September 2004
CURRICULUM VITAE
Douglas A. Stow
Department of Geography
San Diego State University
619-594-5498
stow@mail.sdsu.edu
Areas of Specialization: Remote sensing, image processing, biophysical geography, geographic information systems, land-use/land-cover change, Arctic, semi-arid and coastal wetland ecosystems.
Education:
| Institution | Years Attended | Degree | Major Field |
| University of California, Santa Barbara Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego De Anza Jr. College |
1974-1985 1981 1972-1974 |
PhD, MA, BA Intercampus Transfer 1972-1974 |
Geography Satellite Oceanography/Coastal Processes General Education |
Title of Dissertation:
Numerical Derivation of the Ocean Surface Velocity Field from Time Sequential Remote Sensing Methods
Academic Positions:
| Institution | Rank | Date | Major Subject |
| San Diego State University University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara City College |
Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Lecturer Lecturer |
1991-present 1987-91 1983-87 1982 1976-80 |
Geography Geography Geography Aerial Photography, Environ. Pollution, Remote Sensing Remote Sensing |
Other Professional Appointments:
| Institution | Position | Date |
| San Diego State University San Diego State University University of California, Santa Barbara |
Department Chair Co-Director Center for Earth Systems Analysis Research Staff Research Associate, Remote Sensing Research Unit |
1992-1997 1987-present 1978-83 |
Courses Taught:
SDSU
GEOG 101 Principles of Physical Geography
GEOG 488 Introductory Remote Sensing of Environment
GEOG 504 Coastal and Submarine Physiography
GEOG 588 Intermediate Remote Sensing of Environment
GEOG 687 Seminar in Remote Sensing
GEOG 688 Advanced Remote Sensing: Integration of RS with GIS
GEOG 688L Advanced Remote Sensing Lab
GEOG 780 Seminar in Techniques of Spatial Analysis
GS 250 University Seminar
UCSB
GEOG 115A Aerial Photographic Interpretation
GEOG 115C Intermediate Remote Sensing of Environment
GEOG 163 Environmental Pollution
SBCC
ES 200 Remote Sensing of Environment
Courses Developed:
SDSU
GEOG 488 Introductory Remote Sensing of Environment
GEOG 588 Intermediate Remote Sensing of Environment
GEOG 688 Advanced Remote Sensing: Integration of RS with GIS
GEOG 688L Advanced Remote Sensing Lab
Graduate and Undergraduate Theses and Special Studies:
(C = completed) (I = in progress)
Doctoral Degree
Chair (5)
Stuart Phinn (C), Sally Westmoreland (C), Dongmei Chen (C), Mary Freeman (I), Alys Wall (I)
Second (4)
Ryan Engstrom (I), Madhura Niphadakar (I).
Master’s Degree
Chair (38)
Eric Augenstein (C), Patsy Bearden (C), John Bennett (C), Brian Bradshaw (C), Alice Brewster (C), Blake Burns (C), Lina Cao (C), Doretta Collins (C), Kevin Contreras (C), Lauren Cooper (C), Jeff Duncan (C), Arman Eshraghi (C), Elena Gantcheva-Tarnavsky (C), Keith Greer (C), Yuki Hamada (I), Heidi Hudak (C), Christian Langevin (C), Steve Lathrop (I), Anna Lieberman (C), Pauline Longmire (C), Martin Lowenfish (C), Martin Miles (C), Betsy Miller (I), Joel Nathanson (C), Bruce Nyden (C), Aaron Petersen (C), Seth Peterson (C), Heather Pray Minnoch (C), Kathryn Prosser (C), John Ryan (C), Holly Smit (C), Rick Sturm (C), David Van Mouwerik (C), Christopher Webb (C), Richard Weiler (C), Sally Westmoreland (C), Jenny Williams (I), Elizabeth Witztum (C).
Second Member (23)
Andres Abeyta (C), Lisa Baer Wynn (C), William Boynton (C), Lloyd Coulter (C), Katy Dalton (I), Derren Duburguet (C), Ryan Engstrom (C), Jeff Fleming (C), Clint Garrison (C), Liang Guo (C), Aaron Johnson (I), John Kimball (C), Kathryn Kozcot (C), Rasmus Larsen (C), Thomas McDowell (C), David McKinsey (C), Christine McMichael (C), Keith Pence (C), Dawn Service (I), David Shaari (C), Joseph Shandley (C), Debbie Turner (C), Weidong Wang (C).
Third Member (21)
Joseph Adler - Geology (C), Alex Boisvert - Geology (C), Kathryn Boyer - Biology (C), Julie Desmond - Biology (C), Geoffrey Galvin - Geology (C), Lawrence Gurrola - Geology (C), Charles Hauser - Geology (C) Isabelle Kay - Biology (C), Leigh Klatsky - Biology (I), Danielle Lipski - Biology (I), Thien Mai - Biology (I), David Mark - Geology (C), Jean Meltzer - Physical Education (C), Lorraine Parsons - Biology (C), Christopher Ross - Geology (C), Susan Rutherford - Biology (C), Martha Shaw - Geology (C), Gregson Taylor - Geology (C), Donald Wells - Geology (C), Dustin Wood - Biology (C), Jinhong Zhou - Civil Engineering (C).
Senior Thesis (1):
Shelly Evans (C).
Ph.D. Dissertations Supervised (completed):
Chen, Dongmei. 2001. Multi-resolution Image Analysis and Classification for Improving Urban Land Use/Cover Mapping Using High Resolution Imagery.
Phinn, Stuart. 1997. Remote Sensing and Spatial-Analytic Techniques for Monitoring Landscape Structure in Disturbed and Restored Coastal Environments.
Westmoreland, S.2001. Radiometric Correction of Multisensor Imagery.
M.A. Theses Supervised (completed):
Augenstein, Eric. 1989. Evaluation of SPOT/HRV Data for Kelp Inventories
Bearden, Patsy. 1988. Use of Satellite Remote Sensing to Determine the Distribution of the Pacific Mackerel (Scomber Japnicus) in the Eastern North Pacific.
Bennett, John. 1999. The Effect of Topography and Vegetation on Highway traffic Noise: An Investigation of Sound Levels in the Alvarado Canyon Transit Corridor of San Diego.
Bradshaw, Brian. 1997. Integrating High Resolution Digital Imagery and Digital Terrain Data for Mapping Restored Salt Marsh Habitat.
Brewster, Alice. 1996. Utilizing Geographic Technologies to Analyze the Nesting Habitat Preferences of the Belding's Savannah Sparrow
Burns, Blake. 1989. Spectral Reflectance and Spatial Characterization on Arctic Tundra Albedo in Northern Alaska.
Cao, Lina. 2004. Updating Maps of Undocumented Immigrant Trails Along the U.S.-Mexico border Using Airborne Digital Multispectral Imagery.
Collins, Doretta. 1991. Determining Land Use Change Through an Integration of Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies.
Contreras, Kevin. 2000. The Effects of Wildfire Suppression on Vegetation Type and Patch Pattern in Central Coastal California.
Cooper, Lauren. 2003. Testing Very-Low Altitude Digital Imaging for High Resolution Three-Dimensional Modeling.
Duncan, Jeff. 1991. Assessing the Relationship Between Spectral Vegetation Indices and Proportional Shrub Cover in Semiarid Environments.
Esraghi, Arman. 1995. An Evaluation of ADAR Image Based Methods for Estimating Cover Composition of Major Plant Forms in Restored Riparian Habitats
Greer, Keith. 2001. Vegetation Type Conversion in Los Penasquitos Lagoon: An Examination of the Role of Watershed Urbanization
Hudak, Heidi. 2002. Assessing the Utility of High Resolution Airborne Digital Imagery to Map Benthic Cover for Shallow Waters of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Langevin, Chris. 2001. A Neutral Network Approach for Remote Sensing-based Change Detection and Identification: Map-updating in a Dynamic Urban Landscape in Southern California
Lieberman, Anna. 2004. Mapping Fire Effects in Southern California Mediterranean Vegetation Using Remote Sensing Data.
