Atsushi Nara

Academic Publications

Characterizing the spatial and sociodemographic sampling biases found in mobile location data through a multiscale analysis of the United States

Jessica Embury; Somayeh Dodge; Atsushi Nara

Scientific Reports, 2026, journal article

Demography Geographic information systems Spatial analysis (Statistics)

Assessing the Effects of Geocomputation Lessons on Secondary School Students’ Perceptions of Geography and Computer Science

Jessica Embury; Atsushi Nara; Kelly León; Thomas Herman; Sergio Rey; Michael Solem

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2026, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 1

Computer science Geographic information systems Geography Spatial analysis (Statistics)

An integration modeling framework for individual-scale daily mobility estimation

Luo, N.; Nana Luo; Atsushi Nara; et al.

Travel Behaviour and Society, 2024, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 4

Geographic information systems Systems integration Transportation Research Forum University of South Florida. Center for Urban Transportation Research

Developing a social sensing index for monitoring place-oriented mental health issues using social media (twitter) data

Jaehee Park; Ming-Hsiang Tsou; Atsushi Nara; Susan Cassels; Somayeh Dodge

Urban Informatics, 2024, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 6

Geographic information systems Public health surveillance Social media Twitter

Examining human mobility changes during COVID-19 across socioeconomic groups: a comparative analysis of San Diego County and New York City

Jaehee Park; Ming-Hsiang Tsou; Atsushi Nara; Somayeh Dodge; Susan Cassels

Computational Urban Science, 2024, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 5

COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-) Pandemics Public health

Machine learning approach to burned area mapping for Southern California

Chandler Ross; Douglas Stow; Daniel Sousa; Megan Jennings; Atsushi Nara; Philip Riggan

International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2024, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 1

Geographic information systems Machine learning Southern California Wildfires

Preparing for a Career at the Intersection of Geography and Computing: Availability and Access to Training Along Geocomputational Career Pathways

Atsushi Nara; Jessica Embury; Matthew Velasco; Rachel Russell; Amr Magdy; Coline C. Dony

The Professional Geographer, 2024, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 4

Career development Computer science Geographic information systems Geography

Detecting synthetic population bias using a spatially-oriented framework and independent validation data

Jessica Embury; Atsushi Nara; Sergio Rey; Ming-Hsiang Tsou; Sahar Ghanipoor Machiani

International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2024, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 3

Geographic information systems Software frameworks Spatial analysis (Statistics)

Integrating local and neighboring area influences into vulnerability modeling of infectious diseases in Singapore

Chin, W.C.B.; Feng, C.-C.; Leong, C.-H.; Pang, J.; Clapham, H.E.; Atsushi Nara; et al.

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2023, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 5

Epidemiology Geographic information systems Singapore Southeast Asia

Mapping environmentally sustainable urban development within six US cities through object-based image change analysis of aerial orthoimagery

Noah N. Young; Young, N.N.; Douglas A. Stow; Stow, D.A.; Madison R. E. Swayne; Swayne, M.R.E.; Atsushi Nara

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2023, journal article

Aerial photography in city planning Geographic information systems Orthophotography Sustainable urban development

Datasets and CodesPredicting households' residential mobility trajectories: A with Geographically Localized Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanation (GLIME)

Chanwoo Jin; Sohyun Park; Hui Jeong Ha; Jinhyung Lee; Junghwan Kim; John Hutchenreuther; Atsushi Nara

Figshare, 2023, journal article

Data sets Geographic information systems Households Machine learning

Geovisualization and Analysis of Landscape-Level Wildfire Behavior Using Repeat Pass Airborne Thermal Infrared Imagery

Keaton Shennan; Shennan, K.; Douglas A. Stow; Stow, D.A.; Atsushi Nara; et al.

Fire, 2023, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 4

Fire ecology Geographic information systems Natural disasters Remote sensing

Predicting households’ residential mobility trajectories with geographically localized interpretable model-agnostic explanation (GLIME)

Chanwoo Jin; Sohyun Park; Hui Jeong Ha; Jinhyung Lee; Junghwan Kim; Johan Hutchenreuther; Atsushi Nara

International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2023, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 16

Geographic information systems Households Machine learning Residential mobility

A Spatio-Demographic Perspective on the Role of Social Determinants of Health and Chronic Disease in Determining a Population’s Vulnerability to COVID-19

Embury, J.; Tsou, M.-H.; Atsushi Nara; Oren, E.

Preventing Chronic Disease, 2022, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 16

COVID-19 (Disease)

Report of the Eighty-Third Annual Meeting: San Diego, California October 14–16, 2021

Liz Ridder; Atsushi Nara; Yolonda Youngs

Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 2022, journal article

California Congresses and conventions Meetings

Spatial-Statistical Analysis of Landscape-Level Wildfire Rate of Spread

Gavin M. Schag; Schag, G.M.; Douglas A. Stow; Stow, D.A.; Philip J. Riggan; Riggan, P.J.; Atsushi Nara

Remote Sensing, 2022, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 12

Environmental sciences Landscape ecology Spatial analysis (Statistics) Wildfires

Comparing the Accuracy of sUAS Navigation, Image Co-Registration and CNN-Based Damage Detection between Traditional and Repeat Station Imaging

Andrew C. Loerch; Loerch, A.C.; Douglas A. Stow; Stow, D.A.; Coulter, L.L.; Lloyd L. Coulter; Atsushi Nara; et al.

Geosciences (Switzerland), 2022, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 3

Aerial photography Computer vision Photogrammetry Remote sensing

The impact of patient travel time on disparities in treatment for early stage lung cancer in California

Chelsea A. Obrochta; Obrochta, C.A.; Humberto Parada; Parada, H.; James D. Murphy; Murphy, J.D.; Atsushi Nara; et al.

PLOS One, 2022, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 26

California Geographic information systems Medical geography

Exploring Gentrification Through Social Media Data and Text Clustering Techniques

Atsushi Nara

Human Dynamics in Smart Cities, 2021, book chapter, Cited by: OpenAlex: 2

Cluster analysis Data mining Gentrification Geographic information systems

Introduction: Human Dynamics Research with Social Media and Geospatial Data Analytics

Atsushi Nara

Human Dynamics in Smart Cities, 2021, book chapter, Cited by: OpenAlex: 1

Geographic information systems Research methods Social media Sociology

Learning Dependence Relationships of Evacuation Decision Making Factors from Tweets

Atsushi Nara

Human Dynamics in Smart Cities, 2021, book chapter, Cited by: OpenAlex: 3

Emergency management Machine learning Natural disasters Twitter

Spatial Distribution Patterns of Geo-tagged Twitter Data Created by Social Media Bots and Recommended Data Wrangling Procedures

Atsushi Nara

Human Dynamics in Smart Cities, 2021, book chapter, Cited by: OpenAlex: 4

Geographic information systems Natural language processing Spatial analysis (Statistics) Twitter (Firm)

Modelling traffic during Lilac Wildfire evacuation using cellular data

Melendez, B.; Ghanipoor Machiani, S.; Atsushi Nara

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2021, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 15

Data mining Mobile communication systems Natural disasters Transportation engineering

An interaction-based bayesian network framework for surgical workflow segmentation

Luo, N.; Nana Luo; Atsushi Nara; Izumi, K.; Kiyoshi Izumi

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 2

Artificial intelligence Diagnostic imaging Machine learning Surgery

Building Educational Capacity for Inclusive Geocomputation: A Research-Practice Partnership in Southern California

Michael Solem; Solem, M.; Coline Dony; Dony, C.; Herman, T.; Thomas Herman; Kelly León; León, K.; Amr Magdy; Magdy, A.; Atsushi Nara; et al.

