John Rogan, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Geography
Graduate School of Geography
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477

Jefferson Academic Center, Room 104
Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
(508) 793-7562 phone

Curriculum Vitae

John Rogan joined the faculty as Assistant Professor in Fall 2003. Dr. Rogan received his Ph.D. (Geography) degree from the joint doctoral program at San Diego State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was funded by a research grant from NASA's Land Cover and Land Use Change Program. He received M.A. and B.A. degrees (Geography) from the University of Arizona.

Current Research and Teaching

John is a geographer specializing in landscape ecology, fire ecology, optical remote sensing and GIScience. Recent research projects have involved monitoring land cover change in California using remote sensing date, mapping wildfire burn severity in southern California and southeastern Arizona, and mapping forest types in Massachusetts using multi-season Landsat data. John is currently working on three funded research projects:

• mapping tropical fire in the southern Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) using MODIS active fire data (NASA Land Use and Land Cover Change Program)
• mapping emerald ash borer effects using hyperspectral imagery in the greater Detroit region (in association with USDA-APHIS and Clark Labs)
• characterizing the impact of weather extremes in southern Yucatan Peninsula to understand ecosystem and landscape-level responses, and to increase the technical and scientific capactity of protected area agencies at Calakmul and Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserves (Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation)

Courses Offered

GEOG 087 Introduction to Environmental Information Systems/Lecture, Laboratory
GEOG 234/GEOG 334 - The Geography of Fire/Lecture
GEOG 282/GEOG 382 - Advanced Remote Sensing/Lecture, Laboratory
GEOG 232/GEOG 332/IDCE 30214 - Landscape Ecology/Lecture, Laboratory

Awards and Honors

2007-08 Hayden Junior Faculty Fellow for excellence in teaching and scholarship.

Best Paper Award-International Geographic Information Foundation (IGIF). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, March 12-17, 2003.

University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Young Scholars Award, 2004.

LEICA Geosystems Award for Best Scientific Paper in Remote Sensing (Association of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing), 2004.

University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Young Scholars Award, 2004.

Clark University Hodgkins Junior Faculty Award, 2005.

News and Events

Interviewed and quoted in The Christian Science Monitor on the topic of California Wildfires.

Interviewed and quoted in The Canberra Times newspaper (Australia) on the topic of California Wildfires.

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles

Ghmire, B, Rogan, J., and Miller, J. 2010. Contextual lan-cover classification: incorporating spatial dependence in land-cover classification models using random forests and the Getis statistic. Remote Sensing Letters, 45-54.

Versluis, A. and Rogan, J. 2009. Mapping land-cover change in a Haitian watershed using a combined spectral mixture analysis and classification tree procedure. Geocarto International, 1-19.

Rogan, J., D. Stow, D.A. Roberts, and J. Franklin, In Press, "Reducing the effects of spatially-varying haze in Landsat TM and ETM+ data for operational land-cover monitoring." International Journal of Remote Sensing.

Rogan, J., Franklin, J., Stow, D., and Roberts, D.A. In Press, "A comparison of linear change detection approaches for monitoring multitemporal land-cover modification." Remote Sensing of Environment.

Wulder, M.A., White, J.C., Alvarez, F., Han, T., Rogan, J., and Hawkes, B. 2009,  Characterizing boreal forest wildfire with multi-temperature Landsat and LIDAR data.Remote Sensing of Environment.  Vol. 113, pp. 1540-1555.

Vaclavik, T., and J. Rogan, 2009. Identifying Trends in Land Use/Land Cover Changes in the Context of Post-Socialist Transformation in Central Europe. GIScience and Remote Sensing, 46(1), 1-23.

Lippit, C. D., Rogan, J.,, Li, Z., Eastman, R.J., Jones, T.J. 2008. Mapping Selective Logging in Mixed Deciduous Forest: A Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 74(10), 1201-1211.

Lippit, C., Rogan, J., Toledano, J., Sangermano, F., Eastman, J.R., Masto, V., and Sawyer, A. 2008. Incorporating anthropogenic variables into a species distribution model to map gypsy moth risk. Ecological Modeling, Vol. 210, No. 3: 339-350.

Stow, D., Petersen, A., Rogan, J., and Franklin, J. 2007. "Mapping Burn Severity of Mediterranean-Type Vegetation Using Satellite Multispectral Data." GIScience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 44, No. 1: 1-23.

Rogan, J., Franklin, J., Stow, D., Miller, J., Roberts, D.A, and Woodcock, C. 2008. Mapping land cover modifications over large areas: a comparison of machine learning techniques. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112,2272-2283.

Rashed, T., Weeks, J.R., Roberts, D., Rogan, J., and Powell, R. 2003. Measuring the physical composition of urban morphology using multiple endmember spectral mixture models. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 69(9), 1011-1020.

Rogan, J., and Chen, D.M. 2004. Remote sensing technology for mapping and monitoring land-cover and land-use change. Progress in Planning 61 (4): 301-325.

Rogan, J., Miller, J., Stow, D.A., Franklin, J., Livien, L., and Fischer, C. 2003. Land-Cover Change Monitoring with Classification Trees Using Landsat TM and Ancillary Data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 69(7), 793-804.

Rogan, J., Franklin, J., and Roberts, D.A. 2002. A comparison of methods for monitoring multitemporal vegetation change using Thematic Mapper imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 80, 143-156.

Rogan, J. and Franklin, J. 2001. Mapping wildfire burn severity in southern California forests and shrublands using Enhanced Thematic Mapper imagery. Geocarto International, 16(4), 89-99.

Rogan, J. and Yool, S.R. 2001. Mapping fire-induced vegetation depletion in the Peloncillo Mountains, Arizona and New Mexico. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 22(16), 3101-3121.

Treitz, P. and Rogan, J. 2004. "Remote sensing for mapping and monitoring land cover and land use change: An introduction." Progress in Planning 61 (4): 269-279.

Franklin, J., Simons, D.K., Beardsley, D., Rogan, J., and Gordon, H. 2000. "Evaluating errors in a digital vegetation map with forest inventory data and accuracy assessment using fuzzy sets." Transactions in GIS, 5(4), 285-304.

Book Chapters

Miller, J. and Rogan, J. (2007). Using GIS and remote sensing for ecological mapping and monitoring, in Integration of GIS and Remote Sensing, V. Masev (Editor). Wiley and Sons

Rogan, J. and Miller, J. In Press. Integrating GIS and Remotely Sensed Data for Mapping Forest Disturbance and Change. In Understanding Forest Disturbance and Spatial Pattern, M.A. Wulder and S.E. Franklin (Editors).

Kasischke, E.S., Goetz, S., Hansen, M.C., Ozdogan, M., Rogan, J., Ustin, S.L., and Woodcock, C.E. 2004. "Temperate and Boreal Forests." In Manual of Remote Sensing Volume 4: Remote Sensing for Natural Resource Management and Environmental Monitoring, S. Ustin (Editor). John Wiley & Sons, 848 pages.

Franklin, J., Phinn, S.R., Woodcock, C.E., and Rogan, J. 2003. "Rationale and conceptual framework for classification approaches to assess forest resources and properties." In Methods and Applications for Remote Sensing of Forests: Concepts and Case Studies, M. Wulder and S.E. Franklin (Editors). Kluwer Academic Publishing.