Longmire, Pauline. 2001. Use of Very High Spatial Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery for Assessment of Land Cover Change in the Coastal Shrubland Vegetation of Southern California
Lowenfish, Martin. 2003. Using Remote Sensing and Landscape Metrics to Predict the Health of a Semi-Arid Wyoming Rangeland.
Miles, Martin. 1990. Incorporating Spatially Varying Parameters Methods Into Remote Sensing Based Water Quality Statistical Modeling.
Nathanson, Joel. 1992. The Effectiveness of Generating Regional-Scale Land Use GIS Layers from Remotely Sense Data.
Nyden, Bruce. 2001. Multi-Temporal Change Analysis of a Southern California Saltmarsh Using Airborne Digital Imagery
Petersen, Aaron. 2004. Interannual Arctic Tundra Vegetation Productivity Trends Estimated Using AVHRR-NDVI Datasets with Different Spatial Sampling Schemes.
Peterson, Seth. 2000. Using a Multiple Endmember Linear Mixture Model to Study Chaparral Regrowth on MCAS Miramar.
Pray, Heather. 1997. How Sensitive is Environmentally Sensitive Lands Mapping?
Prosser, Kathryn. 1995. An Analysis of Image Processing Techniques for Regional Vegetation Mapping in Coastal Southern California.
Ryan, John. 2003. The Human Tide: An Assessment of Procedures for Estimating Daily Peak Beach Attendance.
Smit, Holly. 2001. Remote Sensing of Deforestation in the Region of Honduras.
Sturm, Richard. 1991. Mapping of Pleistocene-Age Shoreline in the Seismically-Acitve Salton Trough Using Remotely Sensed Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanning (TIMS) Data.
Tarnavsky, Elena. 2003. Spatial and radiometric fidelity of high resolution airborne multispectral imagery in the context of land-cover change analyses
Van Mouwerik, David. 1993. Assessing Vegetation Abundance of Spartina Foliosa in a Southern California Salt Marsh Using Remote Sensing.
Webb, Christopher. 1989. Inlet Dynamics for Southern California.
Weiler, Richard. 1988. Spatial Analysis of Land Use Cover: An Investigation into the Scale and Surface Cover Class Divisions.
Westmoreland, Sally. 1990. Use Satellite Imagery and Ancillary Data to a Update Vector-Coded Geographic Information System.
Witztum, Elizabeth. 2001. Analyzing Direct Impacts of Recreation Activity on Coastal Sage Scrub Habitat with Very High-Resolution Multi-spectral Imagery.
Refereed Journal Publications:
Hinzman, L. N. Bettez, F. S. Chapin, M. Dyurgerov, C. Fastie, B. Griffith, B. Hollister, A. Hope, H. P. Huntington,., A. Jensen, D. Kane, G. Kofinas, A. Lynch, A. Lloyd, A. D. McGuireF. Nelson, T. OsterkampW. Oechel, C. Racine, V. Romanovsky, J. Schimel, D. Stow, M. Sturm, C. Tweedie, G. Vourlitis, M. Walker, P. Webber, J. Welker, K. Winker, and K. Yoshikawa, K.. in press. Evidence and Implications of Recent Climate Change in Terrestrial Regions of the Arctic, Climate Change.
Kaiser, J. D. Stow, L. Cao, and L. Coulter, in press. Evaluation of Remote Sensing Technologies for Mapping Trans-border Trails, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing.
Rashed, T., J. Weeks, D. Stow, and D. Fugate, in press. Measuring Temporal Compositions of Urban Morphology through Spectral Mixture Analysis: Toward a Soft Approach to Change Analysis in Crowded Cities, International Journal of Remote Sensing .
Chen, D., D. Stow, and P. Gong, 2004. Examining the Effect of Spatial Resolution on Classification Accuracy: An Urban Environmental Case, International Journal of Remote Sensing., 25: 2177-2192.
Langevin, C. and D. Stow, 2004. Identifying Change in a Dynamic Urban Landscape: A Neural Network Approach to Map Updating, Progress In Planning, 61:327-348.
Lulla, K., Warner, T.A., M.D. Nellis, and D. A. Stow, 2004. Remote Sensing, Geospatial Analysis, and Geographers at the Centennial of the Association of American Geographers, Geocarto International , 19: 5-12.
Stow, D., L. Coulter, A. Johnson, and A. Petersen, 2004. Monitoring Detailed Land-Cover Changes in Shrubland Habitat Reserves Using Multi-temporal IKONOS Data, Geocarto International , 19: 95-102.
Stow, D., A. Hope, D. McGuire, D. Verbyla, J. Gamon, K. Huemmrich, S. Houston, C. Racine, M. Sturm, K. Tape, K. Yoshikawa, L. Hinzman, C. Tweedie, B. Noyle, C. Silapaswan, D. Douglas, B. Griffith G. Jia, H. Epstein, D. Walker, S. Daeschner, A. Petersen, L. Zhou, and R. Myneni, 2004. Remote sensing of vegetation and land-cover changes in Arctic tundra ecosystems, Remote Sensing of Environment , 89: 281-308.
Tarnavsky, E., D. Stow, L. Coulter, and A. Hope, 2004. Spatial and Radiometric Fidelity of Airborne Multispectral Imagery in the Context of Land-cover Change Analyses, GIScience and Remote Sensing, 41: 62-80.
Warner, T.A., M.D. Nellis, D. A. Stow, , and K. Lulla, 2004. From the Co-editors of this Special Issue of Geocarto International Celebrating the Centennial of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Geocarto International , 19: 3-4.
Witztum, E. and D. Stow, 2004. Analyzing Direct Impacts of Recreation Activity on Coastal Sage Scrub Habitat with Very High-Resolution Multi-spectral Imagery, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 25: 3477 — 3496.
Chen, D. and D. Stow, 2003. Strategies for Integrating Information from Multiple Spatial Resolutions Into Land Use/Cover Classification Routines, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing , 69: 1279-1287.
Coulter, L., D. Stow, and S. Baer, 2003. A Frame Center Matching Technique for Precise Registration of Multitemporal Airborne Frame Imagery: Methods and Software Approaches. IEEE Transactions of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 41: 2436-2444.
Greer, K. and D. Stow, 2003. Vegetation Type Conversion in Los Penasquitos Lagoon, California: An Examination of the Role of Watershed Urbanization, Environmental Management, 31: 489-503.
Hope, A., W. Boynton, D. Stow, and D. Douglas, 2003. NOAA-AVHRR Estimates of Vegetation Production for Three Arctic Tundra Ecosystems, 1989 to 1996. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24: 3413-3425.
LeDizes, S., B.L. Kwiatkowkski, E.B. Rastetter, A.S. Hope, J.E. Hobbie, and D. Stow, 2003. Modeling Biogeochemical Responses of Tundra Ecosystems to Temporal and Spatrial Variations in Climate in the Kuparuk River Basin (Alaska). Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(D2): ALT6 1-20.
Peterson, S. and D. Stow, 2003. Using a Multiple Endmember Linear Mixture Model to Study Chaparral Regrowth, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24: 4481 — 4504.
Phinn, S., D. Stow, J. Franklin, L.. Mertes, and J. Michaelsen, 2003. Remotely Sensed Data for Ecosystem Analyses: Combining Hierarchy Theory and Scene Models, Environmental Management, 31: 429—441.
Rogan, J., J. Miller, D. Stow, J. Franklin, L. Levien, and C. Fischer, 2003. Land Cover Change Monitoring in Southern California Using Multitemporal Landsat TM and Ancillary Data, Photogrammetric Engineeering & Remote Sensing, 69: 793-804.
Stow, D., L. Coulter, and Sebastian Baer, 2003. Frame Center Matching Approach to Registration for Change Detection, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24: 3873-3879.
Stow, D., A. Hope, L. Coulter, J. Kaiser, D. Service, S. Redlin, K. Schutte and A. Walters, 2003. Image-based Mapping of Irrigated Vegetation in Urban Environment, Photogrammetric Engineeering & Remote Sensing, 69: 381-290.
