Publications

Articles

2025

Hesselbarth, M.H.K., Nowosad, J., de Flamingh, A. et al. (2025). Computational Methods in Landscape Ecology. Curr Landscape Ecol Rep 10, 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40823-024-00104-6
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2024

Rocchini, D., Chieffallo, L., Thouverai, E., D’Introno, R., Dagostin, F., Donini, E., Foody, G., Garnier, S., Mazzochini, G. G., Moudry, V., Rudis, B., Simova, P., Torresani, M., & Nowosad, J. (2024). Under the mantra: ‘Make use of colorblind friendly graphs’. Environmetrics, e2877. https://doi.org/10.1002/env.2877
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Tarazona, Y., Benitez-Paez, F., Nowosad, J., Drenkhan, F., & Timaná, M. E. (2024). scikit-eo: A Python package for Remote Sensing Data Analysis. Journal of Open Source Software 9, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06692
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Nowosad, J. (2024). Comparing spatial patterns in raster data using R. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences 48, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-4-W12-2024-127-2024
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Szyniszewska, A.M., Bieszczak, H., Kozyra, K., Papadopoulos, N.T., De Meyer, M., Nowosad, J., Ota, N., Kriticos, D.J. (2024). Evidence that recent climatic changes have expanded the potential geographical range of the Mediterranean fruit fly. Sci Rep 14, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52861-3
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2023

Stepinski, T. F., Nowosad, J. (2023). The kinetic Ising model encapsulates essential dynamics of land pattern change. Royal Society Open Science, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231005
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Woszczyk, M., Stach, A., Nowosad, J., Zawiska, I., Bigus, K., & Rzodkiewicz, M. (2023). Empirical Formula to Calculate Ionic Strength of Limnetic and Oligohaline Water on the Basis of Electric Conductivity: Implications for Limnological Monitoring. Water, https://doi.org/10.3390/w15203632
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Herodowicz‐Mleczak, K., Piekarczyk, J., Ratajkiewicz, H., Nowosad, J., Śledź, S., Kaźmierowski, C., Królewicz, S., & Kierzek, R. (2023) Estimation of Soil Surface Roughness Parameters Under Simulated Rainfall Using Spectral Reflectance in Optical Domain. Earth and Space Science. American Geophysical Union (AGU), https://doi.org/10.1029/2022ea002642
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Rocchini, D., Tordoni, E., Marchetto, E., Marcantonio, M., Barbosa, A. M., Bazzichetto, M., Beierkuhnlein, C., Castelnuovo, E., Gatti, R. C., Chiarucci, A., Chieffallo, L., Da Re, D., Di Musciano, M., Foody, G. M., Gabor, L., Garzon-Lopez, C. X., Guisan, A., Hattab, T., Hortal, J., Kunin, W.E., Jordán, F., Lenoir, J., Mirri, S., Moudrý, V., Naimi, B., Nowosad, J., Sabatini, F.M., Schweiger, A.H., Šímová, P., Tessarolo, G., Zannini, P., Malavasi, M. (2023) A quixotic view of spatial bias in modelling the distribution of species and their diversity. npj biodiversity, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-023-00014-6
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Rocchini, D., Nowosad, J., D’Introno, R., Chieffallo, L., Bacaro, G., Gatti, R. C., Foody, G. M., Furrer, R., Gábor, L., Malavasi, M., Marcantonio, M., Marchetto, E., Moudrý, V., Ricotta, C., Šímová, P., Torresani, M., & Thouverai, E. (2023) Scientific maps should reach everyone: The cblindplot R package to let colour blind people visualise spatial patterns. Ecological Informatics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102045
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Thouverai, E., Marcantonio, M., Lenoir, J., Galfré, M., Marchetto, E., Bacaro, G., Cazzolla Gatti, R., Da Re, D., Di Musciano, M., Furrer, R., Malavasi, M., Moudrý, V., Nowosad, J., Pedrotti, F., Pelorosso, R., Pezzi, G., Šímová, P., Ricotta, C., Silvestri, S., … Rocchini, D. (2023) Integrals of life: Tracking ecosystem spatial heterogeneity from space through the area under the curve of the parametric Rao’s Q index. Ecological Complexity, 52, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2023.101029
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Nowak, M. M., Skowroński, J., Słupecka, K., Nowosad, J. (2023) Introducing tree belt designer - A QGIS plugin for designing agroforestry systems in terms of potential insolation, Ecological Informatics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102012
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Janiec P., Nowosad J., Zwoliński Z. (2023) A machine learning method for Arctic lakes detection in the permafrost areas of Siberia, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 56:1, https://doi.org/10.1080/22797254.2022.2163923
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2022

