Publications

2008

Liu, W. G. and Seto, K. C. “Using ART-MMAP neural network to predict urban growth: a spatio-temporal data mining approach,” Environment and Planning B.

Seto, K. C., Ojima, D., Song, Q., and Mosier, A. “Human drivers of change in the East Asian Monsoon System,” in Changes in the Human-Monsoon System of East Asia in the Context of Global Change. Freney, J., Stewart, J., and Virji, H., eds., World Scientific Press.

Fragkias, M., and Seto, K. C. “Urban Land Use Change Models, Uncertainty, and Policymaking in Rapidly Growing Developing World Cities,” in Land Use Change: Science, Policy and Management. Hill, M. J., and Aspinall, R., eds., Taylor and Francis.

 

2007

Fragkias, M., and Seto, K. C. “Modeling urban growth in data-sparse environments: A new approach,” Environment and Planning B 34: 858-883.

Seto, K. C. and Fragkias, M.  “Mangrove conversion and aquaculture development in Vietnam: A remote sensing-based approach for evaluating the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands,” Global Environmental Change 17: 486-500.

Kaufmann, R. K., Seto, K. C., Schneider, A., Zhou, L., and Liu, Z. “Climate Response to Rapid Urban Growth: Evidence of a Human-Induced Precipitation Deficit,” Journal of Climate 20(10): 2299-2306.

Seto, K. C., Fragkias, M., and Schneider, A. “20 Years After Reforms: Challenges to Planning and Development in China’s City-Regions and Opportunities for Remote Sensing,” in Applied Remote Sensing for Urban Planning, Governance and Sustainability, Redman, C., Stefanov, W., and Netzband, M., eds. Springer-Verlag.

 

2006

Liu, W. G., Seto, K. C., Sun, Z., and Tian, Y. “Urban Land Use Prediction Model with Spatiotemporal Data Mining and GIS,” in Urban Remote Sensing, Weng, Q., and Quattrochi, D. A., eds., pp. 165-178. CRC Press/Taylor and Francis.

Boucher, A., Seto, K. C., and Journél, A. G. “A novel method for mapping land cover changes: integrating time and space with geostatistics,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 44(11): 3427-3435.


2005

Seto, K. C. and Kaufmann, R. K. “Using logit models to classify land cover and land-cover change from Landsat Thematic Mapper,” International Journal of Remote Sensing 26(3): 563-577.

Schneider, A., Seto, K. C., and Webster, D.  “Urban growth in Chengdu, western China: Application of remote sensing to assess planning and policy outcomes,” Environment and Planning B 32(3): 323-345.

Seto, K. C. and Fragkias, M. “Quantifying spatiotemporal patterns of urban land-use change in four cities of China with time series landscape metrics,” Landscape Ecology 20(7): 871-888.

Seto, K. C. “Economies, societies, and landscapes in transition: Examples from the Pearl River Delta, China and the Red River Delta, Vietnam,” in Population, Land Use, Environment: Research Directions. National Research Council Panel on New Research on Population and the Environment. Entwisle, B. and Stern, P., eds., pp. 193-218. NRC Press.

Matson, P., Luers, A. L., Seto, K. C., Naylor, R., and Ortiz-Monasterio, I. “People, land use, and environment in the Yaqui Valley, Sonora, Mexico,” in Population, Land Use, Environment: Research Directions. National Research Council Panel on New Research on Population and the Environment. Entwisle, B. and Stern, P., eds., pp. 238-264. NRC Press.


2004

Seto, K. C., Woodcock, C. E., and Kaufmann, R. K. “Land cover/land use change: A case study of the Pearl River Delta, China,” in Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring, and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface, Gutman, G. and Justice, C., eds., pp. 223-246.  Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Brown, D., Walker, R., Manson, S., and Seto, K. C.  “Modeling land cover and land use change,” in Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring, and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface, Gutman, G. and Justice, C., eds., pp. 395-409. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Elvidge, C. D., Sutton, P. C.,  Wagner, T. W., Ryznar, R., Goetz, S. J., Smith, A. J., Jantz, C., Seto, K. C., Imhoff, M. L.,  Yang, Y. Q., Milesi, C., and Nemani, R.  “Urbanization,” in Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring, and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface, Gutman, G. and Justice, C., eds., pp. 315-328. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Seto, K. C., Fleishman, E., Fay, J.P., and Betrus, C. J. “Predicting spatial patterns of butterfly and bird species richness with Landsat TM derived NDVI,” International Journal of Remote Sensing 25(20): 4309-4324.

Liu, W. G., Seto, K. C., Wu, E. Y., Gopal, S., and Woodcock, C. E. “ART-MMAP: A neural network approach to sub-pixel classification,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 42(9): 1976-1983.

Sanchez, R. C., Seto, K. C., Simon, D., Solecki, W. D., Kraas, F., and Laumann, G. Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Science Plan, International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), Report Series No. 15, Bonn, Germany.

Seto, K. C. “Urban growth in South China: Winners and losers of China’s policy reforms,” Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen 148(5): 50-57.

Boucher, A., Seto, K. C., and Journél, A. G. “Mapping land cover changes with Landsat imagery and spatio-temporal geostatistics,”  Seventh International Geostatistics Congress.  Sept. 26- Oct. 1,  Banff, Canada.


2003

Seto, K. C., and Kaufmann, R. K. “Modeling the drivers of urban land use change in the Pearl River Delta, China: Integrating remote sensing with socioeconomic data,” Land Economics 79(1): 106-121.

Schneider, A., Seto, K. C., Webster, D., Cai, J., and Luo, B. “Spatial and temporal patterns of urban dynamics in Chengdu, 1975-2002,” Asia/Pacific Research Center Discussion Paper, Stanford University. ISBN 1-931368-03-1.

Seto, K. C., and Liu, W. G. “Comparing ARTMAP neural network with Maximum-Likelihood for detecting urban change: the effect of class resolution,” Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 69(9): 981-990.

Duong, N. D., Thoa, L. K., Hoan, H. T., Tuan, T.A., Thu, H.L., and Seto, K. C. “A study on the urban growth of Hanoi using multi-temporal and multi-sensor remote sensing data,” Asian Journal of Geoinformatics 3(3): 69-72.


2002

Seto, K. C., Woodcock, C. E., Song, C., Huang, X., Lu, J., and Kaufmann, R. K.  “Monitoring land-use change in the Pearl River Delta using Landsat TM,” International Journal of Remote Sensing 23(10): 1985-2004.


2001

Song, C., Woodcock, C. E., Seto, K. C., Pax-Lenney, M., and Macomber, S. A. “Classification and change detection using Landsat TM data - when and how to correct atmospheric effects?” Remote Sensing of Environment 75(2): 230-244.

Kaufmann, R. K., and Seto, K. C. “Change detection, accuracy, and bias in a sequential analysis of Landsat imagery of the Pearl River Delta, China: econometric techniques,” Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment 85(1-3): 95-105.


2000

Seto, K. C., Kaufmann, R. K., and Woodcock, C. E. “Landsat reveals China’s farmland reserves, but they’re vanishing fast,” Nature, vol. 406, p. 121.