Conference Proceedings and Presentations of Dr. Paul C. Sutton

 

The Value of Nature (Engaging Ideas with Jim Griesmer at DU)

https://www.du.edu/ideas/interview-videos/valuing-nature.html#

 

Videotaped Guest Lecture (click here for MP4 file)

Global resources and sustainable development by Professor Paul Sutton

http://videocast.du.edu/video/global-resources-and-sustainable-development-by-professor-paul-sutton

 

Sutton on CNN (click here for movie file)

 

Sutton on NPR (click here for audio file)

 

Invited Presentations

 

Changes to the Global Value of Ecosystem Services: A Market Failure? (Click here for ppt)

Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison November 2017

 

Smart Cities and the SDGs: Do the Limits to Growth apply to Smart Cities that have achieved the Sustainable Development Goals? (Click here for ppt)

Keynote for Advances of Cleaner Production Network & Innovation for Sustainable Development Network in Baranquilla, Colombia June 2018

 

The Earth from Space at Night (click here for ppt)

Grad & Faculty Seminar Series  Colorado State University October 3rd, 2014

 

Changes to the Global Value of Ecosystem Services: A Market Failure? (Click her for PPt)

Presented to the Critical Zone Observatories of the NSF Yosemite NP Sept 23, 2014

 

Alone in the Void: Getting Real about the fragile and tenuous nature of modern civilization (click here for PPT)

 

The Dark Side of the Earth: Some alternative future observations of the earth from space at night   Presented at Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona Spain November 14th, 2012 (click here for PPT)

 

The Real Wealth of Nations:Mapping and Monetizing the Human Ecological Footprint (University of Nebraska – Lincoln November 2011) (Click Here for PPT)

 

The Earth from Space at Night: Explorations of the Human Environment Sustainability Problematic using Nighttime Satellite Imagery (University of Nebraska – Lincoln November 2011) (Click here for PPT)

 

 

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

 

18) Sutton, P.; Anderson, S; Baugh, K; Ziskin, D; Ghosh, T; Ghosh, T.; Elvidge, C.; (2011) Satellite Mapping of Constructed Surfaces in China for the Year 2010  Asia Pacific Action Network http://www.apan.net/meetings/HongKong2011/Session/DMSP.php  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

17) Liu, Q; Sutton, P; Elvidge, C (2010) Relationships between Nighttime Imagery and Population Density for Hong Kong   Asia Pacific Action Network http://www.apan.net/meetings/HongKong2011/Session/DMSP.php  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

16) Sutton, P.; Ghosh, T.; Elvidge, C.; Baugh, K.; Ziskin, D.; (2010) A 2010 Mapping of the Constructed Surface Area Density for Southeast Asia – Preliminary Results Asia Pacific Action Network (APAN) http://www.apan.net/meetings/Hanoi2010/Session/DMSP.php (click here for paper or powerpoint)

15) Ghosh, T.; Sutton, P.; Elvidge, C.; (2010) Estimating the Information and Communication Technology Development Index (IDI) using nighttime satellite imagery Asia Pacific Action Network (APAN) http://www.apan.net/meetings/Hanoi2010/Session/DMSP.php (click here for paper or powerpoint)

14) Elvidge, C.D., B.T. Tuttle, P.C. Sutton, 2009, Collaborative Tool for  Collecting Reference Data on the Density of Constructed Surfaces  Worldwide, Sixth International Symposium on Digital Earth: Models, Algorithms, and Virtual Reality, SPIE, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 7840 7  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

13) Elvidge, C.D.; Erwin, E.H.; Baugh, K.E.; Ziskin, D.; Tuttle, B.T.; Ghosh, T.; Sutton, P.C., 2009, "Overview of DMSP nightime lights and future possibilities", IEEE Proceedings of the 7th International Urban Remote Sensing Conference , 5 Pages  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

