Publications

Developing Countries

Engstrom, Ryan; Hersh, Jonathan Samuel; Newhouse, David Locke. 2017. Poverty from space : using high-resolution satellite imagery for estimating economic well-being (English). Policy Research working paper; no. WPS 8284. Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group.

Engstrom, R., Copenhaver, A., Newhouse, D., Hersh, J., and Haldavanekar, V. (2017) Evaluating the Relationship between Spatial and Spectral Features Derived from High Spatial Resolution Satellite Data and Urban Poverty in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE 2017) Dubai, UAE. DOI: 10.1109/JURSE.2017.7924590

Toure, S., Stow, D., Shih, H.S., Coulter, L., Weeks, J. Engstrom, R., and Sandborn, A. (2016) An object-based temporal inversion approach to urban land use change analysis. Remote Sensing Letters. DOI 10.1080/2150704X.2016.1157640

Sandborn, A. and Engstrom, R (2016) Determining the Relationship Between Census Data and Spatial Features Derived From High Resolution Imagery in Accra, Ghana. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS) Special Issue on Urban Remote Sensing. DOI 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2519843

Engstrom, R., Copenhaver, A. and Qi, Yang (2016) Evaluating the use of Multiple Imagery Derived Spatial Features to Predict Census Demographic Variables in Accra, Ghana. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Beijing, China 10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730909

Yu, Q., Engstrom, R., and Graesser, J. (2016) Contextural Feature Evaluation of Multi-Resolution Imagery. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Beijing, China 10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730770

Engstrom, R., Sandborn, A., Yu, Q. and Graesser, J. (2015) Assessing the Relationship Between Spatial Features Derived from High Resolution Satellite Imagery and Census Variables in Accra, Ghana. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Milan, Italy, p. 2544-2547, DOI:10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7326330

Engstrom, R., Sandborn, A., Yu, Q. Burgdorfer, J., Stow, D., Weeks, J., and Graesser, J. (2015) Mapping Slums Using Spatial Features in Accra, Ghana. Joint Urban and Remote Sensing Event Proceedings (JURSE), Lausanne, Switzerland, DOI: 10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120494

Engstrom, R., Ofiesh, C., Rain, D., Jewell, H., and Weeks, J. (2013) Defining Neighborhood Boundaries for Urban Health Research in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Accra, Ghana Journal of Maps DOI:10.1080/17445647.2013.765366

Azar,D., Engstrom, R., Graesser, J. and Comenetz, J. (2013) Generation of fine-scale population layers using multi-resolution satellite imagery and geospatial data Remote Sensing of Environment 130 219-232. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.11.022

Weeks, J., Getis, A., Stow, D., Hill, A., Rain, D., Engstrom, R., Stoler, J., Lippitt, C., Jankowska, M., Lopez, A.C., Coulter, L, and Ofiesh, C., (2012) Connecting the Dots between Health, Poverty, and Place in Accra, Ghana Annals of the Association of American Geographers DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2012.671132

Jankowska, M., Weeks, J., and Engstrom, R. (2011) Do the Most Vulnerable People Live in the Worst Slums? A Spatial Analysis of Accra Ghana. Annals of GIS 17:4, 221-235. DOI:10.1080/19475683.2011.625976

Engstrom, R., Ashcroft, E., Jewell, H., and Rain, D. (2011) Using Remotely Sensed Data to Map Variability in Health and Wealth Indicators in Accra, Ghana. Joint Urban and Remote Sensing Event Proceedings, Munich, Germany p. 145-148, DOI: 10.1109/JURSE.2011.5764740

Rain, D., Engstrom, R., Ludlow C., and Antos, S. (2011). Accra Ghana: A City Vulnerable to Flooding and Drought-Induced Migration, in Global Report on Human Settlements 2011: Human Settlements Background Study for Chapter 4: UN Publications.

Azar, D., Graesser, J., Engstrom, R., Comenetz, J., Leddy, R., Schechtman, and Andrews, T. (2010) Spatial Refinement of census population distribution using remotely sensed estimates of impervious surface in Haiti. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 31: 21, 5635-5655 DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.496799.


