Michael Leitner

PERSONAL

Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-2963 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: mleitne@lsu.edu

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1997.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Spatial Analysis and GIS
Computer Cartography
Europe

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Kent, Josh, Michael Leitner, and Andrew Curtis. "Evaluating the Usefulness of Functional Distance Measures When Calibrating Journey-To-Crime Distance Decay Algorithms." Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (forthcoming).

Leitner, Michael and Andrew Curtis. 2004. "Cartographic Guidelines for Geographically Masking the Location of Confidential Point Data." Cartographic Perspectives 49 (Fall 2004) (in press).

Leitner, Michael and Andrew Curtis. 2003. "Cartographic Guidelines for the Visualization of Confidential Data Using Geographic Masking." 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, SA, pp. 101-10.

Weixlbaumer, Norbert and Michael Leitner, editor and contributor. 2002. Forschungsberichte Auslandsösterreicher - junge Geographinnen und Geographen berichten. Geographischer Jahresbericht aus Österreich, Band 59. Vienna: Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna.

Leitner, Michael and Petra Staufer-Steinnocher. 2002. "Spatio-temporal Changes in the Vienna Food-Retailing Market," in J. Strobl, T. Blaschke, and G. Griesebner, eds., Angewandte Geographische Informationsverarbeitung XIV, pp. 308-317. Heidelberg: Herbert Wichmann Verlag.

Leitner, Michael and Andrew Curtis. 2002. "Modeling Infant Mortality Risk Factors in Baton Rouge," in N. Weixlbaumer and M. Leitner, eds., Geographischer Jahresbericht aus Österreich, Band 59, Vienna: Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna.

Curtis, Andrew, Michael Leitner, and C. Hanlon. 2002. "Using Hierarchical Nearest Neighbor Analysis and Animation to Investigate the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Raccoon Rabies in West Virginia," in O. Khan and A. and R. Skinner, eds., Geographic Information Systems & Health Applications.

Fischer, Manfred M., Michael Leitner, and Petra Staufer-Steinnocher. 2001. "Spatial Point Pattern Analysis - Some Useful Tools for Analyzing Locational Data," in N. Weixlbaumer, ed., Geographischer Jahresbericht aus Österreich, Band 58, pp. 49-65. Vienna: Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna.

Leitner, Michael and Petra Staufer-Steinnocher. 2001. "Kernel Density Estimation - An Innovative Exploratory Tool in Geomarketing," in J. Strobl, T. Blaschke, and G. Griesebner, eds., Angewandte Geographische Informationsverarbeitung XIII, pp. 297-308. Heidelberg: Herbert Wichmann Verlag.

Leitner, Michael and Barbara P. Buttenfield. 2000. "Guidelines for the Display of Attribute Certainty," Cartography and Geographic Information Science 27(1): 3-14.

Leitner, Michael and Barbara P. Buttenfield. 1995. "Acquisition of Procedural Cartographic Knowledge by Reverse Engineering," Cartography and Geographic Information Systems 22(3): 232-41.

SUPPORTED RESEARCH

2005. LSU Research Fellowship (spring semester).

2004. LSU Office of Research and Economic Development, Council on Research Summer Stipend.

2002. Student Technology Fee, LSU, Co-PI (PI: Andrew Curtis).

2001. DEFE Program of the Louisiana Board of Regents, Regents Faculty Research Award, Principal Investigator.

2001. The Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS) Scholarship to participate in the Workshop on Spatial Regression Analysis, August 6-10 2001, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

2004-present. Vice Chair, Cartography Specialty Group of the AAG.

2004-present. Editorial Advisory Board, Cartography and Geographic Information Science.

2003-present. Editorial Board, Cartographic Perspectives.

1999-present. Member of the Program Committee, International Symposium for Applied Geographic Information Technology, Salzburg, Austria.

1999-2001. Member of the Review Panel, Austrian-American Educational Commission (Fulbright Comission), Vienna, Austria.

1990-1992. Fulbright Scholarship to complete a Master's Program at the Department of Geography, SUNY/Buffalo.


COURSES TAUGHT

Computer Cartography
Advanced Computer Cartography
Methods of Spatial Analysis
Introduction to GIS
GIS and Spatial Analysis
Aerial Photo Interpretation of Cultural Features
Europe