Associate Professor
Email: jochen@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-772-5221
Fax: 212-772-5268
Office: 1030 HN

Mailing Address:
Department of Geography
Hunter College of the City University of New York
695 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10065

[ Education | Interests | Projects | Students | Courses | Publications | Links ]

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Education:

Ph.D.	1995	University of Vechta, Germany, GIScience
M.S. (Diplom)	1986	University of Hamburg, Germany, Geography
B.A. (Vordiplom)	1983	University of Hamburg, Germany, Geography

Research Interests:

Dynamic or process GIS, spatio-temporal analysis, landscape ecology, crime, health, and transportation applications

Teaching Interests:

(Internet) GIS, spatial analysis, modeling of the urban environment

Current Projects:

• Health discrepancies and aging in NY state
• Ferry parking and landside access in the NY metropolitan area
• Scales and spatial clashes in social indicator data
• Editor of the URISA Journal
• Book editor for Transactions in GIS

Students:

Current Graduate Student Advisees:

• Angelo Lampousis
• Chipp Jansen
• Linda Pistolesi

Graduated PhD Students:

• Elizabeth Groff (2006) - An individual-level process model for understanding changes in crimes rates
• Marco Scuderi (2005) - Knowledge discovery techniques for land-use/transportation analysis
• Femke Reitsma (2004) - Relevating Process: application of a new process oriented data model based on a novel theoretical foundation for geographic information science
• Peng Ming (2000) - Modelling biological invasion of lantana camara in Northland, NZ
• Rey Ofren (1998) - assessment and hazard modelling of tropical forest fire

Graduated Master Students:

• Brandon Derman (2008) - Geoprocessing model in support of a ferry landing SDSS in the metropolitan NY area
• Dan Starobin (2007) - Groundwater Pollution Potential-Governed Decision Support System for Land Use Planning Using DRASTIC
• Bala Aboki (2005) - Development of a resurfacing plan for the New York City street network
• Kathleen Vazoulas (2004) - Geographic analysis of visitors to Maryland Historic Homes
• Shane Engels (2004) - Applying Q-analysis to finding holes in transportation networks
• Peter Armstrong (2002) - A spatial decision support system based on the statistics package R
• Femke Reitsma (2001) - Measures of spatial complexity
• Marco Scuderi (2001) - Translating spatio-temporal phenomena into OLAP dimensions
• Kerrin Sime (2000) - Formalisation and implementation of a complex geographic object
• Mark Gladstone (2000) - Geological mapping system for field-work notebook computers
• Vivienne Cole (1999) - Agent-based model of the dispersal of Rhamnus spec.
• Darren Payne (1999) - GIS-based fire modelling at micro-and macro scales
• Shane Piennar (1998) - A guide to sand dune morphometry

Courses:

• GEOG 705.95 - GIS in Public Health

• GTECH 201 - Quantitative Geographic Methods
• GTECH 705 - Spatial Analysis

• GTECH 710 - Introduction to GIS

• GTECH 732 - Advanced GIS

• GTECH 732.53 - Urban Modeling

Publications:

• Books
  • Albrecht, J. 2007. Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS. London: Sage Publications.

• Chapters in books

  • Albrecht J 2008. Application Planning. Chapter 8 in Haklay M, Towards Usable Geospatial Technologies – a handbook. Wiley.

  • Albrecht J 2008. Analytical Operations in GIS. In Warf B and P Jankowski, Encyclopedia of Geography. London: Sage Publications.

  • Albrecht J 2008. A Requirement List for Geo-ontology Tools. Accepted for GI Forum 2008. Karlsruhe: Wichmann Verlag.

  • Albrecht J 2007. Scale. Entry in Kemp (Ed), Encyclopaedia of Geographic Information Science. London: Sage Publications.

  • Albrecht J. 2007. Dynamic GIS. In Wilson, J. and S Fotheringham (Eds) The Handbook of Geographic Information, pp. 436-446. London: Blackwell.

  • Reitsma F. and J. Albrecht 2006. A new process data model and its application. In Drummond J., Billen R., Forrest D. and E. João (eds), 2006, Dynamic & Mobile GIS: Investigating Change in Space and Time, pp. 76-87. London: Taylor & Francis.

  • Albrecht J. and A. Car 2004. GIS Analysis for Scale-sensitive Environmental Modelling Based on Hierarchy Theory. Japanese translation of 1999 chapter in Dikau and Saurer. In Oguchi, T. Komatsu A., Oguchi C. and K Sato (Eds.) GIS for Earth Surface Systems.Kokon: Tokyo, pp. 1-20.

  • Albrecht J. and J. Pingel 2004. GIS as a Communication Process. In Wang F (Ed.) Geographic Information Systems and Crime Analysis, pp. 2-23. Singapore: Idea Group.

  • Guesgen H., Albrecht J. and S. Grundner 2000. Erosion Modeling in a Raster-Based GIS with Fuzzy Logic. In Proceedings FLAIRS-2000, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Orlando, Florida.

