Dr Martin Charlton

    National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG), Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI), Geography, Hamilton Institute

    Associate Professor

    Iontas Building
    2.21
    (01) 708 6186

    Biography

    I am currently Senior Research Associate in the National Centre for Geocomputation at Maynooth University. I have previously worked at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, as Research Associate and Senior Research in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, and then as Lecturer in the Department of Geography. I am a graduate of Newcastle University. I am one of the co-developers of Geographically Weighted Regression. 

    Research Interests

    Spatial Statistics, Geographical Information Science, Environment

    Post Doctoral Fellows/Research Team

      Researcher Name Project Role Funding Body
    Chris Brunsdon Building City Dashboards Co-PI Science Foundation Ireland

    Books

      Year Publication
    2002 Geographically Weighted Regression: The Analysis of Spatially Varying Relationships.
    A. S Fotheringham, C Brunsdon and M Charlton (2002) Geographically Weighted Regression: The Analysis of Spatially Varying Relationships. : Wiley. [Details]
    2000 Quantitative Geography: Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis.
    A. S Fotheringham, C Brunsdon and M Charlton (2000) Quantitative Geography: Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis. : Sage. [Details]

    Book Chapters

      Year Publication
    2009 'Laser Scanning: The Future'
    Large A.;Heritage G.;Charlton M. (2009) 'Laser Scanning: The Future' In: Laser Scanning for the Environmental Sciences. [DOI] [Details]
    2008 'Locational analysis in human geography (1965): Peter Haggett'
    Charlton M. (2008) 'Locational analysis in human geography (1965): Peter Haggett' In: Key Texts in Human Geography. [DOI] [Details]
    2009 'Issues in Laser Scanning'
    Charlton, M.E., Coveney, S. and McCarthy, T. (2009) 'Issues in Laser Scanning' In: Laser Scanning for the Environmental Sciences. Chichester: Wiley. [Details]
    2008 'Modifiable Arial Unit Problem'
    Charlton, M.E. (2008) 'Modifiable Arial Unit Problem' In: Encyclopaedia of GIS. London: Sage. [Details]
    2008 'Geographical Analysis Machine'
    M.E. Charlton (2008) 'Geographical Analysis Machine' In: Encyclopaedia of GIS. London: Sage. [Details]
    2008 'Looking for a Relationship? Try GWR'
    A.S. Fotheringham, M. Charlton and U. Demsar (2008) 'Looking for a Relationship? Try GWR' In: Geographic Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. London: Taylor & Francis. [Details]
    2007 'A Mark 1 Greographical Analysis Machine for the Automated Analysis of Point Data Sets: Twenty Years On'
    M.E. Charlton (2007) 'A Mark 1 Greographical Analysis Machine for the Automated Analysis of Point Data Sets: Twenty Years On' In: Classics from IJGIS: Twenty years of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science and Systems. Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis. [Details]
    2007 'Modifiable Arial Unit Problem'
    M.E. Charlton (2007) 'Modifiable Arial Unit Problem' In: Encyclopaedia of GIS. London: Sage. [Details]
    2007 'Quantitative Methods and Geographical Information Systems'
    M.E. Charlton (2007) 'Quantitative Methods and Geographical Information Systems' In: The Handbook of Geographic Information Science. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. [Details]
    2006 'Modelling the effect of predicted sea-level rise on coastal conservation habitats using GIS'
    Coveney S. and M.E. Charlton (2006) 'Modelling the effect of predicted sea-level rise on coastal conservation habitats using GIS' In: IFGI Prints 28. Muenster, Germany: [Details]
    2005 'Derivation of Annual Reach-Scale Sediment Transfers in the River Coqet, Northumberland UK'
    Charlton M., I Fuller, A Large, G Heritage and D Milan (2005) 'Derivation of Annual Reach-Scale Sediment Transfers in the River Coqet, Northumberland UK' In: Fluvial Sedimentology VII: Special Publications of the IAS (International Association of Sedimentologists), Vol. 35. Wiley-Blackwell. [Details]
    2002 'Geographically Weighted Local Statistics Applied to Binary Data'
    C. Brunsdon, A.S. Fotheringham and M. E. Charlton (2002) 'Geographically Weighted Local Statistics Applied to Binary Data' In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 2478. Berlin: Springer. [full-text] [Details]

