MAS-GIS Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Robert C. Balling, Jr.MAS-GIS Program Director
School of Geographical Sciences
Arizona State University
| Specialties: |
Geostatistical analytical techniques and spatial analysis |
| GIS Experience: |
Dr. Robert Balling has been teaching graduate courses on advanced and multivariate spatial statistics for
more than 25 years. He has published over 50 articles in the professional scientific literature using spatial analysis
techniques. Dr. Balling has been the director of the MAS-GIS since its inception five years ago. |
For more information, please see the
ASU Directory profile for Robert C. Balling, Jr.
[hide detail]
Chris LukinbealMAS-GIS Program Associate Director
School of Geographical Sciences
Arizona State University
Rudy J. Stricklan, RLSGeospatial Technologies Business Development Manager
EMS Consulting Group
Phoenix, AZ
| Specialties: |
|
| GIS Experience: |
Mr. Stricklan has been involved in automated mapping and GIS activities since 1972, starting his career as a
Production Manager for Technical Advisors, the first computerized mapping service bureau in Arizona.
At EMS, he directs the business and technical development of web-based GIS technologies in the cadastral and infrastructure
management industries.
Mr. Stricklan is a registered Land Surveyor in Arizona, and is an Emeritus Executive Board Member of the Arizona Geographic
Information Council (AGIC). He is a former Chairman of AGIC’s Geodetic Control Working Group, a previous Chairman of the
Advisory Committee for Interactive Computer Graphics at Arizona State University, a past President of the Arizona Chapter of the
National Computer Graphics Association, a past President of the Arizona Region of AM/FM International (now GITA), a previous
President of the Arizona Intergraph Users’ Association, and is a Corresponding Member of the Federal Geographic Data
Committee’s Cadastral Subcommittee. He is the current Vice-Chairman for the Arizona Professional Land Surveyors
Association.
Mr. Stricklan is an ESRI Business Partner Consultant, and has been affiliated with GIS consultancy programs sponsored by
Intergraph and IBM.
He is associated with several professional societies, including the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, the Geospatial
Information & Technology Association, URISA, and is a Charter Member of the Arizona Professional Land Surveyors. |
[hide detail]
Jim BennettFaculty Associate
Gabriel BeyChapter President - Arizona
The American Society for Public Administration
Phoenix, AZ
Bo Guo, PE, Ph.D.President
GISTIC Research, Inc.
Chandler, AZ
| Specialties: |
- Enterprise GIS design and development on Oracle Spatial and/or SDE
- Temporal GIS Architecture and Implementation
- GIS Data Quality Assurance
- Programming in ArcGIS and GeoMedia
|
| GIS Experience: |
- Maricopa County Spatiotemporal Parcel Information System (PIMS) (2005)
Dr. Guo was the architect
and developer of this highly integrated system built upon the Oracle Spatial, GeoMedia and ArcSDE technologies. PIMS has achieved
two important objectives in addition to the significant productivity gains in parcel data acquisition, processing and
distribution. The first is the automated maintenance of parcel spatiotemporal integrity so that parcel lineages that violate the
spatiotemporal topology are rejected and current as well as historical parcels are stored seamlessly in a single layer. The
second is the high confidence in data quality. The automated data quality assurance module raises over 30 different types of
error conditions after comparing parcel information stored in several heterogeneous sources such as CAD files, Shapefiles, Access
Databases and legacy database etc. PIMS has become the center piece of the Assessor’s mapping and GIS efforts in the
County.
- Maricopa County Roadrunner Application (2001)
Dr. Guo architected and led the development of the NACo award-winning
project “Roadrunner”. The application represents a seamless integration of LRS-based GIS with the enterprise database
and it is deployed throughout the Public Works Department in the County. There are two major innovations in the underlying
technologies. The first is the use of SQL to quality-check the classic router-section systems built through ArcINFO and to
generate the intersection table with address ranges. The second is the implementation of temporal dynamic segmentation proposed
and defined in Dr. Guo’s doctoral dissertation.
|
[hide detail]
Soe W. MyintAssistant Professor
School of Geographical Sciences
Arizona State University
| Specialties: |
Dr. Soe Myint specializes in remote sensing, GIS, spatial modeling, and geosaptial statistics. His research
interests are in the areas of spatial and environmental modeling techniques for assessment and monitoring of vegetation, soil,
water resources, and man-made features. His research also investigates spatially oriented classification algorithms and pattern
recognition techniques including spatial cooccurrence matrix, spatial autocorrelation, fractal analysis, lacuanarity, Fourier
transform, and wavelet transform approaches. |
| GIS Experience: |
|
For more information, please see the
ASU Directory profile for Soe W. Myint.
[hide detail]
Gady PitaruGIS Analyst/Programmer
City of Phoenix
| Specialties: |
GIS Programming and Applications Development, Google Maps, KML |
| GIS Experience: |
- GIS Technician, Senior GIS Technician, and currently an IT Analyst/Programmer I for the City of
Phoenix
- MAS-GIS 2006-2007 Graduate
- BS Geography & GIS Certificate
|
For more information, please see the
ASU Directory profile for Gady Pitaru.
[hide detail]
Staff
Kay PealstromGraduate Student Coordinator
School of Geographical Sciences
Arizona State University
For more information, please see the
ASU Directory profile for Kay Pealstrom.