Stow, D., S. Daeschner, A. Hope, D. Douglas, A. Petersen, R. Myneni, L. Zhou, and W. Oechel, 2003. Variability of the Seasonally Integrated Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Across the North Slope of Alaska in the1990s, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24: 1111-1117.
Tsou, M.H., L. Guo, and D. Stow, 2003. Web-based Remote Sensing Applications and Java Tools for Environmental Monitoring, Journal of Space Communication, 3: http://satjournal.tcom.ohiou.edu/issue03/applications.html.
Vourlitis, G., J. Verfaillie, Jr., W. Oechel, A. Hope, D. Stow, and R. Engstrom, 2003. Spatial variation in regional CO2 exchange for the Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska over the summer growing season, Global Change Biology, 9:1-12.
Chen, D. and D. Stow, 2002. The Effect of Training Strategies on Supervised Classification at Different Spatial Resolutions, Photogrammetric Engineeering & Remote Sensing, 68: 1155-1161.
Engstrom, R., A. Hope, D. Stow, G. Vourlitis, and W. Oechel, 2002. Estimating Evaporation in Arctic Landscapes Using the Priestly-Taylor Model. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 38: 1647-1659.
Stow, D. and D. Chen, 2002. Sensitivity of Multitemporal NOAA-AVHRR Data for Detecting Land Cover Changes, Remote Sensing of Environment, 80: 297-307.
Chen, D., D. Stow, J. Kaiser, and S. Daeschner, 2001. Detecting and Enumerating New Building Structures Utilizing Very-high Resolution Image Data and Image Processing, Geocarto International, 16: 69-81.
Longmire, P. and D. Stow, 2001. Use of Very High Spatial Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery for Assessing Land-Cover Changes in Shrub Habitat Preserves of Southern California, Geocarto International, 16: 47-57.
Means, J., P. Hopkins, J. Jensen, S. Schill, J. Chipman, R. Ramsey, and D. Stow, 2001. ARC Partnerships: Industry and Academia Explore Remote Sensing Applications, Journal of Forestry, 99: 4-12.
Stow, D., A. Hope, D. Richardson, D. Chen, C. Garrison, and D. Service, 2000. Potential of Colour-Infrared Digital Camera Imagery for Inventory and Mapping of Alien Plant Invasions in South African Shrublands, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21: 2965-2970.
Coulter, L., D. Stow, J. O’Leary, A. Hope, P. Longmire and S. Peterson, 2000. Comparison of High Spatial Resolution Imagery for Efficient Generation of GIS Vegetation Layers, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 66: 1329-1335.
Oechel, W., G. Vourlitis, J.Verfaillie, Jr., T. Crawford, S. Brooks, E. Dumas, A. Hope, D. Stow, B. Boynton, V. Nosov, and R. Zulueta, 2000. A scaling approach for quantifying the net CO2 flux of the Kuparuk River Basin, Alakask, Global Change Biology, 6: 1-14.
Vourlitis G., W. Oechel, A. Hope, D. Stow, W. Boynton, J.Verfaillie, Jr., R. Zulueta, and S. Hastings, 2000. Physiological Models for Scaling Plot Measurements of CO2 Flux Across an Arctic Tundra Landscape, Ecological Applications, 10: 60-72.
Stow, D., 1999. Reducing Misregistration Effects for Pixel-level Analysis of Landcover Change, Remote Sensing Letters - International Journal of Remote Sensing, 20: 2477-2483.
Stow, D., S. Daeschner, W. Boynton, and A. Hope, 1999. Arctic Tundra Functional Types by Classification of Single Date and AVHRR Bi-weekly NDVI Composite Data Sets, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21: 1773-1779.
Coulter, L., D. Stow, B. Kiracofe, C. Langevin, D.Chen, S. Daeschner, D. Service, and J. Kaiser, 1999. Deriving Current Land Use Information for Metropolitan Transportation Planning Through Integration of Remotely Sensed Data and Data Layers in Geographic Information Systems, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 65: 1293-1300.
Hope, A., K. Pence, and D. Stow, 1999. Response of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index to Varying Cloud Conditions In Arctic Tundra Environments, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 20: 207-212.
Hope, A., L. Coulter, and D. Stow, 1999. Estimating Lake Area in an Arctic Landscape Using Linear Mixture Modelling with AVHRR Data, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 20: 829-835.
Phinn, S., D. Stow, and D. Van Mouwerik, 1999. Remotely Sensed Estimates of Vegetation Structural Characteristics in Restored Wetlands, Southern California, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 65: 485-493.
McMichael, C., A. Hope, D. Stow, J. Fleming, G. Vourlitis and W. Oechel, 1999. Estimating CO2 Exchange in Arctic Tundra Ecosystems Using a Spectral Vegetation Index, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 20: 683-698.
Stow, D., A. Hope, W. Boynton, S. Phinn, D. Walker and N. Auerbach, 1998. Satellite-Derived Vegetation Index and Cover Type Maps for Estimating CO2 Flux for Arctic Tundra Regions, Geomorphology, 21: 313-327.
McMichael, C.E., A.S. Hope, D.A. Stow, and J.B. Fleming, 1997. The Relation Between Active Layer Depth and a Spectral Vegetation Index in Arctic Tundra Landscapes of the North Slope of Alaska, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 18:2371-2382.
Stow, D., A. Hope, A. Nguyen, S. Phinn and C. Benkelman, 1996. Monitoring Detailed Land Surface Changes from an Airborne Multispectral Digital Camera System, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 34:1191-1202.
Phinn, S., D. Stow and J. Zedler, 1996. Monitoring Wetland Habitat Restoration Using Airborne Multi-spectral Image Data in Southern California, Ecological Applications, 4:412-422.
Phinn, S., J. Franklin, A. Hope and D. Stow, 1996. Biomass Distribution Mapping Using Airborne Digital Video Imagery and Spatial Statistics in a Semi-arid Environment, Journal of Environmental Management,47:139-164.
Sturm, R., D. Stow and T. Rockwell, 1996. Mapping Pleistocene Shorelines with Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner Data in the Seismically-active Salton Trough, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 17:553-575.
Hope A., J. Fleming, G. Vourlitis, D. Stow, W. Oechel and T. Hack, 1995. Relating CO2 Fluxes to Spectral Vegetation Indices in Tundra Landscapes: Importance of Footprint Definition, Polar Record, 31: 245-250.
Stow, D., B. Burns and A. Hope, 1993. Spatial, Spectral and Temporal Characteristics of Arctic Tundra Vegetation, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 14: 2445-2462.
Stow, D., A. Hope and T. George, 1993. Reflectance Characteristics of Arctic Tundra Vegetation from Aerial Radiometry and Videography, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 14: 1239-1244.
Stow, D., A. Hope, D. McKinsey, H. Pray, 1993. Deriving Dynamic Information on Fire Fuel Distributions in Southern California Chaparral from Remotely Sensed Data, Landscape and Urban Planning, 24: 113-127.
Hope, A., J. Kimball and D. Stow, 1993. The Relationship Between Tussock Tundra Spectral reflectance Properties and Biomass, and Vegetation Composition, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 14: 1861-1874.
Duncan, J., D. Stow, J. Franklin and A. Hope, 1993. Assessing the Relationship Between Spectral Vegetation Indices and Shrub Cover in the Jornada Basin, New Mexico, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 14: 3395-3416.
Hope, A. and D. Stow, 1993. An Analysis of Tree Mortality in Southern California Using High Spatial Resolution Remotely Sensed Spectral Radiances: A Climatic Change Scenario. Landscape and Urban Planning, 24: 87-94.
Zhou, J., H. Chang and D. Stow, 1993. A Model for Phase Lag of Secondary Flow in Rivers, Journal of Hydrology, 146: 73-88.
Westmoreland, S. and D.A. Stow, 1992. Category Identification for Changed Land-Use Polygons in Integrated Image Processing/ Geographic Information Systems, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 58: 1593-1599.
Hope, A., J. Fleming, D. Stow and E. Aguado, 1992. Characterizing Tussock Tundra Albedo on the North Slope of Alaska, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 30(8): 1200-1206.
Augenstein, E., D. Stow and A. Hope, 1991. Kelp Inventories Using SPOT Multi-spectral Data, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 57(5): 501-509.