  • Albrecht J. and A. Car 1999. GIS Analysis for Scale-sensitive Environmental Modelling Based on Hierarchy Theory. In Dikau R. and H. Saurer (Eds.) GIS for Earth Surface Systems. Berlin, Gebrüder Bornträger, pp. 1-23.

  • Albrecht J. 1998. Universal Analytical GIS Operations – A task-oriented systematisation of data-structure-independent GIS functionality. In Craglia M and H. Onsrud (Eds.) Geographic Information Research: transatlantic perspectives. pp. 577-591. London: Taylor & Francis.

  • Guesgen H. and J. Albrecht 1998. Qualitative Spatial Reasoning With a Fuzzy Distance Operator. In Poiker T. and N Chrisman: Proceedings, 8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling. International Geographical Union, Geographic Information Science Study Group, pp. 767-776.

  • Jung S. and J. Albrecht 1997. Multi-Level Comparative Analysis of Spatial Operators in GIS and Remote Sensing as a Foundation for an Integrated GIS, In Förstner W. and L. Plümer (Eds.) Semantic Modeling for the Acquisition of Topographic Information from Images and Maps, SMATI ´97, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel Boston, pp. 72-88.

  • Albrecht J., Jung S. and S. Mann 1997. VGIS—A GIS Shell for the Conceptual Design of Environmental Models. In Kemp, Z. (ed.), Innovations in GIS IV. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 154-165.

  • Albrecht J. 1995. Geographic Objects And How to Avoid Them. In Burrough P. and A. Frank (Eds.): Geographic Objects with Indeterminate Boundaries. GISDATA 2. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 325-331.

  • Albrecht J. 1995. Semantic Net of Universal Elementary GIS Functions. Proceedings, Twelfth International Symposium on Computer-Assisted Cartography (Auto-Carto12), pp. 232-241. Charlotte, NC.

  • Albrecht J. 1995. Virtual Geographic Information System (VGIS). In Nunamake J. and R. Sprague (Eds): Proceedings 28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, GIS Minitrack, Volume IV, pp. 141-150. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA.

  • Yuan M. and J. Albrecht 1995. Structuring Geographic Information and GIS Operations: From a User's Perspective. In Frank A. and W. Kuhn (Eds.), Spatial Information Theory: A Theoretical Basis for GIS. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 988, pp. 107-122. Springer Verlag, Berlin.

  • Albrecht J. and M. Ehlers 1994. Virtual Geographic Information System (VGIS). In Nievergelt J., Roos T., Schek H. and P. Widmayer (Eds.): IGIS '94: Geographic Information Systems: International Workshop on Advanced Research in Geographic Information Systems, Ascona(CH). pp. 55-59. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 884. Springer, Berlin.

  • Albrecht J. 1994. Universal Elementary GIS Tasks - Beyond Low-Level Commands. Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of Spatial Data Handling, Edinburgh. pp. 209-222.

  • Ehlers M., Brösamle H. and J. Albrecht 1994. Modelling Image Interpretation in Remote Sensing Through a Virtual GIS Shell (VGIS). Proceedings ISPRS Commission III Spatial Information from Digital Photogrammetry and Computer Vision. Vol. 30. Part3/1 pp. 212-218.

• Articles in Refereed Journals
  • Albrecht J, Derman B and L Ramasubramanian 2008. Geo-Ontology Tools – the missing link. Transactions in GIS, 12(4):409-24.

  • Camay S, Ramasubramanian L, Derman B, Bohn E, Albrecht J, Milczarski W, Boile M and S Theofanis 2008. Ferry Parking and Landside Access Study: implementing public outreach and impact assessment. Transportation Research Record.

  • Albrecht J 2005. A new age for geosimulation. Transactions in GIS, 9(4):451-54.

  • Reitsma F and J Albrecht 2005. Implementing a New Data Model for Simulating Process. International Journal for Geographic Information Science 19(10):1073-90.

  • Reitsma F and J. Albrecht 2005. Modeling with the Semantic Web in the Geosciences. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 20(2):22-24.

  • Albrecht J and L Ramasubramanian 2004. The Moving Target: a geographic index of relative wellbeing. Journal of Medical Systems, 28(4):369-82.

  • Ming P and J Albrecht 2004. Integrated framework for the Simulation of Biological Invasions in a Heterogeneous Landscape. Transaction in GIS, 8(3):309-334.

  • Albrecht J 2003. Deconstructing Hate Crime. Forensic Science International, 136 (Supplement 1):15.

  • Guesgen H and J Albrecht 2000. Imprecise Reasoning in Geographic Information Systems. International Journal for Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 113(1):121-131.

  • Albrecht J 1999. Towards interoperable geo-information standards: a comparison of reference models for geo-spatial information. Annals of Regional Science, 33(2):151-169.

  • Albrecht J 1999. Geospatial information standards a comparative study of approaches in the standardisation, Computers and Geosciences, 25(1):9-24.

• Monographs, Reports, and Extension Publications
  • Albrecht J 1996. Universal Analytical GIS Operations. A Task-Oriented Systematization of Data Structure-Independent GIS Functionality Leading Towards a Geographic Modeling Language. Dissertation, Mitteilungen - Heft 23, Vechta.