12) Ghosh, T.; Sutton, P.; Powell, R.; Anderson, S.; Elvidge, C.D., 2009, "Estimation of Mexico's informal economy using DMSP nighttime lights data", IEEE Proceedings of the 7th International Urban Remote Sensing Conference , 10 Pages  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

11) Elvidge, C.D., Baugh, Kimberly E., Howard, Ara T., Sutton, P.C., Tuttle, Benjamin T., Erwin, Edward H.,(2007) Change detection in satellite observed nighttime lights: 1992-2003  2007 Urban Remote Sensing Joint Event, URS, art. no. 4234469  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

10) Elvidge, C.D., Pettit, D.R., Cinzano, P., Sutton, P.C., Small, C. (2007) Overview of the Nightsat Mission Concept  (2007) Urban Remote Sensing Joint Event, URS, art. no. 4234450  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

9) Elvidge, C.D., Baugh, Kimberly E., Howard, Ara T., Sutton, P.C., Tuttle, Benjamin T., Erwin, Edward H., (2007) Can Poverty rates be estimated using satellite data?  2007 Urban Remote Sensing Joint Event, URS, art. no. 4234360  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

8) Anderson, S; Taylor, M.J.; Sutton, P.C.; Steinberg, M.K. (2005) Assessment of Urban Land Use Cover Change in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium, Remote Sensing of Urban Areas. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol XXXVI – 8/W27. ISSN 1682-1777.  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

7) Elvidge, C.D., Imhoff, M.L., Sutton, P.C. (2000) Relation between fossil fuel trace gas emissions and satellite observations of nocturnal lighting IAPRS Vol XXXIII Amsterdam  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

6) Sutton P;  (2000) Progress in Empirical Measurement of the Urban Environment:  An exploration of the theoretical and empirical advantages of using Nighttime Satellite Imagery in Urban Studies  GIS and Environmental Modelling Conference #4 Banff, Canada September 2000  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

5) Collins EF, Roberts DA, Sutton PC, Funk CC, Borel CC  (1999) Temperature estimation and compositional mapping using spectral mixture analysis of thermal imaging spectrometry data Imaging Spectrometry V Editors: Descour MR, Shen SS Proceedings Of the Society Of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), 3753 pp 286-299  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

4) Sutton, P, Roberts, D; Leskow, J; Elvidge, C; (1997) A Preliminary Investigation of the Utility of Low-Gain DMSP OLS Nighttime Satellite Imagery for Modeling Population Density  University Consortium for Geographic Information Science conference, Bar Harbor Maine June, 1997  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

3) Sutton, P; (1999) The use of regionalized parameters for estimating the population of nations using remote sensing at the Western Regional Science Association meeting in Ojai, California February 1999  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

2) Sutton, P; (1997) "Light Up Your Nation: An ArcView based education module exploring Nighttime Satellite Imagery and GIS" In proceedings of ACSM/ASPRS conference, Seattle, Washington April, 1997  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

1)        Sutton, P;  (1997) A "Comparison of the low-gain and high-gain DMSP Nighttime Satellite Imagery products for use in modeling population density over the Continental United States" In proceedings of ACSM-ASPRS Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington April, 1997  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

Conference Presentations

 

40) Sutton, P (2012) The Dark Side of the Earth: Some alternative future observations of the earth from space at night Smart City Expo World Congress November 14, Barcelona, Spain (Click here for powerpoint)

39) Sutton, Paul (2012) The Spatial GINI Coefficient Population Association of America San  Francisco May 2012 (Click here for powerpoint)

 

38) Sutton, P; Costanza, R; Kubiszewski, I; Roman, J (2011)  Urbanization, climate change, and changes to ecosystem services in low lying coastal areas in the next 50 years American Geophysical Union in San Francisco December 2011 (click here for powerpoint)

 

37) Ghosh, T; Elvidge, C; Sutton, P; Baugh, K; Tuttle, B: Ziskin, D (2011) Using Nighttime Satellite Imagery to Create a Global Grid of Distributed Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions at The World Geospatial Forum Hyderabad, India   (click here for Illustrated Poster)

