 Amy C. Burnicki
Instructor
Professional Background
Ph.D. University of Michigan, Natural Resources
and Environment
Full
CV
Research Areas
- GIScience with focus on modeling uncertainty
- propagation of error in remotely-sensed databases
- land-cover/use change
- applications of spatial statistics and geostatistics
in ecological/environmental modeling
Current Research
My current research focuses
on the propagation of error in land-cover-change analyses. Specifically,
my work investigates how uncertainties interact in remotely-derived
land-cover maps by: 1) developing the quantitative methodology
needed to describe the temporal and spatial patterns of error
in land-cover-change analyses and 2) producing a simulated model
capable of propagating error through models of landscape change.
The final goal of my work is to advance our understanding of the
uncertainty present in land-cover-change estimates so a more thorough
and accurate assessment of error in land-cover change results.
My future research will investigate the integration
of methodologies and theories from the fields of GIScience, spatial
statistics, and remote sensing to investigate the impact of incorporating
land-cover change uncertainty measures into models of land-use/cover
change and ecosystem dynamics. My goal in extending my work is
to determine the impact of uncertainty on environmental/ecological
process models in order to increase the predictive accuracy of
those models.
Courses Taught
Geog 675 (Fall 2006)
Geog 170 Introduction to GIScience (Spring 2007)
Selected Publications
In press (2007). Burnicki, A. C., Brown, D. G.,
Goovaerts, P. Simulating error propagation in land-cover change analysis:
The implications of temporal dependence. Computers, Environment and
Urban Systems.
2004. Burnicki, A. C.,
Patil, G. P., Taillie, C. Assessing the similarity between neighboring
watersheds and evaluating the effect of watershed size on conditional
entropy profiles. Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics,
57: 197-207.
2002. Brown, D. G., Goovaerts, P., Burnicki, A.,
Li, M. Y. Stochastic simulation of land-cover change using geostatistics
and generalized additive models. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote
Sensing, 68(10):1051-1061.
Contact Information
Amy C. Burnicki
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Room 375 Science Hall
550 North Park Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1404 USA
Phone 1-608-262-3213
Fax 1-608-265-3991
Email: burnicki@wisc.edu
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