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Videos by Professor Pontius and his students


Posted on YouTube, Vimeo, NASA, and Clark University. Scroll down for links on YouKu and Bilibili.

March 2024 webinar via NASA

Best Practices for Classification Accuracy Metrics video.

Best Practices for Classification Accuracy Metrics slides.

June 2024 webinar via the International Society of Digital Earth

How and why do some authors claim their data and models are good? video and slides

August 2024 webinar via the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Kappa The Undead and the Inconsistent Adoption of Insightful Error Metrics

Computing components of a square contingency table by using PontiusMatrix.xlsx

PontiusMatrix42 Instructional Video.

PontiusMatrix41 Part 1.

PontiusMatrix41 Part 2.

PontiusMatrix41 Part 3.

Quantity, Exchange, and Shift in English.

Quantity, Exchange, and Shift in Spanish.

Intensities of Components of Quantity, Exchange and Shift in English.

Intensities of Components of Quantity, Exchange and Shift in French.

Death to Kappa on YouTube.

Intensity Analysis

Intensity Analysis Part 1 concerning the framework.

Intensity Analysis Part 2 concerning deviations from uniform intensity.

Intensity Analysis Part 3 concerning the computer program.

Intensity Analysis applied to error assessment on YouTube in English.

Intensity Analysis applied to error assessment on YouTube in Chinese.

Category Aggregation

Category Aggregation with subtitles in English, Chinese and Arabic.

Empirical Probability and Empirical Likelihood

Explanation of empirical probability and empirical likelihood in English.

Explanation of empirical probability and empirical likelihood in Spanish.

One time point versus two time point calibration

One time point versus two time point calibration in English.

One time point versus two time point calibration in French.

Geomod Land Change Simulation Model

Geomod Part 1 in English.

Geomod Part 2 in English.

Geomod Part 1 in Spanish.

Geomod Part 2 in Spanish.

Modeling Forest Loss in Brazil Using Geomod in TerrSet.

Using Geomod to find geographic gradients where iNaturalist shows Oriental Bittersweet.

Dinamica

Learn to use Dinamica using Plum Island Ecosystems.

Learn to validate Dinamica using Plum Island Ecosystems.

Land Change Modeler

Learn aspects of Idrisi’s Land Change Modeler and to assess outputs using the area under the TOC.

Total Operating Characteristic

Learn to use the Total Operating Characteristic for simulation validation.

Learn to use R code to compute the Total Operating Characteristic.

Mean Absolute Deviation

Mean Absolute Deviation in English.

Mean Absolute Deviation in Chinese.

Misses, Hits, Wrong Hits, False Alarms and Correct Rejections

Learn why to use Misses, Hits, and False Alarms to indicate diagnostic ability.

Learn how to reveal reasons for errors in a land change simulation.

Learn to use R code to compute components of pattern validation at multiple spatial resolutions.

Simulation of Deforestation

Learn the case for changing the criteria to confirm models that simulate carbon disturbance and deforestation.

Modeling Forest Loss in Brazil Using Geomod in TerrSet.

TOC curves and deforestation in Bahia Brazil on YouTube.

TOC curves and deforestation in Bahia Brazil on Clark University’s Panopto.

Additional

Clark University Geography Video Album.

Pontius comments concerning land change modeling.

Radio interview at University of Lagos, Nigeria. First four minutes are music, and then half-hour interview begins.

Doctor Stardust.

Videos Available Worldwide

Computing components of a square contingency table by using PontiusMatrix.xlsx

PontiusMatrix42 Instructional Video.

Quantity, Exchange, and Shift in English with subtitles.

Death to Kappa on Bilibili.

Intensity Analysis

Intensity Analysis Part 1 concerning the framework.

Intensity Analysis Part 2 concerning deviations from uniform.

Intensity Analysis Part 3 concerning the computer program.

Intensity Analysis applied to error assessment in English.

Intensity Analysis applied to error assessment in Mandarin.

Category Aggregation

Category Aggregation with subtitles.

Land Change Simulation

Modeling Deforestation in Brazil Using Geomod in TerrSet.

Mean Absolute Deviation

Mean Absolute Deviation in Mandarin.

One time point versus two time point calibration

One time point versus two time point calibration in English via YouKu.

One time point versus two time point calibration in English via Clark University.

Simulation of Deforestation

TOC curves and deforestation in Bahia Brazil on Bilibili.