1. INTRODUCTION

2. DATA SETS
2.1. The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey
2.2. Spectroscopic Follow-Up of BGPS Sources
2.3. The Spitzer GLIMPSE Survey

3. DISTANCE PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS
3.1. Approach and Utility
3.2. Extracting a Distance from the DPDF
3.3. Using DPDFs to Estimate Physical Parameters
3.4. Kinematic Distance DPDFs
3.5. Prior DPDFs for Kinematic Distance Discrimination

4. INFRARED-MILLIMETER MORPHOLOGICAL MATCHING
4.1. Creation of Synthetic 8-µm Images
4.2. Processing of GLIMPSE 8-µm Images
4.3. Morphological Matching

5. RESULTS
5.1. EMAF-Selected Molecular Cloud Clumps
5.2. Source KDA Resolutions
5.3. Distance Comparisons with Other Studies

6. DISCUSSION
6.1. Kinematic Distance Discrimination
6.2. EMAF vs. IRDC
6.3. Implications for Galactic Structure

7. CONCLUSIONS