J. Ronald Eyton is a Professor of Geography and is involved in the new Ph.D. program in Geography at Southwest Texas State University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois (Urbana campus) in 1974 with a major in Geography (physical) and minor in Civil Engineering (photogrammetry). His teaching and research interests include remote sensing, terrain modelling, and multivariate mapping. Current research includes an image classification project involving frequency-based context for examining the relationships between crime and cover-types for the Austin, TX urban area, and a workbook project involving the development of Geography visualization methodologies (color, false-color, temporal, and three-dimensional) for teaching in the systematic, regional, and technique aspects of the discipline.

Recent Publications

1997 Eyton, J.R., “Spatial Externalities and Edmonton Dwelling Values”, The Canadian Geographer, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 202-206.

1997 Eyton, J.R., “Texas Grey Scale Maps (Map Supplement)”, in Geographical Perspectives on the Texas Region, 93rd Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, TX, p. 147 (with map supplement).

1996 Schmid-McGibbon, G., and Eyton, J.R., “Frequency-Based Landform Classification”, Geomatica, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 287-299.

1996 Shaw, J., Rains, B., Eyton, R., and Weissling, L., “Laurentide Subglacial Outburst Floods - Landform Evidence from Digital Elevation Models “, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Vol. 33, No.8:1154-
1168.