Graduates Master’s Theses
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| Degree Date | Name | Title | Chair | Committee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 1990 | COLLIN, JEROME | An Estimation of the Primary Production in the Antarctic Ice Edge Zone | R. Smith | Siegel, Brzezinski |
| Fall 1990 | DAMKOWITCH, JAMES | The Capacitated Maximal Covering Location Problem Revisted | Church | Jones, Anselin |
| Fall 1990 | DU, TONG | degree by examination | Estes | Simonett, Davis |
| Fall 1990 | GARVER, SARA | An Analysis of Streamflow Variability in South Coastal California Using Tree Ring Chronologies | Michaelsen | Davis, Loaiciga |
| Fall 1990 | RAY, CHIU-WEN | Remote Sensing and GIS: Establishing Consistency Between Raster and Vector Data Models | Goodchild | Tobler, Estes |
| Spring 1990 | LEIPNER, JODDI | Multi-Temporal Historical Aerial Photography for the Detection, Analysis and Verification of Hazardous Waste Disposal | Estes | Jones, Loaiciga |
| Spring 1990 | MORRIS, TERESA | Trafficability Assessment and Decision Making Using Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing | Estes | Tobler, Goodchild, Star |
| Winter 1990 | LANDSFELD, MARTIN | Analysis of the Effects of Spatial Data Aggregations on Hydrologic Modeling: A Geographic Information Systems Approach | Jones | Dozier, Davis |
| Winter 1990 | SANDBERG, JEFFERY | Reliability, Resiliency and Vulnerability of the Central Valley Project-State Water Project System: A Pilot Study | Loaiciga | Church, Michaelsen |
| Winter 1990 | THEOBALD, DAVID | Automated Delineation of Hydromorphological Features on a Triangular Irregular Network-Based Digital Elevation Model | Goodchild | Davis, Dozier |
| Fall 1989 | FANG, HSING-CHUNG | Polygon Structure to Raster and Back | Tobler | T. Smith, Dozier |
| Fall 1989 | GERRARD, ROSS | Accounting for Political Imperatives in Regional Facility Location | Church | Couclelis, Goodchild |
| Fall 1989 | DEICHMANN, UWE | An Integrated Multiregional Input-Output Model for Water Policy Analysis | Anselin | Goodchild, Tobler |
| Fall 1989 | MARSHALL, BRUCE | Raman Scattering in Ocean Water | R. Smith | Dozier, Prezelin |
| Fall 1989 | SCEPAN, JOSEPH | Geographic Information System Techniques for Managing California Condor Habitat | Estes | Davis, Jones |
| Summer 1989 | WATERS, KIRK | Pigment Biomass in the Sargasso Sea During Biowatt 1987 as Determined Using Deep Sea Mooring Data | R. Smith | Michaelsen, Prezelin |
| Spring 1989 | EVANISKO, FRANCIS | An Assessment of the Klamath National Forest Seral Stage Classification System for Monitoring Vegetation Diversity Using Remotely Sensed Imagery | Jones | Goodchild, Davis, Hajic |
| Spring 1989 | PARENT, PHILLIP | Geographic Information Systems: Evolution, Academic Involvement and Issues Arising from the Proliferation of Information | Church | Estes, Tobler |
| Spring 1989 | WANG, YONG | Radar Modeling of Tropical Mangal Forest Stands | Simonett | Dozier, Davis |
| Winter 1989 | BLOXHAM, CRAIG | Incorporating Temporal Considerations in Public Facility Location | Church | Jones, Tobler |
| Winter 1989 | EHRLICH, DANIELE | Data Analysis and Image Processing for Isolating Crop Spectra | Estes | Davis, Jones |
| Winter 1989 | GRIMES, JOSEPH | The Use of a Reverse Heuristic for Determining "GOOD" Alternative Solutions for Linear Location/Allocation Models | Church | Jones, Couclelis |
| Winter 1989 | PADDON, JUDY | Image Processing Software for Education in Remote Sensing | Dozier | Simonett, R. Smith, Hajic |
| Winter 1989 | SHANKS, ROBERT | Inherent and Operational Errors in a Geographic Information System for Monitoring Environmental Stress: An Example from the Casmalia Hazardous Waste Facility, California | Davis | Estes, Botkin |