    Peer Reviewed Journals

      Year Publication
    2017 'Data imputation in a short-run space-time series: A Bayesian approach'
    Pforte, L; Brundson, C; Cahalane, C; Charlton, M (2017) 'Data imputation in a short-run space-time series: A Bayesian approach'. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2016 'Inter-temporal Disposable Income in Ireland 1996-2011'
    Kilgarriff, P., O’Donoghue, C., Charlton, M., Foley, R. (2016) 'Inter-temporal Disposable Income in Ireland 1996-2011'. 9 (2):123-143 [full-text] [Details]
    2015 'Using bootstrap methods to investigate coefficient non-stationarity in regression models: an empirical case study'
    P Harris, C Brunsdon, I Gollini, T Nakaya, M Charlton (2015) 'Using bootstrap methods to investigate coefficient non-stationarity in regression models: an empirical case study'. Procedia Earth and Planetary Science, 27 :112-115 [full-text] [Details]
    2016 'The Minkowski approach for choosing the distance metric in geographically weighted regression'
    Lu, BB;Charlton, M;Brunsdon, C;Harris, P (2016) 'The Minkowski approach for choosing the distance metric in geographically weighted regression'. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 30 :351-368 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2015 'GWmodel: An R Package for Exploring Spatial Heterogeneity Using Geographically Weighted Models'
    Gollini, I;Lu, BB;Charlton, M;Brunsdon, C;Harris, P (2015) 'GWmodel: An R Package for Exploring Spatial Heterogeneity Using Geographically Weighted Models'. Journal of Statistical Software, 63 :1-50 [full-text] [Details]
    2015 'Enhancements to a Geographically Weighted Principal Component Analysis in the Context of an Application to an Environmental Data Set'
    Harris, P;Clarke, A;Juggins, S;Brunsdon, C;Charlton, M (2015) 'Enhancements to a Geographically Weighted Principal Component Analysis in the Context of an Application to an Environmental Data Set'. Geographical Analysis, 47 :146-172 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2014 'Geographically weighted regression with a non- Euclidean distance metric: a case study using hedonic house price data'
    Lu, BB;Charlton, M;Harris, P;Fotheringham, AS (2014) 'Geographically weighted regression with a non- Euclidean distance metric: a case study using hedonic house price data'. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 28 :660-681 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2014 'Geographically weighted methods and their use in network re-designs for environmental monitoring'
    Harris, P;Clarke, A;Juggins, S;Brunsdon, C;Charlton, M (2014) 'Geographically weighted methods and their use in network re-designs for environmental monitoring'. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 28 :1869-1887 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2014 'Multivariate Spatial Outlier Detection Using Robust Geographically Weighted Methods'
    Harris, P;Brunsdon, C;Charlton, M;Juggins, S;Clarke, A (2014) 'Multivariate Spatial Outlier Detection Using Robust Geographically Weighted Methods'. Mathematical Geosciences, 46 :1-31 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2014 'The GWmodel R package: Further topics for exploring spatial heterogeneity using geographically weighted models'
    Lu B.;Harris P.;Charlton M.;Brunsdon C. (2014) 'The GWmodel R package: Further topics for exploring spatial heterogeneity using geographically weighted models'. Geo-Spatial Information Science, 17 (2):85-101 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2013 'The demographic impacts of the Irish famine: towards a greater geographical understanding'
    Fotheringham, AS;Kelly, MH;Charlton, M (2013) 'The demographic impacts of the Irish famine: towards a greater geographical understanding'. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38 :221-237 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2013 'A new approach and procedure for generalising vector-based maps of real-world features'
    Shi, SZ;Charlton, M (2013) 'A new approach and procedure for generalising vector-based maps of real-world features'. GIScience and Remote Sensing, 50 :473-482 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2013 'The comap as a diagnostic tool for non-stationary kriging models'
    Harris, P;Brunsdon, C;Charlton, M (2013) 'The comap as a diagnostic tool for non-stationary kriging models'. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 27 :511-541 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2011 'Geographically weighted principal components analysis'
    Harris, P;Brunsdon, C;Charlton, M (2011) 'Geographically weighted principal components analysis'. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 25 :1717-1736 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2010 'The Use of Geographically Weighted Regression for Spatial Prediction: An Evaluation of Models Using Simulated Data Sets'
    Harris, P;Fotheringham, AS;Crespo, R;Charlton, M (2010) 'The Use of Geographically Weighted Regression for Spatial Prediction: An Evaluation of Models Using Simulated Data Sets'. Mathematical Geosciences, 42 :657-680 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2010 'Moving window kriging with geographically weighted variograms'
    Harris, P;Charlton, M;Fotheringham, AS (2010) 'Moving window kriging with geographically weighted variograms'. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 24 :1193-1209 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2010 'No association between ambient particulate matter exposure during pregnancy and stillbirth risk in the north of England, 1962-1992'
