Elizabeth A. Wentz

Executive Committee, Decision Center for a Desert City
Affiliate, GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation

1997 - Ph.D. (Geography) Pennslyvania State University, University Park
1989 - M.A. (Geography) The Ohio State University, Columbus
1987 - B.S. (Mathematics) The Ohio State University, Columbus

Shape and pattern analysis, geographic information science, applications of GIS to urban environment, urban remote sensing, water resource management

SEI(GEO) Visual Geo-Analystics: Develops modeling and visualization tools that will contribute to planning a better future for urban environments. Uses new methods to model a visualization and specify how large sets of objects can be aggregated when the scale of the visualization changes. [Funded by National Science Foundation]

Advancing watershed N management at the local level: Incorporating stream reach ecosystem N sinks into an environmental spatial decision support system : Translates understanding of nitrogen sinks into an Environmental Spatial Decision Support System to improve the capacity of local decision makers [Funded by University of Rhode Island]

Lee, S. and E. A. Wentz. 2008. Applying Bayesian Maximum Entropy to Extrapolating Local-Scale Water Consumption in Maricopa County, Arizona. Water Resources Research, 44(1): W01401, doi:10.1029/2007WR006101.

Wentz, E. A., D. Nelson, A. Rahman, W. L. Stefanov, and S. S. Roy. 2008. Expert system classification of urban land use/cover for Delhi, India. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29(15): 4405-4427.

Williams, E. A. and E. A. Wentz. 2008. Pattern Analysis based on Type, Orientation, Size, and Shape. Geographical Analysis, 40(2): 97–122.

Myint, S., E. A. Wentz, and S. Purkis. 2007. Employing Spatial Metrics in Urban Land-use/Landcover Mapping: Comparing the Getis and Geary Indices. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 73(12): 1403-1415.

Keys, E., E. A. Wentz, and C. Redman. 2007. The spatial structure of land use from 1970-2000 in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area. Professional Geographer , 59(1): 131-147.

Wentz, E. A., and P. Gober. 2007. Determinants of Small-Area Water Consumption for the City of Phoenix, Arizona. Water Resources Management, 21(11): 1849-1863.

GPH 594 - Fundamentals of Geographic Information Science (Fall 2008)
GPH 573 - Programming in GIS (Fall 2008)
GCU 584 - Graduate Research Methods (Spring 2009)
GPH 591 - Capstone Seminar for GIS Graduate Certificate (Spring 2009)