Land use and land cover change is driven by multiple influential factors from environmental and social dimensions in a land system. Land use practices of human decision-m[...]

Spatiotemporal simulations can provide critical insights to understand the underlying mechanisms of complex geographic phenomena. Therefore, spatiotemporal simulations pl[...]

In the United States, the academic achievement gap between European American and African American students has been identified as one of the major problems related to edu[...]

The availability of large amounts of labeled training data is a major contributing factor (and a bottleneck) to the recent progress in the field of Deep Learning. However[...]

Dengue fever is a prominent mosquito-borne viral disease in the tropics that is estimated to infect as many as 400 million people per year. Dengue is endemic to Colombia,[...]

Urbanization modifies landscape structure in three major ways that impact avian diversity in remnant habitat: habitat amount is reduced and habitat configuration and matr[...]

This dissertation aims to study the causal relationship between the underlying processes of agglomeration economies and the formation of certain spatial structures at bot[...]

Transit Signal Priority (TSP) is a traffic signal control strategy that can provide priority to transit vehicles and thus improve transit service. However, this control s[...]

This dissertation explores the intersection of Geographic Information Science (GIScience) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically focusing on the enhancement of 3D[...]

Pesticide use has reached alarming levels globally, causing potential risks to human health and the environment. With its high population densities and rapid development,[...]