 Jim Burt
Professor
of Geography
 Professional
Background
PhD
(Geography), UCLA, 1980
Research Areas
Physical geography, Climatology, Quantitative
methods, and Geovisualization
Current Activities
Co-principal investigator for SoLIM (Soil
Land Inference Model) for soil mapping based on recent developments
in geographic information science (GISc), artificial intelligence
(AI), and information representation theory.
Books
Understanding Weather and
Climate, 3rd edition. E. Aguado and J.E. Burt.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2004.
Elementary Statistics
for Geographers, 2nd edition. J.
E. Burt and G. Barber. New York: Guilford Press,
1996.
Selected Publications
Quinn,
T., A-X Zhu, and J.E. Burt 2005: “Effects of detailed soil
information on watershed modeling across different models scales”. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation
and Geoinformation,
7, 324-338.
Li, W., C. Zhang, J.E.
Burt, and A-X. Zhu,
2005:, “A Markov
chain-based probability vector approach for modeling spatial
uncertainties of soil classes”. Soil
Science Society of America Journal, 69, 1931-1942.
Burt, J.E., A-X Zhu, M. Harrower, 2005. “Depicting fuzzy
soil class uncertainty using perception-based color models”,
Proceedings of the 11th World Congress of
International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA2005):
Fuzzy Logic, Soft Computing and Computational Intelligence, July 28-31, 2005, Beijing, China,
pp. 112-117.
X. Shi, A-X Zhu, J.E. Burt, F. Qi, and D. Simonson,
2004: “A
case-based reasoning approach to fuzzy soil mapping”, Soil
Science Society of America Journal, 68, 885-894.
W. Li, C. Zhang, J.E. Burt, A-X Zhu, and J.
Feyen, 2004: “Two-dimensional
Markov chain for simulating spatial distribution of soil types”,
Soil Science Society of America Journal, 68, 1479-1490.
Zhu, A-X, Hudson B, Burt,
J.E., Lubich K, Simonson
D., 2001: “Soil
mapping using GIS, expert knowledge, and fuzzy logic”.
Soil Science Society of American Journal 65 (5): 1463-1472.
Courses Taught
Geography 120: Global Physical Environments
Geography 127: Physical Systems of the Environment
Geography 321: Climatology
Geography 360: Quantitative Methods in Geographical Analysis
Geography 560: Advanced Quantitative Methods
Geography 575: Advanced Computer Cartography
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Contact Information
Jim Burt
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Room 425 Science Hall
550 North Park Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1404 USA
Phone 1-608-263-4460
Fax 1-608-265-3991
Email: jeburt@wisc.edu
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