    Pearce, MS;Glinianaia, SV;Rankin, J;Rushton, S;Charlton, M;Parker, L;Pless-Mulloli, T (2010) 'No association between ambient particulate matter exposure during pregnancy and stillbirth risk in the north of England, 1962-1992'. Environmental Research, 110 :118-122 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2010 'Dual-scale validation of a medium-resolution coastal DEM with terrestrial LiDAR DSM and GPS'
    Coveney, S;Fotheringham, AS;Charlton, M;McCarthy, T (2010) 'Dual-scale validation of a medium-resolution coastal DEM with terrestrial LiDAR DSM and GPS'. Computers and Geosciences, 36 :489-499 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2010 'INVESTIGATING MATERIAL DECAY OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS USING VISUAL ANALYTICS WITH MULTI-TEMPORAL INFRARED THERMOGRAPHIC DATA'
    Danese, M;Demsar, U;Masini, N;Charlton, M (2010) 'INVESTIGATING MATERIAL DECAY OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS USING VISUAL ANALYTICS WITH MULTI-TEMPORAL INFRARED THERMOGRAPHIC DATA'. Archaeometry, 52 :482-501 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2008 'Combining Geovisual Analytics with spatial statistics: the example of Geographically Weighted Regression'
    Demsar, U;Fotheringham, AS;Charlton, M (2008) 'Combining Geovisual Analytics with spatial statistics: the example of Geographically Weighted Regression'. Cartographic Journal, 45 :182-192 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2008 'Exploring the spatio-temporal dynamics of geographical processes with geographically weighted regression and geovisual analytics'
    Demsar, U;Fotheringham, AS;Charlton, M (2008) 'Exploring the spatio-temporal dynamics of geographical processes with geographically weighted regression and geovisual analytics'. Information Visualization, 7 :181-197 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2008 'Temporal changes in key maternal and fetal factors affecting birth outcomes: A 32-year population-based study in an industrial city'
    Glinianaia S.;Rankin J.;Pless-Mulloli T.;Pearce M.;Charlton M.;Parker L. (2008) 'Temporal changes in key maternal and fetal factors affecting birth outcomes: A 32-year population-based study in an industrial city'. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 8 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2007 'Geographically weighted discriminant analysis'
    Brunsdon, C;Fotheringham, S;Charlton, M (2007) 'Geographically weighted discriminant analysis'. Geographical Analysis, 39 :376-396 [full-text] [Details]
    2005 'Smoothing/filtering LiDAR digital surface models. Experiments with loess regression and discrete wavelets'
    Tate N.;Brunsdon C.;Charlton M.;Fotheringham A.;Jarvis C. (2005) 'Smoothing/filtering LiDAR digital surface models. Experiments with loess regression and discrete wavelets'. Journal of Geographical Systems, 7 (3-4):273-290 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2005 'Geographically weighted Poisson regression for disease association mapping'
    Nakaya, T;Fotheringham, AS;Brunsdon, C;Charlton, M (2005) 'Geographically weighted Poisson regression for disease association mapping'. Statistics in Medicine, 24 :2695-2717 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2009 'Investigating material decay of historic buildings using Visual Analytics with multi-temporal infrared thermographic data'
    Danese M, Demsar U, Masini N and Charlton M (2009) 'Investigating material decay of historic buildings using Visual Analytics with multi-temporal infrared thermographic data'. ARCHAEOMETRY, forthcoming [full-text] [Details]
    2008 'Modelling spatio-temporal variation in exposure to particulate matter: a twostage approach'
    Fanshawe, T.R., P.J. Diggle, S. Rushton, R. Sanderson, P.W.W. Lurz, S.V. Glinianaia, M.S. Pearce, L. Parker, M. Charlton, T. Pless-Mulloli (2008) 'Modelling spatio-temporal variation in exposure to particulate matter: a twostage approach'. ENVIRONMETRICS, 19 :549-556 [full-text] [Details]
    2008 'Maternal exposure to air pollution and perinatal outcomes: methodological approaches to exposure assessment and preliminary findings of the UK particulate matter and perinatal events research (PAMPER) study'
    Pless-Mulloli T, Glinianaia S V, Rankin J, Pearce M S, Rushton S, Ghosh R, Lurz, P, Sanderson R, Shirley M, Diggle P, Fanshawe T, Charlton M, Parker L. (2008) 'Maternal exposure to air pollution and perinatal outcomes: methodological approaches to exposure assessment and preliminary findings of the UK particulate matter and perinatal events research (PAMPER) study'. EUROPEAN EATING DISORDERS REVIEW, 12 :1-12 [Details]
    2008 'Surveying the Sickbeds: Initial Steps towards Modelling All-Ireland Hospital Accessibility'
    Foley, R., M. Charlton and P. Clarke (2008) 'Surveying the Sickbeds: Initial Steps towards Modelling All-Ireland Hospital Accessibility'. JOURNAL OF CROSS BORDER STUDIES IN IRELAND, 3 :303-316 [full-text] [Details]
    2005 'Pre- and Post-natal exposure to particulate Matter and pregnancy and Infant Outcomes 1961-92: Initial Results'
    M. Charlton, S. Gliniania, T. Pless-Mulloli, M. Pearce, J. Rankin and L. Parker (2005) 'Pre- and Post-natal exposure to particulate Matter and pregnancy and Infant Outcomes 1961-92: Initial Results'. EPIDEMIOLOGY, 16 :S44-S45 [full-text] [Details]
    2005 'Origins, destinations and catchments: Mapping travel to work in Ireland in 2002'
    Walsh, J., R. Foley, A. Kavanagh, A. McElwain and M.E. Charlton (2005) 'Origins, destinations and catchments: Mapping travel to work in Ireland in 2002'. JOURNAL OF THE STATISTICAL AND SOCIAL INQUIRY SOCIETY OF IRELAND, XXV :1-58 [full-text] [Details]
    2002 'Geographically Weighted Summary Statistics - A Framework for Localised Exploratory Data Analysis'
    C. Brunsdon, A.S. Fotheringham and M.E. Charlton (2002) 'Geographically Weighted Summary Statistics - A Framework for Localised Exploratory Data Analysis'. COMPUTERS, ENVIRONMENT AND URBAN SYSTEMS, 26 :501-524 [full-text] [Details]

