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Robert Gilmore Pontius

Robert Gilmore Pontius

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
47
Citations
10239
World Ranking
5707
National Ranking
2076

Best Publications

  • Detecting important categorical land changes while accounting for persistence

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  • Comparing the input, output, and validation maps for several models of land change

    Robert Gilmore Pontius;Wideke Boersma;Jean-Christophe Castella;Keith Clarke

  • Quantification error versus location error in comparison of categorical maps

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  • Useful techniques of validation for spatially explicit land-change models

    Robert Gilmore Pontius;Diana Huffaker;Kevin Denman

  • Intensity analysis to unify measurements of size and stationarity of land changes by interval, category, and transition

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  • Comparison of the structure and accuracy of two land change models

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  • Modeling Land-Use and Land-Cover Change

    Peter H. Verburg;Kasper Kok;Robert Gilmore Pontius;A. Veldkamp

  • New insight into the correlations between land use and water quality in a coastal watershed of China: Does point source pollution weaken it?

    Pei Zhou;Jinliang Huang;Robert Gilmore Pontius;Huasheng Hong

  • Identifying Systematic Land-Cover Transitions Using Remote Sensing and GIS: The Fate of Forests inside and outside Protected Areas of Southwestern Ghana

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  • Opportunities to Improve Impact, Integration, and Evaluation of Land Change Models

    Daniel G Brown;Peter H Verburg;Robert Gilmore Pontius;Mark D Lange

  • Components of information for multiple resolution comparison between maps that share a real variable

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  • Research on Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS): Approach, Challenges, and Strategies

    Marina Alberti;Heidi Asbjornsen;Lawrence A. Baker;Nicholas Brozović

  • A review of accuracy assessment for object-based image analysis: From per-pixel to per-polygon approaches

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  • Use of intensity analysis to link patterns with processes of land change from 1986 to 2007 in a coastal watershed of southeast China

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  • Quantity, exchange, and shift components of difference in a square contingency table

    Robert Gilmore Pontius;Alí Santacruz

  • Comparison of Three Maps at Multiple Resolutions: A Case Study of Land Change Simulation in Cho Don District, Vietnam

    Robert Gilmore Pontius;Smitha Peethambaram;Jean-Christophe Castella

  • A Suite of Tools for ROC Analysis of Spatial Models

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  • Comparison of simulation models in terms of quantity and allocation of land change

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  • The total operating characteristic to measure diagnostic ability for multiple thresholds

    Robert Gilmore Pontius;Kangping Si

  • Advancing Land Change Modeling: Opportunities and Research Requirements

    D. Brown;L.E. Band;K.O. Green;E.G. Irwin

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jean-Christophe Castella
Jean-Christophe Castella Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Kasper Kok
Kasper Kok Wageningen University & Research
Daniel G. Brown
Daniel G. Brown University of Washington
Marina Alberti
Marina Alberti University of Washington
Bryan C. Pijanowski
Bryan C. Pijanowski Purdue University West Lafayette
David J. Sailor
David J. Sailor Arizona State University
Charles L. Redman
Charles L. Redman Arizona State University
Heidi Asbjornsen
Heidi Asbjornsen University of New Hampshire
Laurie E. Drinkwater
Laurie E. Drinkwater Cornell University

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