Professor Ronald Eastman received his Ph.D. from Boston University in 1982. He joined the department in 1981 and served as Director of the Graduate School of Geography from 1998-2002. His interests include geographic information systems, remote sensing, and cartography . He is the Director of Clark Labs within the George Perkins Marsh Institute and its associated projects for the development, production and support of the Idrisi and Cartalinx software programs. Idrisi for Windows is the largest-selling raster-based GIS in the world with more than 35,000 users. Dr. Eastman is also a Visiting Professor at the Department of Resources and Environmental Sciences at Beijing Normal University. He has worked extensively in the area of GIS development and its applications, particularly in an international development setting. Through UNITAR, UNEP and USAID, he has participated in field work throughout Asia, South America and Africa. Courses OfferedGeog 293 Digital Image Processing
Geog 389 Research Themes in GIS
Geog 397 Advanced Topics in GIS Selected AwardsAssociation of American Geographers, Distinguised Service Honors 2003
Canadian Cartographic Association, Award of Distinction for Scolarly Contributions, 1995 Selected PublicationsEastman and Sangermano (in press) "An automated procedure for the bulk re-processing of species range polygons", Proceedings, International Association of Landscape Ecology World Congress, July 8-12, 2007 Wageningen, Netherlands. Sangermano and Eastman (in press) "The use of Mahalanobis Typicalities to model the distribution of species with different response curves to environmental gradietns", Proceedings, International Association of Landscape Ecology world Congress, July 8-12, 2007, Wageningen, Netherlands. Eastman, J.R., (2006) IDRISI 15: The Andes Edition, (Worcester, MA: Clark University). Li, Z. and Eastman, J.R., (2006) "Commitment and Typicality Measurements for Fuzzy ARTMAP Neural Network", Proceedings of SPIE -- The International Society for Optical Engineering, Volume 64201I-1 - 64201I-4. Li, Z. and Eastman, J.R, (2006) "The Nature and Classification of Unlabelled Neurons in the Use of Kohenon's Self-Organizaing Map for Supervised Classification", Transationis in GIS, 10, 4, 599-613. Eastman, J.R., Toledano, J., Crema, S., Zhu, H. and Jiang, H., (2005) "In-Process Classification Assessment of Remotely Sensed Imagery", GeoCarto International, 20, 4, 33-44. Eastman, J.R., Van Fossen, M.E. and Solarzano, L.A., (2005) "Transition Potential Modeling for Land Cover Change", Chapter 17 in GIS, Spatial Analysis and Modeling, D. Maguire, M. Batty, and M.Goodchild, eds. (Redlands, California: ESRI Press), 357-386. Lawrence, D., Vester, H., Perez-Salicrup, D., Eastman, R., Turner, B.L. and Geoghegan, J., (2003) "Integrated Analysis of Ecosystem Interactions with Lande-Use Change: The Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region." In Ecosystem Interactions with Land Use Change, G. Asner and R. DeFries, eds., (Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union) Geophysical Monograph Series 153, 277-292. Eastman, J.R., (2001) "Uncertainty Managment in GIS: Decision Support Tools for Effective Use of Spatial Data", Chapter 18 in C. Hunsaker, M. Goodchild, M. Friedl, and E. Case, eds., Spatial Uncertainty in Ecology: Implications for Remote SEnsing and GIS applicationis, (NY: Springer-Verlag), 379-390. |
