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    Sharolyn Anderson

    Assistant Professor
    Phone: 303-871-3378
    E-mail: sander24@du.edu

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    Degrees

    2002 PhD, geography, Arizona State Univeristy
    1996 MA, geography, University of New Mexico
    1986 BS, computer science, University of New Mexico

    Research Interests

    My interests are broad. I have worked in areas such as land-use and land-cover mapping and LUCC, urban growth modelling, assessment and monitoring of land degradation and deforestation, multi-scale area calculations, human-environment interactions and the effects on alpine treeline and urban fires in arid environments. However, the thread that runs through all of my research is its theoretical base in geographic information science (GISc - the science behind the technology: GIS, GPS, remote sensing). I love to develop and explore new ways to ask and answer geographic questions: How can we better represent geographic data? How will spatial, temporal, and spectral scale of measurement influence both the formulation and answering of myriad questions? Which data model and or conceptual formulations best represent the spatio-temporal dynamics I am trying to capture? How do we know? The world is ever changing and so are the questions in GIScience. Stay tuned....

  • Recent Publications

  • Sutton, P. C., Anderson, S.; Tuttle, B.T., Morse, L.  2011. The real wealth of nations: Mapping and monetizing the human ecological footprint Ecological Indicators ISSN 1470-160X, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.03.008.
  • Anderson, S.J., Tuttle, B.T., Powell, R.L. and Sutton, P.C. 2010: Characterizing relationships between population density and nighttime imagery for Denver, Colorado: issues of scale and representation. International Journal of Remote Sensing 31(21) 5733-5746.
  • Wentz, E.A., Peuquet, D. and Anderson, S.J. 2010: An ensemble approach to space-time interpolation. International Journal of Geographic Information Science 24(9) 1309-1325.
  • Ghosh, T., Powell, R., Anderson, S.J., Sutton, P.C. and Elvidge, C.D. 2010: Estimation of India's informal economy and remittances using Nighttime Imagery. International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics.  Spring 2010 (special) Vol 17, No P10.
  • Ghosh, T., Anderson, S.J., Powell, R., Sutton, P.C. and Elvidge, C.D. 2009: Estimation of Mexico's informal economy and remittances using nighttime imagery. Remote Sensing 1, 418-444.
  • Sutton, P.C., Anderson, S.J., Elvidge, C.D., Tuttle, B.T. and Ghosh, T. 2009: Paving the planet: impervious surface as proxy measure of the human ecological footprint. Progress in Physical Geography 33(4): 1-18.
  • Book Chapter
  • Anderson, S.J. and Tuttle, B.T. 2009: Client/Server Architectures. Warf, B. (ed), Encyclopedia of Geography, Thousands Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.
  • Conference Proceedings
  • Sutton, P., Anderson, S., Baugh, K., Ziskin, D., Ghosh, T., Elvidge, C.; 2011. Satellite Mapping of Constructed Surfaces in China for the Year 2010 Asia Pacific Action Network http://www.apan.net/meetings/HongKong2011/Session/DMSP.php
  • Ghosh, T., Sutton, P.C., Powell, R., Anderson, S.J. and Elvidge, C.D. 2009. Estimation of Mexico's Informal Economy Using DMSP Nighttime Lights Data.  Proceeding for the 2009 Urban Remote Sensing Event  in Shanghai, China: May 20-22, 2009.