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Jochen Albrecht

jochen.jpgAssociate Professor
Computational and Theoretical Geography
Graduate and GIS Certificate Advisor

Email: jochen@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-772-5322
Fax: 212-772-5221
Office: 1030 HN

Mailing Address:
Department of Geography
Hunter College of the City University of New York
695 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10065

[ Education | Interests | Projects | Students | Courses | Publications | Links ]

Education:

Ph.D.

1995

University of Vechta, Germany, GIScience

M.Sc.

1986

University of Hamburg, Germany, Geography

B.A.

1983

University of Hamburg, Germany, Geography

Research Interests:

Dynamic or process GIS, spatio-temporal analysis, landscape ecology, crime, health, and transportation applications

Teaching Interests:

(Internet) GIS, spatial analysis, modeling of the urban environment

Current Projects:

·         Health discrepancies and aging in NY state

·         Ferry landings and landside access in the NY metropolitan area

·         Scales and spatial clashes in social indicator data

Students:

Current Graduate Student Advisees:

·         Brandon Derman

·         Chipp Janssen

·         Linda Pistolesi

·         David Sundell

Graduated Master Students:

·         Shane Pienaar (1998)

·         Vivienne Cole (1999)

·         Mark Gladstone (2000)

·         Kerrin Sime (2000)

·         Femke Reitsma (2001)

·         Marco Scuderi (2001)

·         Peter Armstrong (2002)

·         Shane Engels (2004)

·         Bala Aboki ( 2005)

·         Ignacio Campanerorhodes (2006)

·         Grant Pezeshki (2006)

·         Andrew Mallin (2007)

·         Dan Starobin (2007)

Graduated PhD Students:

·         Rey Ofren (1998)

·         Peng Ming (2000)

·         Femke Reitsma (2004)

·         Marco Scuderi (2005)

·         Elizabeth Groff (2006)

Courses:

·         GTECH 201 – Introduction to Geographic Methods

·         GTECH 705 – Spatial Analysis

·         GTECH 710 – Introduction to GIS

·         GTECH 732 – Advanced GIS 

·         GTECH 732.53 – GIS Seminar – Urban Modeling

·         GEOG 705.95 – GIS in Public Health

·         EES 712 – Geographic Knowledge in Action (at the CUNY Graduate Center)

Publications:

Albrecht J 2007. Methods and Techniques in GIS. London: Sage Publications.

Albrecht J 2007. Scale. In Kemp (Ed), Encyclopaedia of Geographic Information Science. London: Sage Publications.

Albrecht J 2007. Dynamic GIS. In Wilson J and S Fotheringham (Eds) The Handbook of Geographic Information Science, pp. 436-446. London: Blackwell.

Albrecht J 2005. A new age for geosimulation. Transactions in GIS, 9(4):451-54.

Reitsma F and J Albrecht 2006. A new process data model and its application. In Drummond J, Billen R, Forrest D and E João (Eds) 2006, Dynamic & Mobile GIS: Investigating Change in Space and Time, pp. 76-87. London: Taylor & Francis.

Albrecht J 2005. A new age for geosimulation. Transactions in GIS, 9(4):451-54.

Reitsma F and J Albrecht 2005. Implementing a New Data Model for Simulating Process. International Journal for Geographic Information Science, 19(10):1073-90.

Reitsma F and J Albrecht 2005. Modeling with the Semantic Web in the Geosciences. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 20(2):22-24.

Albrecht J and L Ramasubramanian 2004. The Moving Target: a geographic index of relative wellbeing. Journal of Medical Systems, 28(4):369-82.

Ming P and J Albrecht 2004. Integrated framework for the Simulation of Biological Invasions in a Heterogeneous Landscape. Transaction in GIS, 8(3):309-334.

Albrecht J and A Car 2004. GIS Analysis for Scale-sensitive Environmental Modelling Based on Hierarchy Theory. Japanese translation of 1999 chapter in Dikau and Saurer. In Oguchi T, Komatsu A, Oguchi C and K Sato (Eds.) GIS for Earth Surface Systems. Kokon: Tokyo, pp. 1-20.

Albrecht J and J Pingel 2004. GIS as a Communication Process. In Wang F (Ed.) Geographic Information Systems and Crime Analysis, pp. 2-23. Singapore: Idea Group.

Albrecht J 2003. Deconstructing Hate Crime. Forensic Science International, 136 (Supplement 1):15.

Albrecht J 2001. Autocorrelation-proof Empirical Bayes Mapping for Urban Indicator Analysis. Proceedings of the Computers in Urban Planning and Management (CUPUM) 2001, Honolulu, Hawaii, 18-21 July 2001.

Ramasubramanian L, Huxhold B, Albrecht J and C Ajirotutu 2001. Analyzing Urban Indicators Using GIS: building local capacity in developing countries through participatory research. Proceedings of the Computers in Urban Planning and Management (CUPUM) 2001, Honolulu, Hawaii, 18-21 July 2001.

Guesgen H and Albrecht J 2000. Imprecise Reasoning in Geographic Information Systems. International Journal for Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 113(1):121-131.

Albrecht J and M Peng 2000. From Conceptual to Real-World Conceptual Modeling. Proceedings 4th International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling (GIS/EM4). Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 2 - 8, 2000. http://www.colorado.edu/research/cires/banff/upload/145/

Guesgen H, Albrecht J and S Grundner 2000. Erosion Modeling in a Raster-Based GIS with Fuzzy Logic. In Proceedings FLAIRS-2000, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Orlando, Florida.

Cole V and J Albrecht 2000. Modelling The Invasion of Rhamnus Alaternus in a GIS Based Cellular Automata Environment. Proceedings of the 20th New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, Palmerston North, NZ, July 5-8, 1999. pp 107-110. Hamilton, NZ: New Zealand Geographical Society.