    Other Journals

      Year Publication
    2015 'Calibrating a geographically weighted regression model with parameter-specific distance metrics'
    B Lu, P Harris, M Charlton, C Brunsdon (2015) 'Calibrating a geographically weighted regression model with parameter-specific distance metrics' Procedia Environmental Sciences, 26 :109-114. [full-text] [Details]

    Conference Publications

      Year Publication
    2014 Estimating missing data in hierarchical space-time series with a short temporal extent
    Charlton, M., Brunsdon, C., Cahalane, C., and Pforte, L. (2014) Estimating missing data in hierarchical space-time series with a short temporal extent GIScience 2014, Vienna [full-text] [Details]
    2012 Geographically Weighted Regression using a non-euclidean distance metric with simulation data
    Lu B.;Charlton M.;Harris P. (2012) Geographically Weighted Regression using a non-euclidean distance metric with simulation data 2012 1st International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics, Agro-Geoinformatics 2012 , pp.267-270 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2011 Geographically Weighted Regression Using a Non-Euclidean Distance Metric with a Study on London House Price Data
    Lu, BB;Charlton, M;Fotheringham, AS (2011) Geographically Weighted Regression Using a Non-Euclidean Distance Metric with a Study on London House Price Data SPATIAL STATISTICS 2011: MAPPING GLOBAL CHANGE , pp.92-97 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2011 Geographically Weighted Regression using a non-Euclidean distance metric with a study on London house price data
    Lu B.;Charlton M.;Fotheringham A. (2011) Geographically Weighted Regression using a non-Euclidean distance metric with a study on London house price data Procedia Environmental Sciences , pp.92-97 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2009 Automated Boundary Creation: Atomic Small Areas in Ireland
    Fotheringham, AS;Foley, PF;Charlton, M (2009) Automated Boundary Creation: Atomic Small Areas in Ireland EUROPEAN INFORMATION SOCIETY: TAKING GEOINFORMATION SCIENCE ONE STEP FURTHER , pp.241-259 [full-text] [Details]
    2008 Automated boundary creation: Atomic small areas in Ireland
    Fotheringham A.;Foley P.;Charlton M. (2008) Automated boundary creation: Atomic small areas in Ireland Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography , pp.241-259 [full-text] [Details]
    2007 Modelling commuting catchments in Ireland: a hierarchical approach using GIS
    Meredith, D. and Charlton, M. and Foley, R. and Walsh, J. (2007) Modelling commuting catchments in Ireland: a hierarchical approach using GIS Proceedings of the Geographical Information Science Research UK Conference, 11th - 13th April 2007, NUI Maynooth, Ireland [full-text] [Details]