Nowosad, J., Stepinski, T. (2022) Extended SLIC superpixels algorithm for applications to non-imagery geospatial rasters. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.102935
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Nowosad, J., Stepinski, T. F., and Iwicki, M. (2022) A method for universal supercells-based regionalization (preliminary results). Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-4/W1-2022, 337–344, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-4-W1-2022-337-2022
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Herodowicz-Mleczak, K., Piekarczyk, J., Kaźmierowski, C., Nowosad, J., & Mleczak, M. (2022). Estimating soil surface roughness with models based on the information about tillage practises and soil parameters. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14, e2021MS002578. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002578
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2021

Tarazona, Y., Zabala, A., Pons, X., Broquetas, A., Nowosad, J., Zurqani , H. A. (2021) Fusing Landsat and SAR Data for Mapping Tropical Deforestation through Machine Learning Classification and the PVts-β Non-Seasonal Detection Approach, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2021.1941823
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Hesselbarth, M. H. K., Nowosad, J., Signer, J., Graham, L. J. (2021). Open-source Tools in R for Landscape Ecology. Current Landscape Ecology Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40823-021-00067-y
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Grinn-Gofroń, A., Bogawski, P., Bosiacka, B., Nowosad, J., Camacho, I., Sadyś, M., Skjøth, C. A., Pashley, C. H., Rodinkova, V., Çeter, T., Traidl-Hoffmann, C., Damialis, A. (2021). Abundance of Ganoderma sp. in Europe and SW Asia: modelling the pathogen infection levels in local trees using the proxy of airborne fungal spore concentrations. Science of The Total Environment, 793, 148509. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148509
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Mammadov, E., Nowosad, J., Glaesser, C. (2021). Estimation and mapping of surface soil properties in the Caucasus Mountains, Azerbaijan using high-resolution remote sensing data. Geoderma Regional, 26, e00411. DOI: 10.1016/j.geodrs.2021.e00411
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Dyba K, Nowosad J (2021) rgugik: Search and Retrieve Spatial Data from the Polish Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography in R. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(59), 2948, DOI: 10.21105/joss.02948
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Nowosad J, Stepinski TF (2021) Pattern-based identification and mapping of landscape types using multi-thematic data, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2021.1893324
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Nowosad, J., 2021, Motif: an open-source R tool for pattern-based spatial analysis. Landscape Ecol 36(1), 29-43, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-020-01135-0
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2020

Nowosad J., Gao P. (2020) belg: A Tool for Calculating Boltzmann Entropy of Landscape Gradients. Entropy. 22(9), 937, DOI:10.3390/e22090937
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Dmowska, A., Stepinski T., Nowosad J. Racial landscapes – a pattern-based, zoneless method for analysis and visualization of racial topography. Applied Geography. 122:1-9, DOI:10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102239
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Czernecki, B., Głogowski, A., Nowosad, J. Climate: An R Package to Access Free In-Situ Meteorological and Hydrological Datasets for Environmental Assessment. Sustainability. 12(1):394, DOI: 10.3390/su12010394
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2019

Nowosad, J., Stepinski, T. F. (2019). Stochastic, empirically‐informed model of landscape dynamics and its application to deforestation scenarios. Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029/2019GL085952
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Hasselbarth M., Sciaini M., With K., Wiegand K., Nowosad J. (2019). landscapemetrics: an open‐source R tool to calculate landscape metrics. Ecography. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04617
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Nowosad, J., Stepinski, T. F. (2019). Information Theory as a consistent framework for quantification and classification of landscape patterns. Landscape Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00830-x
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Nowosad, J., Stepinski, T. F., Netzel, P. (2019). Global assessment and mapping of changes in mesoscale landscapes: 1992–2015. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2018.09.013
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Kaźmierowski, C., Herodowicz, K., Królewicz, S., Nowosad, J., Piekarczyk, J. (2019) Representative elementary area issue in soil spectral measurements. Soil and Tillage Research, 186: 259-269, DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2018.11.002
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Grinn-Gofroń, A., Nowosad, J., Bosiacka, B., Camacho, I., Pashley, C., Belmonte, J., De Linares, C., Ianovici, N., Maya Manzano, J.M., Sadyś, M., Skjoth, C., Rodinkova, V., Tormo-Molina, R., Vokou, D., Fernández-Rodríguez, S., Damialis, A. (2019). Airborne Alternaria and Cladosporium fungal spores in Europe: Forecasting possibilities and relationships with meteorological parameters, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.419
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2018