| Fall 1988 | FRIEDL, MARK | Advanced Image Analysis Tools in Remote Sensing for Earth Science Applications: AI and GIS | Estes | T. Smith, Davis |
| Fall 1988 | REY, SERGIO | Spatial Housing Markets and Growth Control Regulations: An Application of Alternative Econometric Approaches to Santa Barbara County, CA | Anselin | Golledge, Morgan |
| Summer 1988 | BURROWS, DAVID | The REFIRES (Regional Fire Regime Simulation Model): A C Program for Regional Fire Regime Simulation | Davis | Michaelsen, Tobler |
| Summer 1988 | PHILLIPS, RICHARD | Images of America | Golledge | Couclelis, Pellegrino |
| Spring 1988 | ELDER, KEVIN | Spatial and Temporal Variation of Net Snow Accumulation in a Small Alpine Watershed, Emerald Lake Basin, Sierra Nevada, California | Dozier | Michaelsen, Melack |
| Winter 1988 | MARSHALL, SHEILA | An Investigation of the Spatial Statistical Characteristics of Atmospheric Correction Algorithm Components for Coastal Zone Color Scanner Imagery | Michaelsen | R. Smith, Dozier |
| Fall 1987 | BACKE, KEVIN | degree by examination | Tobler | Estes, Davis |
| Fall 1987 | FLETCHER, GLORIA | GIS Use for Hazardous Waste Site Characterization of NAEC Lakehurst, New Jersey | Estes | Davis, Jones, Everett |
| Fall 1987 | GOETZ, SCOTT | Predictive Mapping of Coast Live Oak in California Using Digital Terrain Data | Davis | Simonett, Estes |
| Fall 1987 | MCGWIRE, KENNETH | Coordinating Hazardous Waste Monitoring Activities Using Geographic Information Systems | Estes | Church Davis |
| Spring 1987 | HICKSON, DIANA | The Role of Fire and Soil in the Dynamics of Burton Mesa Chaparral, Santa Barbara County, California | Davis | Jones, Haller |
| Spring 1987 | HOLSMULLER, FRANK | A Comparison of the Magnitude and Spatial Distribution of Flammable Materials in San Jose and Rotterdam | Simonett | Jones, Anselin |
| Spring 1987 | ROCKWELL, KENNETH | degree by examination | Estes | Davis, Jones |
| Spring 1987 | SHI, JIANCHENG | A Study of Snow Hydrology and Snow Cover Measurement from Satellite MSS Data in Pengqu | Dozier | Simonett, Michaelsen |
| Winter 1987 | GOLDSCHMIDT, AARON | Resource Mapping and Land Evaluation Around Three Ujamaa Villages in Semi-arid Dodoma Region, Tanzania | Jones | Church, Keller |
| Fall 1986 | MARSCHAK, C. FRED | degree by examination | Michaelsen | R. Smith, Davis |
| Fall 1986 | STOMS, DAVID | Preliminary Design of a Farm Monitoring Geographic Information System | Estes | Davis, Jones |
| Summer 1986 | BARRETT, THOMAS | Quantity and Spatial Distribution of Fuel Loading in an Urban Area | Simonett | Church, Estes |
| Summer 1986 | SCHMULLIUS, CHRISTIANE | A Masking Procedure for Improvement of Crop Classification with Thematic Mapper Data in the Veneto Region, Italy | Estes | Jones, Star, Botkin |
| Summer 1986 | WADE, TIMOTHY | The Utility of an Airborne Laser Scanner and the Technical Requirements of a Related Base Station Processor | Estes | Star, Edwards |
| Spring 1986 | BIANCHI, GEOFFREY | A Hybrid FLEET Model for EMS System Design | Church | T. Smith, Tobler |
| Spring 1986 | COSENTINO, MICHAEL | Mapping Natural Vegetation from Multidate Landsat Imagery: A Case Study of Minimum Mapping Unit and Map Accuracy Tradeoffs | Estes | Simonett, Davis, Botkin |
| Spring 1986 | MIRANDOLA, MAURO | Calculating and Plotting Great Circles and Rhumb-lines | Tobler | Church, Davis |
| Spring 1986 | ROWTON, CYNDI | A Gypsy Moth Spatial Interaction Model | Jones | Tobler, Simonett |
| Spring 1986 | STREICH, TOD | A Contemporary Overview of Geographic Data Processing | Tobler | Estes, Church |
| Winter 1986 | HASTON, LAURA | Mapping Zones of Similar Terrain for Improved Estimation of Snow Volume in an Alpine Watershed | Dozier | Davis, Michaelsen |
| Fall 1985 | CARLSON, ROWENA | An Evaluation of AIREYE for the Detection of Marine Oil Slicks | Estes | Simonett, Michaelsen |
