For the most recent list of research and publications please see
Dr. Nina Lam's Abbreviated Vita (April 2018)

Provided below is archive information as of 2012.

Faculty and Student Publications

Lam, N.S.-N., Catts, D., McMaster, R., Quattrochi, D., and Brown, D. 2004. Scale. In A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science, R. McMaster and L. Usery, eds., Chapter 4, pp. 93-128. Bacon Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Myint, S.W., Lam, N.S.-N., and Tyler, J.M. 2004. Wavelet for urban spatial feature discrimination: comparisons with fractals, spatial autocorrelation, and spatial co-occurrence approaches. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 70(8):803-812.

Lam, N.S.-N., Emerson, C., and Quattrochi, D. 2004. Quantitative spatial analysis of remotely sensed imagery. In WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems, D.G. Janelle, B. Warf, and K. Hansen, eds., pp. 559-564. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Ozdenerol, E. and Lam, N.S.-N. 2004. Detecting Spatial Clusters of Cancer Mortality in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. In WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems, D.G. Janelle, B. Warf, and K. Hansen, eds., pp. 75-80. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Lam, N.S.-N. 2004. Fractals and scale in environmental assessment and monitoring. In Scale and Geographic Inquiry: Nature, Society, and Method, E. Sheppard and R. McMaster, eds., Chapter 1. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.

Myint, S.W., Lam, N.S.-N., and Tyler, J. 2002. An evaluation of four different wavelet decomposition procedures for spatial feature discrimination in urban areas. Transactions in GIS 6(4):403-429.

Read, J.M. and Lam, N.S.-N. 2002. Spatial methods for characterizing land-cover changes for the tropics. International Journal of Remote Sensing 23(12):2457-2474.

Lam, N.S.-N., Quattrochi, D., Qiu, H.L. and Zhao, W. 1998. Environmental Assessment and Monitoring with Image Characterization and Modeling System Using Multiscale Remote Sensing Data. Applied Geographical Studies 2(2):77-93.(pdf)

Lam, N.S.-N. and Liu, K.B. 1996. Use of space-filling curves in generating a national rural sampling frame for HIV/AIDS research. The Professional Geographer 48(3):321-332.(pdf)

Lam-PG-1996.PDF Lam, N.S.-N., Fan, M., and Liu, K.B. 1996. Spatial-temporal spread of the AIDS epidemic: A correlogram analysis of four regions of the United States. Geographical Analysis 28(2):93-107.(pdf)

Lam, N.S.-N. and Liu, K.B. 1994. Spread of AIDS in rural America, 1982-1990. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 7:485-490.(pdf)

Lam, N.S.-N.and Quattrochi, D.A. 1992. On the Issues of Scale, Resolution, and Fractal Analysis in the Mapping Sciences. Professional Geographer 44(1):88-98.(pdf)

Lam, N.S.-N. 1986. Geographical patterns of cancer mortality in China. Social Science and Medicine 23(3):241-247.(pdf)

Liu, K.B. and Lam, N.S.-N. 1985. Paleovegetational reconstruction based on modern and fossil pollen data: An application of discriminant analysis. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 75(1):115-130.(pdf)

Lam, N.S.-N. 1983. Spatial interpolation methods: A review. The American Cartographer 10(2):129-149.(pdf)

Lam, N. S.-N. 1994. Book review on "The Slow Plague: A Geography of the AIDS Pandemic" by P. Gould, 1993. In The Professional Geographer 46(3):394-395.(pdf)

Laboratory Publications

Lam, N. S.-N., Quattrochi, D. A., Qiu, H.-L., Zhao, W. 1996. Developed ICAMS (Image Characterization And Modeling System), a software system to compute fractal dimensions and other spatial statistics for remote sensing images.

Lam, N. S.-N. 1989. Created the China County Boundary File. Baton Rouge, LA: Geosciences Publications, Louisiana State University. (The digital boundary file includes more than 2000 counties in China and is available in different mapping software formats.)

Lam, N. S.-N. 1989. Coordinated the publication of Quick Guides to Software Holdings of Computer Mapping Sciences Laboratory, Documentation No. 2, Department of Geography and Anthropology, LSU.

Lam, N. S.-N. 1988. Coordinated the publication of Quick Guides to Software Holdings of Computer Mapping Sciences Laboratory, Documentation No. 1, Dept. of Geography and Anthropology, LSU.

Data Sets Produced

China county boundary file (by N. Lam, 1989) - Intergraph, Arc/Info, Atlas*Graphics, published by LSU Geosciences Publications.

U.S. 1980 county boundary file (by N. Lam, C. Y. Cao, and M. Fan, 1992) - Arc/Info, Atlas*Graphics, Intergraph.

