Sucharita Gopal

About

Sucharita Gopal is a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment at Boston University. Her research is multidisciplinary, focusing on spatial analysis and modeling, GIS, data mining, information visualization, and artificial neural networks. She has applied spatial analysis to address various problems in biology, environmental science, public health, and business, and has worked on uncertainty issues related to GIS. Her work includes using neural networks for pattern classification, estimation, and mixture modeling. Her current funded research projects include developing a marine integrated decision analysis system (MIDAS) for Massachusetts, malaria risk mapping in Ethiopia, analysis of patent activities in China, and mapping health service delivery in Zambia. She is funded by the National Science Foundation on a GK-12 grant—Global Change Initiative—Research and Education (GLACIER)—which focuses on outreach to middle schools in the Boston area. Additionally, she is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation for work related to data mining and visualization, and by the MacArthur Foundation on assessing the impact of climate change on food security and biodiversity in Cambodia. Professor Gopal teaches courses such as Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Analysis Using GIS. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, earned in 1988. Her contact information includes her office at Boston University, email, and phone number.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Environmental science
• Engineering
• Business
• Computer Security
• Environmental resource management
• Sociology
• Civil engineering
• Environmental planning
• Ecology

Selected publications

• Feedbacks among electric vehicle adoption, charging, and the cost and installation of rooftop solar photovoltaics

  Nature Energy · 2021 · 70 citations

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  Identifying feedback loops in consumer behaviours is important to develop policies to accentuate desired behaviour. Here, we use Granger causality to provide empirical evidence for feedback loops among four important components of a low-carbon economy. One loop includes the cost of installing rooftop solar (Cost) and the installation of rooftop solar (photovoltaics, PV); this loop is probably generated by learning by doing and reductions in the levelized cost of electricity. The second includes…

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• Seeing the invisible: From imagined to virtual urban landscapes

  Cities · 2020 · 60 citations

  Urban ecosystems consist of infrastructure features working together to provide services for inhabitants. Infrastructure functions akin to an ecosystem, having dynamic relationships and interdependencies. However, with age, urban infrastructure can deteriorate and stop functioning. Additional pressures on infrastructure include urbanizing populations and a changing climate that exposes vulnerabilities. To manage the urban infrastructure ecosystem in a modernizing world, urban planners need to in…

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• Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover Changes through the Lens of SDGs in Semarang, Indonesia

  Sustainability · 2022 · 33 citations

  Land Use and Land Cover Changes (LULCC) are occurring rapidly around the globe, particularly in developing island nations. We use the lens of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to determine potential policies to address LULCC due to increasing population, suburbia, and rubber plantations in Semarang, Indonesia between 2006 and 2015. Using remote sensing, overlay analysis, optimized hot spot analysis, expert validation, and Continuous Change Detection and Classification, we f…

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• The Deforestation and Biodiversity Risks of Power Plant Projects in Southeast Asia: A Big Data Spatial Analytical Framework

  Sustainability · 2023-10-03 · 14 citations

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  Ecosystem destruction and biodiversity loss are now widespread, extremely rapid, and among the top global anthropogenic risks both in terms of likelihood and overall impact. Thorough impact evaluation of these environmental abuses—essential for conservation and future project planning—requires good analysis of local ecological and environmental data in addition to social and economic impacts. We characterized the deforestation and biodiversity impacts of energy investments in Southeast Asia usin…

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• Semiconductor Supply Chain: A 360-Degree View of Supply Chain Risk and Network Resilience Based on GIS and AI

  Springer series in supply chain management · 2022-01-01 · 10 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Curtis E. Woodcock

  44 shared

• Alan H. Strahler

  Boston University

  26 shared

• Joshua Pitts

  Boston University

  24 shared

• Manfréd M. Fischer

  17 shared

• Magaly Koch

  Tufts University

  15 shared

• T.J. Hebert

  University of Houston

  13 shared

• Les Kaufman

  11 shared

• Scott Macomber

  11 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Geography

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  1995

• M.S., Geography

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  1991

• B.S., Geography

  University of Calcutta

  1988

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