| Fall 1985 | CHIMA, RANGEAT | Teleconnections in the Equatorial Pacific and the Americas: A Study of Seasonal Precipitation Anomalies | Michaelsen | Davis, Jones |
| Fall 1985 | DUNLAP, ELIZABETH | Abundance and Distribution of Cetaceans in the California Current System as Observed from Ship and Satellite Data | R. Smith | Michaelsen, Dustan |
| Fall 1985 | MANN, LISA | Large Area Mapping Design for Multiple-Use Management in the Superior National Forest, Minnesota | Estes | Jones, Botkin |
| Summer 1985 | NEGRI, DEBORAH | Vegetation Mapping Using Landsat in a Semi-arid Region of Africa | Davis | Estes, Botkin |
| Spring 1985 | ROUSSEAU, DENISE | Texture Analysis of the Spatial Contiguity of Snow Cover | Dozier | Estes, Simonett |
| Winter 1985 | ACKERSON, VIVIAN | Multistage Variabile Probability Sampling of Tropical Dry Woodlands for Fuelwood Resource Assessment | Davis | Jones, Estes |
| Winter 1985 | DARLING, NEIL | degree by examination | T. Smith | Tobler, Simonett |
| Winter 1985 | DUBAYAH, RALPH | Orthographic Terrain Views Using Data Derived from Digital Elevation Models | Dozier | Tobler, Simonett |
| Winter 1985 | RITTER, ELIZABETH | A Comparison of Classification Methodologies for Identifying High Priority Target Objects Around Nuclear Power Facilities | Estes | Church, Simonett, Hajic |
| Winter 1985 | SCHWAB, MATTHEW | Functional Invariance Under Spatial Aggregation from Continuous Spatial Interaction Models | T. Smith | Tobler, Couclelis |
| Fall 1984 | DAILY, JULIE | A Characterization of Frequency and Intensity of El Nino Southern Oscillation Activity Reconstructed from Tree-Ring Records | Michaelsen | Davis, Jones |
| Fall 1984 | HOKE, NANCY | Development of Sampling Techniques Applied to Location Problems | Church | Golledge, R. Smith |
| Fall 1984 | KISS, KEN | degree by examination | Davis | Estes, Dozier |
| Fall 1984 | REIMER, KRISTIE | An Applied Spatial Interaction Model: Theory versus Practice | Couclelis | T. Smith, Golledge |
| Spring 1984 | KENNEDY, SUSAN | A Spatial Regression Model for Medical Statistics | Tobler | T. Smith, Michaelsen |
| Spring 1984 | KURILLA, LAURIE | A Tectonic Study of the Datil-Mogollon Sub-province Based on Co-Registered Remotely Sensed Imagery and Geophysical Data | Dozier | Simonett, Hajic, Crowell |
| Spring 1984 | SUNDBECK, CARL | degree by examination | Michaelsen | Dozier, Davis |
| Spring 1984 | VALLERA, ROBERT | degree by examination | Church | Golledge, Parke |
| Winter 1984 | HEDDEN, SAVILLE | Spatial Dimensions to Perceived Noxious Externality Fields | Golledge | Church, Meyer |
| Winter 1984 | MERTZ, FRED | A Primer to Spatial Data Processing Using the VICAR/IBIS Software Package | Estes | Strahler, Simonett |
| Fall 1983 | ECKHARDT, DAVID | Modeling the Effect of Incoming Solar Radiation on Vegetative Fuel Loading in Chamise Chaparral | Estes | Dozier, Strahler |
| Fall 1983 | SOMOGYI, CHRISTINE | The Capacitated Maximal Covering Location Model and the Puesto/promotora Siting Problem | Church | Jones, T. Smith |
| Summer 1983 | MIGEREKO, DAUDI | An Analysis of the Coffee Cooperative Marketing System in Busoga, Uganda: Transportation and Facilities Location | Church | Golledge, Simonett |
| Spring 1983 | FRANKLIN, JANET | An Empirical Study of the Spatial Pattern of Coniferous Trees | Simonett | Strahler, Michaelsen |
| Winter 1983 | ALMANZA, EDWARD | Landsat Analysis of Phytoplankton Patchiness and Seasonability in Mono Lake, CA | Estes | Dozier, Melack |
| Winter 1983 | FOSCHI, PATRICIA | Considerations and Problems in Designing a Geocoded Database System for a Microcomputer | Simonett | Estes, Peuquet |
| Winter 1983 | IRLE, PATRICIA | degree by examination | Dozier | T. Smith, McLean |
| Winter 1983 | TINNEY, LARRY | Towards and Improved Understanding of the Image Interpretation Process | Estes | Simonett, Wade |
