Guofeng Cao
Assistant Professor of Geography • GIScience, GeoAI, geostatistics/spatial statistics, and remote sensing • PhD University of California Santa Barbara 2011
GIS
guofeng.cao@colorado.edu
303-492-8528, GUGG 201A

Research Interests

My research is characterized by an interdisciplinary perspective on geographic information science driven by advances of spatial Big Data (e.g., social media and remote sensing), machine learning/artificial intelligence, and computational sciences. I am interested in deep learning of heterogeneous geographic information to support uncertainty-aware geographic knowledge discovery and decision making. Particularly, I focus on the development of novel statistical/machine learning and computational methodologies for (a) integrating heterogeneous sources of geographic information (e.g., incompatible scales) for geographic analysis; (b) characterizing and modeling complex spatiotemporal patterns (e.g., land cover and land use changes); (c) characterizing and modeling spatiotemporal bias and uncertainty of geographic information and the associated impacts; (d) addressing the computing challenges when the data scale and model complexity are not manageable; and (e) building geospatial-enabled cyberinfrastructure for domain scientists. Domain applications focus on natural hazards, environmental sciences, public health and global changes.

Recent Courses Taught

  • Fall 2024听 GEOG 3023听Statistics and Geographic Data
  • Spring 2024听 GEOG 4023/5023 听Quantitative Methods
  • Spring 2024听 GEOG 4403/5403听 GIS: Space Time Analytics
  • Spring 2023听 GEOG 4023/5023 听Quantitative Methods
  • Spring 2023听 GEOG 4103/5103听 GIS: Spatial Analytics
  • Spring 2023听 GEOG 4403/5403听 GIS: Space Time Analytics
  • Fall 2021听 GEOG 3023听Statistics and Geographic Data
  • Spring 2021听 GEOG 4023/5023 听Quantitative Methods
  • Spring 2021听 GEOG 4103/5103听 GIS: Spatial Analytics
  • Fall 2020听 GEOG 3023听Statistics for Geography

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Recent Publications

Int J Appl Earth Obs Geoinformation

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Zhao Y; Feng D; Jayaraman D; Belay D; Sebrala H; Ngugi J; Maina E; Akombo R; Otuoma J; Mutyaba J
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Type: Journal Article

Modeling uncertainty in categorical fields

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Cao G
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Type: Journal Article

Track Spatiotemporal Spread of Public Concerns on Ebloa in the US via Twitter

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Liu Y; Luo F; Cao G
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Type: Conference Proceeding

A scalable framework for spatiotemporal analysis of location-based social media data

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Cao G; Wang S; Hwang A; Zhang Z; Soltanib K
Published in:
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Type: Journal Article

FluMapper: A cyberGIS application for interactive analysis of massive location-based social media

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Padmanabhan A; Wang S; Cao G; Hwang M; Zhang Z; Gao Y; Soltani K; Liu Y
Published in:
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Type: Journal Article

A Geostatistical Framework for Heterogeneous Spatial Data Fusion

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Cao G
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Type: Conference Proceeding

An interactive approach for deriving geometric network models in 3D indoor environments

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Luo F; Cao G; Li X
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Type: Conference Proceeding

A scalable approach to extracting mobility patterns from social media data

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Zhang Z; Wang S; Cao G; Padmanabhan A; Wu K
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Type: Conference Proceeding

From where do tweets originate? A gis approach for user location inference

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Huang Q; Cao G; Wang C
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Type: Conference Proceeding

A statistical framework of data fusion for spatial prediction of categorical variables

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Cao G; Yoo E-H; Wang S
Published in:
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Type: Journal Article

On spatial transition probabilities as continuity measures in categorical fields

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Cao G; Kyriakidis P; Goodchild M
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Type: Journal Article

Mapping the global Twitter heartbeat: The geography of Twitter

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Leetaru K; Wang S; Cao G; Padmanabhan A; Shook E
Published in:
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Type: Journal Article

A CyberGlS Environment for Analysis of Location-based Social Media Data

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Wang S; Cao G; Zhang Z; Zhao Y
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Type: Journal Article

FluMapper: an interactive CyberGIS environment for massive location-based social media data analysis

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Padmanabhan A; Wang S; Cao G; Hwang M; Zhao Y; Zhang Z; Gao Y
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Type: Conference Proceeding

Spatiotemporal transformation of social media geostreams: a case study of twitter for flu risk analysis

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Hwang M-H; Wang S; Cao G; Padmanabhan A; Zhang Z
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Type: Conference Proceeding

VGIS-AntiJitter: an effective framework for solving jitter problems in virtual geographic information systems

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Luo F; Zhong E; Cao G; Tellez RD; Gao P
Published in:
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Type: Journal Article

Spatial distribution of trees and landscapes of the past: a mixed spatially correlated multinomial logit model approach for the analysis of the public land survey data

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Yoo E-H; Hoagland BW; Cao G; Fagin T
Published in:
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Type: Journal Article

Response to 鈥楥omments on 鈥淐ombining spatial transition probabilities for stochastic simulation of categorical fields鈥� with communications on some issues related to Markov chain geostatistics鈥�

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Cao G; Kyriakidis PC; Goodchild MF
Published in:
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Type: Journal Article

Happy or not: Generating topic-based emotional heatmaps for Culturomics using CyberGIS

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Shook E; Leetaru K; Cao G; Padmanabhan A; Wang S
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Type: Conference Proceeding

A State-Space Model for Understanding Spatial Dynamics Represented by Areal Data

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Cao G; Wang S; Guan Q
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Type: Conference Proceeding

Combining spatial transition probabilities for stochastic simulation of categorical fields

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Cao G; Kyriakidis PC; Goodchild MF
Published in:
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Type: Journal Article

A multinomial logistic mixed model for the prediction of categorical spatial data

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Cao G; Kyriakidis PC; Goodchild MF
Published in:
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Type: Journal Article

A geostatistical framework for categorical spatial data modeling

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Cao G; Kyriakidis P; Goodchild M
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Type: Journal Article

Generating Fine Resolution Area Class Maps Subject to Coarser Resolution Data Constraints

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Kyriakidis PC; Cao G
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Type: Conference Proceeding

Prediction and simulation in categorical fields: a transition probability combination approach

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Cao G; Kyriakidis P; Goodchild M
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Type: Conference Proceeding

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