Annemarie Schneider
- Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
- Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment
Professional Background
- Ph.D., Boston University Department of Geography and Environment, 2005
Research Interests
- Land use and land cover change
- Urban geography, particularly urban environment and urban form
- Global environmental monitoring and change
- Quantitative methods in geography, spatial analysis
- Remote sensing and geographic information science (GIS)
Current Activities
- Monitoring and modeling urbanization in China: A mixed methods and multi-scale approach
- Mapping urban areas and urban expansion at a global scale: toward a database of urban land surface and vegetation characteristics
- Environmental modeling of urban impacts on agricultural resources
- The 40 cities project: understanding urban growth in a global sample of metropolitan areas
Recent Publications
- A. Schneider, M. A. Friedl and D. Potere. A new map of global urban extent from MODIS satellite data. Environmental Research Letters, in press, 2009.
- Potere, A. Schneider, S. Angel, and D. Civco. Mapping urban areas on a global scale: which of the eight maps now available is more accurate? International Journal of Remote Sensing, in press, 2009.
- M.A. Friedl, D. Sulla-Menashe, B. Tan, A. Schneider, N. Ramankutty, and A. Sibley. MODIS Collection 5 Global Land Cover: algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets. Remote Sensing of Environment, in press, 2009.
- A. Schneider, and C. E. Woodcock. Compact, dispersed, fragmented, extensive? A comparison of urban growth in 25 global cities using remotely sensed data, pattern metrics and census information. Urban Studies, volume 45, pages 659-692, March 2008.
- D. Potere and A. Schneider. A critical look at representations of urban areas in global maps. Geojournal, Special Issue on Population Distribution, volume 69, pages 55-80, June 2007.
- R. Kaufmann, K.C. Seto, A. Schneider, L. Zhou. Climate response to rapid urban growth: evidence of a human-induced precipitation deficit. Journal of Climate, volume 20, pages 2290-2306, May 2007.
- A. Schneider, K.C. Seto, and D. R. Webster. Urban growth in Chengdu, Western China: linking remote sensing, urban planning and policy perspectives. Environment and Planning B, volume 32, pages 323-345, May 2005.
- X. Zhang, M. A. Friedl, C. B. Schaaf, A. H. Strahler, and A. Schneider. The footprint of urban climates on vegetation phenology. Geophysical Research Letters, volume 31, article L12209, June 2004.
- A. Schneider, M. A. Friedl, D. K. McIver, and C. E. Woodcock. Mapping urban areas by fusing multiple sources of coarse resolution remotely sensed data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, volume 69, pages 1377-1386, December 2003.
Courses Taught
- Environmental Studies 301: Introduction to Environmental Remote Sensing
- Environmental Studies 302: Intermediate Environmental Remote Sensing
- Environmental Studies 401: The Urban Environment
- Environmental Studies 900: Land Use-Land Cover Change
- The Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment Seminar Series
* Nearly all courses are cross-listed with Geography and Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Graduate Students
- Current: Kelly Logan, Zhiwei Ye, Chaoyi Chang, Marc Mayes, Alvin Rentsch
- Past: David Potere
Contact Information
- Annemarie Schneider
- Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 1710 University Avenue, Room 264
- Madison, Wisconsin 53726 USA
- p: 608-890-0557
- f: 608-265-4113 fax
- e: aschneider4@wisc.edu
- w: http://sage.wisc.edu/people/schneider/schneider.html
- Office hours: Tuesdays 3:45-5:45 pm, and by appointment