Keith C. Clarcke

 
Dr. Clarcke is a research cartographer and professor. He holds the B.A. degree with honors from Middlesex Polytechnic, London, England, and the M.A. and Ph. D. from the University of Michigan, specializing in Analytical Cartography. He joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1996, as a full professor, and since 1998 is the Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis. Actually he covers the following positions: Member, Board on Earth Science and Resources, National Academy of Sciences, Member, Committee on Research and Exploration, National Geographic Society, and Chair, Mapping Science Committee, National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Clarke’s most recent research and publications has been on environmental simulation modeling, on modeling urban growth using cellular automata, on terrain mapping and analysis, and on the history of the CORONA remote sensing program.

Dr. Clarke is the former North American Editor of the International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, and is series editor for the Prentice Hall Series in Geographic Information Science. He is the author of the textbooks, Analytical and Computer Cartography (Prentice Hall, 1995), Getting Started with GIS (1997) and about eighty book chapters, journal articles, and papers in the fields of cartography, remote sensing, and geographic information systems. In 1990 and 1991 Dr. Clarke was a NASA /American Society for Engineering Education Fellow at Stanford University, and in 1992 served as Science Advisor to the Office of Research, National Mapping Division of the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia.

He is and was a promoter of synergistic activities like:

  • Chair, Committee to review the Concept of the National Map, Mapping Sciences Committee, National Academy of Sciences (2002–2003)
  • Chair, Communications Committee, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping. 2002–2005
  • President, Cartography and Geographic Information Society (part of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping) (2000–2001)
  • North American Editor, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. (1992–1997)
  • Educator of the Year Award 2003, University Consortium on GIS.

Publications (short list):

  • GROSSNER, K. E., M. F. GOODCHILD, AND K. C. CLARKE 2008. Defining a digital earth system. Transactions in GIS 12(1): 145–160.
  • SYPHARD A.D., CLARKE K. C., AND J. FRANKLIN 2007. Simulating fire frequency and urban growth in southern California coastal shrublands. USA Landscape Ecology 22(3): 431–445.
  • DILLEMUTH, J., K. GOLDSBERRY, AND K. C. CLARKE 2007. Choosing the Scale and Extent of Maps for Navigation with Mobile Computing Systems. Journal of Location Based Services 1(1): 46 – 61.
  • LIU XH, K. C. CLARKE, AND M. HEROLD 2006. Population density and image texture: A comparison study. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 72(2): 187–196.
  • QINGFENG GUAN, T. ZHANG, AND K. C. CLARKE 2006. GeoComputation in the Grid Computing Age, J. D. Carswell and T. Tezuka (editors): W2GIS 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4295: 237–246. Springer-Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg.