NCSU GeoForAll Lab

Publications

Books

Petrasova, A., Harmon, B., Petras, V., Tabrizian, P., & Mitasova, H. (2018). Tangible Modeling with Open Source GIS. Second edition. Springer International Publishing. eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89303-7, Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89302-0, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89303-7.

Petrasova, A., Harmon, B., Petras, V., & Mitasova, H. (2015). Tangible Modeling with Open Source GIS. Springer International Publishing. eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25775-4, Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25773-0, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25775-4.

Papers

Ortega, R. and Zanusso E. (2022). Planning green infrastructure in dense urban areas with the Tangible Landscape (TL): A case study of the re-opening of the Mærradal creek in the city of Oslo, Norway. Kart og Plan, 115 (4), pp. 382–399. https://doi.org/10.18261/kp.115.4.5.

Gaydos, Devon A, Petrasova A., Cobb R. C., and Meentemeyer R. K. (2019). Forecasting and Control of Emerging Infectious Forest Disease through Participatory Modelling. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 374 (May). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0283.

Harmon, B. A., Petrasova, A., Petras, V., Mitasova, H., and Meentemeyer, R. K. (2018). Tangible topographic modeling for landscape architects. International Journal of Architectural Computing, pp. 1-18.

Millar, G., Tabrizian, P., Petrasova, A., Vaclav, P., Harmon, B., Mitasova, H., & Meentemeyer, R. K. (2018), Tangible Landscape: A Hands-on Method for Teaching Terrain Analysis. In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Montreal, 21-25 April.

Tabrizian, P., Harmon, B. A., Petrasova, A., Petras, V., Mitasova, H., and Meentemeyer, R. K. (2017). Tangible immersion for ecological design. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), Cambridge, MA 2-4 November, pp. 600-609.

Tonini, F., Shoemaker, D., Petrasova, A., Harmon, B. A., Petras, V., Cobb, R. C., Mitasova, H., and Meentemeyer, R. K. (2017). Tangible Geospatial Modeling for Collaborative Solutions to Invasive Species Management. Environmental Modelling & Software, 92, 176–88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.02.020

Tabrizian, P., Petrasova, A., Harmon, B. A., Petras, V., Mitasova, H., and Meentemeyer, R. K. (2016). Immersive Tangible Geospatial Modeling. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 88:1-88:4. GIS ’16. San Francisco, CA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2996913.2996950

Harmon, B. A., Petrasova, A., Petras, V., & Mitasova, H. (2016). Computational Landscape Architecture: Procedural, Tangible, and Open Landscapes. In J. R. Anderson & D. Ortega (Eds.), Innovations in Landscape Architecture. Routledge.

Harmon, B. A., Petrasova, A., Petras, V., Mitasova, H., & Meentemeyer, R. K. (2016). Tangible Landscape: cognitively grasping the flow of water. In The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. Prague: International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Harmon, B. A. (2016). Embodied Spatial Thinking in Tangible Computing. In TEI ’16: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (pp. 693–696). Eindhoven, Netherlands: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/2839462.2854103

Petrasova, A., Harmon, B. A., Petras, V., & Mitasova, H. (2014). GIS-based environmental modeling with tangible interaction and dynamic visualization. In D. P. Ames & N. Quinn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software. San Diego, California, USA: International Environmental Modelling and Software Society.

Tateosian, L., Mitasova, H., Harmon, B. A., Fogleman, B., Weaver, K., & Harmon, R. S. (2010). TanGeoMS: Tangible Geospatial Modeling System. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 16(6), 1605–12. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2010.202

Mitasova, H., Mitas, L., Ratti, C., Ishii, H., Alonso, J., & Harmon, R. S. (2006). Real-time landscape model interaction using a tangible geospatial modeling environment.. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 26(4), 55–63. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2006.87

Workshops

Petrasova, A., Petras, V., Harmon, B. A., Mitasova, H. (2016, May 2). Using GRASS GIS through Python and tangible interfaces. Workshop conducted at FOSS4G North America 2016, Raleigh, NC.

Presentations

Payam Tabrizian, Anna Petrasova, Brendan A Harmon, Vaclav Petras, Mitasova, Helena. (2017, February 23). Immersive Tangible Landscape. Presented at NCGIS 2017, Raleigh, NC.

Mitasova, Helena, Anna Petrasova, Brendan A Harmon, Vaclav Petras, Payam Tabrizian, and Ross K Meentemeyer. (2016, November 16). Tangible Landscape as a tool for modeling and science communication. Presented as a Conservation Biology Institute Webinar.

Mitasova, Helena, Anna Petrasova, Brendan A Harmon, Vaclav Petras, Payam Tabrizian, and Ross K Meentemeyer. (2016, August 31). Tangible Landscape: Open Source Environment for Geospatial Learning, Science, and Community. Presented as a GeoForAll Webinar.

Harmon, B. A., Petrasova, A., Petras, V., Mitasova, H., & Meentemeyer, R. K. (2016, May 3). Tangible interaction for GIS. Presented at FOSS4G NA 2016, Raleigh, NC.

Harmon, B. A., Petrasova, A., Petras, V., Mitasova, H., & Meentemeyer, R. K. (2016, April 1). Creative spatial thinking with Tangible Landscape. Presented at American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2016, San Francisco, CA.

Petrasova, A., Harmon, B. A., & Mitasova, H. (2014, September). GIS-based modeling with tangible interaction. Presented at FOSS4G 2014, Portland, OR.

Harmon, B. A., Mitasova, H., & Petrasova, A. (2014, January 30). Tangible geospatial modeling for landscape architects. Presented at 2014 Geodesign Summit, Redlands, CA.

Mitasova, H., Harmon, B. A., & Blundell, S. B. (2013, October). Exploring topographic changes impacts on land surface processes using tangible interfaces. Presented at Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

Mitasova, H. (2010). Landscape Design with Tangible GIS. Presented at Geodesign summit, Redlands, CA.

Posters

Petrasova, A., Harmon, B. A., Mitasova, H., White, J. (2014, December 19). Tangible Exploration of Subsurface Data. Presented at 2014 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.