University of Oklahoma professor publishes 2 books

May Yuan with her recently published books. Click here for more information.

NORMAN-- May Yuan, associate dean for the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma, has published two books, titled “Computation and Visualization for Understanding Dynamics in Geographic Domains: A Research Agenda “and “Understanding Dynamics of Geographic Domains.”

The books, partially sponsored by U.S. intelligence communities, represent collaboration between Yuan and Kathleen Stewart Hornsby, assistant professor of geography at the University of Iowa. They focus in the area of geographic dynamics, specifically on the analysis of spatial-temporal phenomena, which include movement of people in space and time and development of transportation networks.

Both works are compilations of key ideas and issues discussed during a computation workshop hosted by the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, which serves as a unified voice for the GIS research community. While the U.S. intelligence communities sponsored the workshop and publications of the books, the contents of both books are broadly based in computational and visualization theories and methods.