Waldo Tobler

Research Professor Emeritus of Geography

Address

Department of Geography
University of California
Santa Barbara CA 93106-4060
phone: 805-964 0116, fax: 805-893-3146
email: tobler@geog.ucsb.edu

Professional experience

34 years as a geography faculty member

Member, National Academy of Sciences of the United States; Dr., Honoris Causa, University of Zurich; Honorary member, Geographical Society of New York

Research on Global Demography, funded by California Space Agency, CIESIN, and ESRI. 1992-1994.

Publications

W.Tobler, 1992, "Preliminary representation of World population by spherical harmonics, Proceedings, National Academy of Science, 89:6262-6264.

W. Tobler, 1990, "Frame independent spatial analysis", pp 115-122 of M. Goodchild, ed., Accuracy of Spatial Data Bases, Taylor & Francis, London.

W.Tobler, 1989, "Resolution, sampling, and all that", pp 129-137 of Mounsey & Tomlinson, eds., Building Data Bases for Global Science, Taylor and Framces, London.

W. Tobler & Chen, Z., 1986, "A quadtree of global information storage", Geographical Analysis, 18, 4: 360-371.

W.Tobler & Kennedy, S., 1985, "Smooth multidimensional interpolation", Geographical Analysis, 17, 3: 251-257.

W. Tobler, 1994, "Bidimensional regression", Geographical Analysis, 26: 186-212.

W.Tobler, 1979, "Smooth pycnophylactic interpolation for geographical regions", Journal of American Statistical Association, 74, 367:519-536.

W.Tobler, 1979, "Cellular Geography", pp 379-386 of Olsson & Gale, eds., Philosophy in Geography, Riedel, Dortrecht.

W.Tobler, 1970, "A computer movie simulation urban growth in the Detroit region", Economic Geography, 46, 2: 234-240.

W. Tobler, 1969, "Satellite confirmation of settlement size coefficients", Area, I:30-34.