Weiler, R.A. and D.A. Stow, 1991. Characterizing Spatial Scales of Remotely Sensed Surface Cover Variability, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 12(11): 2237-2257.
Davis, F., D. Quattrochi, M. Ridd, N. Lam, S. Walsh, J. Michaelsen, J. Franklin, D. Stow, C. Johannsen and C. Johnston, 1991. Environmental Analysis Using Integrated GIS and Remotely Sensed Data: Some Research Needs and Priorities, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 57: 689-697.
Stow, D., D. Collins and D. McKinsey, 1990. Land Use Change Detection Based on Multi-date Imagery From Different Satellite Sensor Systems, Geocarto International, 5(3): 1-12.
Webb, C.K., D.A. Stow and H.H. Chang, 1990. Morphodynamic of Southern California Inlets, Journal of Coastal Research, 7(1): 167-187.
Stow, D., B. Burns and A. Hope, 1989. Mapping Arctic Tundra Vegetation Types Using Digital SPOT/HRV-XS Data: A Preliminary Assessment, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 10(8): 1451-1457.
Webb, C.K., D.A. Stow and K. Baron, 1989. Morphologic Response of an Inlet-Barrier Beach System to a Major Storm, Shore and Beach, 57(4): 37-40.
Chang, H.H. and D.A. Stow, 1989. Mathematical Model of Fluvial Sand Delivery, Journal of Water-way, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, 115(3): 311-326.
Stow, D.A., 1988. Remote Sensing and Image Processing Requirements for Eulerian Flow Field Estimation, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 9(3):351-364.
Chang, H.H. and D.A. Stow, 1988. Sediment Delivery in a Semi-Arid Coastal Stream, Journal of Hydrology, 99: 201-214.
Stow, D.A. and H.H. Chang, 1987. Magnitude-Frequency Relationship of Coastal Sand Delivery by a Southern California Stream, Geo-Marine Letters, 7(4): 217-222.
Stow, D.A., and H.H. Chang, 1987. Coarse Sediment Delivery by Coastal Streams to the Oceanside Littoral Cell, California, Shore and Beach, 55(1): 30-40.
Stow, D.A., 1987. Numerical Derivation of a Hydrodynamic Surface Flow Field from Time Sequential Remotely Sensed Data, Remote Sensing of Environment, 23(1): 1-22.
Stow, D.A., 1987. Remotely Sensed Tracers for Hydrodynamic Surface Flow Estimation, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 8(3): 261-278.
Stow, D.A., 1985. Eulerian Velocity Measurements of Hydrodynamic Surfaces Using Optical Flow Methods, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 6(12): 1855-1860.
Stow, D.A. and J.E. Estes, 1981. Landsat and Digital Terrain Data for County-Level Resource Management, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 47(2): 215-222.
Refereed Book Chapters/Sections:
Chen, D. and D. Stow, 2002. Multi-resolution classification framework for improving land use/cover mapping, chapter in Remote Sensing and GIS Applications for Linking People, Place, and Policy, Kluwer Academic Press, eds.:S. Walsh and K. Krews-Meyer, pp 236-261.
Stow, D, A. Brewster, and B. Bradshaw, 2001. The Utilitization of Airborne Digital Multispectral Camera Dynamics and Kinematic Global Positioning Systems for Assessing and Monitoring Salt Marsh Habitats in Southern California, in GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Biogeographyand Biology. Kluwer, A. Millington, S. Walsh, and P. Osborne, eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Mass., 23-45.
Stow, D., D. Chen, and R. Parrott, 1996. Enhancement, Identification, and Quantification of Land Cover Change, in Raster Imagery in Geographic Information Systems, S. Morain and S Lopez Baros (eds.), Onward Press, Santa Fe, N.M., pp. 307-312.
Phinn, S. and D. Stow, 1996. Use of Remote Sensing to Monitor Vegetation Properties, in: Restoring Tidal Wetlands: A Scientific Perspective and Southern California Focus, J. Zedler, (Ed.) La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College, pp. 88-98.
Parrott, R., S. Carnevale, and D. Stow, 1996. Updating Vector Land Use Inventories Using Multi-date Satellite Imagery, in Raster Imagery in Geographic Information Systems, S. Morain and S Lopez Baros (eds.), Onward Press, Santa Fe, N.M., pp. 313-321.
Stow, D., 1995. Monitoring Ecosystem Response to Global Change: Multitemporal RemoteSensing Analyses, in: Anticipated Effects of a Changing Global Environment in Mediterranean Type Ecosystems, J. Moreno and W. Oechel (eds.), New York: Springer-Verlag, Ch. 13, pp. 254-286.
Hope, A. and D. Stow, 1995. Shortwave Reflectance Properties of Arctic Tundra, in: Landscape Function and Disturbance in Arctic Tundra, J. Reynolds and J. Tenhuenen (eds.), Ecological Studies, Vol. 120, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
Stow, D.A., 1993. The Role of Geographic Information Systems for Ecological Studies, in: Landscape Biology and Spatial Information Systems, R. Haynes-Young and S. Cousins (eds.), London: Taylor & Francis.
Stow, D.A., 1992. Shoreline Structures section of Structures and Cultural Features chapter, in: Manual of Air Photo Interpretation, W. Philipson (ed.)
Miles, M.M., D.A. Stow and J.P. Jones III, 1992. Incorporating Spatially-Varying Parameter Methods into Remote Sensing-based Water Equality Modeling, in: Applications of the Expansion Method, E. Casetti and J.P. Jones, III (eds.), 279-298, London: Routledge.
Stow, D.A. and R.C. Smith, 1989. Coastal and Marine Water Resources section of Remote Sensing chapter, in: Geography in America, G.L. Gaile and C. J. Willmott (eds.), Columbus: Merrill Publishing.
Stow, D.A., 1983. Temporal Analysis section of Manual and Digital Analysis in the Visible and Infrared Regions, Chapter 24, in : J.E. Estes, E.J. Hajic and L.R. Tinney (eds.), Manual of Remote Sensing, 2nd ed., Vol. I, Falls Church, VA: American Society of Photogrammetry.
Estes, J.E., D.A. Stow and J.R. Jensen, 1982. Present and Future Directions for Monitoring Land Use Changes by Remote Sensing Techniques, Remote Sensing for Resource Management, J.L. Sanders (ed.), Soil Conservation Society of America.
Papers Published in Symposium Proceedings:
Stow, D., J. Kaiser, M. Niphadkhar, and E. Tarnavsky, 2004. Monitoring Changes in Fuel Moisture Conditions of Southern California Chaparral Based on Time Series of MODIS-derived Indices, Proceedings of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Denver, CO, May, 2004.
Stow, D., L. Coulter, Y. Hamada, A. Lieberman, J. Kaiser, J. Jafolla, and L. Hendricks, 2004. Airborne Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging for Management of Invasive Plants in Southern California, Proceedings of MEDECOS 2004 Symposium, Rhodes, Greece, May, 2004.
Stow, D., and L. Coulter, 2003. Detection of Meter-Scale Land Cover Changes in the Presence of Highly Variable Terrain, Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Toulouse, France, July, 2003.
Cao, L., D. Stow, J. Kaiser, L. Coulter, and D. Johnson, 2002. Mapping Illegal Immigrant and Smuggler Trails along U.S-Mexico Border Using ADAR 5500 Imagery, Proceedings of the ESRI User's Conference, San Diego, CA, July, 2002.
Rashed, T., J. Weeks, D. Stow, and D. Fugate, Measuring Temporal Compositions of Urban Morphology through Spectral Mixture Analysis: Toward a Soft Approach to Change Analysis in Crowded Cities, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Urban Areas, Istanbul, Turkey, June 11-13, 2002.
Stow, D., L. Coulter, A. Johnson, and A. Petersen, 2002. Monitoring Habitat Reserves Using High Spatial Resolution Image Data, Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial Remote Sensing Applications Conference, San Diego, California, April 8-12, 2002.