Journal of Geography, 2021, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 13

Geographic information science Geographic information systems Inclusive education Southern California

Empowering Human Dynamics Research with Social Media and Geospatial Data Analytics

Atsushi Nara

Springer International Publishing, 2021, book, Cited by: OpenAlex: 9

Geographic information systems Social media Social sciences

Agent-Based Modeling

Atsushi Nara

Oxford Bibliographies in Geography, 2021, book chapter

Artificial intelligence Complex adaptive systems Computer simulation System analysis

Is less more? Experimenting with visual stacking of coincident maps for spatial global sensitivity analysis in urban land-use change modeling

Şalap-Ayça, S.; Jankowski, P.; Clarke, K.C.; Atsushi Nara

Environmental Modelling and Software, 2021, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 8

CARTOGRAPHY City planning Geographic information systems LAND USE

Gardasil on Twitter: A Content Mining Study Examining Message, Context, and Source Characteristics of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine-Related Tweets

Atsushi Nara

Health, 2020, journal article

Content analysis (Communication) Data mining Social media Vaccination

Please Enter Your Home Location: Geoprivacy Attitudes and Personal Location Masking Strategies of Internet Users

Dara E. Seidl; Seidl, D.E.; Jankowski, P.; Piotr Jankowski; Clarke, K.C.; Keith C. Clarke; Atsushi Nara

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2020, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 12

Data protection Human-computer interaction Internet Location-based services

Chanwoo Jin; Jin, C.; Atsushi Nara; et al.

Transactions in Gis, 2020, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 26

Data mining Machine learning Spatial data mining Statistics

Narrative review of social media as a research tool for diet and weight loss

Hawks, J.R.; Madanat, H.; Walsh-Buhi, E.R.; Hartman, S.; Atsushi Nara; et al.

Computers in Human Behavior, 2020, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 21

Diet Nutrition Social media Weight loss

Twitter communication during an outbreak of hepatitis a in San Diego, 2016-2018

Oren, E.; Martinez, L.; Eliza Hensley, R.; Jain, P.; Ahmed, T.; Purnajo, I.; Atsushi Nara; et al.

American Journal of Public Health, 2020, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 17

Hepatitis A Public health Twitter

Systematic Review of Geospatial Approaches to Breast Cancer Epidemiology

Atsushi Nara

Energy Balance and Cancer, 2019, book chapter, Cited by: OpenAlex: 4

Breast cancer in art Epidemiology Geographic information systems Public health

Twitter-based measures of neighborhood sentiment as predictors of residential population health

Gibbons, J.; Malouf, R.; Spitzberg, B.; Martinez, L.; Appleyard, B.; Thompson, C.; Atsushi Nara; et al.

PLOS One, 2019, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 42

Geographic information systems Public health Sentiment analysis Twitter

An empirical test of household identification risk in geomasked maps

Dara E. Seidl; Seidl, D.E.; Jankowski, P.; Piotr Jankowski; Atsushi Nara

Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 2019, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 2

Data protection Geographic information systems Privacy Spatial analysis (Statistics)

Exploring the imprint of social media networks on neighborhood community through the lens of gentrification

Gibbons, J.; Atsushi Nara; Appleyard, B.

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2018, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 35

Gentrification Neighborhoods Social media Sociology, Urban

A meta-modeling approach for spatio-temporal uncertainty and sensitivity analysis: an application for a cellular automata-based Urban growth and land-use change model

Şalap-Ayça, S.; Jankowski, P.; Clarke, K.C.; Kyriakidis, P.C.; Atsushi Nara

International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2018, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 38

Cellular automata City planning Spatial analysis (Statistics)

An integrated evacuation decision support system framework with social perception analysis and dynamic population estimation

Atsushi Nara; Yang, X.; Ghanipoor Machiani, S.; Tsou, M.-H.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2017, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 39

Decision support systems Emergency management Evacuation of civilians Geographic information systems

Understanding the spatio-temporal characteristics of Twitter data with geotagged and non-geotagged content: two case studies with the topic of flu and Ted (movie)

Issa, E.; Tsou, M.-H.; Atsushi Nara; Spitzberg, B.

Annals of Gis, 2017, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 23

Epidemics Geographic information systems Influenza Twitter

Language services in hospitals vary By ownership and location

Schiaffino, M.K.; Atsushi Nara; Mao, L.

Health Affairs, 2016, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 74

Hospitals Language services Medical care Multilingualism

GIS-based multielement source analysis of dustfall in Beijing: A study of 40 major and trace elements

Luo, N.; Nana Luo; An, L.; Li An; Atsushi Nara; et al.