| Fall 1982 | BERTKE, SUSAN | Fundamental Concepts of Remote Sensing | Estes | Strahler, Simonett |
| Fall 1982 | CARLSON, JOHN | degree by examination | Estes | T. Smith, Hajic |
| Fall 1982 | EZRA, C. ELAINE | The Feasibility of Thermal Inertia Mapping for Detection of Perched Water Tables in Semi-Arid Irrigated Agricultural Lands | Estes | Simonett, Bonn |
| Fall 1982 | GRAHAM, NICHOLAS | A Combined Algorithm for Sample Design and Interpolation | Tobler | Michaelsen, Church |
| Fall 1982 | LEHMAN, PAUL | The Status and Distribution of the Birds of Santa Barbara County, California | Strahler | Dozier, Rothstein, Disraeli |
| Fall 1982 | MINOR, TIMOTHY | Seasonal Comparison of HCMM Data for the Detection of Soil Moisture Variability | Estes | Dozier, Simonett |
| Fall 1982 | MORAN, M. SUSAN | Modeling Timber Suitability Class and Site Index Through the Use of Digital Terrain Tapes and Soil Maps | Strahler | Simonett, Estes |
| Fall 1982 | REEVES, RICHARD | Development of an Integrated Hazardous Transport Management Model (HTMM) | Church | Golledge, Tobler |
| Fall 1982 | SAILER, CHARLENE | The Development and Implementation of Remote Sensing | Estes | Simonett, T. Smith |
| Fall 1982 | STEWART, BRAD | Sensitivity and Significance of Turbulent Energy Exchange over an Alpine Snow Surface | Dozier | Simonett, T. Smith |
| Fall 1982 | WOODCOCK, CURTIS | Reducing the Influence of Topography on the Classification of Remotely Sensed Data | Strahler | Dozier, Simonett |
| Summer 1982 | LAFONTAINE, DONALD | degree by examination | Simonett | Strahler, Church |
| Spring 1982 | CHEN, ZITAN | Spatial Filtering of Polygon Data | Tobler | Simonett, Dozier |
| Spring 1982 | JOHNSON, LEE | Atmospheric Effects on Satellite Augmentation of the USDA June Enumerative Survey: A Rdar/Landsat Comparison | Simonett | Estes, Strahler |
| Spring 1982 | LEES, ROBERT | The Use of Soil Texture and Field Capacity to Normalize Microwave Soil Moisture Measurements: Some Problems | Simonett | Dozier, Estes |
| Spring 1982 | WITEBSKY, ELLEN | Online Bibliographic Information Retrieval for Geographic Research: Search Planning, Problems and Satisfaction | Golledge | Dozier, T. Smith |
| Spring 1982 | YEGO, JOEL | The Suitability of Landsat Data to Map and Monitor Soil Erosion Hazards in Semi-Arid Lands: A Case Study of Central Kitui, Kenya | Simonett | Estes, Dozier |
| Spring 1982 | ZHANG, XUE-YUN | A Model for Microwave Emission of a Snowpack | Dozier | Simonett, T. Smith |
| Spring 1982 | DAVIS, SCOTT | degree by examination | Golledge | Strahler, T. Smith |
| Winter 1982 | FRAMPTON, MICHAEL | Measurement of Snow Surface Temperature from Thermal Satellite Data in the Southern Sierra Nevada | Dozier | Estes, Simonett |
| Winter 1982 | HALPERIN, WILLIAM | Market Potential and Consumer Allocation: A Methodology for Comparing Aggregate and Disaggregate Models | Golledge | Church, Hubert |
| Winter 1982 | IRVIN, EDWARD | A Regional Comparison of the Probability of Obtaining Multidate Coverage by Radar and Landsat for the U.S.A. | Simonett | Estes, Dozier |
| Winter 1982 | LI, SHU-SUN | A Model for the Anisotropic Reflectance of Pure Snow | Dozier | Simonett, Strahler |
| Winter 1982 | SPANNER, MICHAEL | Soil Loss Prediction in a Geographic Information System Format | Strahler | Estes, Simonett |
| Fall 1981 | BURLEY, PETER | degree by examination | Golledge | T. Smith, Hubert |
| Fall 1981 | COSTANZO, C. MICHAEL | An Investigation of the Spatial Component in the Effectiveness of Gun Control Laws | Golledge | Tobler, Hubert |
| Fall 1981 | IKHUORIA, ISIDAHOMEN | Remote Sensing and Environmental Analysis of Urban Land Use Patterns in Benin City, Nigeria | Simonett | Estes, Tobler |