U.S. Historical county boundary files (by C. Earle and C. Y. Cao, 1991) - Atlas*Graphics, published by LSU Geosciences Publications.

Philippines, Vietnam, Japan, Korea (by Veeck, et al.) - Atlas/Graphics

A variety of digital boundary files and data produced by students.

Dissertations Completed

Kulkarni, Amit. 2012. An Object-Based Image Analysis Approach for Detecting Urban Impervious Surfaces.

Arenas, Helbert. 2011. An Agent-Based Simulation Model for Business Reopenings in New Orleans Post Hurricane Katrina.

Liang, Wei. 2009. An integrated agent-based microsimulation model for hurricane evacuation in New Orleans.

Ju, Wenxue. 2008. A genetic Bayesian approach for texture-aide urban land use/cover classification.

Wang, Fei. 2007. Land cover/land use classification and change detection using genetic algorithms.

Vinnakota, Srinivas. 2006. Socioeconomic characteristics of cancer mortality in the United States of America: A spatial data mining approach.

Zhou, Guiyun. 2006. Detecting the socioeconomic conditions of urban neighborhoods through wavelet analysis of remotely sensed imagery.

Xiao, Ke. 2003. Fractal compression and analysis of remotely sensed imagery.

Zhao, Wei. 2001. Multiscale analysis for characterization of remotely sensed images.

Myint, Soe Win. 2001. Wavelet analysis and classification of urban environment using high-resolution multispectral image data.

Ozdenerol, Esra. 2000. A spatial inquiry of infant low birth weight and cancer mortality in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.

Bark, Mihye. 2000. Cancer mortality and environment in Louisiana: A geographical inquiry.

Read, Jane. 1999. Land-cover change detection for the tropics using remote sensing and geographic information systems.

Cherukuri, Rajabhushanam. 1997. Land/water interface delineation using neural networks.

Weigel, Stephanie. 1996. Scale, resolution and resampling: Representation and analysis of remotely sensed landscapes across scale in geographic information systems.

Cao, Changyong. 1994. Detecting the scale and resolution effects in remote sensing and GIS.

Theses Completed

Tran, Quang. 2011. Estimating greenhouse gas emissions in Louisiana at the parish scale.

Li, Kenan. 2011. Temporal Changes of Coastal Community Resilience in the Gulf of Mexico Region.

LaRock, Danielle. 2011. Temporal Changes in Quality of Life and Environment in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Perera, Priyan. 2009. An environmental justice assessment of the Mississippi River industrial corridor in Louisiana. 2009. (non-thesis research paper only)

Baker, Ariele. 2009. Creating an empirically derived community resilience index of the Gulf of Mexico region.

Qin, Xiaojun. 2009. A social vulnerability-based genetic algorithm to locate/allocate transit bus stops for disaster evacuation in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Tyrna, Abby. 2008. Wetland mitigation banks and the no-net-loss requirement: an evaluation of the Section 404 Permit program in southeast Louisiana.

Challuri, Sainath. 2006. An analysis of public transit accessibility using the distance constrained P-median problem approach: Bus stop consolidation for the Capital Area Transit System of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.

Kulkarni, Amit. 2004. Evaluation of the impacts of Hurricane Hugo on the land cover of Francis Marion National Forest, South Carolina using remote sensing.

DeWeese, Georgina. 2001. Bottomland forest reconstruction and classification using General Land Office Surveys, remote sensing, and geographic information systems.

Feng, WeiWen. 1998. Predicting the spread of AIDS using artificial neural networks.

Hou, Ren-Rong. 1998. A local-level approach in detecting scale effects on landscape indices.

Nicholas, Dennis. 1998. Measuring development in the Lower Mississippi Delta: an integrated environmental approach.

Hupp, Robert. 1997. Hazards analysis of extremely hazardous substance transport in Northwest Louisiana.

Duvic, Lisa. 1996. Evaluation of location-allocation analysis and GIS for site selection of potential Louisiana state parks.

Dia, Ibrahima. 1996. Assessing agricultural suitability of Senegalese landscape using GIS.

Cherukuri, Rajabhushanam. 1994. Evaluation of methods for the delineation of land/water conditions using AVHRR imagery.

Campanella, Richard. 1993. Mapping and measuring the cloud forests of Honduras for effective delimitation as natural reserves.

Graham, Keith. 1987. Conversion of the Louisiana Railroad Safety Information System to a geographic information system using the Intergraph computer system.

Other Graduate Student Research

PhD Dissertations:

Edgeworth, Kathleen - Spatial data mining of census characteristics (Incomplete)

Feng, Weiwen - Modeling AIDS spread using a behavioral model (Incomplete)

M.S. Theses:

Tania Pal - Spatial patterns of crime in Baltimore (Completed M.S with another advisor)