Rogan, J., Miller, J., Stow, D., Franklin, J., Levien, L. and Fischer, C., 2002. Operational Detection of Changes in Forest and Shrub Cover in California Using Multitemporal Landsat Data, Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial Remote Sensing Applications Conference, San Diego, California, April 8-12.
Stow, D., D. Chen, and L. Coulter, 2001. Detection of Pixel-Level Land-Cover Changes with Multi-temporal Imagery: Theory and Examples With Imagery of 1 Meter and 1 Kilometer Spatial Resolutions. Proceedings of MULTITEMP 2001 Workshop, Trento, Italy, September, 2001.
Stow, D., S. Daeschner, A. Hope, D. Douglas, R. Myneni, and L. Zhou, 2001. Spatial-Temporal Trend of Seasonally-integrated Normalized Difference Vegetation Index as an Indicator of Changes in Arctic Tundra Vegetation in the 1990s. Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Sydney, Australia, July, 2001
Rogan, J., J. Franklin, D. Stow, L. Levien, and C. Fischer, 2001. Toward Operational Monitoring of Forest Cover Change in California Using Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data, Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Sydney, Australia, July, 2001.
Coulter, L., D. Stow, A. Hope, D. Service, T. Schutte, J. Kaiser, and A. Walters, 2001. Mapping Urban Irrigated Vegetation for Water Demand Assessment, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Photogrammetry, St. Louis, MO, April, 2001.
Hope, A., L. Coulter, D. Stow, S. Peterson, and D. Service, 1999. Root Rot Detection in Sugar Beet Using Digital Multispectral Video, Proceedings of the 20th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Hong Kong, China, November, 1999.
Nyden, B., J. Desmond, D. Stow, and J. Callaway, 1998. How Useful is the DCS in Characterizing Reference Wetlands for Restoration Projects, Proceedings of the Fifth Thematic Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, San Diego, CA, October, 1998.
Stow, D., L. Coulter, A. Hope, J. Kaiser, L. Kaiser, and A. DeNoble, 1998. Frame-based Radiometric Normalization of Multispectral Digital Camera Data for Kelp Monitoring: A Project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at San Diego State University, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Photogrammetry, Tampa, FL, April, 1998.
Stow, D., A. Hope, S. Phinn, A. Brewster and B. Bradshaw, 1997. Assessing the Accuracy of High Spatial Resolution Image Data and Derived Products, Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Singapore, August, 1997.
Stow, D., S. Phinn, A. Hope and C. Benkelman, 1997. An "End-to-end System" Based on Airborne Multispectral Camera Image Data for Monitoring Detailed Vegetation Changes, Proceedings of the Third International Airborne Remote Sensing Conference and Exhibition, 7-10 July 1997, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Phinn, S. and D. Stow, 1997, Monitoring Coastal Wetland Dynamics in Southern California Using High Spatial Resolution Image Data, Proceedings of the Third Thematic Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, Orlando, FL, March, 1997.
Bradshaw, B.K., D.A. Stow and A.E. Brewster, 1996. High Resolution Digital Imagery and Digital Terrain Data for Mapping Southern California Coastal Salt Marshes, Proceedings of the Second International Airborne Remote Sensing Conference and Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, 24-27 June 1996.
Brewster, A.E., D. A. Stow and L. Deysher, 1996. Integrating Airborne Multispectral Digital Image Data, Kinematic GPS and GIS to Analyze the Habitat Preferences of the Belding's Savannah Sparrow, Proceedings of the Second International Airborne Remote Sensing Conference and Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, 24-27 June 1996.
Nguyen, A.T., D.A. Stow, A.S. Hope and C. Benkelman, 1996. A Simple Method for Vignette Correction of Airborne Digital Camera Data, Proceedings of the Second International Airborne Remote Sensing Conference and Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, 24-27 June 1996.
Nyden, B.B., D.A. Stow and J.B. Zedler, 1996. Tracking an Invasive Plant Species in a Southern California Wetland Using High Resolution Digital Multispectral Imagery, Proceedings of the Second International Airborne Remote Sensing Conference and Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, June 1996.
Phinn, S., D.A. Stow and J.B. Zedler, 1996. Spatial, Spectral, Radiometric and Temporal Dimensions of Remotely Sensed Data for Monitoring Wetland Vegetation in Southern California, Proceedings of the Second International Airborne Remote Sensing Conference and Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, 24-27 June 1996.
Stow, D., S. Phinn, B. Bradshaw, A. Brewster, B. Nyden, A. Nguyen, A. Hope, and J. Zedler, 1996. Monitoring Restored and Disturbed Salt Marshes Using Airborne Multispectral Digital Camera, Proceedings of the ERDAS User’s Group Meeting, Atlanta, March 10-14, 1996.
Hope, A.S. and D.A. Stow, 1995. Biophysical remote sensing for global change studies in Arctic terrestrial ecosystems. Proceedings, International Conference on Global Change and Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystems, Oppdal, Norway, 11-17.
Phinn, S., D. Stow and J. Zedler, Monitoring Wetland Habitat Restoration Using Airborne Digital Multi-spectral Video Data in Southern California, Second Thematic Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, Seattle, Sept. 18-21, 1995.
Stow, D., A. Hope, A. Nguyen, D. Shaari, C. Benkelman and D. Mulawa, 1995. Monitoring Detailed Land Surface Changes from an Airborne Multispectral Digital Camera System, Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Firenze, Italy, July, 1995.
Hope, A, C. McMichael, D. Stow, J. Fleming, G. Vourlitis, W. Oechel and S. Hastings, 1995. Direct Estimates of CO2 Flux in Arctic Environments Using a Spectral Vegetation Index, Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Firenze, Italy, July, 1995.
Mertz, F., S. Westmoreland, D. Stow and A. Hope, 1993. A Model for Computing In-band Reflectance Data Sets from Digital Satellite Image Data, Proceedings of the Workshop on Atmospheric Correction of Landsat Imagery, Torrance, CA, June, 1993.
Benkelman, C., W. Cohen, D. Stow, and A. Hope, 1992. High-resolution digital imagery applied to vegetation studies, Proceedings of the A.S.P.R.S. Conference, Washington, D.C., 1992.
Deysher, L., D. Stow and C. Surbey, 1992. Evaluation of an Airborne Video System (ADAR 5000) for Monitoring Giant Kelp Populations, Marcrocystis Pyrifera, in Southern California, Proceedings of the First Thematic Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, New Orleans, Louisiana, June, 1992.
Benkleman, C., W. Cohen, D. Stow and A. Hope, 1992. High Resolution Digital Imagery Applied to Vegetation Studies, American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Spring Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, May, 1992.
Stow, D., S. Westmoreland, D. McKinsey, R. Parrott, S. Carnevale, D. Collins and S. Sperry, 1991. Processing Flows for Correcting and Updating Vector-Coded GIS Layers Using Remotely Sensed Data, Proceedings of the Initiative Twelve Symposium, American Society of Photogrammetry and the National Center for Geographic Information Analysis, Baltimore, MD., April, 1991.
Stow, D., S. Westmoreland, D. McKinsey, F. Mertz, J. Nathanson, S. Sperry and D. Nagel, 1990. Efficient Creation, Correction and Updating of Vector-Coded GIS Coverages Using Remotely Sensed Data, Proceedings of GIS/LIS '90, 209-218, Anaheim, California, November, 1990.
Westmoreland, S. and D. Stow, 1990. Use of Satellite Imagery and Ancillary Data to Update a Vector-Coded GIS, Proceedings of GIS/LIS '90, 383-391, Anaheim, California, November, 1990.
Stow, D., S. Westmoreland, D. McKinsey, F. Mertz, D. Collins, S. Sperry and D. Nagel, 1990. Raster-Vector Integration for Updating Land Use Data, Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, 837-844, Bangkok, Thailand, May, 1990.
Stow, D.A., 1984. Combined Remote Sensing and Numerical Modeling Methods for Measuring Hydrodynamic Surface Circulation, Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, 3: 1,983-1,992, Paris, France, October, 1984.
Stow, D.A. and J.E. Estes, 1983. An Assessment of Coastal Management Information Requirements in the Context of Utilizing Remote Sensing Technology in the State of California, Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Management, Coastal Zone 83, 1: 565-574, San Diego, California, March, 1983.
