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Urban Infrastructure and the Denial of Personhood: A case study from India
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Authors: Pallavi Gupta*, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Topics: Urban Geography, Political Geography, Legal Geography
Keywords: Urban Infrastructure, Personhood, Caste, Labor, Death, India.
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban infrastructure development and social vulnerability to extreme climate events in Miami-Dade County, Florida
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Authors: Kyle Pecsok*, , Rinku Chowdhury, Clark University
Topics: Hazards and Vulnerability, Urban Geography, Social Geography
Keywords: Climate resilience, Flooding, Infrastructure, Urban, Vulnerability, Miami, Social-Ecological-Technological Framework
Session Type: Virtual Poster
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Urban Knowledge Infrastructures and the Political Capabilities of Planning in Nepal and Thailand
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Authors: Robert Farnan*, SEI-York
Topics: Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Geography, Political Geography
Keywords: Urban planning, knowledge infrastructures, political capabilities
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban Oceans
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Authors: Jesse Rodenbiker*, Cornell University
Topics: Urban Geography, Human-Environment Geography, Oceanography
Keywords: Urban, Ocean, Wet Ontologies, More-than-human, Right to the city
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban Planning with Fanon: The Puerto Rico Planning Board and Alienation in San Juan, 1942-1955
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Authors: Joaquin Villanueva*, Gustavus Adolphus College
Topics: Urban Geography, Historical Geography, Social Theory
Keywords: Fanon; planning; alienation; Puerto Rico; Black Geographies
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban Stream Bank Composition and Network Sedimentation Patterns
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Authors: Dan Royall*, UNC-Greensboro
Topics: Geomorphology, Soils
Keywords: fluvial, sediment, urban, regolith
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban Tree Cover, Vegetation Diversity, and Asthma: Evidence from 500 Cities
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Authors: Shawn Landry*, University of South Florida, Geoffrey Donovan, USDA Forest Service
Topics: Urban Geography
Keywords: human health, cities, vegetation, species diversity
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban vs. rural – Polish Generation Z towards environment
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Authors: Leszek Dabrowski*, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
Topics: Social Geography, Environment
Keywords: generation Z, environment, urban, rural, Poland
Session Type: Virtual Poster
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Urbanization Induced Increase in Impervious Surface & Linkages to Land Surface Temperature: A Time-Series Analysis and Future Perspectives
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Authors: Hafiza Nayab Gul*,
Topics: Land Use and Land Cover Change
Keywords: Land use, urban growth, ANN, land surface temperature
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urbanization vs Water Quality in Silver Creek
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Authors: Logan Pelo*, Southern Illinois University -Edwardsville, Adriana Martinez, Project Advisor, Professor, Shunfu Hu, Advising Professor
Topics: Water Resources and Hydrology, Development, Land Use
Keywords: water, water quality, GIS, urbanization, stream, runoff, urban, analysis
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Urbanizing Climate Justice: Constructing Scales and Politicising Difference
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Authors: Kian Goh*, UCLA
Topics: Urban Geography, Cultural and Political Ecology, Urban and Regional Planning
Keywords: climate change, urbanization, social justice, spatial politics, urban theory
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US Military Places and Spaces as Geographies of Care and the Battle Against Military Sexual Violence
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Authors: Connie Buscha*, Texas State University
Topics: Military Geography, Sexuality, Social Theory
Keywords: military geographies, neoliberalism, sexual violence, care
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Usage of a Drone to Monitor Rhamnus Cathartica Growth Under Tree Canopy
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Authors: McKenna Dutkiewicz*, , Rhett Mohler, Professor at Saginaw Valley State University
Topics: Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Science and Systems, Drones
Keywords: Common Buckthorn, Remote Sensing, GIS, Rhamnus cathartica, Drone, UAV
Session Type: Virtual Guided Poster
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Use of Landsat Satellite Imagery to Identify the Salinization of Soil Due to Brine Spills in Northwestern North Dakota
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Authors: Bradley Rundquist, Professor, University of North Dakota (MS Thesis Committee Member), Neha Patel*, University of North Dakota, Gregory Vandeberg, Professor, University of North Dakota (MS Thesis Advisor)
Topics: Temporal GIS, Environmental Science, Agricultural Geography
Keywords: GIS, Soil Salinity, Oilwell Exploration Activities, CRSI Salinity Index
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Use of proximity as a baseline for comparison in validating models of irreversible land change
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Authors: Saeed Harati*, Université de Montréal, Liliana Perez, Université de Montréal, Roberto Molowny-Horas, CREAF, Robert Pontius Jr, Clark University
Topics: Geographic Information Science and Systems, Land Use and Land Cover Change
Keywords: Land Use and Cover Change, model validation, irreversible process, area partition, proximity, disagreement analysis
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Use Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning to Predict the Market: Integrating GIS and Remote Sensing into Business Curricula
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Authors: Yuxi Zhao*,
Topics: Business Geography
Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Business, Market, Economics
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using Activity Space and GIS Space-Time Approaches to Understand the Importance of Rest Day for Female Domestic Workers
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Authors: Fikriyah Winata*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Topics: Geographic Information Science and Systems, Immigration/Transnationalism, Women
Keywords: Activity space, GIS, rest day, Indonesian domestic workers, Hong Kong
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Using an aesthetics of “history” to perform progressiveness in gentrifying Washington, D.C.
