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Citations
7046
World Ranking
7956
National Ranking
2185

Overview

Nina S. N. Lam is affiliated with Louisiana State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, Communication, Earth-Surface Processes, and Ecology.

Their work extensively covers topics related to Disaster Management and Resilience, Public Relations and Crisis Communication, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Among the notable recent papers authored by Nina S. N. Lam are:

  • Use of Twitter in disaster rescue: lessons learned from Hurricane Harvey, 2020, International Journal of Digital Earth
  • Comparing the Yangtze and Mississippi River Deltas in the light of coupled natural-human dynamics: Lessons learned and implications for management, 2021, Geomorphology
  • Extending Getis-Ord Statistics to Account for Local Space-Time Autocorrelation in Spatial Panel Data, 2020, The Professional Geographer
  • Twitter Use in Hurricane Isaac and Its Implications for Disaster Resilience, 2021, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
  • Improving social media use for disaster resilience: challenges and strategies, 2023, International Journal of Digital Earth

Nina S. N. Lam has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Volodymyr Mihunov, Lei Zou, Kejin Wang, Weiguo Zhang, and Heng Cai. These collaborations have contributed to the breadth of research in their primary fields of study.

The most common publication venues for their work include:

  • Geomorphology
  • International Journal of Digital Earth
  • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
  • Ocean & Coastal Management
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • Spatial Interpolation Methods: A Review

    Nina Siu-Ngan Lam

  • On the Issues of Scale, Resolution, and Fractal Analysis in the Mapping Sciences*

    Nina Siu-Ngan Lam;Dale A. Quattrochi

  • Areal interpolation: a variant of the traditional spatial problem.

    M. F. Goodchild;N. Siu-Ngan Lam

  • Mining Twitter Data for Improved Understanding of Disaster Resilience

    Lei Zou;Nina S. N. Lam;Heng Cai;Yi Qiang

  • Spatial methods for characterising land cover and detecting land-cover changes for the tropics

    J. M. Read;N. S-.N. Lam

  • New Orleans business recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

    James P. LeSage;R. Kelley Pace;Nina Lam;Richard Campanella

  • Recent land-cover/use change associated with land degradation in the Lake Baringo catchment, Kenya, East Africa: evidence from Landsat TM and ETM+

    L. M. Kiage;K. B. Liu;N. D. Walker;N. Lam

  • Environmental analysis using integrated GIS and remotely sensed data - Some research needs and priorities

    Frank W. Davis;Dale A. Quattrochi;Merrill K. Ridd;Nina S.-N. Lam

  • Co-evolution of wetland landscapes, flooding, and human settlement in the Mississippi River Delta Plain

    Robert R. Twilley;Samuel J. Bentley;Qin Chen;Douglas A. Edmonds

  • Multi-Scale Fractal Analysis of Image Texture and Pattern

    Charles W. Emerson;Nina Siu Ngan Lam;Dale A. Quattrochi

  • Wavelets for Urban Spatial Feature Discrimination: Comparisons with Fractal, Spatial Autocorrelation, and Spatial Co-Occurrence Approaches

    Soe Win Myint;Nina S.-N. Lam;John M. Tyler

  • Modeling land use and land cover changes in a vulnerable coastal region using artificial neural networks and cellular automata

    Yi Qiang;Nina S. N. Lam

  • A study of lacunarity-based texture analysis approaches to improve urban image classification

    Soe Win Myint;Nina Lam

  • Implementation and operation of three fractal measurement algorithms for analysis of remote-sensing data

    S. Jaggi;Dale A. Quattrochi;Nina Siu-Ngan Lam

  • Description and measurement of Landsat TM images using fractals

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  • Paleovegetational Reconstruction Based on Modern and Fossil Pollen Data: An Application of Discriminant Analysis

    Kam-biu Liu;Nina Siu-Ngan Lam

  • Social and geographical disparities in Twitter use during Hurricane Harvey

    Lei Zou;Nina S. N. Lam;Shayan Shams;Heng Cai

  • Assessing Community Resilience to Coastal Hazards in the Lower Mississippi River Basin

    Heng Cai;Nina S.-N. Lam;Lei Zou;Yi Qiang

  • Spatial disaggregation of carbon dioxide emissions from road traffic based on multiple linear regression model

    Yuqin Shu;Nina S.N. Lam

  • An evaluation of fractal methods for characterizing image complexity

    Nina Siu Ngan Lam;Hong Lie Qiu;D. A Dale A Quattrochi;Charles W. Emerson

  • Fractal Characterization of Hyperspectral Imagery

    Hong Lie Qiu;Nina Siu Ngan Lam;Dale A. Quattrochi;John A. Gamon

  • A comparison of local variance, fractal dimension, and Moran's I as aids to multispectral image classification

    Charles W. Emerson;Nina Siu Ngan Lam;Dale A. Quattrochi

  • Are vulnerable communities digitally left behind in social responses to natural disasters? An evidence from Hurricane Sandy with Twitter data

    Zheye Wang;Nina S.N. Lam;Nick Obradovich;Xinyue Ye

Frequent Co-Authors

Kam-biu Liu
Kam-biu Liu Louisiana State University
R. Kelley Pace
R. Kelley Pace Louisiana State University
James P. LeSage
James P. LeSage Texas State University
Soe W. Myint
Soe W. Myint Arizona State University
Scott C. Hagen
Scott C. Hagen Louisiana State University
Samuel J. Bentley
Samuel J. Bentley Louisiana State University
Douglas A. Edmonds
Douglas A. Edmonds Indiana University
Robert R. Twilley
Robert R. Twilley Louisiana State University
Kehui Xu
Kehui Xu Louisiana State University
Kim A. Anderson
Kim A. Anderson Oregon State University

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