Stow, D.A., L.R. Tinney and J.E. Estes, 1980. Deriving Land Use/Land Cover Change Statistics from Landsat: A Study of Prime Agricultural Land., Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, 2: 1,227-1,238, San Jose, Costa Rica, April, 1980.
Strahler, A.H., J.E. Estes, P. Maynard, F.C. Mertz and D.A. Stow, 1980. Incorporating Collateral Data in Landsat Classification and Modeling Procedures, Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment, 2: 1,009-1,026, San Jose, Costa Rica, April, 1980.
Stow, D.A., 1979. An Analysis of Landsat and Digital Terrain Data in a Geographic Information Systems Context, Proceedings of Machine Processing of Remotely Sensed Data Symposium, West Lafayatte, Indiana, November, 1979.
Unpublished Paper or Poster Presentations at Professional Conferences :
(Presentations associated with published conference papers not cited here - see above.)
Stow, D., D. Fugate, T., Rashed, J., Weeks, and A. Getis. Validation of Satellite Derived End-Member Fraction Mapsof Cairo, Egypt Using Quickbird Imagery, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, March 2004.
Stow, D. A Spatial Decision Support System for Border Security, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, Congressional Breakfast presentation, February, 2003.
Tarnavsky, E. and D. Stow. Fidelity of Scanned and Direct Digital Imagery in a Land-cover Change Context, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, March 2004.
Weeks, J. D. Larson, D. Stow and T. Rashed. Contrast or Continuum: The Creation and Application of an Urban Gradient Index Using Remotely Sensed Imagery and GIS. Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Minneapolis,
Weeks, J. A. Getis, D. Stow, D.Fugate, and A. Lopez, Neighborhood Predictors of Fertility Levels in Amman, Jordan, Combining RS and Census Data into a GIS, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, March 2004.
Engstrom, R.N., Hope, A.S., Stow, D.A., Zulueta, R. Verfaille, J., Kwon, H, and Oechel, W.C. 2003. Surface Moisture-NDVI Relationship in Arctic Coastal Plain Tundra Ecosystems: Effects of Scale and Controlling Factors, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA, February/March, 2003.
Stow, D.and L. Coulter. Application of IKONOS Multispectral Imagery for Habitat Change Analyses of Southern California Shrublands, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA., February/March, 2003.
Stow, D.and L. Coulter. Detection of Pixel level Changes in Habitat Preserves with Meter-resolution Multi-temporal Imagery, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA., March 2002.
Coulter, L., D. Stow, A Johnson, and A. Petersen. Regional Change Monitoring of Habitat Reserve Systems Using Very High Resolution Remotely Sensed Data, High Spatial Resolution Commercial Imagery Workshop, co- sponsored by NASA, NIMA, and USGS, Reston, Virginia, March 25-27, 2002.
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Coulter, L., D. Stow, A. Hope, D. Service, T. Schutte, J. Kaiser, and A. Walters. Landscaped Vegetation Assessment in Urban Environments, High Spatial Resolution Commercial Imagery Workshop, co- sponsored by NASA, NIMA, and USGS, Reston, Virginia, March 25-27, 2002.
Engstrom, R. N., Hope, A.S., Stow, D.A., and Kwon, H. 2002. Characteristics of the Spatial Distribution of Surface Moisture in an Eddy Flux Tower Footprint in Arctic Coastal Plain Ecosystems. Poster, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA.
Stow, D., L. Coulter, E. Witztum, A. Johnson, A. Wall, J. O'Leary, and A. Hope. Land Cover Changes Within Habitat Reserve Systems Observed With High Spatial Resolution Image Data. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, N.Y., March 2001.
Stow, D., L. Coulter, J. O’Leary, A. Hope, and J. Franklin. Monitoring of Habitat Reserve System Using Remotely Sensed Data with Very High Spatial Resolution Imagery, MEDECOS Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, September, 2000.
Lloyd, J., D. Richardson, A. Hope, D. Stow, D. Service, B. Swanepoel, E. van den Berg, and L. van Wyk. The Challenge of Mapping Invasive Alien Plants in Mediterranean-type Ecosystems Using Remote Sensing Technologies, MEDECOS Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, September, 2000.
Stow, D., L. Coulter, E. Witztum, A. Johnson, A. Wall, J. O'Leary, and A. Hope. Land Cover Changes Within Habitat Reserve Systems Observed With High Spatial Resolution Image Data. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, N.Y., N.Y., March 2001.
Stow, D., Coulter, L., O’Leary, J., Hope, A., Franklin, J. Monitoring of Habitat Reserve System Using Remotely Sensed Data With Very High Spatial Resolution Imagery, MEDECOS Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, September, 2000.
Stow, D. Advances in Remote Sensing Research Enable Real-World Applications for the Private and Public Sectors. Calif. Geographical Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 2000.
Engstrom, R., A. Hope, and D. Stow. The Priestly-Taylor Evaporation Coefficient: Variability in Arctic Landscapes, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, HI, March 1999.
Hope, A., K. Pence, and D. Stow. Validation of Satellite Time Series Data for Arctic Biogeographical Studies, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,, Honolulu, HI, March 1999.
Stow, D., W. Boynton, A. Hope, and S. Daeschner. Arctic Tundra Functional Types by Classification of AVHRR Bi-weekly NDVI Composite Data Sets, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, HI, March 1999.
Hope, A., W. Boynton, D. Stow, D. Douglas, and G.Drew. Inter-Annual Variations in Vegetation Seasonal Growth Characteristics of Tundra Ecosystems Using Satellite Time-Series Data. Annual Meeting of the Institute of British Geographers, Leicester, U.K., January, 1999.
Hope, D., W. L. Boynton, and D.A. Stow. Remotely Sensed Inter-Annual Variations in Arctic Vegetation Productivity: Relation of Air Temperature, Carbon Dioxide Flux and Stratospheric Aerosol Optical Depth, American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, CA, December, 1998
Stow, D., A. Hope, S. Daeschner, R..Engstrom, and D. Douglas, Spatial-Temporal Trends of Seasonally Integrated NDVI as Indicators of Arctic Tundra Primary Productivity and Carbon Assimilation, American Geophysical Union, 1998 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 1998
Stow, D., D. Chen, C. Garrison, P. Longmire, and Allen Hope. Misregistration Effects and Adjustments in the Context of Monitoring Coastal Wetlands and Watersheds, Fourth ERIM Marine and Coastal Remote Sensing Conference, San Diego, CA, October, 1998.
Stow, D., A. Brewster, P. Longmire, and E. Almanza. Habitat Monitoring Using ADAR Image Data, So. California Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Pomona, CA, May, 1998.
Vourlitis G., W. Oechel, J. Verfaillie, Jr., A. Hope, D. Stow, W. Boynton, R. Zulueta, and S. Hasting, 1998. Scaling Plot Measurements of CO2 Flux Across an Arctic Tundra Landscape, American Geophysical Union, 1998 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 1998.
Hope, A.S., D.A. Stow, D. Richardson, R. Cowling and A. Lombard. A Strategy for Monitoring Alien Invasive Plants in the Coastal Fynbos of South Africa. MEDECOS Conference, San Diego, CA, October, 1997.
Stow, D.A., A.S. Hope and D. Richardson. Airborne Monitoring of Invasive Plants Coastal Fynbos, South Africa. MEDECOS Conference, San Diego, CA, October, 1997.
Hope, A., C. Garrison, D. Stow and C. McMichael. A Direct Comparison of Color Infrared Digital Imagery Collected Using a Three Camera CCD System and a Single Camera Over Landscapes in Southern California, Third International Airborne Remote Sensing Conference and Exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 1997.
Hope, A., C. Garrison, D. Stow and C. McMichael, 1997. A Direct Comparison of Color Infrared Digital Imagery Collected Using a Three Camera CCD System and a Single Camera Over Landscapes in Southern California, Third International Airborne Remote Sensing Conference and Exhibition, July 1997, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Stow, D., 1997. Reducing the Influence of Spatial Registration Errors on Pixel-level Change Detection, AAG Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, TX, April, 1997.
