four Fundamental Questions to Evaluate Land Change Models with an Illustration of a Cellular Automata–Markov Model

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Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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The Flow Matrix Offers a Straightforward Alternative to the Problematic Markov Matrix

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Land

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The Flow Matrix Offers a Straightforward Alternative to the Problematic Markov Matrix

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Land

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Area method compared with Transect method to measure shoreline movement

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Geocarto International

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A new framework to deal with the class imbalance problem in urban gain modeling based on clustering and ensemble models

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Geocarto International

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Validating models of one-way land change: an example case of forest insect disturbance

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Landscape Ecology

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Encoding a Categorical Independent Variable for Input to TerrSet’s Multi-Layer Perceptron

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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

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Encoding a Categorical Independent Variable for Input to TerrSet’s Multi-Layer Perceptron

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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

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Linking land change model evaluation to model objective for the assessment of land cover change impacts on biodiversity

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Landscape Ecology

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The Total Operating Characteristic from Stratified Random Sampling with an Application to Flood Mapping

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Remote Sensing

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The Total Operating Characteristic from Stratified Random Sampling with an Application to Flood Mapping

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Remote Sensing

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Enhanced Intensity Analysis to Quantify Categorical Change and to Identify Suspicious Land Transitions: A Case Study of Nanchang, China

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Remote Sensing

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Enhanced Intensity Analysis to Quantify Categorical Change and to Identify Suspicious Land Transitions: A Case Study of Nanchang, China

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Remote Sensing

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Effects of Category Aggregation on Land Change Simulation Based on Corine Land Cover Data

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Remote Sensing

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Effects of Category Aggregation on Land Change Simulation Based on Corine Land Cover Data

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Remote Sensing

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Accounting for Training Data Error in Machine Learning Applied to Earth Observations

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Remote Sensing

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Intensity Analysis to communicate land change during three time intervals in two regions of Quanzhou City, China

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GIScience & Remote Sensing

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GlobeLand30 maps show four times larger gross than net land change from 2000 to 2010 in Asia

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International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

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Component intensities to relate difference by category with difference overall

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International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

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Criteria to Confirm Models that Simulate Deforestation and Carbon Disturbance

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Land

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Criteria to Confirm Models that Simulate Deforestation and Carbon Disturbance

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Land

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Quantifying spatiotemporal patterns concerning land change in Changsha, China

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Landscape and Ecological Engineering

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Rules to write mathematics to clarify metrics such as the land use dynamic degrees

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Landscape Ecology

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Methods to summarize change among land categories across time intervals

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Journal of Land Use Science

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Spatially-Explicit Simulation of Urban Growth through Self-Adaptive Genetic Algorithm and Cellular Automata Modelling

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Land

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Land Classification and Change Intensity Analysis in a Coastal Watershed of Southeast China

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Sensors

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A Suite of Tools for ROC Analysis of Spatial Models

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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

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Design and Interpretation of Intensity Analysis Illustrated by Land Change in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

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Land

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