Rachel Whitsed

PhD, Head of School, School of Environmental Sciences and Lecturer in Spatial Sciences

Emailrwhitsed@csu.edu.au

208 Citations
4 h-Index

Research output per year

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Personal profile

With her research interests in GIS (Geographical Information Science) and in particular the application of spatial science to environmental modelling, Associate Professor Rachel Whitsed has been involved in developing ecology and agricultural applications. Her other areas of interest include uncertainty in GIS, spatial algorithms and programming and developing world precision agriculture.

Research Interests

Spatial environmental modelling
Spatial health modelling
Spatial social modelling
Spatial modelling algorithms
Uncertainty in spatial modelling

Professional Information

External Appointments & Memberships:

Australian College of Environmental Deans and Directors (ACEDD) (member),
Australasian Spatial Information Education and Research Association (ASIERA) (member),
Spatial Accuracy (Steering Committee member)

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy (Spatial Sciences), Curtin University

2004

Master of Science (Geography), Victoria University of Wellington

1998

Bachelor in Computing and Mathematical Science (BCMS), University of Waikato

1994

External positions

Postdoctoral Position, University of California

Jun 2004 → Oct 2005

Spatial Analyst/Programmer, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

Nov 1998 → Dec 2000

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Research Output

208 Citations
4 h-Index
15 Conference paper
11 Article
3 Presentation only
2 Abstract
1 More
- 1 Creative Works - Recorded or Rendered works

Presence-only species distribution models are sensitive to sample prevalence: Evaluating models using spatial prediction stability and accuracy metrics

Grimmett, L., Whitsed, R. & Horta, A., 01 Sep 2020, In : Ecological Modelling. 431, p. 1-12 12 p., 109194.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

1 Citation (Scopus)

How walkable are our regional and rural towns for older Australians?

Horta, A. & Whitsed, R., 2019.

Research output: Other contribution to conference › Presentation only

An uncertainty-based approach to quantify the spatial representativeness of local health datasets

Whitsed, R., Horta, A., Soares, A. & Jelinek, H., 2018.

Research output: Other contribution to conference › Abstract

Assessing representativeness of a rural Australian clinical database using a spatial modelling approach

Whitsed, R., Horta, A. & Jelinek, H. F., 2018, EMBEC and NBC 2017 Conference Proceedings. Eskola, H., Väisänen, O., Viik, J. & Hyttinen, J. (eds.). Springer-Verlag London Ltd., Vol. 65. p. 932-935 4 p.

Research output: Book chapter/Published conference paper › Conference paper