Stow, D. A., A.S. Hope, W.L. Boynton and S.R. Phinn, 1996. Spatial Variation of NDVI and Vegetation Cover Types in the Context of Estimating Carbon Flux for Arctic Tundra Regions, American Geophysical Union Fall Meetings, San Francisco, CA, Dec., 1996.
Hope, A.H., D.A. Stow, W.L. Boynton and Keith Pence, 1996. Estimating CO2 Flux for the Kuparuk Rive Basin Based on a Spectral Vegetation Index, American Geophysical Union Fall Meetings, San Francisco, CA, Dec., 1996.
Stow, D. A. Hope, J. Fleming and W. Boynton, 1996. Spatial Variability of Arctic Tundra Landscapes in Relation to CO2 Flux: A satellite Remote Sensing Approach, AAG Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, April, 1996.
Stow, D., A. Hope, S. Phinn and A. Nguyen, 1995. Radiometric and Geometric Processing Requirements for Environmental Monitoring via Airborne Remote Sensing, AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April, 1995.
Phinn, S., D. Stow and J. Zedler, 1994. Remote Sensing for Monitoring Wetland Restoration Projects in San Diego County, California Shore and Beach Preservation Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, Nov., 1994.
Stow, D., S. Phinn, A. Eshraghi, D. Van Mouwerik and A. Hope, 1994. Environmental Monitoring with an Airborne Digital Multispectral Imaging System, AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April, 1994.
Phinn, S., D. Stow and D. Van Mouwerik, 1994. Assessing Vegetation Abundance of Spartina Alternifora Using Remote Sensing, AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April, 1994.
Hope, A., D. Duburguet, D. Stow and G. Peterson, 1994. Arctic Landscape Wetness Derived from Landsat Thematic Mapper Satellite Data, AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April, 1994.
Phinn, S., J. Franklin, A. Hope, D. Stow and Laura Huenneke, 1993. Biomass Distributions of a Semi-Arid Desert From an Airborne Digital Video Imaging, Field Sampling and Spatial Statistics, NSF Long Term Ecological Research Workshop, Estes Park, CO, Sept. 1993.
Stow and D. Van Mouwerik, 1993. Pre-processing of Multi-temporal Digital Video Data Acquired for Monitoring Habitat Restoration Sites, Ray Jackson Honorary Symposium on Remote Sensing of Soil, Water and Vegetation, USDA, Phoenix, AZ, Jan., 1993.
Stow, D., 1992. Monitoring Ecosystem Response to Global Change: Multitemporal RemoteSensing Analyses, Symposium on Anticipated Effects of a Changing Global Environment in Mediterranean Type Ecosystems, Valencia, Spain, Sept., 1992.
Stow, D. and A. Hope, 1992. Arctic Tundra Reflectance Characteristics from Airborne Radiometry and Videography, AAG Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, April, 1992.
Stow, D., A. Hope, D. McKinsey and H. Pray, 1993. Deriving Dynamic Information on Fire Fuel Distributions in Southern California Chaparral from Remotely Sensed Data, Landscape Biology of Mediterranean-type Ecosystems, Montecatini, Italy, April, 1992.
Hope, A. and D. Stow, 1993. An Analysis of Tree Mortality in Southern California Using High Spatial Resolution Remotely Sensed Spectral Radiances: A Climatic Change Scenario, Landscape Biology of Mediterranean-type Ecosystems, Montecatini, Italy, April, 1992.
Hope, A., D. Stow, J Kimball and J. Fleming, 1992. Short-wave Reflectance Properties of Tussock Tundra on the North Slope of AAG Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, April, 1992.
Stow, D. S. Westmoreland and F. Mertz, 1991. Satellite Image Data as a Base for Registering GIS Coverages, AAG Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, April, 1991.
Stow, D. and A. Hope, 1990. Temporal Variability of a Spectral Vegetation Index for Three Biomes, Landscape Biology Meeting, Oxford, Ohio, March, 1990.
Hope, A. and D. Stow, 1989. Effects of Disturbances on Landscapes: The Use of Remote Sensing in Assessment, Arctic Sciences Conference, Fairbanks, Alaska, September, 1989.
Stow, D., T. George, A. Hope, and C. Benson, 1989. Aerial Videography and Radiometry for Spatial Biophysical Studies in Alaska, Arctic Sciences Conference, Fairbanks, Alaska, September, 1989.
Stow, D.A., 1989. Efficient Updates of Vector-Coded GIS Using Satellite Remote Sensing Techniques, ERDAS Users Group Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1989.
Westmoreland, S. and D. Stow, 1990. Incorporating Ancillary Data in Remote Sensing-based Updating of Vector GIS, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Toronto, Canada, April, 1990.
Stow, D.A. and D. Collins, 1989. Remote Sensing Updates of a Land Use Component for a Vector-Coded GIS, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, March 1989.
Stow, D.A., 1989. Role of Remote Sensing and GIS for Scientific Landscape Biology Studies, Workshop on Landscape Biology and Spatial Information Systems, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, January 1989.
Stow, D.A., 1988. Role of Remote Sensing and GIS in Landscape Biology Studies, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, September 1988.
Stow, D.A., 1988. Arctic Tundra Vegetation Mapping on the North Slope of Alaska Using Digital SPOT Multispectral Data, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, April 1988.
Stow, D.A. and R. Weiler, 1988. Spatial Relationship Between Classified Units and Image Brightness of Surface Cover, Third Annual Landscape Biology Symposium, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 1988.
Chang, H.H. and D.A. Stow, 1987. Fluvial Sand Delivery and Flushing of Inlet Channels, California Sea Grant Coastal Resources Subject Area Meeting, La Jolla, California, May 1988.
Stow, D.A., 1987. Numerical Simulation of Coastal Entrance Channel Processes, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, April 1987.
Stow, D. A., 1987. Spatial Sampling Considerations for Remote Sensing/Geographic Information Systems, R4D Data Extrapolation Workshop, State College, Pennsylvania, February, 1987.
Stow, D.A., 1986. River Mouth Processes in Southern California. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 1986.
Stow, D.A., 1984. Geophysical Fluid Dynamic Processes by Combining Numerical Modeling and Remote Sensing Methodologies, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 1984.
Stow, D.A., 1984. Numerical Derivation of an Ocean Surface Velocity Field Using Time Sequential Remote Sensing Methods. American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 1984.
Other Articles and Project Reports:
Coulter, L., D. Stow, Y. Hamada, A. Lieberman, S. Lathrop, J. Kaiser, J. Jafolla, L. Hendricks, J. Gilfillan, and J. Giessow, 2004. Assessment of Hyperspectral and Multispectral Imagery for Mapping Invasive Plant Species within Southern California, A project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, Santa Margarita and San Luis Rey Weed Management Area Partnership, April, 2004.
Stow, D., J. Kaiser, M. Niphadkhar, E. Tarnavsky, A. Lieberman, L. Coulter, and L. Guo, 2004. Monitoring Changes in Fuel Moisture Conditions of Southern California Chaparral Based on Tie Series of MODIS-Derived Indices, a project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Partnership, March, 2004.
Cao, L., D. Stow, J. Kaiser, L. Coulter, and D. Johnson, 2003. Smuggler’s Blues: Mapping Border Trails with Multispectral Imagery, Geospatial Solutions, 32-38.
Coulter, L., D. Stow, A. Hope, J. O'Leary, J. Franklin, A. Johnson, E. Witztum, A Petersen, P. Longmire, A. Wall, J Rogan, and E. Almanza, 2003. Regional change monitoring of habitat reserve systems with very high resolution remotely sensed data. NASA Earth Science Directorate Final Report, Food and Fiber Applications of Remote Sensing, Grant # NAG13-99017, 173 pp.
Kaiser, L. Cao, L. Coulter, and D. Stow, 2003. Evaluation of a Semi-automated Feature Extraction Method to Delineate and Map Smuggler Trails into the U.S. From Across the Mexican Border, A project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, Conservation Biology Institute Partnership, February, 2003.
