Dr. Rafael G. Ramos AEOP Fellow (Post Doctoral) Personal Website rafael.ramos [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications Dr. Rafael G. Ramos is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering (GEnE) at USMA, with a Fellowship from the Army Educational Outreach Program. He has a PhD in Geography from the University of California Santa Barbara, and a MS and BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Campinas. Prior to his position at West Point, Dr. Ramos was Post-Doctoral Researcher at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and a geospatial consultant. Dr. Ramos’s research focuses on geospatial analysis of both human and environmental phenomena and using geospatial theory to improve data quality. He has proposed and implemented new methods to improve mapping of crime data, as well as a method to improve the resolution of land-use/land-cover change projections. He has also developed various case studies on the geographies of urban and environmental crimes, as well as environmental impacts, natural hazards and vulnerability. Currently at West Point, Dr. Ramos is leading with Prof. Adam Kalkstein (GEnE) the development of a new early warning system for heatwaves at West Point and other US academies. Dr. Ramos contributions have been published in leading journals of the area, and featured in conferences, articles, interviews and other media. He is married with two children and enjoys exploring the Hudson Valley region with them for hikes and festivals. Ph.D. - University of California Santa BarbaraM.S - University of CampinasB.S. - University of Campinas Research Interests GIS, Spatial Analysis, Geography of Crime, Urban Geography, Human-Environment Interactions, Land-Use/Land-Cover Mapping, Data Visualization, Statistics Current Research Ramos, R. G., Kalkstein, A. Developing a new early warning system for heat stress at US military academies Selected Publications Ramos, R. G., Nery, M. B., & Adorno, S. (2024). Urban patterns and the geography of street robberies in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Applied Geography, 167, 103298.Ramos, R. G., Scarabello, M. D. C., Costa, W., Andrade, P. R., Soterroni, A., & Ramos, F. M. (2023). A mathematical programming approach for downscaling multi-layered multi-constraint land-use models. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 37(9), 2020-2042.Ramos, R. G., Scarabello, M., Soterroni, A. C., Andrade, P. R., Simões, R., Ruivo, H. M., ... & Ramos, F. M. (2023). Current policies are insufficient to protect or restore Brazil’s cost-effective conservation priority zones. Environmental Research Letters, 18(6), 065006.Ramos, R. G., & Melo, S. N. (2022). Income inequality and the geography of residential burglaries: A spatial model applied to Campinas, Brazil. Applied Geography, 147, 102787.Ramos, R. G. (2021). Improving victimization risk estimation: A geographically weighted regression approach. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 10(6), 364.Ramos, R. G., Silva, B. F., Clarke, K. C., & Prates, M. (2021). Too fine to be good? Issues of granularity, uniformity and error in spatial crime analysis. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 37, 419-443.