Rafael G. Ramos, PhD

Rafael G. Ramos, PhD Geospatial Analysis & Research

PT-BR EN-US
rafael.ramos@inpe.br
rafaelramos@ucsb.edu
orcid.org/0000-0001-9307-5922
linkedin.com/in/rafaelgramos/
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Research Interests
Geospatial Analysis, GIS, Data Visualization, Data Science, Geography of Crime, Land-Use Mapping, Quantitative Human Geography, Small Area Estimation, Downscaling, Human-Environmental Interaction
Current Affiliations
Research Affiliate at INPE (National Institute for Space Research), Brazil.
Research Affiliate at University of California Santa Barbara - Department of Geography.
Research Collaborator at NEV-USP (Center for Studies on Violence at the University of São Paulo).
Education
PhD in Geography, UC Santa Barbara. 2014-2019.
MS in Electrical Engineering (emphasis in Computer Engineering), University of Campinas. 2011-2013.
BS in Computer Engineering, University of Campinas. 2006-2010.
Key Publications
RAMOS, R.G.; SCARABELLO, M.; COSTA, W.; ANDRADE, P. R.; SOTERRONI, A. C.; F.; RAMOS, F. M. (2023) . A mathematical programming approach for downscaling multi-layered multi-constraint land-use models, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2023.2241144 PDF
RAMOS, R.G.; SCARABELLO, M.; SOTERRONI, A. C.; ANDRADE, P. R.; SIMÕES, R.; RUIVO, H. M.; KRAXNER, F.; RAMOS, F. M. (2023) Current policies are insufficient to protect and restore Brazil's cost-effective conservation priority zones. Environmental Research Letters, 18(6), 065006. PDF
FOLHARINI, S. O.; MELO, S. N.; RAMOS, R. G.; BROWN, C. J. (2023) Land use and green crime: Assessing the edge effect. Land Use Policy, v. 129, p. 106636. PDF
RAMOS, R. G.; MELO, S. N. (2022) Income inequality and the geography of residential burglaries: A spatial model applied to Campinas, Brazil. Applied Geography, v. 147, p. 102787. PDF
RAMOS, R. G. (2021) Improving Victimization Risk Estimation: A Geographically Weighted Regression Approach. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, v. 10, n. 6, p. 364. PDF
RAMOS, R. G.; SILVA, B. A. F.; CLARKE, K. (2020). Too fine to be good? Issues of scale, granularity and error in spatial crime analysis. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 1-25. PDF
RAMOS, R. G. (2019). Does income inequality explain the geography of residential burglaries? The case of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2019, 8(10), 439. PDF
RAMOS, R. G. (2019). Methodological contributions to the spatial analysis of crime, with an application to residential burglaries in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Dissertation (PhD) - University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA. PDF
Rafael G. Ramos • rafael.ramos@inpe.br • rafaelramos@ucsb.edu • linkedin.com/in/rafaelgramos/