Associate Professor
Tel. (919) 513-1327
E-mail: helena_mitasova@ncsu.edu
Mitasova's Home Page
Spatial Modeling and Visualization
Curriculum Vitae

M.S. in Geodetic Cartography, Slovak Technical University

PhD in Geodetic Cartography, Slovak Technical University

TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

Modeling and monitoring of landscape processes, evolution of coastal topography, geoinformation science. Development of distributed, soil erosion and sediment transport models, spatial interpolation and topographic analysis methods (implemented in ArcGIS, Intergraph Geomedia GRID, and Open source GRASS GIS). Applications of GIS and multidimensional dynamic cartography for sustainable land use management and conservation of natural resources. Member of the OSGeo foundation and Open Source GRASS GIS development team.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Markus Neteler, Helena Mitasova, 2008, Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach, Third Edition, Springer, 406p.

Mitasova, H., Mitas, L., Ratti, C., Ishii, H., Alonso J., and Harmon, R.S., 2006, Real-time Human Interaction With Landscape Models Using a Tangible Geospatial Modeling Environment, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Special Issue - GeoVisualization, 26(4), pp 55-63.

Mitasova, H., Overton, M., Harmon, R.S., 2005, Geospatial analysis of a coastal sand dune field evolution: Jockey's Ridge, North Carolina, Geomorphology 72, pp. 204-221.

Mitasova, H., Mitas, L. and Harmon, R.S., 2005, Simultaneous spline interpolation and topographic analysis for lidar elevation data: methods for Open source GIS, IEEE GRSL 2(4), pp. 375-379.

Mitasova, H., Thaxton, C., Hofierka, J., McLaughlin, R., Moore, A., Mitas L., 2004, Path sampling method for modeling overland water flow, sediment transport and short term terrain evolution in Open Source GIS. In: C.T. Miller, M.W. Farthing, V.G. Gray, G.F. Pinder eds.,
Computational Methods in Water Resources, Elsevier.

Mitasova, H., Drake, T.G., Harmon, R.S., Bernstein, D. 2004. Quantifying rapid changes in coastal topography using modern mapping techniques and GIS, Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, 10(1), 1-11.

Hofierka J., Parajka J., Mitasova H., Mitas L., 2002, Multivariate Interpolation of Precipitation Using Regularized Spline with Tension. Transactions in GIS, Vol 6(2), 135-150.

Mitasova, H., Mitas, L., 2001, Modeling Physical Systems, In: Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling, Parks B., Crane M. and Clarke, K eds., Prentice Hall, 189-210.

For a complete list, see Dr. Mitasova's web site with links to full papers in PDF format.