    Conference Contributions

      Year Publication
    ICLRD Meeting - Spatial Indicators.
    ICLRD Meeting - Spatial Indicators. [Oral Presentation], , Dundalk, Ireland [Details]
    2008 Invited Dept. Seminar, Beijing Key Lab. of Spatial.
    (2008) Invited Dept. Seminar, Beijing Key Lab. of Spatial. [Oral Presentation], , Peking University, Beijing, China [Details]
    2008 AGILE 2008.
    (2008) AGILE 2008. [Oral Presentation], , [Details]
    2008 Local Government Computer Services Board Conferenc.
    (2008) Local Government Computer Services Board Conferenc. [Oral Presentation], , Ballinasloe [Details]
    2007 GIS Ireland.
    (2007) GIS Ireland. [Oral Presentation], , Dublin [Details]
    2007 GISRUK 2007.
    (2007) GISRUK 2007. [Oral Presentation], , [Details]
    2007 Seminar on Small Area Creation for.
    (2007) Seminar on Small Area Creation for. [Oral Presentation], , Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth [Details]
    2007 Mobile Mapping Technogies Conference.
    (2007) Mobile Mapping Technogies Conference. [Oral Presentation], , Padua, Italy [Details]
    2006 GIScience 2006.
    (2006) GIScience 2006. [Oral Presentation], , [Details]
    2006 22nd Annual Meeting American Real Estate Society.
    (2006) 22nd Annual Meeting American Real Estate Society. [Oral Presentation], , Key West, Florida [Details]
    2006 GIS and Health.
    (2006) GIS and Health. [Oral Presentation], , [Details]
    2006 9th Int. Conf. on Global Spatial Data Infrastructu.
    (2006) 9th Int. Conf. on Global Spatial Data Infrastructu. [Oral Presentation], , [Details]
    2006 GISRUK 2006.
    (2006) GISRUK 2006. [Oral Presentation], , [Details]
    2005 GISRUK 2005.
    (2005) GISRUK 2005. [Oral Presentation], , [Details]
    2005 Regional Science Association British and Irish Sec.
    (2005) Regional Science Association British and Irish Sec. [Oral Presentation], , [Details]
    2005 52nd N. American Meetings of Regional Science Asso.
    (2005) 52nd N. American Meetings of Regional Science Asso. [Oral Presentation], , [Details]
    2005 14th European Colloquium on Quantitative and Theor.
    (2005) 14th European Colloquium on Quantitative and Theor. [Oral Presentation], , [Details]
    2005 Geographical Perspectives on Outputs from Census.
    (2005) Geographical Perspectives on Outputs from Census. [Oral Presentation], , [Details]
    2005 Geocomputation 2005.
    (2005) Geocomputation 2005. [Oral Presentation], , [Details]
    2005 Royal Geographical Society with Institute of Brit.
    (2005) Royal Geographical Society with Institute of Brit. [Oral Presentation], , [Details]
    2004 51st N. American Meeting of Regional Science Assoc.
    (2004) 51st N. American Meeting of Regional Science Assoc. [Oral Presentation], , [Details]
    2004 30th Congress of International Geographical Union.
    (2004) 30th Congress of International Geographical Union. [Oral Presentation], , Glasgow [Details]