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Jerry Dobson

Jerome E. Dobson
Professor

Office: 214a Lindley Hall
Phone: 785-864-5536
Email: dobson@ku.edu


  • Ph.D., Tennessee (1975)
  • President, American Geographical Society
Vita (pdf)

What's New
Professors Jerry Dobson and Steve Egbert and graduate students Matt Dunbar and John Kostelnick are testing new technology for mapping minefields and proposing new cartographic symbols for land mines, minefields, and mine action. Lawrence Journal World Article

Courses Taught

 

Research Interests

Geog. 100: World Regional Geography
Geog. 158: GIS in Science and Society
Geog. 980: Seminar: Geographic Information Science Topics
 
Geographic information science; integration of remote sensing, GIS, and geography

Current Projects

 

Selected Publications

GIS in Landmine Removal: Test new system for mapping minefields; Improve cartographic symbols for landmines, minefields, and mine actions

Populations at Risk: Develop building occupancy tables for estimating population distribution in the world's most troubled regions.
 
Dobson, J. E., and P. F. Fisher. 2003. "Geoslavery," IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 22(1): 47-52.

Dobson, J. E., E. A. Bright, P. R. Coleman, R.C. Durfee, B. A. Worley. 2000. "LandScan: A Global Population Database for Estimating Populations at Risk," Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (inc. front cover of journal) 66( 7):849-857.

Dobson, J. E. 1998. "The Iodine Factor in Health and Evolution," Geographical Review 88 (1):1-28.

Dobson, J. E. 1993. "The Geographic Revolution: A Retrospective on the Age of Automated Geography," The Professional Geographer 45(4):431-439.

Dobson, J. E. 1992. "Spatial Logic in Paleogeography and the Explanation of Continental Drift," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 82(2):187-206.

Dobson, Jerome E., Richard M. Rush, and Robert W. Peplies. 1990. "Forest Blowdown and Lake Acidification," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 80(3):343-361.

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