  • Albrecht J 1993. GTZ GIS GRASS: a tutorial for self-paced learning of the GRASS software package. Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Eschborn, Germany

• Book reviews
  • Albrecht J 2005. Java Programming for spatial Sciences by Jo Wood. Transactions in GIS, 9(1): 68-69.

  • Albrecht J 1999. Principles of Geographical Information Systems by Burrough P and R McDonnell. Transactions in GIS 3(2):201-202.

  • Albrecht J 1999. Geographic Information systems and the Law by G. Cho. The New Zealand Geographer 55(1):66-67.

  • Albrecht J 1997. GIS—A Computing Perspective by M. Worboys. In International Journal for Geographical Information Systems 11(4):@5-406.

  • Albrecht J 1996. Elements of Spatial Data Quality by Guptill S and J Morrison. In GIS Europe, 5(4):29.

  • Albrecht J 1995. Human Factors in Geographical Information Systems, edited by Medyckyj-Scott D and H Hearnshaw. In International Journal for Geographical Information Systems 9(5):572-73.

• Other articles
  • Albrecht J, Ramasubramanian L, Evans M and A Zonderman 2008. Theorizing Relative Wellbeing: Examining and Interpreting Evidence from the City of Baltimore. 38th Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Baltimore, MD.

  • Albrecht J 2008. From VGIS to Standardized Geo-spatial Process Models. Schiewe J and U Michel (Eds), Geoinformatics Paves the Highway to Digital Earth, Festschrift for Manfred Ehlers, pp xx-yy. gi-reports@ifg, vol. 8. Osnabrück, Germany: Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing..

  • Albrecht J and M Peng 2000. From Conceptual to Real-World Conceptual Modeling. Proceeding s 4th International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling (GIS/EM4). Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 2 - 8, 2000. http://www.colorado.edu/research/cires/banff/upload/145/

  • Albrecht J 1999. GIS Certification: what URISA could learn from related initiatives in the spatial industry. Proceedings of the URISA Annual Conference and Exposition, Chicago, August 21-25, 1999, pp. 571-576.

  • Peng M, Albrecht J and P Forer 1999. Dynamic simulation of the Spread of Lantana camara in a Heterogeneous Landscape. Proceedings International Symposium on Digital Earth, Nov. 29 - Dec 2, 1999, Beijing, China.

  • Cole V and J Albrecht 1999. Modelling the Spread of Invasive Species – Parameter Estimation Using Cellular Automata in GIS. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Dynamic and Multi-Dimensional GIS, Beijing, October 4-6, 1999. ISPRS, Vol. 32, part 4W12, pp 141-48. Beijing: National Geomatics Center of China.

  • Payne D and J Albrecht 1999. Fire Dynamics: combining micro and macro models for simulating unwanted forest fire. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Dynamic and Multi-Dimensional GIS, Beijing, October 406, 1999. ISPRS, Vol. 32, part 4W12, pp 305-10. Beijing: National Center of China.

  • Albrecht J and H Guesgen 1998. A Combinatorial Fuzzy Set-Theoretic Approach to the Mapping Between Quantitative and Qualitative Data. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on GeoComputation, 17-19 September 1998, Bristol, UK. http://divcom.otago.ac.nz/sirc/=oc98/49/gc_49.htm.

  • Peng M and J Albrecht 1998. Integrating GIS with Dynamic Models of Biological Invasion. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Modeling Geographical and Environmental Systems with Geographical Information Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 659-664. 22-25 June. Hong Kong.

  • Albrecht J, Jung S and S Mann 1996. VGIS—A GIS Shell for the Conceptual Design of Environmental Models. Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 1996 Conference (GISRUK'96) 10-12 April 1996, University of Kent at Canterbury, pp. 23-28.

  • Albrecht J and H Kemppainen 1996. A Framework for Defining the New ISO Standard for Spatial Operators. Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 1996 Conference (GISRUK'96) 10-12 April 1996, University of Kent at Canterbury, pp. 78-84.

  • Albrecht J 1994. Methoden und Modelle in Geographischen Informationssystemen. In Greifswalder Geographische Arbeiten, 11:104-113.

  • Albrecht J 1991. Zum Objektbegriff in Geographie und Informatik. Freiburger Geographische Hefte.34:18-21.

• Invited talks
  • Deconstructing Hate Crime. European Forensic Science Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 2003.

  • The Future of Digital Earth – framework for a spatial publishing and discovery infrastructure. Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) National Forum ‘IT in the Transformation of the Library’, Milwaukee, WI, 2001.

  • Formalising Spatial Information. Department of Computer Science, Canterbury University, Christchurch, NZ. 2000.

  • Geography New Zealand, Inc. or the Professionalisation of the New Zealand Geographical Society. Geography Department, University and University of Canterbury, NZ. 1999

  • Universal GIS Operations. Mathematics Department of the Free University of Berlin, Germany. 1995

Links:

• URISA