Chemosphere, 2016, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 15

China Dust-fall Geochemistry Geographic information systems

Space-time analytics of tracks for the understanding of patterns of life

May Yuan; Yuan, M.; Atsushi Nara

Space-Time Integration in Geography and Giscience: Research Frontiers in the Us and China, 2015, book, Cited by: OpenAlex: 19

Geographic information systems Geography Spatial analysis (Statistics)

Visual analytics of movement, by Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko, Peter Bak, Daniel Keim and Stefan Wrobel, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 2013, xviii + 387 pp., US$129 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-642-37582-8

Atsushi Nara

Annals of Gis, 2015, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 1

Computer science Geographic information systems Springer-Verlag Visual analytics

Big data: techniques and technologies in geoinformatics, edited by Hassan A. Karimi, Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, 2014, 312 pp., US$129.95 (hardcover), ISBN 13-978-1466586512

Atsushi Nara

International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2015, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 2

Computer science CRC Press Geodatabases Remote sensing

Space-time representation and analytics

May Yuan; Yuan, M.; Atsushi Nara; Bothwell, J.; James Bothwell

Annals of Gis, 2014, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 25

Data mining Space and time Time-series analysis Visual analytics

An extensible simulation environment and movement metrics for testing walking behavior in agent-based models

Paul M. Torrens; Torrens, P.M.; Atsushi Nara; et al.

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2012, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 71

Computer simulation Human locomotion Simulation

Polyspatial agents for multi-Scale urban simulation and regional policy analysis*

Paul M. Torrens; Torrens, P.M.; Atsushi Nara

Regional Science Policy and Practice, 2012, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 13

City planning Geographic information systems Multiscale modeling Spatial analysis (Statistics)

Surgical workflow monitoring based on trajectory data mining

Atsushi Nara; et al.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2011, book, Cited by: OpenAlex: 20

Medical informatics Surgery

Modeling gentrification dynamics: A hybrid approach

Paul M. Torrens; Torrens, P.M.; Atsushi Nara

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2007, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 106

City planning Gentrification Modeling

Investigation of Geographic Information Science Education Systems at 14 Universities in North America

Mizuki KAWABATA; Oh IWATA; Ryosuke ESAKI; Yohei KURATA; Atsushi Nara; et al.

Theory and Applications of Gis, 2006, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 2

Geographic information science Information science North America Universities and colleges

Academic Conferences

Spatially weighted structural similarity index: A multiscale comparison tool for diverse sources of mobility data

Embury, J.; Jessica Embury; Atsushi Nara; Chanwoo Jin; Jin, C.

Proceedings of the 2Nd Acm Sigspatial International Workshop on Animal Movement Ecology and Human Mobility, Hanimob 2022, 2022, conference paper

City planning Geographic information systems Geography Spatial analysis (Statistics)

Estimating Hourly Population Distribution Patterns at High Spatiotemporal Resolution in Urban Areas Using Geo-Tagged Tweets and Dasymetric Mapping

Jaehee Park; Park, J.; Hao Zhang; Zhang, H.; Han, S.Y.; Su Yeon Han; Atsushi Nara; et al.

Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Lipics, 2020, conference paper

Geographic information science Remote sensing Social media Urban geography

RPP for Geocomputation: Partnering on Curriculum in Geography and Computer Science

Dony, C.C.; Magdy, A.; Rey, S.; Atsushi Nara; Herman, T.; Solem, M.

Proceedings of the 2019 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology, Respect 2019, 2019, conference paper

Computer science Curriculum planning Geography Spatial analysis (Statistics)

Surgical phase recognition using movement data from video imagery and location sensor data

Atsushi Nara; Allen, C.; Izumi, K.

Advances in Geographic Information Science, 2017, conference paper

Biomedical engineering Machine learning Medical informatics Surgery

Spatial and temporal analysis of pedestrian egress behavior and efficiency

Atsushi Nara; Paul M. Torrens; Torrens, P.M.

Gis: Proceedings of the Acm International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2007, conference paper

Pedestrian traffic flow Public safety Spatial analysis (Statistics) Transportation engineering