Nowosad, J., Stepinski, T. F. (2018). Spatial association between regionalizations using the information-theoretical V-measure. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2018.1511794
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Nowosad, J., Stepinski, T. F. (2018). Towards machine ecoregionalization of Earth’s landmass using pattern segmentation method. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 69:110-118.
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Nowosad, J., Stepinski, T. F. (2018). Global inventory of landscape patterns and latent variables of landscape spatial configuration. Ecological Indicators, 89:159-167.
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Johansen, R., Beck R., Nowosad, J. et al. (2018). Evaluating the portability of satellite derived chlorophyll-a algorithms for temperate inland lakes using airborne hyperspectral imagery and dense surface observations. Harmful Algae, 76:35-46.
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Nowosad, J., Stach, A., Kasprzyk, I. et al. (2018). Statistical techniques for modeling of Corylus, Alnus, and Betula pollen concentration in the air. Aerobiologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10453-018-9514-x
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Czernecki, B., Nowosad, J., Jabłońska, K. (2018). Machine learning modeling of plant phenology based on coupling satellite and gridded meteorological dataset. International Journal of Biometeorology
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2016

Nowosad J., Stach A., Kasprzyk I., Weryszko-Chmielewska E., Piotrowska-Weryszko K., Puc M., et al. (2016) Forecasting model of Corylus, Alnus, and Betula pollen concentration levels using spatiotemporal correlation properties of pollen count. Aerobiologia, 32(3):453-468
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Nowosad J. (2016) Spatiotemporal models for predicting high pollen concentration level of Corylus, Alnus, and Betula. International Journal of Biometeorology, 60(6):843-855
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2015

Nowosad J., Stach A., Kasprzyk I., Latałowa M., Puc M., Myszkowska D., et al. (2015) Temporal and spatiotemporal autocorrelation of daily concentrations of Alnus, Betula, and Corylus pollen in Poland. Aerobiologia, 31(2):159-177
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2014

Nowosad J., Stach A. (2014) Relation between extensive extreme precipitation in Poland and atmospheric circulation. Quaestiones Geographicae, 33(1): 115-129
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Books

2025

Lovelace R., Nowosad J., Muenchow J. (2025) Geocomputation with R. CRS Press
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Dorman M., Graser A., Nowosad J., Lovelace R. (2025) Geocomputation with Python. CRS Press
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2021

Nowosad, J., (2021). Geostatystyka w R. Wydanie trzecie. Poznań: Space A. ISBN 978-83-953296-2-3
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2020

Nowosad, J., (2020). Elementarz programisty: wstęp do programowania używając R. Wydanie pierwsze. Poznań: Space A. Online: https://nowosad.github.io/elp/ ISBN: 978-83-953296-1-9
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2019

Lovelace R, Nowosad J., Muenchow J. (2019) Geocomputation with R. CRS Press
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Nowosad, J., (2019). Geostatystyka w R. Wydanie drugie. Poznań: Space A. ISBN 978-83-953296-0-9
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2016

Nowosad, J., (2016). Geostatystyka w R. Wydanie pierwsze
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Nowosad J. (2016) Forecasting of Corylus, Alnus, and Betula pollen concentration in the air in Poland. Doctoral dissertation
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Other publications

2021

Nowosad J., Stepinski T.F. (2021) Generalizing the Simple Linear Iterative Clustering (SLIC) superpixels. UC Santa Barbara: Center for Spatial Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.25436/E2QP4R
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Nowosad J., Stepinski T.F. (2021) Describing multi-layer spatial patterns using an integrated co-occurrence matrix (INCOMA). the 29th Annual GIS Research UK Conference (GISRUK), Cardiff, Wales, UK
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2019

Johansen R., Reif M., Emery E., Nowosad J., Beck R., Xu M., Liu H., waterquality: An Open-Source R Package for the Detection and Quantification of Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms and Water Quality. USACE ERDC/EL TR-19-20; DOI: 10.21079/11681/35053
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2018

Netzel, P., Nowosad, J., Jasiewicz, J., Niesterowicz, J., Stepinski T. (2018). GeoPAT 2: user’s manual. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1185408
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2017

Nowosad J., Stepinski T.F. (2017) Worldwide inventory of landscapes through segmentation of global land cover dataset. GeoComputation 2017, Leeds, UK, September 4-7, 2017

2015

Jasiewicz J., Stach A., Nowosad J. (2015) Terrain misclassification problem – analysis using pattern simulation approach. Geomorphometry for Geosciences, Edited by Jarosław Jasiewicz, Zbigniew Zwoliński, Helena Mitasova, Tomislav Hengl, 01/2015: pages 153-156; Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe, ISBN: 978-83-7986-059-3