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Zachary Romano

Zachary Romano is a recent graduate from Brandeis University and an aspiring researcher in urban economics and real estate with a focus on the use of quantitative methods and spatial analysis. He is a recent graduate from Brandeis University where he obtained a B.A. in Economics with a minor in Anthropology. Some of Zach's work: Housing and Transportation Demand Analysis: Boston Metropolitan AreaAssessing Transportation Capacity and Property Values In and Around the Boston Metropolitan Area At present, he has committed to a one-year term of service as an AmeriCorps VISTA with the Community Prosperity Initiative in Syracuse. Zach Romano devotes his time to cycling, volunteering with civic organizations, and spending time on the water throughout Central New York.

Preparing for Urban Pandemics Using GIS and Resilient IT Systems

August 30, 2020January 16, 2016by Zachary Romano

Geospatial modeling has found that if 30% of the population voluntarily isolated themselves for 8-10 weeks, the total people infected would drop by almost half.

Categories Spatial AnalysisTags epidemics, Epidemiology, keep your distance, pandemics, public health, social distancing, voluntary isolation
Walgreen's Flu Index Map

WalMap: The App By Walgreens That Maps Out Community Trends in Real Time

December 18, 2016November 24, 2015by Zachary Romano

Walgreens uses GIS extensively, but predominantly in site selection, competitor analysis, and mapping demographics.

Categories GIS LearningTags ESRI, Flu Index Map, geomarketing, Location Intelligence, Walgreens
Since January 1, 2000, more than 4.3 million scenes have been captured by Landsat satellites and made available to the public. Graph by Joshua Stevens, using data collected from the U.S. Geological Survey acquisitions archive.

Cloud Computing Used to Analyze Landsat Imagery and Detect Deforestation

December 18, 2016November 16, 2015by Zachary Romano

Landsat, NASA’s longest running initiative for the acquisition of Earth imagery, has generated nearly 50 trillion pixels of data by capturing one image per season, of every place on Earth, for the past 43 years, providing a treasure trove of data for researchers.

Categories GIS DataTags deforestation, landsat, remote sensing, satellite imagery, tracking forestry changes
Square tile-grid map. Map by Danny DeBelius and Alyson Hurt.

Data Visualization Strategies Using Tile Grid Maps

December 18, 2016November 3, 2015by Zachary Romano

A new mapping method has emerged with high-profile news outlets like The New York Times and Bloomberg Business which are using tile grid maps, which represent each state with a congruent square

Categories Maps and CartographyTags cartograms, hexagon maps, tile grid maps
By mapping out the seismic waves generated by human activity, researchers are able to create a map of underground conditions. Image: Nakata et al, 2015.

Stanford Geophysicists Map What Lies Beneath Southern California Using High-Resolution Sensors

December 18, 2016October 27, 2015by Zachary Romano

Researchers at Stanford University are identifying hidden dangers beneath Earth’s surface in Southern California by measuring body waves from human activity on city streets and sidewalks.

Categories Spatial AnalysisTags seismic waves, urban areas
Orbital Insight uses shadows detected on satellite imagery to track construction rates in Nanjing, China.

Orbital Insight Exemplifies How Artificial Intelligence (AI) Can Be Used to Study Images from Space

December 18, 2016October 20, 2015by Zachary Romano

Orbital Insights has developed a “deep learning” processes which uses artificial intelligence to pull data from satellite imagery.

Categories GIS LearningTags artificial intelligence, Orbital Insight, remote sensing, satellite imagery

Advanced Techniques for Measuring Human Behaviors in Urban Public Spaces

May 15, 2018September 23, 2015by Zachary Romano

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen utilized a combination of thermal cameras, computer vision technology, and GIS analytics to geo-reference the movements of pedestrians in order to asses public spaces.

Categories Spatial AnalysisTags urban analysis
Spaceknow tracks manufacturing activity for over 6,000 industrial facilities in China using its "Satellite Manufacturing Index" (SMI) proprietary algorithms. Map: Spaceknow.

Satellite Imagery Provides Insights to Global Questions and Changes the Data Landscape

December 18, 2016September 22, 2015by Zachary Romano

Data extracted from satellite images have been helpful for tracking everything from the number of customers at retail and restaurant chains to tracking the rates of deforestation.

Categories Spatial AnalysisTags remote sensing, satellite imagery
Map of the world's forests. Source: Crowther et al, 2015.

Measuring the Number of Trees in the World

September 26, 2020September 8, 2015by Zachary Romano

Using a combination of satellite imagery, forest inventories, and supercomputer technologies, researchers estimate there are 3.041 trillion trees in the world.

Categories GIS DataTags forest data, tree data
A) View of the experimental area in the Forest of Bossou, Guinea. Researchers record the nut-cracking behavior every year, using several video cameras while staying behind a screen of vegetation, c. 20m distance from the wild chimpanzees using tools. B) Female using a stone hammer and anvil to crack open nuts. Note the assortment of stones on the right side which is provided by the researchers, along with the piles of nuts. From enito-Calvo A, Carvalho S, Arroyo A, Matsuzawa T, de la Torre I (2015).

Chimpanzee Behavior Analyzed Using Innovative GIS Application Offers Insight to Our Human Past

December 18, 2016September 3, 2015by Zachary Romano

A group of scholars has developed an innovative new application of GIS to understand stone tool use behaviors in chimpanzees during nut-cracking season.

Categories Spatial AnalysisTags chimpanzees, nut-cracking
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