List of works - Alexis Comber

A Comparison of Fuzzy AHP and Ideal Point Methods for Evaluating Land Suitability

A GIS model for mapping spatial patterns and distribution of wild land in Scotland

article

A Modified Change Vector Approach for Quantifying Land Cover Change

article by Ru Xu et al published 1 October 2018 in Remote Sensing

A spatial analysis of plant phenophase changes and the impact of increases in urban land use

article

A spatial analysis of variations in health access: linking geography, socio-economic status and access perceptions

scientific article

Accurate Attribute Mapping from Volunteered Geographic Information: Issues of Volunteer Quantity and Quality

article published in 2015

Actor–network theory: a suitable framework to understand how land cover mapping projects develop?

An environmental assessment of land cover and land use change in Central Siberia using quantified conceptual overlaps to reconcile inconsistent data sets

Approaches to Uncertainty in Spatial Data

scholarly article

Assessing the changing flowering date of the common lilac in North America: a random coefficient model approach

article

Association between physical activity and neighborhood environment among middle-aged adults in Shanghai

scientific article published on 17 April 2013

Association of depression and anxiety with clinical, sociodemographic, lifestyle and environmental factors in South Asian and white European individuals at high risk of diabetes

scientific article published on 30 June 2019

Building a hybrid land cover map with crowdsourcing and geographically weighted regression ⬇️

article by Linda See et al published May 2015 in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

COMPARING NATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN WHAT PEOPLE PERCEIVE TO BE THERE : MAPPING VARIATIONS IN CROWD SOURCED LAND COVER

Comparing statistical and semantic approaches for identifying change from land cover datasets

scientific article published on October 2005

Comparing the consistency of expert land cover knowledge

Comparing the quality of crowdsourced data contributed by expert and non-experts

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Comparison of Data Fusion Methods Using Crowdsourced Data in Creating a Hybrid Forest Cover Map

article by Myroslava Lesiv et al published 22 March 2016 in Remote Sensing

Creating a conceptual framework to improve the re-usability of open geographic data in cities ⬇️

Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science or Volunteered Geographic Information? The Current State of Crowdsourced Geographic Information ⬇️

Crowdsourcing: It Matters Who the Crowd Are. The Impacts of between Group Variations in Recording Land Cover ⬇️

scientific article

Different methods, different wilds: Evaluating alternative mappings of wildness using fuzzy MCE and Dempster-Shafer MCE

article

Fuzzy difference and data primitives: a transparent approach for supporting different definitions of forest in the context of REDD+ ⬇️

Gauging policy-driven large-scale vegetation restoration programmes under a changing environment: Their effectiveness and socio-economic relationships ⬇️

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

Geographically weighted correspondence matrices for local error reporting and change analyses: mapping the spatial distribution of errors and change ⬇️

Geographically weighted elastic net logistic regression

Geographically weighted evidence combination approaches for combining discordant and inconsistent volunteered geographical information ⬇️

article

Half century change of interactions among ecosystem services driven by ecological restoration: Quantification and policy implications at a watershed scale in the Chinese Loess Plateau ⬇️

article

Identifying crop vulnerability to groundwater abstraction: modelling and expert knowledge in a GIS.

scientific article

Identifying the effects of land use change on sediment export: Integrating sediment source and sediment delivery in the Qiantang River Basin, China

scientific article published on 02 June 2019

Integrating land-cover data with different ontologies: identifying change from inconsistency

article by Alexis Comber et al published October 2004 in International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Investigating spatial error structures in continuous raster data ⬇️

scholarly article

Is the number of fast-food outlets in the neighbourhood related to screen-detected type 2 diabetes mellitus and associated risk factors? ⬇️

scientific article published on 31 October 2014

Lessons from spatial transcriptomics and computational geography in mapping the transcriptome

scientific article published on 30 May 2024

Locating bioenergy facilities using a modified GIS-based location–allocation-algorithm: Considering the spatial distribution of resource supply ⬇️

Managing uncertainty when aggregating from pixels to objects: habitats, context-sensitive mapping and possibility theory

scientific article published on 18 February 2010

Mapping coastal land use changes 1965-2014: methods for handling historical thematic data ⬇️

article by Alexis Comber et al published 7 June 2016 in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Methods to Quantify Regional Differences in Land Cover Change ⬇️

More bark than bytes? Reflections on 21+ years of geocomputation ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2017

Peri-urbanization may vary with vegetation restoration: A large scale regional analysis ⬇️

scholarly article by Wei Fu et al published January 2018 in Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Quantifying the effect of ecological restoration on runoff and sediment yields ⬇️