Polar Regions

Qin, Y., Epstein, H., Engstrom, R. and Walker, D. (2017) Circumpolar arctic tundra biomass and productivity dynamics in response to projected climate change and herbivory. Global Change Biology. DOI 10.1111/gcb.13632 Y

u, Q., Epstein, H., Engstrom, R., Shiklomanov, N. and Streletskiy, D. (2015) Land Cover and Land Use Changes in the Oil/Gas Regions of Northwestern Siberia under Changing Climatic Conditions. Environmental Research Letters. DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/124020

Parente, G., Shiklomanov N.I., Streletskiy, D.A., Living in the New North: Migration to and from Russian Arctic Cities, Focus on Geography (2012)

Streletskiy, D.A., Shiklomanov, N.I., Nelson F.E. (2012), Spatial variability of permafrost active-layer thickness under contemporary and projected climate in Northern Alaska, Polar Geography 1-22 DOI:   10.1080/1088937X.2012.680204

Streletskiy, D.A., Shiklomanov, N.I., Nelson F.E. (2012) Permafrost Infrastructure and Climate Change: A GIS-based landscape approach, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 44(3) DOI: 10.1657/1938-4246-44.3

Shiklomanov, N.I., (2012) Non-Climatic Factors and Long-Term, Continental-Scale Changes in Seasonally Frozen Ground, Environmental Research Letters, 7: doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/011003

Streletskiy, D.A., Shiklomanov, N.I., Grebenetz V.A. (2012) Climate Warming-induced Changed in Bearing Capacity of Permafrost in the North of West Siberia, Earth Cryosphere, XVI(1): 22-32 (in Russian).

Shiklomanov N.I., and Nelson F.E., (2012) Thawing Processes and Thermokarst. In, A Treatise on Geomorphology, Major Reference Works/Physical and Social Sciences, Elsevier Scientific Publishers, Oxford, UK (in press).

Shiklomanov N.I., and Nelson F.E., (2012) Active Layer and Thaw Processes. In Elias, S. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science 2nd Edition, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishers (in press)

Anisimov O.A., Anohin Y.A., Lavrov S.A., Malkova G.V., Pavlov A.V., Streletskiy D.A., Shiklomanov N.I. (in alphabetical order): (2012) Continental Permafrost. In Semenov S.M. (ed.) Modern Methods of climate change assessments in Russia, Roshydromet, Moscow, Russia (In Russian)

Shiklomanov N.I., and Streletskiy D.A.(2012): Effect of Cryosphere Changes on Siberian Infrastructure. In P.Y Groisman and G.Gutman (eds.) Environmental Changes in Siberia: Regional Changes and their Global Consequences. Springer Environmental Science and Engineering, XX, 351 p. ISBN 978-94-007-4568-1

Liljedahl, A., Hinzman, L., Harazano, Y., Zona, D., Tweedie, C., Hollister, R., Engstrom, R. and Oechel, W.C., (2011) Nonlinear controls on evapotranspiration in Arctic coastal wetlands. Biogeosciences 8, 3375-3389. doi:10.5194/bgd-8-6307-2011

Engstrom, R. and Hope, A.S. Parameter Sensitivity of the Arctic BIOME BGC Model for Estimating Evapotranspiration in the Arctic Coastal Plain (2011) Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 43(3):380-388 DOI: 10.1657/1938-4246-43.3.380.

Romanovsky V.E., Smith S. L., Christiansen H. H., Shiklomanov N. I.,Drozdov D. S., Oberman N. G., Kholodov A. L., Marchenko S. S. (2011) “Permafrost” in NOAA Arctic Report Card 2011

Shiklomanov, N.I., Streletskiy, D.A., Nelson, F.E., Hollister, R.D., Romanovsky, V.E., Tweedie, C.E., Brown, J. (2010). Long term variations of active layer thickness in moisture controlled landscapes, Barrow, Alaska. Journal of Geophisical Research -Biogeosciences.doi:10.1029/2009JG001248

Yang M., Nelson F.E., Shiklomanov N.I., Yao T., and Guo D. (2010). Permafrost degradation and its environmental effects on the Tibetan Plateau: A review of recent research, Earth Science Review. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.07.002

Anisimov O.A., Belulotskaya M.A., Grigor’ev M.N., Instanes A., Kokorev V.A., Oberman N.G., Reneva S.A., Shiklomanov N.I., Strelchenko Y.G., Strelestkiy D.A. (2010). The Main Natural and Sosio-Economic Consequences of Climate Change in Permafrost Areas: A Forecast Based upon a Synthesis of Observations and Modeling, 75pp., Soviet Greenpeace, Moscow, Russia, 75pp. ISBN 978-6-94442-029-9 (in Russian and English).


Washington, D.C.

Gregory EF, Chamberlain JM, Teach S, Engstrom R, and Mathison DJ. (2015) Geographic Variation in the use of low acuity pediatric Emergency Medical Services. Pediatric Emergency Care DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000000581

Mathison, D., Chamberlain, J., Cowan, N., Engstrom, R., Fu, L., Shoo, A., and Teach, S. (2013) Association of Primary Care Spatial Density with Non-Urgent Visits to a Pediatric Emergency Department Academic Pediatrics 13 (3):278-285 DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2013.02.006

Fu, L., Cowan, N., McLaren, R., Engstrom, R, and Teach, S. (2009) Is spatial accessibility to primary care providers associated with vaccination coverage among children with Medicaid insurance? Pediatrics 124(6) pp. 1579-1586; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-0233