 

36) Sutton, Paul C. (2010) Confessions of an anti-assessment curmudgeon: Developing course and program level ‘learning outcome’  metrics for a University Geography Department At the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle WA (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

35) Sutton, Paul C. (2010) Using Impervious Surface as a spatially explicit proxy measure of CO2 emissions At the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Washington DC  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

34) Sutton, Paul C.; Anderson, Sharolyn J.; Tuttle, Benjamin (2010) The Real Wealth of Nations: Mapping and Monetizing the Human Ecological Footprint at The Footprint Forum in Siena Italy  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

33) Sutton, Paul C. (2009) Impervious surface as a spatial proxy measure of CO2 emissions at the 3rd EARSeL Workshop Land Use and Land Cover in Bonn Germany November 2009  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

33.5) Anderson, S; Sutton, P (2009) Improving intraurban land use characterization with nighttime imagery at the 3rd EARSeL Workshop Land Use and Land Cover in Bonn Germany November 2009  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

32) Elvidge, Chris; Tuttle, Ben; Sutton, Paul (2009) Collaborative Tool for Collecting Reference Data on the Density of Constructed Surfaces Worldwide International Symposium of the Digital Earth (ISDE6) Beijing, China  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

31) Ghosh, Tilottama, Sutton, Paul (2009) Estimation of Mexico’s Informal Economy Using DMSP Nighttime Lights Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (CLAG) Managua, Nicaragua January 2009  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

30) Tuttle, Benjamin; Sutton, Paul; Anderson, Sharolyn; Elvidge, Chris (2009) Developing a Web-Based Collaborative Mapping Tool to Map Impervious Surface Globally the annual Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas Nevada  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

29) Sutton, Paul (2008) Mapping the Dollar Value of Natural Production and dollar cost of human Consumption Globally  At the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Boston MA  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

28) Ghosh, Tilottama; Sutton, Paul (2008) Estimating the GDP of developing nations using nighttime satellite imagery At the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Boston MA  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

27) Sutton, Paul (2007) Coastal Wetlands and Storm Protection: A spatially explict estimate of ecosystem service value at the annual Association of American Geographers Conference, San Francisco, California  March 2007 (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

26) Tuttle, B; Elvidge, C; Baugh, K; Nemani, R; Milesi, C; Sutton, P (2007) Global Mapping of Impervious Surface Area at the annual Association of American Geographers Conference, San Francisco, California  March 2007  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

25)  Elvidge, Christopher D; Pettit, Donald R.; Cinzano Pierantonio; Sutton, Paul C.; Small, Christopher (2007) Overview of the Nightsat Mission Concept at the 2007 Urban Remote Sensing Joint Event, Paris, France April 2007   (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

24) Sutton, P (2006) Mapping urban and exurban sprawl in Australia using nighttime satellite imagery at the bi-annual Australian Population Associate Conference in Adelaide, South Australia  December 2006  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

23) Ghosh, Tilottama, Sutton, Paul C.; Elvidge, Christopher D.  (2006) An Overview of the Use and the Potential of Nighttime Imagery for Estimation of Socio-economic Variables at the Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Chicago, Illinois  March 2006    (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

22) Tuttle, Benjamin T.; Elvidge, Christopher D.; Saffran, Jeff; Baugh, Kim; Nemani, Ramakrishna; Melisi, Christina; Sutton Paul D (2006) Spatial Mapping of Impervious Surfaces Associated with Urban Development at the Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Chicago, Illinois  March 2006  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

21) Saffran, Jeff; Elvidge, Christopher D.; Sutton, Paul C.; Tuttle, Benjamin T. (2006) Potential for Global Mapping of Development via a NightSat Mission at the Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Chicago, Illinois  March 2006  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

20) Sutton, Paul C.; Richards, Noel; Fildes, Stephen  (2006) Mapping the Bush-Wildlands interface in Australia (2006) at the International Geographical Union conference in Brisbane, Queensland July  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

