Faculty Profiles

Colleges and Departments

Dr. Nathan Allen Currit

  • Associate Professor at Dept of Geography & Environmntl Studies, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • Manning, A., Meitzen, K. M., Currit, N., & Reynolds, L. (2025). Controls on Longitudinal Patterns of Riparian Vegetation Along Ephemeral Streams in the Southwestern United States. Physical Geography.

2024

  • Townsend-Small, A., Edgar, A., Fernandez, J. M., Jackson, A., & Currit, N. (2024). High rates of hydrogen sulfide emissions measured from marginal oil wells near Austin and San Antonio, Texas. Environmental Research Communications. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ad75f0

2023

  • Wilkinson, J., Currit, N. A., Burke-Miller, J. K., & Kreslavsky, M. (2023). Megafans of Africa. In Fluvial Megafans on Earth and Mars. Cambridge University Press.
  • Wilkinson, J., & Currit, N. A. (2023). A Global Megafans Map. In Fluvial Megafans on Earth and Mars. Cambridge University Press.

2020

  • Reygadas Langarica, Y., Jensen, J., Moisen, G. G., Currit, N. A., & Chow, T. K. E. (2020). Assessing the relationship between vegetation greenness and surface temperature through Granger causality and Impulse-Response coefficients: a case study in Mexico. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 41(10), 3761–3783. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2019.1711241
  • Zhao, C., Jensen, J. L. R., Weng, Q., Currit, N. A., & Weaver, R. (2020). Use of Local Climate Zones to investigate surface urban heat islands in Texas. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 57(8), 1083–1101.
  • Devine, J., Currit, N., Reygadas, Y., Liller, L. I., & Allen, G. (2020). Drug Trafficking, Cattle Ranching and Land Use and Land Cover Change in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve. Land Use Policy, 95(104578).

2019

  • Zhao, C., Jensen, J., Weng, Q., Currit, N. A., & Weaver, R. (2019). Application ofairborne remote sensing data on mapping Local Climate Zones: cases of threemetropolitan areas of Texas, U.S. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 74, 175–193.
  • Devine, J. A., Wrathall, D., Currit, N. A., Tellman, B., & Reygadas Langarica, Y. (2019). Narco-cattle Ranching in Guatemala’s Political Forests. Antipode.

2018

  • Ghaffari, Z., Jo, I., & Currit, N. A. (2018). NASA Astronaut Photography of Earth: A Resource to Facilitate Students` Learning Using Geospatial Concepts. International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research, 5(3), Article 6.

2015

  • Zhao, N., Samson, E. L., & Currit, N. (2015). Nighttime-Lights-Derived Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide Emission Maps and Their Limitations. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 81, 935–943. https://doi.org/10.14358/PERS.81.12.935

2013

  • Meng, X., Currit, N. A., Wang, L., & Yang, X. (2013). Seeing residential buildings from remotely sensed imagery: An object-oriented approach. In Advances in Mapping from Remote Sensor Imagery: Techniques and Applications. CRC Press.
  • Harper, C., Currit, N. A., & Jensen, J. (2013). Estimating tree canopy foliar volume using terrestrial lidar scanner data. In Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences (Vol. 36, pp. 290–298).

2012

  • Meng, X., Currit, N. A., Wang, L., & Yang, X. (2012). Detect residential buildings directly from lidar and aerial photographs through object-oriented land-use classification. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 78(1), 35–44.

2011

  • Zhao, N., Ghosh, T., Currit, N. A., & Elvidge, C. (2011). Relationships Between Satellite Observed Lit Area and Water Footprints. Water Resources Management, 25(9), 2241–2250.
  • Wang, J., & Currit, N. A. (2011). Uncertainty with the Scaling-Up of Remotely Sensed Evapotranspiration Estimation. In 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Querying and Mining Uncertain Spatio-Temporal Data (pp. 3–7).
  • Zhao, N., Currit, N. A., & Samson, E. (2011). Net primary production and gross domestic product in China derived from satellite imagery. Ecological Economics, 70(5), 921–928.

2010

  • Hurst, A., Erhart, E. M., & Currit, N. A. (2010). An assessment of forest loss and habitat connectivity regarding Alouatta pigra in the Natural Protected Area of Métzabok, Chiapas, Mexico. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 141, 132.
  • Currit, N. A., & St.Clair, S. (2010). Assessing the impact of extreme climatic events on Aspen defoliation using MODIS imagery. GeoCarto International, 25(2), 133–147.
  • Meng, X., Currit, N. A., & Zhao, N. (2010). Ground filtering algorithms for airborne LiDAR data: a review of critical issues. Remote Sensing, 2, 833–860.
  • Liu, J., Currit, N. A., & Meng, X. (2010). Extraction of water bodies from remotely sensed images. In 2010 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems.
  • Meng, X., Currit, N. A., & Zhao, K. (2010). Ground Filtering Algorithms for Airborne LiDAR Data: A Review of Critical Issues. Remote Sensing, 2(3), 833–860.

2009

  • Currit, N. A. (2009). Globalization and population drivers of rural-urban land-use change in Chihuahua, Mexico. Land Use Policy, 26(3), 535–544.
  • Meng, X., Wang, L., & Currit, N. A. (2009). Morphology-based building detection from airborne LIDAR data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 75(4), 437–442.
  • Meng, X., Wang, L., Silvan-Cardenas, J. L., & Currit, N. A. (2009). A multi-directional ground filtering algorithm for airborne LIDAR. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 64(1), 117–124.
  • Currit, N. A. (2009). Observing forest change to enhance border sustainability in Chihuahua, Mexico. Geography Compass, 3(3), 932–949.
  • Ferguson, A., Currit, N. A., & Weckerly, F. (2009). Isometric scaling in home range size of male and female bobcats (Lynx rufus). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 87(11), 1052–1060.
  • Wang, J., & Currit, N. A. (2009). Spatio-temporal dynamics of water use in El Paso County, Texas: An assessment of the 1991 water conservation ordinance. In Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences (Vol. 32, pp. 306–313).
  • Currit, N. A., & Easterling, W. E. (2009). Globalization and population drivers of rural-urban land-use change in Chihuahua, Mexico. Land Use Policy, 26(3), 535–544.

2008

  • Meng, X., Currit, N. A., & Wang, L. (2008). Morphology-based building detection from airborne LIDAR data. In ASPRS Proceedings.

2005

  • Currit, N. A. (2005). Development of a remotely sensed, historical land-cover change database for rural Chihuahua, Mexico. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and GeoInformation, 7(3), 232–247.

2002

  • Currit, N. A. (2002). Inductive Regression: Overcoming OLS Limitations with the General Regression Neural Network. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, 26(4), 335–353.

2000

  • Polsky, C., Allard, J., Currit, N. A., Crane, R., & Yarnal, B. (2000). The Mid-Atlantic Region and its climate: past, present, and future. Climate Research, 14(3), 161–173.
  • Currit, N. A. (2000). An Inductive Attack on Spatial Scale. In Geocomputation 2000.

1999

  • Hardin, P., Hansen, K., Currit, N. A., & Long, D. (1999). Monitoring Bering Sea ice change using reconstructed NSCAT imagery. In Proceedings of SPIE (Vol. 3750, pp. 536–544).

1998

  • Hardin, P., Wyllie-Echeverria, T., Wyllie-Echeverria, S., Currit, N. A., Long, D., & Stehn, R. (1998). First Steps to Yukon Delta Biophysical Modeling: Monitoring Sea Ice Change Using Reconstructed NSCAT Data. In Fifth International Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments (p. II-206-II–213).