Random forest classification of salt marsh vegetation habitats using quad-polarimetric airborne SAR, elevation and optical RS data

scholarly article by Sybrand van Beijma et al published June 2014 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Reasoning Methods for Handling Uncertain Information in Land Cover Mapping

scholarly article

Regionally-structured explanations behind area-level populism: An update to recent ecological analyses

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Retrieval of Savanna Vegetation Canopy Height from ICESat-GLAS Spaceborne LiDAR With Terrain Correction

article by Ehsan Khalefa et al published November 2013 in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Semantic Boosting: Enhancing Deep Learning Based LULC Classification

scientific article published on 12 August 2021

Spatial analysis of remote sensing image classification accuracy

article

Spatially Varying Coefficient Regression with GAM Gaussian Process splines: GAM(e)-on

scientific article published in 2022

Spatially explicit simulation of land use/land cover changes: Current coverage and future prospects

scientific article published in March 2019

Sub-Pixel Classification of MODIS EVI for Annual Mappings of Impervious Surface Areas ⬇️

scholarly article

The Application of a Geographically Weighted Principal Component Analysis for Exploring Twenty-three Years of Goat Population Change across Mongolia ⬇️

The Creation of a National Agricultural Land Use Dataset: Combining Pycnophylactic Interpolation with Dasymetric Mapping Techniques

The Importance of Scale and the MAUP for Robust Ecosystem Service Evaluations and Landscape Decisions

scientific article published on 09 March 2022

The Varying Impact of Geographic Distance as a Predictor of Dissatisfaction Over Facility Access

The impact of community-based outreach immunisation services on immunisation coverage with GIS network accessibility analysis in peri-urban areas, Zambia

scientific article

Use of airborne polarimetric SAR, optical and elevation data for mapping and monitoring of salt marsh vegetation habitats

scholarly article published 21 October 2014

Using a GIS-based network analysis to determine urban greenspace accessibility for different ethnic and religious groups

article

Using a GIS—Based Network Analysis and Optimisation Routines to Evaluate Service Provision: A Case Study of the UK Post Office

article by Alexis Comber et al published 5 December 2008 in Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy

Using control data to determine the reliability of volunteered geographic information about land cover

scholarly article by Alexis Comber et al published August 2013 in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Using genetic algorithms to optimise current and future health planning--the example of ambulance locations

scientific article

Using geographically weighted models to explore how crowdsourced landscape perceptions relate to landscape physical characteristics

scientific article published in 2020

Using shadows in high-resolution imagery to determine building height

article by Alexis Comber et al published 10 December 2012 in Remote Sensing Letters

Using social media data to identify neighbourhood change

scientific article published on 30 May 2024

What is Land Cover?

When multi-functional landscape meets critical zone science: advancing multi-disciplinary research for sustainable human well-being

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

You know what land cover is but does anyone else?…an investigation into semantic and ontological confusion

gwverse: A Template for a New Generic Geographically Weighted R Package

scientific article published in 2022

List of works by Alexis Comber

A Comparison of Fuzzy AHP and Ideal Point Methods for Evaluating Land Suitability

A GIS model for mapping spatial patterns and distribution of wild land in Scotland

A Modified Change Vector Approach for Quantifying Land Cover Change

A spatial analysis of plant phenophase changes and the impact of increases in urban land use

A spatial analysis of variations in health access: linking geography, socio-economic status and access perceptions

Accurate Attribute Mapping from Volunteered Geographic Information: Issues of Volunteer Quantity and Quality

Actor–network theory: a suitable framework to understand how land cover mapping projects develop?

An environmental assessment of land cover and land use change in Central Siberia using quantified conceptual overlaps to reconcile inconsistent data sets

Approaches to Uncertainty in Spatial Data

Assessing the changing flowering date of the common lilac in North America: a random coefficient model approach

Association between physical activity and neighborhood environment among middle-aged adults in Shanghai

Association of depression and anxiety with clinical, sociodemographic, lifestyle and environmental factors in South Asian and white European individuals at high risk of diabetes

Building a hybrid land cover map with crowdsourcing and geographically weighted regression ⬇️

COMPARING NATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN WHAT PEOPLE PERCEIVE TO BE THERE : MAPPING VARIATIONS IN CROWD SOURCED LAND COVER

Comparing statistical and semantic approaches for identifying change from land cover datasets

Comparing the consistency of expert land cover knowledge

Comparing the quality of crowdsourced data contributed by expert and non-experts

Comparison of Data Fusion Methods Using Crowdsourced Data in Creating a Hybrid Forest Cover Map

