Recent Publications

Patent

Mower, J.E., 2005. �Method, System and Program Product for Augmenting an Image of a Scene with Information About the Scene,� US Patent 6,930,715.

Selected Publications

Mower, J.E. 2016. ��Real-Time Drainage Basin Modeling Using Concurrent Compute Shaders,� Proceedings, AutoCarto 2016, Albuquerque, September 2016 (forthcoming)

Mower, J.E. 2016. �Concurrent Network Rendering for Automated Pen and Ink Style Landscape Illustration,� Transactions in GIS, doi: 10.1111/tgis.12141. Vol 20, no. 1:54-78 (First published online March 18 2015)

MPEG Movies: WPCreasesOverall.mpg, WPVaryingIllumDir.mpg, WPVaryMinRendScore.mpg, WestTempleFlyThroughTGISCreases.mpg

AVI Movies: (lower resolution, only use if your environment cannot decode the mpg movies above): WPCreasesOverall.avi, WPVaryingIllumDir.avi, WPVaryMinRendScore.avi

Mower, J. E., 2015. �Electronic Map Labeling,� In History of Cartography, Volume 6, Cartography of the Twentieth Century, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, in press.

Mower, J.E. 2015. �Fast Image-Space Silhouette Extraction for Non-Photorealistic Landscape Rendering,� Transactions in GIS, doi: 10.1111/tgis.12118. Vol. 19, no. 5:641-799. (First published online November 6 2014)

Movies: WtempleAll2.mpg, Wtemplesilh2.mpg

AVI Movies: (lower resolution, only use if your environment cannot decode the mpg movies above): WtempleAll2.avi, Wtemplesilh2.avi

Lapenis A.G. , H.Henry, M. Vuille, J. Mower, 2014. �Climatic Factors Controlling Plant Sensitivity to Warming,� Climatic Change, 122,4:723-734.

Mower, J.E., 2011. �Supporting Automated Pen and Ink Style Surface Illustration with B-Spline Models,� Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 38, No. 2:175-184.

Mower, J.E., 2010. �Supporting Automated Pen and Ink Style Surface Illustration with B-Spline Models,� Proceedings, AutoCarto 2010, Orlando, November 2010. CD-ROM published by the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. 7 pp.

Mower, J.E., 2009. �Creating and Delivering Augmented Scenes,� International Journal of Geographic Information Science, Vol. 23, No. 8:993-1011.

 

Mower, J.E., 2009. �Automating Landscape Illustration with Pen and Ink Style Rendering,� Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Volume 36, no. 1:117-128.

 

Mower, J.E., 2008. �Non-Photorealistic Rendering of Stylized Block Diagrams,� Proceedings, AutoCarto2008. The 17th International Research Symposium on Computer-based Cartography, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, USA. September 8-11, 2008. CD-ROM published by the Cartography and Geographic Information Society, with assistance by ESRI. 10 pp.

 

Mower, J. E., 2002. �Implementing an Augmented Scene Delivery System,� Proceedings, Computational Science-ICCS 2002, Amsterdam, vol III, pp. 174-183.

Mower, J. E., 1997. �The Augmented Scene: Integrating the Map and the Environment,� Proceedings, Auto-Carto 13, Seattle, pp. 42-51.

Mower, J. E., 1996. �Developing Parallel Procedures for Line Simplification,� International Journal of Geographic Information Systems, vol. 10 no 6:699-712.

Mower, J. E., 1994. "Data-Parallel Procedures for Drainage Basin Analysis," Computers and Geosciences, vol. 20, no. 9:1365-1378.

Mower, J. E., 1993. "Automated Feature and Name Placement on Parallel Computers," Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, vol. 20, no. 2:69-82.Received Andrew McNally Award, American Congress of Surveyors and Mappers, for best paper in Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, 1993.

Invited paper: Mower, J. E., 1993. �Implementing GIS Procedures on Parallel Computers:A Case Study," Proceedings, Auto-Carto XI, Minneapolis, pp. 424-433.

Mower, J. E., 1992. "Building a GIS for Parallel Computing Environments," Proceedings:5th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Charleston, pp. 219-229.

Mower, J. E., 1990. "A Comparison of Statistical and Adaptive Pattern Recognition Approaches to Line Feature Identification," Proceedings:4th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Zurich, pp. 85-94.

Mower, J. E., 1988. "A Neural Network Approach to Feature Recognition along Cartographic Lines," Proceedings:Geographic Information Systems/Land Information Systems �88, San Antonio, pp. 250-255.

Mower, J. E., 1986. "Name Placement of Point Features through Constraint Propagation," Second International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Seattle, pp. 65-73.

Cebrian, J. A., J. E. Mower and D. M. Mark, 1984. "Analysis and Display of Digital Elevation Models within a Quadtree-Based Geographic Information System," Auto-Carto 7, Washington, pp. 55-64.

Recent Presentations

Mower, J.E. 2015. �GPU Computing for GIS.� NYGeoCon 2015, Albany, NY, October 2015.

Mower, J.E. 2015. �Graduate GIS Programs at the University at Albany.� NYGeoCon 2015, Albany, NY, October 2015.