-Extending
Geographic Representation to Support Knowledge Discovery in Geographic
Information Systems
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, this project aims
to explore new data models to represent the dynamics of geographic
worlds in a GIS context so that higher-level geographic knowledge
about geographic dynamics can be accessed or computed in a GIS environment.
-Development
of an Intelligent GIS to Support Geographic Query, Analysis, and
Modeling in Hydrology
Sponsored by the Department of Defense National Imagery and Mapping
Agency (NIMA), this project aims to develop frameworks to incorporate
structures of events and processes into a GIS so that the system
has “intelligence” to assemble hydrological observations and records
to interpret how events and processes evolve over space and time.
-Three-Dimensional
Modeling and Population Dynamics Modeling of Downtown Oklahoma City
Sponsored By the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy,
this project aims to develop a 3-D model and visualization of downtown
Oklahoma City based on aerial photographs, GPS surveys, and LIDAR
data. As part of a large-scale field project (Urban 2003), the model
will provide necessary data for downtown physical structures as
the basis for wind tunnel experiments. Additional field surveys
and spatiotemporal analysis aim to model diurnal population dynamics
in the downtown area.
-Spatial
Analysis of Historical Tornado Tracks and Modeling of their Socio-Economic
Damage
Sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, this
project aims to attribute historical tornado tracks across the continental
U.S. to census tracts and obtain socio-economic damage and tract
parameters to each segment of a track on a census-tract basis. The
GIS work is part of a project led by Dr. Dan Sutter to develop a
regression model to estimate tornado damage.