Keith Clarke

Biography

Clarke's research has been on dynamic simulation models, spatial analysis, and analytical cartography. As of July 2020, Google Scholar lists Clarke as having an h-index of 60 and an i10-index of 136. With a total number of citations of 19396, a key most cited paper reporting the first fully operational Urban Cellular Automaton Computer Model in 1997, counts 1714 citations, his second most cited paper introduced in 1998 key innovations in the linkages between cellular automaton (CA) and geographic information system (GIS). His third most cited paper introduced in 2003 pivotal innovation in linkages between spatial metrics, modeling, and remote sensing using Ikonos satellite images.

Often used books by practitioners and researchers in GIS, spatial analysis, and GIS teaching and research programs include: Maps and Web Mapping, Getting Started with GIS, and Analytical and Computer Cartography. He was the North-American Editor of the International Journal of Geographical Information Systems.

Clarke is credited for producing one of the most used operational urban computer models—SLEUTH. SLEUTH is a CA, calibrated with Markov chain Monte Carlo – stochastic modeling, and recently includes genetic algorithm (GA) calibration. A staff member and former Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) and a key figure in the development of space/time dynamic urban simulation models, spatial analysis, and geographic information systems.

He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2018 he was awarded by the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science the Carolyn Merry Mentoring Award "to recognize an individual who demonstrates exceptional mentoring abilities and practices".

Research

Dr. Keith C. Clarke is a research cartographer and professor, with a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, specializing in Analytical Cartography. His most recent research has been on environmental simulation modeling, on modeling urban growth using cellular automata, on terrain mapping and analysis, and on indoor cartography. He is the author of three textbooks in eight editions, and over three hundred and fifty book chapters, journal articles, and papers in the fields of cartography, remote sensing, and geographic information systems. Chair of the National Academy of Sciences Mapping Sciences Committee from 2004-2010, Dr. Clarke also chaired National Research Council studies on the National Map and for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. In 2005 he received the John Wesley Powell Award, the highest award given by the USGS. He has served on the Board on Research Data and Information for the National Academies, on the National Geospatial Advisory Committee, on the Board of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society, and on the National Geographic Society’s Committee on Research and Exploration. He was made an AAAS fellow in 2018, and has won all three research and teaching awards from the University Consortium on GIS.

Selected Publications

Liu, Dandan and Clarke, Keith C and Chen, Nengcheng (2020) Integrating spatial nonstationarity into SLEUTH for urban growth modeling: A case study in the Wuhan metropolitan area, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 84, 101545.

Ramos, Rafael G and Silva, Br{\'a}ulio FA and Clarke, Keith C and Prates, Marcos (2020) Too Fine to be Good? Issues of Granularity, Uniformity and Error in Spatial Crime Analysis, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 1-25.

Liang, Xun and Guan, Qingfeng and Clarke, Keith C and Chen, Guangzhao and Guo, Song and Yao, Yao (2021) Mixed-cell cellular automata: A new approach for simulating the spatio-temporal dynamics of Landscape and Urban Planning. 205,103960

Seemann, Jörn and Belyea, Barbara and Clarke, Keith C and Harvey, Francis and Barnes, Trevor J and Lane, Maria and Edney, Matthew H. (2020) Cartography: The Ideal and Its History: Matthew H. Edney. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019. xiii and 296 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. 90.00cloth(ISBN9780226605548); 30.00 paper (ISBN 9780226605685); 30.00electronic(ISBN9780226605715). The AAG Review of Books,8,4,223-235.

Clarke, Keith C and Murray, Alan T. (2020) Introduction to the Special Issue Commemorating Professor Waldo Tobler, Geographical Analysis, 4, 52,477-479.

Wu, Hao and Lin, Anqi and Clarke, Keith C and Shi, Wenzhong and Cardenas-Tristan, Abraham and Tu, Zhenfa (2020) A comprehensive quality assessment framework for linear features from Volunteered Geographic Information, International Journal of Geographical Information Science,1-22.

Liang, Xun and Guan, Qingfeng and Clarke, Keith C and Liu, Shishi and Wang, Bingyu and Yao, Yao (2020) Understanding the drivers of sustainable land expansion using a patch-level simulation model: A case study in Wuhan, China, arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.11541.

Goto, Erica Akemi and Clarke, Keith C. (2020) Ordinal Logistic Regression to Automatic Classify Shallow Landslide Risk Level in Sao Paulo City, Brazil, Workshop on World Landslide Forum, 467—474.

Goto, Erica Akemi and Gray, Summer and Keller, Edward and Clarke, Keith C. (2020) Using Mixed-Methods to Understand Community Vulnerability to Debris Flows in Montecito, CA, Workshop on World Landslide Forum, 435—440.

Keith C Clarke, J Michael Johnson. (2020) Calibrating SLEUTH with big data: Projecting California's land use to 2100, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 83, 101525