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Authors: Rebecca Summer*, Portland State University
Topics: Urban Geography, Cultural Geography, Ethnicity and Race
Keywords: gentrification, race, historic preservation, Washington DC
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using artificial intelligence to support smart agricultural irrigation practices
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Authors: Ziheng Sun*, George Mason University
Topics: Agricultural Geography
Keywords: Artificial intelligence, agriculture, irrigation, decision making
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using Building Volume Per Capita (BVPC) to assess spatial inequality in Denver and surrounding counties
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Authors: Tilottama Ghosh*, Colorado School of Mines, Paul Sutton, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Denver, Sharolyn Anderson, School of Natural and Built Environments, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Topics: Geographic Information Science and Systems, Economic Geography, Remote Sensing
Keywords: Earth Observation of SDGs; Inequality; Building Volume
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using climate modeling and interdisciplinary theory to analyze climate justice impacts of the Paris Agreement
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Authors: Shaina Sadai*, UMass Amherst
Topics: Global Change, Applied Geography, Environmental Justice
Keywords: climate, climate justice, Paris Agreement
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using critical Q-method to characterize environmental subjectivities and power relations surrounding Chicago River recreation hazard governance
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Authors: Alex Peimer*, Northeastern Illinois University
Topics: Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Urban Geography
Keywords: Q method, hazards, mixed methods, river governance
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using deep learning and high accuracy regions for vehicle detection and traffic density estimation from traffic camera feeds
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Authors: Yue Lin*, The Ohio State University, Ningchuan Xiao, The Ohio State University
Topics: Geographic Information Science and Systems, Transportation Geography, Cyberinfrastructure
Keywords: traffic count, object detection, deep neural network, quadtree, image segmentation
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Using Deep Learning for Land Classification and Change Detection within the Konza Prairie, 1985-2011
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Authors: Caitlin Sliva*, University of Missouri, Clayton Blodgett, University of Missouri
Topics: Remote Sensing
Keywords: Deep Learning, Remote Sensing, Konza Prairie, Land Classification, Change Detection
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Using Deep Learning-based Super-Resolution to Improve Maps of Smallholder Crop Field Boundaries
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Authors: Yunzhe Zhu*, Clark University, Lyndon Estes, Clark University
Topics: Agricultural Geography, Remote Sensing, Africa
Keywords: agriculture, super-resolution, deep learning, field segmentation
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Using dendroecology to assess forest response to an early Euro-American settlement fire wave in the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas USA.
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Authors: William Flatley*, University of Central Arkansas, Lillian McDaniel, University of Central Arkansas
Topics: Biogeography, Physical Geography, Anthropocene
Keywords: fire history, Ouachita Mountains, shortleaf pine, dendrochronology, forest dynamics
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Using filmmaking to decolonise geography
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Authors: Jessica Jacobs*, Queen Mary University of London
Topics: Cultural Geography, Ethnicity and Race, Geography Education
Keywords: decolonise, film, place-based, pandemic
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using financialised housing to steer urban development. The case of Urban Containment Perimeters in Mexico.