19) Sutton, Paul C (2006) Urban and Exurban Sprawl in Australia  at Spatial Information Day (SID 2006) conference in the Adelaide Town Hall Adelaide, South Australia August 2006  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

18.5) Sutton, Paul (2005) Looking for “Exurbia” in Latin America at the Congress of Latin Americanist Geographers, Morelia Mexico (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

18) Sutton, Paul C; (2005) Mapping Estimation of GDP at sub-national scales using nighttime satellite imagery  at the Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Denver, Colorado  March 2005  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

17) Sutton, Paul C; (2004) Mapping “Exurbia” in the conterminous U.S. using Nighttime Satellite Imagery  at the Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  March 2004  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

16) Cova, Tom, Sutton, Paul C, Theobald, Dave; (2004) Light my fire proneness: residential change detection in the urban-wildland interface with nighttime satellite imagery  at the Annual Association of Geographers Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  March 2004   (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

15) Sutton, Paul C; (2004) An exploration of nighttime satellite imagery from the DMSP OLS for use in mapping population and wealth in Guatemala at the Congress of Latin Americanist Geographers, Antigua, Guatemala May 2004  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

14) Noonan, Jessica; Keables, Michael, Sutton, Paul (2004) An Urban Land-use Study of Population Growth and Urban Sprawl in the Denver-metro are using MSS and Landsat TM imagery at the ASPRS annual conference in Denver, Colorado May 2004  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

13) Elvidge, Chris; Dietz, John; Sutton, Paul (2003) Impervious Surface Area of the Conterminous United States at the Coastal Global Terrestrial Observing System  (GTOS) meeting in Costa Rica  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

12) Sutton, Paul  (2003) Perspectives from Academia regarding NESDIS data and service NESDIS Data User’s Workshop, NIST Auditorium, NOAA  Boulder, CO  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

11) Sutton, Paul  (2003) A scale-Adjusted measure of Urban Sprawl using Nighttime Satellite Imagery  at the Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana  March 2003  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

10) Sutton, Paul  (2002) An empirical Environmental Sustainability Index derived solely from Nighttime Satellite Imagery and Ecosystem Service Values  at the Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Los Angeles, California  March 2002  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

9) Sutton, Paul  (2001) “Do Americans Really Believe in the ‘Black Helicopters’? Reflections of a Census 2000 enumerator in the Colorado Front Range” at the Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, New York, New York  March 2001  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

8) Sutton, P; (2000)Census from Heaven: An estimate of the global human population using nighttime satellite imagery at the Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania March 2000  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

7) Sutton, P; Roberts, D; (1999) Unmixing the mixed pixel with Hyperspectral Data and Spectral Libraries at the Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Honolulu Hawaii, March 1999  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

6) Sutton, P (1998) Is the nighttime the right time for city population estimation? Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts March 1998  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

5) Sutton, P (1998) Three potholes on the road to my dissertation: 1) What is Population Density? 2) What light threshold best captures city points? And 3) How do I use aggregate national figures to model the city area-city population relationship? At the 2nd Annual Western Geography Graduate Student Conference in San Diego, California Februrary, 1998  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

4) Sutton, P. (1997) The Role of Population in Sustainable Economic Activities at The 6th Annual Conference of the Greening of Industry Network, Chair of Doctoral Breakout Session titled: Green Economic and Analytic Models, Santa Barbara, California November, 1997  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

3) Sutton, P; (1997) "A Method for Modeling Population Density using Nighttime Satellite Imagery and GIS", Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Dallas/Ft.Worth, Texas April 1997   (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

2)      Sutton, P; Van Zuyle, P (1996) "Using ArcView-Based Learning Modules in the Classroom" In the Program for the 81st Annual Meeting of the National Council for Geographic Education , Santa Barbara, California November 1996  (click here for paper or powerpoint)

 

1)      Sutton, P; Palladino, S; Van Zuyle, P (1995) "Color Your World: A K-12 GIS education module using ArcView 2", Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois May 1995  (click here for paper or powerpoint)