| Fall 1981 | MARKS, BARBARA | A Method for Estimating Canopy Density Over Large Areas | Dozier | Strahler, Simonett |
| Fall 1981 | ORTEGA, RAUL | degree by examination | Estes | Dozier, Simonett |
| Fall 1981 | WAN, ZHENG-MING | A Method for Digital Snow Mapping at Subpixel Resolution from NOAA Thermal Satellite Data | Dozier | Simonett, Strahler |
| Summer 1981 | ATWATER, SUSAN | Monitoring Seasonal Change in Chapparal Moisture Content Using Landsat Digital Data | Strahler | Dozier, Simonett |
| Summer 1981 | BLAKLEY, JAMES | A Quantitative Analysis of the Associations Between Plant Species in the Shortgrass Prairie of Central Colorado | Strahler | Simonett, Schlesinger |
| Summer 1981 | CULLIS, BRIAN | degree by examination | Strahler | Dozier, Simonett |
| Summer 1981 | KANANI, SIMEON | Land Cover Mapping and Change Detection in Kitui, Kenya: A Remote Sensing Approach | Simonett | Strahler, Estes |
| Spring 1981 | LI XIAO-WEN | An Invertible Coniferous Forest Canopy Reflectance Model | Strahler | Simonett, T. Smith |
| Spring 1981 | TAUBE, DONALD | degree by examination | Estes | Simonett, Strahler |
| Spring 1981 | VAN CLEVE, DAVID | degree by examination | Strahler | Estes, McDowell |
| Spring 1981 | ZHAN, CI-XIANG | A Spatial-Spectral Classification Approach for Cropland | Estes | Simonett, Strahler |
| Winter 1981 | MAYNARD, PAUL | The Logit Classifier: A General Maximum Likelihood Discriminant for Remote Sensing Applications | Strahler | Simonett, T. Smith |
| Winter 1981 | WILSON, MICHAEL | An Analysis of Marine Oil Slick Detection Capabilities for the Seasat-A Synthetic Aperature Radar | Estes | Dozier, Simonett |
| Fall 1980 | GALE, NATHAN | An Analysis of the Distortion and Fuzziness of Cognitive Maps by Location | Golledge | Tobler, T. Smith |
| Summer 1980 | HALLADA, WAYNE | Crop Identification Using Principal Component Analysis of Multitemporal Landsat Data | Simonett | Strahler, T. Smith |
| Summer 1980 | LAWLER, MICHAEL | degree by examination | T. Smith | Clayton, Simonett |
| Spring 1980 | DAVIS, ROBERT | Simulation of the Thermal Regime of an Alpine Soil Beneath a Snow Pack | Dozier | Simonett, T. Smith |
| Spring 1980 | HAJIC, EARL | Digital Processing of Side Scan Sonar Imagery for Mapping the Anacapa Passage Seafloor in the Santa Barbara Channel | Simonett | Dozier, Luyendyk |
| Spring 1980 | MILLIFF, RALPH | Boundary Condition Specification for a Model of Geographical Movement | Tobler | T. Smith, Dozier |
| Winter 1980 | FREW, JAMES | Remote Sensing of Snow Surface Albedo | Dozier | Simonett, Tobler |
| Winter 1980 | O'NEILL, PEGGY | Ground-based Microwave Radiometric Measurement of Soil Moisture under Bare Field Conditions in the Southern San Joaquin Valley, California | Estes | Simonett, Dozier |
| Winter 1980 | TORBURN, TARA | Identification of Cotton Fields from Landsat Imagery in the Southern San Joaquin Valley, California | Estes | Strahler, Sage |
| Fall 1979 | BAGGETT, JAY | Assessing Groundwater Contamination at Rocky Mountain Arsenal Through Quantitative Studies of Plant Succession | Strahler | Simonett, Estes |
| Fall 1979 | RICHARDSON, G. DON | The Appropriateness of Using Various Minkowskian Metrics for Representing Cognitive Maps Produced by Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling | Golledge | Tobler, Clayton |
| Fall 1978 | PRENDERGAST, PETER | degree by examination | Simonett | Estes, Dozier |
| Summer 1978 | MARKS, DANIEL | A Longwave Radiation Model for Application in a Remote Alpine Area | Dozier | Simonett, Strahler |
| Spring 1978 | LOGAN, THOMAS | Western Forest Species Classification from Multidate Landsat and Terrain Data | Strahler | Estes, Colwell |
| Spring 1978 | STOW, DOUGLAS | Analysis of Landsat and Digital Terrain Tape Data in a Geobase Information Systems Context: Ventura County Case Study | Estes | Dozier, Strahler |