Biography

I am a physical geographer by training and I still retain interests in that field. My current teaching is in the area of Geographic Information Systems, although I have taught courses in physical geography and statistics. My interests in the GIS area are in geomatics education (at the K-12 level and university levels), spatial analysis, application development and programming within a GIS environment. Currently I am working in open-source programming and its interface with GIS.

Research Interests

• Geographic Information Systems
• Application development in GIS (programming)
• Quantitative Analysis

2012-2013 Courses

• GEOM 2004 [Instroduction to Geomatics]
• GEOM 2007 [Geographic Information Systems]
• GEOM 3005 [Geospatial Analysis]
• GEOM 4009 [Applications in GIS]
• GEOG 5804 [Geographic Informaiton Systems]

Recent Publications

• Papers
  Teshome, A., D. Patterson, Z. Asfew, J.K Torrance and J.T. Arnason. 2007. “Changes of Sorghum bicolor landrace diversity and Farmers’ selection criteria over space and time, Ethiopia”, Genet. Resour. Crop. Evol (2007) 54:1219-1233, Springer.
  Imran, M. Hassan, Y. and Patterson, D. 2006. GPS-GIS-Based Procedure for Tracking Vehicle Path on Highway Horizontal Alignments, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 21 (2006), pp 383-394.
• Refereed Conference Proceedings
  Imran, M. Hassan, Y. and Patterson, D. 2004. GPS-Based Procedure for Tracking Vehicle Path on Highway Horizontal Alignments
  Ramadan, O.E.M., Hassan, Y. and Patterson, D. 2004. GIS-Based Safety Information System for Rural Roads, Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, January 2004, Washington, D.C., Paper 04-2794.

Awards/Honours

• 2006 ESRI International User Conference, Support Center User Forums MVP Award
• 2005 ESRI International User Conference, Support Center User Forums MVP Award
• 2004 ESRI International User Conference, Support Center User Forums MVP Award
• 1999 FASS Teaching Award, Carleton University
• 1999 Teaching Achievement Award, Carleton University
• 1998 Professional Achievement Award, for Instructor Employees, Carleton University
• 1998 Teaching Excellence Award, Carleton University Students Association
• 1996 Professional Achievement Award, for Instructor Employees, Carleton University

Recent Graduate Supervisions

Imran, Muhammed 2005. Development of GPS-Based Procedure for Tracking Vehicle Path, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Co-advisor with Y. Hassan, completed April 2005)

Ramadan, Ossama. 2003. Development of a GIS-Based Safety Information System, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. (Co-advisor with Y. Hassan). Complete July 9, 2003.