Rud Platt’s Lo-Fi Home Page

 

Welcome to my web page!  But please, also feel free to drop by in person (Gettysburg College science center 154h).

 

Contact:

Email: rplatt “at” gettysburg.edu

Phone: 717-337-0930

Fax: 717-337-8550

 

Department of Environmental Studies

Gettysburg College, Box 2455

300 N. Washington St.

Gettysburg, PA 17325

 

Classes:

ES400: The Sustainable Campus

ES312: Environmental Applications of GIS

ES263: Remote Sensing of the Environment

ES230: Introduction to GIS

ES121: Environmental Issues

FYS105: Sustainability or Collapse? Environmental Change and the Past, Present, and Future of Society

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Publications:

 

Platt, R.V. Mapping Settlements in the Wildland Urban Interface: A Decision Tree Approach.  Professional Geographer. 62(2): 262-275. Download

 

Platt, R.V., T. Schoennagel, T.T Veblen, R.L. Sherriff.  Modeling Wildfire Potential in Residential Parcels: A Case Study of the North-Central Colorado Front Range.  Landscape and Urban Planning.  102: 117-126. Download

 

Platt, R. V. 2010. The Wildland-Urban Interface: Evaluating the Definition Effect. Journal of Forestry 108(1): 9-15. Download

 

Platt, R.V. and T. Schoennagel. 2009. An object-oriented approach to assessing changes in tree cover in the Colorado Front Range 1938-1999.  Forest Ecology and Management. 258: 1342-1349. Download

 

Platt, R.V. and T. Schoennagel. Have forests really become denser?  An object-oriented case study of a key premise in wildfire policy.  GEOBIA 2008 – Pixels, Objects, Intelligence: Geographic Object Based Image Analysis for the 21st Century, conference proceedings.  August 6-7, 2008. Calgary, Canada.  Download

 

Platt, R.V., T.T. Veblen, R.L. Sherriff.  2008. A Spatial Model of Mechanical Thinning Location and Forest Management Outcomes in the Wildland-Urban Interface.  Natural Hazards Review. 9(4): 199-208. Download

 

Platt, R.V. and L.M. Rapoza.  2008.  An evaluation of an object-oriented paradigm for land use/land cover classification. Professional Geographer. 60(1): 87-100. Download

 

Platt, R.V., T.T. Veblen, R.L. Sherriff.  2006. Are Wildfire Mitigation and Restoration of Historic Forest Structure Compatible?  A Spatial Modeling Assessment. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 93(3): 455-470. Download

 

Platt, R.V. 2006.  A Model of Land Use Change and Wildfire Mitigation.  Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. 33: 749-765. Download

 

Platt, R.V. and F.H. Goetz. 2004.  A Comparison of AVIRIS and Landsat for Land Use Classification at the Urban Fringe.  Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 70(7): 813-819. Download

 

Platt, R.V. 2004. Local and Global Analysis of Fragmentation in a Colorado Mountain Region. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment.  101: 207-218. Download