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Authors: Tania Guerrero*, University College London
Topics: Urban Geography, Urban and Regional Planning, South America
Keywords: housing financialization, urban policy, real estate developers, Mexico
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using GIS and Big Data to Map Wildland-Urban Interface in California, USA
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Authors: Kwadwo Dwomoh*, Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences, South Dakota State University, Dapeng Li, Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences, South Dakota State University
Topics: Geographic Information Science and Systems, Human-Environment Geography, Urban Geography
Keywords: Wildland fire, wildland-urban Interface, building footprint, GIS, California
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Using Google Street View and Yelp to identify ethnic enclaves and examine association between ethnic enclave status and Hispanic health outcomes
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Authors: Xiaohui Liu*, National Institutions of Health, Jiue-An Yang, University of California San Diego, Marta Jankowska, University of California San Diego, Francisco Montiel Ishino, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, Quynh Nguyen, University of Maryland School of Public Health, Pallavi Dwivedi, University of Maryland School of Public Health, Faustine Williams, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health
Topics: Medical and Health Geography, Spatial Analysis & Modeling, Human-Environment Geography
Keywords: Hispanic ethnic enclaves, environment exposure, immigrant health, big data analytics
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using green infrastructure to reduce urban heat islands and building energy use
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Authors: Dana Habeeb, Indiana University, Alexander Hayes, Indiana University, April Byrne, Indiana University, Conor Nolan, Indiana University, Samantha Hamlin*, Indiana University
Topics: Urban Geography, Environment
Keywords: Green infrastructure, urban heat islands, building energy
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using Historical Maps to tell the Story of Indian-White Relations in the Great Plains
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Authors: Daniel Cole*, Smithsonian Institution
Topics: Indigenous Peoples, Cartography, Historical Geography
Keywords: American Indians, Native Americans, cartography, history
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using individuals’ space-time trajectories data to investigate the relationship between geographic context and COVID-19 transmission risk
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Authors: Jianwei Huang*, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Mei-Po Kwan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Topics: Geographic Information Science and Systems, Medical and Health Geography, Human-Environment Geography
Keywords: COVID-19 risk exposure estimates, space-time path, activity space, space-time cube
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using machine learning to detect blue plastic tarps on roofs in Puerto Rico damaged by Hurricane Maria leveraging drone and Sentinel-2 imagery
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Authors: Kyle Monahan*, Tufts Data Lab, TTS, Tufts University, Medford MA 02144, Yuehui (Aurora) Li, Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University, Medford MA 02144
Topics: Remote Sensing, Spatial Analysis & Modeling, Drones
Keywords: deep learning, Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico
Session Type: Virtual Poster
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Using paleolandscape modeling to explore 1600 years of anthropogenic burning at Trout Meadow, Sequoia National Forest, USA
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Authors: Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson*, California State University - Sacramento, Scott Mensing, University of Nevada, Reno
Topics: Paleoenvironmental Change, Anthropocene, Human-Environment Geography
Keywords: Landscape modeling, paleoecology, Native Americans, anthropogenic burning, Sierra Nevada, Anthropocene, fire
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using Repeat Oblique Aerial Photography and Satellite Imagery to Detect Glacial Change in the Cordillera Vilcanota, Peru, since 1931
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Authors: Ulrich Kamp*, Department of Natural Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Karina Yager, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, U.S.A., Kate Truitt, Department of Natural Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, U.S.A., Anton Seimon, Department of Geography and Planning, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, U.S.A., Tracie Seimon, Zoological Health Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, NY, U.S.A., Alvaro Ivanoff, ADENT Systems, Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, U.S.A.
Topics: Cryosphere, Mountain Environments, Remote Sensing
Keywords: Aerial photography, Andes, glacier, Peru, remote sensing
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using research gaps to shape the Fifth National Climate Assessment process.
