Publications

Published Peer Reviewed Journal Articles 

  1.  Ecker MD, DeGroote JP, Abbeg Coproski C, Liang B, Darko J. 2025. Urban Heat Mapping Strategies for Predicting Near-Surface Air Temperature in Unsampled Cities in Iowa. Sustainability, 17(9), 3914. 
  2. Abbeg Coproski C, Liang B, Dietrich JT, DeGroote J. 2024. Monitoring and Modeling Urban Temperature Patterns in the State of Iowa, USA, Utilizing Mobile Sensors and Geospatial Data. Applied Sciences. 2024; 14(22):10576. https://doi.org/10.3390/app142210576
  3. Petrov AN., Dorough DS., Tiwari S., Welford M., Golosov N., Devlin M., Degai T., Ksenofontov S., DeGroote J. 2023.Indigenous health-care sovereignty defines resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancelot 401(10387), 1478-1480
  4. DeGroote JP, Larson SR, Zhang Y, Sugumaran R. 2012. Application of geospatial technologies for understanding and predicting vector populations and vector‐borne disease incidence. Geography Compass 6(11): 645-659.
  5. DeGroote JP, Sugumaran R. 2012. National and regional associations between human West Nile virus incidence and demographic, landscape, and land use conditions in the coterminous United States. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases 12(8): 657-665.
  6. Oryspayev D, Sugumaran R, DeGroote J. 2011. Development and application of a spreadsheet-based Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS). International Journal of Decision Support Technology 3:1-14.
  7. Oryspayev D, Sugumaran R, DeGroote J, Gray P. 2012. LiDAR data reduction using vertex decimation and processing with GPGPU and multicore CPU technology. Computers and Geoscience.
  8. Nielsen, C., Oberle, A., and Sugumaran, R. 2011. Implementing a High School Level Geospatial Technologies and Spatial Thinking Course. Journal of Geography, 110, (2), pp. 60-69.
  9. Larson, S.R., Sugumaran, R., DeGroote, J.P., and Bartholomay, L.C. 2010. Ecological niche modeling of potential West Nile virus vector mosquito species in Iowa. Journal of Insect Science, 10, pg. 1-16.
  10. Sugumaran, R., Larson, S.R, DeGroote, J.P. 2009. Spatiotemporal clustering analysis of county-based human West Nile virus incidence in the continental United States. International Journal of Health Geographic, 8(43), doi:10.1186/1476-072X-8-43.
  11. Petrov, A., and Sugumaran, R. 2009. Quantifying Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Agricultural Landscapes in Iowa Using Remotely Sensed Data and Landscape Metrics. Geocarto, 24(3), pp. 223 - 240.
  12. Zhang Y, Sugumaran R, DeGroote J, Wolter C. 2009. Integration of Modified Universal Soil Loss Equation (MUSLE) into a GIS framework to assess soil erosion risk. Land Degradation and Development 20: 84-91.
  13. Zhang, Y., Barten, P.K., Sugumaran, R. & DeGroote, J. 2008. Evaluating forest harvesting to reduce its hydrologic impact with a spatial decision support system. Applied GIS, 4(1): 1-16.
  14. Voss, M. and Sugumaran, R., 2008. Seasonal effect on tree species classification in an urban environment using hyperspectral data, LiDAR and an object-oriented approach. Sensors (8) 3020-3036.
  15. DeGroote, J.P., Sugumaran R., Brend S.M., Tucker, B.J., Bartholomay, L.C. 2008. Landscape, demographic, entomological, and climatic associations with human incidence of West Nile virus in the state of Iowa, USA. International Journal of Health Geographics, 7(9).
  16. Savelyev, A. and Sugumaran, R. 2008. Surface temperature mapping of the University of Northern Iowa campus using high resolution thermal infrared aerial imageries. Sensors 8(8) 5055-5068.
  17. DeGroote, J., Mercer, D.R., Fisher, J., and Sugumaran, R. 2007. Spatiotemporal Investigation of Adult Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Populations in an Eastern Iowa County, USA. Journal of Medical Entomology, Vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 1139-1150.
  18. Sugumaran, V., and Sugumaran, V., 2007, Web-based Spatial Decision Support Systems (WebSDSS): evolution, architecture, examples and challenges, Journal of Communications of Association for Information Systems (CAIS), Vol. 19, Article 40.
  19. Petrov, A., and Sugumaran, R. 2005. Monitoring and Modeling Farmland Loss in Rapidly Growing Urban and Depopulating Rural Counties of Iowa Using Remotely Sensed Data and GIS. Geocarto, Vol. 20(4): pp. 45-52.

 

Books 

Sugumaran R, DeGroote JP. Spatial Decision Support Systems: Principles and Practices. 2010. CRC Press.

 

Book Chapters

  1. Voss, M., Sugumaran, R., and Ershov, D., 2010. A Web-based tool for remote sensing software evaluation, Manual of Geospatial Sciences and Technology, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, pp 391-402.
  2. Sugumaran, R., Meyer, J., and Davis, J. 2009. A Web-Based Environmental Decision Support System (WEDSS) for Environmental Planning and Watershed Management, the Handbook on Applied Spatial Analysis, pp 703-16..
  3. Sugumaran, R., Gerjevic, J., and Voss, M. 2007. Transportation infrastructure extraction from hyper-spectral remote sensing data using CART, SAM and object-oriented approaches, in Remote Sensing of Impervious Surfaces, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis.
  4. Bakker, B., and Sugumaran, R., 2006. GIS-Based Site Suitability Decision Support System for Planning Confined Animal Feeding Operations in Iowa, In Emerging Spatial Information Systems and Applications, Idea group publishing, 2006.