Creating a conceptual framework to improve the re-usability of open geographic data in cities ⬇️

Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science or Volunteered Geographic Information? The Current State of Crowdsourced Geographic Information ⬇️

Crowdsourcing: It Matters Who the Crowd Are. The Impacts of between Group Variations in Recording Land Cover ⬇️

Different methods, different wilds: Evaluating alternative mappings of wildness using fuzzy MCE and Dempster-Shafer MCE

Fuzzy difference and data primitives: a transparent approach for supporting different definitions of forest in the context of REDD+ ⬇️

Gauging policy-driven large-scale vegetation restoration programmes under a changing environment: Their effectiveness and socio-economic relationships ⬇️

Geographically weighted correspondence matrices for local error reporting and change analyses: mapping the spatial distribution of errors and change ⬇️

Geographically weighted elastic net logistic regression

Geographically weighted evidence combination approaches for combining discordant and inconsistent volunteered geographical information ⬇️

Half century change of interactions among ecosystem services driven by ecological restoration: Quantification and policy implications at a watershed scale in the Chinese Loess Plateau ⬇️

Identifying crop vulnerability to groundwater abstraction: modelling and expert knowledge in a GIS.

Identifying the effects of land use change on sediment export: Integrating sediment source and sediment delivery in the Qiantang River Basin, China

Integrating land-cover data with different ontologies: identifying change from inconsistency

Investigating spatial error structures in continuous raster data ⬇️

Is the number of fast-food outlets in the neighbourhood related to screen-detected type 2 diabetes mellitus and associated risk factors? ⬇️

Lessons from spatial transcriptomics and computational geography in mapping the transcriptome

Locating bioenergy facilities using a modified GIS-based location–allocation-algorithm: Considering the spatial distribution of resource supply ⬇️

Managing uncertainty when aggregating from pixels to objects: habitats, context-sensitive mapping and possibility theory

Mapping coastal land use changes 1965-2014: methods for handling historical thematic data ⬇️

Methods to Quantify Regional Differences in Land Cover Change ⬇️

More bark than bytes? Reflections on 21+ years of geocomputation ⬇️

Peri-urbanization may vary with vegetation restoration: A large scale regional analysis ⬇️

Quantifying the effect of ecological restoration on runoff and sediment yields ⬇️

Random forest classification of salt marsh vegetation habitats using quad-polarimetric airborne SAR, elevation and optical RS data

Reasoning Methods for Handling Uncertain Information in Land Cover Mapping

Regionally-structured explanations behind area-level populism: An update to recent ecological analyses

Retrieval of Savanna Vegetation Canopy Height from ICESat-GLAS Spaceborne LiDAR With Terrain Correction

Semantic Boosting: Enhancing Deep Learning Based LULC Classification

Spatial analysis of remote sensing image classification accuracy

Spatially Varying Coefficient Regression with GAM Gaussian Process splines: GAM(e)-on

Spatially explicit simulation of land use/land cover changes: Current coverage and future prospects

Sub-Pixel Classification of MODIS EVI for Annual Mappings of Impervious Surface Areas ⬇️

The Application of a Geographically Weighted Principal Component Analysis for Exploring Twenty-three Years of Goat Population Change across Mongolia ⬇️

The Creation of a National Agricultural Land Use Dataset: Combining Pycnophylactic Interpolation with Dasymetric Mapping Techniques

The Importance of Scale and the MAUP for Robust Ecosystem Service Evaluations and Landscape Decisions

The Varying Impact of Geographic Distance as a Predictor of Dissatisfaction Over Facility Access

The impact of community-based outreach immunisation services on immunisation coverage with GIS network accessibility analysis in peri-urban areas, Zambia

Use of airborne polarimetric SAR, optical and elevation data for mapping and monitoring of salt marsh vegetation habitats

Using a GIS-based network analysis to determine urban greenspace accessibility for different ethnic and religious groups

Using a GIS—Based Network Analysis and Optimisation Routines to Evaluate Service Provision: A Case Study of the UK Post Office

Using control data to determine the reliability of volunteered geographic information about land cover

Using genetic algorithms to optimise current and future health planning--the example of ambulance locations

Using geographically weighted models to explore how crowdsourced landscape perceptions relate to landscape physical characteristics

Using shadows in high-resolution imagery to determine building height

Using social media data to identify neighbourhood change

What is Land Cover?

When multi-functional landscape meets critical zone science: advancing multi-disciplinary research for sustainable human well-being

You know what land cover is but does anyone else?…an investigation into semantic and ontological confusion

gwverse: A Template for a New Generic Geographically Weighted R Package