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Authors: Samantha Basile*, U.S. Global Change Research Program, Ashley Bieniek-Tobasco, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, Christopher Avery, U.S. Global Change Research Program, Joshua Hernandez, U.S. Global Change Research Program, J. Kuperberg, U.S. Global Change Research Program
Topics: Climatology and Meteorology, Coupled Human and Natural Systems, Communication
Keywords: global change, assessment, research gaps, NCA5
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using sensors to assess UV radiation dose and associations with Vitamin D
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Authors: Suzanne Mavoa*, University of Melbourne, Marta Jankowska, University of California, San Diego, Katie Crist, University of California, San Diego, Raphael Cuomo, University of California, San Diego, Calvin Tribby, University of Hong Kong, Jiue-An Yang, University of California, San Diego, Steven Zamora, University of California, San Diego, Dorothy Sears, Arizona State University, Loki Natarajan, University of California, San Diego
Topics: Spatial Analysis & Modeling, Medical and Health Geography
Keywords: vitamin D, GPS, dynamic exposure, sunlight, mobility, health
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using Space-Time Regression to Model the Impact of Natural Environmental Determinants on Childhood Academic Performance
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Authors: Bita Minaravesh*, University of Southern California
Topics: Human-Environment Geography
Keywords: Greenspace, spatiotemporal, cognitive development, environmental exposures, environmental justice
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using spatially-aware census records to examine a marginalized community in Ithaca, NY, 1900-1940
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Authors: Robert Kibbee*, The History Center in Tompkins County, Eve Snyder, The History Center in Tompkins County
Topics: Historical Geography, Human-Environment Geography, Temporal GIS
Keywords: GIS, Human Geography, Marginalized Communities, Digital Humanities
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using Twitter to Understand Public Experiences with Compound Threats During Hurricane Harvey
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Authors: Jennifer Henderson*, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Allie Mazurek, Colorado State University, Erik Nielsen, Texas A&M, Holly Obermeier, Cooperative institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Jennifer Spinney, York University, Julie Demuth, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Topics: Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Communication, Qualitative Methods
Keywords: Hurricane Harvey, compound hazards, vulnerability
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using Twitter to Understand Whose Mental Health Is Affected By The Weather
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Authors: Matthew Cooper*, University of Maryland, Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey, Environmental Studies Program, University of Colorado Boulder USA, Zheng Liu, Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland USA, Jie Liu, Management Science, East China University of Science and Technology , Portia Williams, Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town
Topics: Hazards and Vulnerability, Environment, Geographic Information Science and Systems
Keywords: Text Data, Environmental Shocks, Climate Shocks, Public Opinion, Perception, Sentiment, Media, News, Social Media, Twitter, Climate Change, Science Communication, Policy, Planning, Methods, Text Mining, Social Media Mining, Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis, Political Ecology, Politics, Resilience, Adaptation
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using visibility analysis on a transportation network to inform cartographic selection
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Authors: Sterling Quinn*, Central Washington University
Topics: Cartography, Geographic Information Science and Systems, Transportation Geography
Keywords: cartography, visibility, viewsheds, Washington, selection
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Utilizing Sentinel 1 and 2 data for researching high-density urban areas
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Authors: Shrobona Karkun-Sen*, Temple University, Víctor Gutiérrez Vélez, Temple university
Topics: Land Use and Land Cover Change, Remote Sensing, Asia
Keywords: urban remote sensing, Indian cities, urban spatial research, machine learning, supervised classification, urban transportation, remote sensing, land cover classification
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Utu-Ubuntu development Model: Towards Rethinking Neoliberal Development in Africa.
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Authors: Mary Kinyanjui*, Nairobi University-IDS
Topics: Africa, Development, Cultural Geography
Keywords: Africa, utu-ubuntu, development, informal, neoliberal
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Vacant Geographies
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Authors: Elsa Noterman*, University of Cambridge
Topics: Urban Geography
Keywords: property, vacancy, dispossession, urban development
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Vadim Tsymbursky’s Great Limitrophe
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Authors: Dmitrii Sidorov*, CSULB
Topics: Russia, Eurasia, Political Geography
Keywords: Russia, Eurasia, geopolitics, political geography, civilizations
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Validation of supervised learning algorithms when data are spatially clustered: Case studies from marine remote sensing
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Authors: Andy Stock*, University of British Columbia, Ajit Subramaniam, Columbia University
Topics: Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Science and Systems, Oceanography
Keywords: statistical learning, machine learning, supervised learning, remote sensing, satellite, ocean color, validation, error estimation, spatial auto-correlation
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Venture Capital, Techno-Fixes, and the Crisis of Animal Agriculture
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Authors: Russell Hedberg*, Shippensburg University
Topics: Food Systems, Cultural and Political Ecology
Keywords: Food Systems, Sustainability, Technology, Venture Capital
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Very high-resolution urban land cover and land use mapping of U.S. cities
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Authors: Gang Chen*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Yindan Zhang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Topics: Remote Sensing
Keywords: Land cover mapping, very high-resolution, deep learning, urban
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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