Albrecht J 1999. Towards interoperable geo-information standards: a comparison of reference models for geo-spatial information. Annals of Regional Science, 33(2):151-169.

Albrecht J 1999. Geospatial information standards a comparative study of approaches in the standardisation of geospatial information, Computers and Geosciences, 25(1):9-24.

Albrecht J and A Car 1999. GIS Analysis for Scale-sensitive Environmental Modelling Based on Hierarchy Theory. In Dikau R and H Saurer (Eds.) GIS for Earth Surface Systems. Berlin, Gebrüder Bornträger, pp. 1-23.

Albrecht J 1999. GIS Certification: what URISA could learn from related initiatives in the spatial industry. Proceedings of the URISA Annual Conference and Exposition, Chicago, August 21-25, 1999, pp. 571-576.

Peng M, Albrecht J and P Forer 1999. Dynamic simulation of the Spread of Lantana camara in a Heterogeneous Landscape. Proceedings International Symposium on Digital Earth, Nov. 29 - Dec 2, 1999, Beijing, China.

Cole V. and J Albrecht 1999. Modelling the Spread of Invasive Species – Parameter Estimation Using Cellular Automata in GIS. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Dynamic and Multi-Dimensional GIS, Beijing, October 4-6, 1999. ISPRS, Vol. 32, part 4W12, pp 141-48. Beijing: National Geomatics Center of China.

Payne D and J Albrecht 1999. Fire Dynamics: combining micro and macro models for simulating unwanted forest fire. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Dynamic and Multi-Dimensional GIS, Beijing, October 406, 1999. ISPRS, Vol. 32, part 4W12, pp 305-10. Beijing: National Geomatics Center of China.

Albrecht J 1998. Universal Analytical GIS Operations – A task-oriented systematisation of data-structure-independent GIS functionality. In Craglia M and H Onsrud (Eds.) Geographic Information Research: transatlantic perspectives. pp. 577-591. London: Taylor & Francis.

Albrecht J and H Guesgen, 1998. A Combinatorial Fuzzy Set-Theoretic Approach to the Mapping Between Quantitative and Qualitative Data. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on GeoComputation, 17-19 September 1998, Bristol, UK. http://divcom.otago.ac.nz/sirc/geoc98/49/gc_49.htm.

Peng M and J Albrecht 1998. Integrating GIS with Dynamic Models of Biological Invasion. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Modeling Geographical and Environmental Systems with Geographical Information Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 659-664. 22-25 June. Hong Kong.

Guesgen H and J Albrecht 1998. Qualitative Spatial Reasoning With a Fuzzy Distance Operator. In Poiker T and N Chrisman (Eds): Proceedings, 8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling. International Geographical Union, Geographic Information Science Study Group, pp. 767.

Albrecht J 1998. Issues in the Qualification and Certification of Geoinformation Personnel 10th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre. SIRC, University of Otago, 16-19 November 1998, pp. 11-14.

Albrecht J 1998. Scale-Dependent GIS Analysis: development of an interactive GIS user interface that assists in the determination of the appropriate scale of a spatial analytical task 10th GIS Planet ‘98. International Conference and Exhibition on Geographic Information. Lisbon, Portugal, 7-11 September 1998, published on CD-ROM.

Jung S and J Albrecht 1997. Multi-Level Comparative Analysis of Spatial Operators in GIS and Remote Sensing as a Foundation for an Integrated GIS. In Förstner W and L Plümer (Eds.) Semantic Modeling for the Acquisition of Topographic Information from Images and Maps, SMATI ´97, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel Boston, pp. 72-88.

Albrecht J, Jung S and S Mann 1997. VGIS—A GIS Shell for the Conceptual Design of Environmental Models. In Kemp Z (ed.), Innovations in GIS IV. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 154-165.

Albrecht J 1997. Overcoming the Restrictions of Current Euclidean-Based Geospatial Data Models With a Set-Oriented Geometry. In Pascoe, R. (Ed) Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference GeoComputation 97, 26-29 August 1997, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 385-392.

Jung S and J Albrecht, 1997. VGIS: A Visual Tool for Environmental Modelling with GIS. In Proceedings of the 15th IMACS World Congress on Scientific Computation, Modelling and Applied Mathematics, Volume 6, pp. 40-46.

Albrecht J 1996. Universal Analytical GIS Operations. A Task-Oriented Systematization of Data Structure-Independent GIS Functionality Leading Towards a Geographic Modeling Language. Dissertation, ISPA Mitteilungen - Heft 23, Vechta.

Kemppainen H and J Albrecht 1996. Scalability of Spatial Operators. Proceedings GIS/LIS'96 18-21 November 1996 Denver CO, pp. 162-172.

Albrecht J 1996. Universal GIS Operations for Environmental Modeling. Proceedings of the Third International Conference/Workshop on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling, Santa Fe, NM. Santa Barbara: National Center for Geographical Information and Analysis, published as CD and WWW page at http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/conf/santa_fe.

Albrecht J, Jung S and S Mann, 1996. VGIS—A GIS Shell for the Conceptual Design of Environmental Models. Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 1996 Conference (GISRUK'96) 10-12 April 1996, University of Kent at Canterbury, pp. 23-28.

Albrecht J and H Kemppainen 1996. A Framework for Defining the New ISO Standard for Spatial Operators. Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 1996 Conference (GISRUK'96) 10-12 April 1996, University of Kent at Canterbury, pp. 78-84.

Albrecht J 1995. Geographic Objects And How to Avoid Them. In Burrough P and A Frank (Eds.): Geographic Objects with Indeterminate Boundaries. GISDATA 2. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 325-331.