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Barry Joel Kronenfeld
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
George Mason University

Education
Teaching
Research
Publications
Other


Education:
2004 Ph.D. Geography, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
1993 B.S. Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

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Teaching:
GIS & Cartography Physical Geography
GEOG 110: Maps & Mapping
GEOG 556: Automated Cartography
GEOG 650: Introduction to GIS Programming
GEOG 664: Spatial Data Structures
GEOG 102: Physical Geography
GEOG 333: Biogeography

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Research:
Here are some figures from recent presentations - feel free to contact me for more information. Click for a larger image:

PLSR simulation Forest types in western NY: 1799 & 1993 Gradient polygon model specification Fuzzy visualization of Walter's zonobiomes of Africa

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Publications and Presentations:
Journals and Refereed Conference Proceedings

Kronenfeld, BJ and YC Wang. 2007. Accounting for surveyor inconsistency and bias in estimation of tree density from presettlement land survey records. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 37(11):2365-2379.

Kronenfeld, BJ. 2007. Triangulation of gradient polygons: A spatial data model for categorical fields. In S Winter, M Duckham, L Kulik and B Kuipers, eds., Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Melbourne, Australia, Sep. 19-23, 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4736. Berlin: Springer.

Kronenfeld, BJ. 2005. Gradation and Map Analysis in Area-Class Maps. In DM Mark & AG Cohn, eds., Proceedings of the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), Ellicottville, NY, USA, Sep. 2005. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Kronenfeld, BJ. 2005. Incorporating Gradation as a Communication Device in Area-Class Maps. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 32(4):231-241.

Kronenfeld, BJ and ND Kronenfeld. 2004. Minimizing information loss in continuous representations: A fuzzy classification technique based on principal components analysis. Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the Fifteenth Annual Conference on the Interntational Environmetrics Society and the Sixth Annual Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Portland, ME, June 28-July 1, 2004 (9 pp.)

Kronenfeld, BJ. 2003. Implications of a Data Reduction Framework to Assignment of Fuzzy Membership Values in Continuous Class Maps. Spatial Cognition & Computation, 3(2/3):221-238 (Special Issue on Spatial Vagueness, Uncertainty and Granularity: edited by B Bennett and M Cristani)
(download PDF: 723kb)

Kronenfeld, BJ. and ND Kronenfeld. 2002.  Optimizing Class Membership Values: Beyond the Similarity Model.  In Egenhofer, M and D Mark, (eds.), GIScience 2002 Abstracts, University of California Regents
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Kronenfeld, BJ. 2001. Perspectives for Visualizing Gradation in Ecological Maps. In M Cristani and B Bennett (eds.), Proceedings of SVUG '01: A Joint COSIT-FOIS Workshop on Spatial Vagueness, Uncertainty and Granularity , held in Ogunquit, ME, October 15-16, 2001.
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Other Publications:


Kronenfeld, BK. 2005. Review of "GIS Fundamentals: A First Text on Geographic Information Systems (2nd Edition)" by Paul Bolstad. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing.

Kronenfeld, Barry, David Mark and Barry Smith. 2002. Gradation and Objects with Indeterminate Boundaries. Research challenge proposal, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) (2 pp.)


Conference Presentations: 2008. Quantifying and correcting for surveyor bias in presettlement land survey records. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Boston, MA. With YC Wang. (paper)

2007. Raster-to-TIN conversion for soft classified maps. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers., San Francisco, CA. (paper)

2007. Calibrating a model of the spatial structure of presettlement forests in western New York using modern forest inventory data. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Chicago, IL. (paper)

2006. Automated Simulation of an Expert-based Ecoregion Delineation. International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE). San Diego, CA. With RG Bailey and A Falconer. (paper)

2005. A Hill-Climbing Algorithm for the Automated Production of Graded Area-Class Maps. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Denver, CO. (paper)

2004. Revisiting the Classless Choropleth Map Debate with Fuzzy Maps. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. (poster)

2003. Representing Heterogeneous Landscapes: A Case Study of the Vegetation Domain. Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), Doctoral Colloquium, Ittingen, Switzerland. (paper)

2002. Statistical methods for comparing spatial characteristics of species distributions between presettlement forests and current forest inventories. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, Ca, 2002. (paper)

2001. Visualizing fuzzy vegetation regions in the eastern U.S.: A prototype GUI.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. New York, NY. (paper)

2000. Proposal for the visualization of gradation in categorically defined space, with a case study on forest communities in western NY & PA.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA. (poster)

1999. Analysis of tree variability captured by current ecoregion maps of the eastern U.S. NCGIA Annual Meeting. Santa Barbara, CA. (poster)

 

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Other:
I designed the "World Ball" used by Coach Larranaga in his summer youth basketball camp in 2007 and sold at the GMU bookstore. Click here for the official website.

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