Stow, D. E. Tarnavsky, L. Coulter, and S. Carnevale, 2003. Optimum Image Acquisition Procedures for Generating Very High Resolution Multi-temporal Data Sets. A project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, San Diego Association of Governments Partnership, August, 2003.
Stow, D., M. Niphadkhar, and J. Ryan, 2003. Determining the User Community and Commercial Market for High Resolution Image-Derived Products in Support of Detailed Vegetation Monitoring. A project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, Conservation Biology Institute Partnership, May, 2003.
Coulter, L., A. Hope, D. Stow, J. Ryan, and J. Kaiser. The Utility of High Spatial Resolution Multispectral Imagery for Mapping and Monitoring Vernal Pool Habitat in Transitional Urban Environments A project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, City of San Diego Partnership, August, 2002.
O'Leary, J.F. and D. Stow. Vegetation and Land Cover Mapping on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, California. Final Report produced for Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Environmental Management Department and Southwest Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, San Diego, CA. Produced by the Center for Earth Systems Analysis and Research, Department of Geography, San Diego State University. 65 p., August, 2002.
Stow, D., J. Kaiser, L. Coulter, L. Cao, J. Ryan, K. Krauss. Evaluation and Use of Helicopter Collected High Resolution, Multispectral Imagery to Map Smuggler Trails into the U.S. across the Mexican Border. A project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, Blackhawk Helicopters, Inc. Partnership, April, 2002.
Tsou, M., L. Guo, J. Kaiser, E. Almanza, and D. Stow. Web-based Geospatial Information Services and Analytic Tools for Natural Habitat Conservation and Management A project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, Ed Almanza and Associates, Inc. Partnership, August, 2002.
Stow, D., A. Hope, L. Coulter, J. Kaiser, D. Service, S. Redlin, K. Schutte and A. Walters. Utility of ERDAS Imagine Expert Classifier to Improve Image-based Mapping of Irrigated Vegetation in Urban Environments: A project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, AgriCast Incorporated Partnership, May, 2001.
Hope, A., L. Coulter, D. Stow, D. Service, T. Schutte, S. Redlin, S. Peterson, M. Lowenfish, J. Kaiser and A. Walters. Irrigated Vegetation Assessment in Urban Environments: A project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, AgriCast Incorporated Partnership, May, 2001
Lukinbeal, C., J. Kaiser, J. Ryan, D. Stow, K McCurdy and W. Jones. Using Remote Sensing, GIS and Visualization Techniques to Optimize Location Management for a Regional Film Production Market: A project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, San Diego Film Commission Partnership, January, 2001.
Stow, D., L. Coulter, M. Lowenfish, S. Peterson, A. Hope, and J. Kaiser. Assessment of the Utility of Image-based Methods for Efficient and Objective Rangeland Monitoring: A Project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, Ranchers Management Corporation partnership, February, 2000.
Hope, A., L. Coulter, D. Stow, D. Service, S. Peterson, J. Kaiser, A. Telck, P. Hickman, J. Svejkovsky, and J. Conger. Application of High Spatial Resolution Remotely-sensed Imagery to the Management of Sugarbeet Complexes in California's Imperial Valley: A Project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, Holly Agricultural Research Center Partnership, February, 2000.
Kaiser, J. and D. Stow, Quarterly (3) and Annual Reports for San Diego State University Affiliated Research Center Program, submitted to NASA Stennis Space Center.
Wesser, A., L. Tucker, D. Stow, D. Chen, S. Daeschner, and J. Kaiser, A. DeNoble. A Microfeature Change-Detection System Utilizing Very-high Resolution Image Data and Image Processing: A Project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, Aerial Fotobank Partnership, December, 1998.
Atchison, P., D. Turner, D. King, W. Barto, D. Stow, J. O’Leary, A. Hope, L. Coulter, P. Longmire, S.
Peterson and J. Kaiser. Use of High Spatial Resolution Multispectral Data to More Efficiently Generate Detailed Vegetation GIS Layers: A Project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, Ogden Energy and Environmental Services, Inc. Partnership, December, 1998.
Stow, D., L. Coulter, C. Langevin, D. Service and J. Kaiser. Contextual Classification of Changing Land Use Using Multiple Geo-spatial Data Sources: A Project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, Shenandoah Mountain Geographics Partnership, December, 1998.
Brewster, A., D. Stow, V. Frank, E. Almanza and D. Kamada. An ADAR Based Habitat Monitoring System, Report for Southern California Edison, July, 1998.
Stow, D. L. Coulter, A. Hope, J. Kaiser, A. DeNoble and L. Deysher. Frame-based Radiometric Normalization of Multispectral Digital Camera Data for Kelp Monitoring: A Project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, Coastal Resources Associates Partnership, December, 1997.
Davidson, R., R. Miles, D. Stow, K Yanow, A. Hope and J. Kaiser. 3-D Virtual Reality Modeling of Digital Elevation, Remotely Sensed and GIS Data for Rapid Wireless Communications Network Design and Display: A Project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, Qualcomm, Inc. Partnership, February, 1998.
Bamberger, W., D. Stow, V. Franck, L. Coulter, D Chen, A. Hope and J. Kaiser. New Products from Digital Orthophotographic Quadrangles Using Data Compression: A Project of the NASA Affiliated Research Center at SDSU, San Diego Data Processing Corporation Partnership, January, 1998.
Stow, D., S. Phinn, L. Deysher and J. Zedler, 1995. High Resolution Digital Imaging for Environmental Monitoring Applications, Southern California Edison Final Report.
Stow, D. and A. Eshraghi, 1993. High Resolution Digital Imaging for Habitat Restoration Projects, State of California Department of Transportation Final Report.
Stow, D., S. Sperry, R. Parrott, S. Camarata and F. Mertz, 1991. Efficient Updates of Vector-Coded Geographic Information Systems Using Remotely Sensed Data, NASA Earth Observations Commercialization and Application Program Final Report.
Franklin, J. and D. Stow, 1993. An Examination of the Utility of Satellite Imagery for Mapping Vegetation in San Diego County, San Diego Associations of Government Final Report.
Hope, A. and D. Stow (eds.), 1987. Response, Resistance, Resilience and Recovery from Disturbance in Arctic Ecosystems, Report of The R4D Data Extrapolation Workshop, Department of Energy.
Manuscripts Submitted
Fugate, D., E. Tarnavsky, and D. Stow, in review. A Survey of the Evolution of Remote Sensing Imaging Systems and Urban Remote Sensing Applications, chapter in Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas, T. Rashed and C. Jurguens, eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Scholarly Awards and Honors:
Association of American Geographers (AAG) Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RSSG), Outstanding Contributions in Remote Sensing Award, 2004.
2004 Leica Geosystems Award for Best Scientific Paper in Remote Sensing (Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing journal) awarded by American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (John Rogan, lead author).
2004 Leica Geosystems Third Place Award for Best Applications Paper in Remote Sensing (Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing journal) awarded by American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (Dongmei Chen, lead author).
SDSU Alumni Outstanding Faculty Award for the University, 1996.
SDSU Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise (MPPP) Award, 1989-90 for Professional Growth, Teaching Effectiveness and Service.
SDSU Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise (MPPP) Award, 1987-88 for Professional Growth.
Remote Sensing Society; Best letter for 1985, for "Eulerian Velocity Measurements of Hydrodynamic Surfaces using Optical Flow Methods." In Remote Sensing Letters - International Journal of Remote Sensing.
SDSU Summer Faculty Fellow, 1984.
Research Contracts and Grants:
Co-Investigator, Intra-urban Health Assessed by Remote-sensing and GIS, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, (John Weeks, P.I.), $208,000.
Principal Investigator, Spatial Decision Support System for Border Security, NASA Research Applications and Education Solutions Network, Earth Science Applications Division, $1.6 million. for five years (10/2003 through 9/2008).
Principal Investigator, NASA Affiliated Research Center, Earth Science Applications Division, $200,000/yr. for five years (2/2000 through 2/2005).
Principal Investigator, City of San Diego, Vernal Pool Change Detection at the Otay Mesa Vernal Pool Restoration Site and Habitat Quality Evaluation in Marron Valley, $53,000, 06/21/02-11/15/03
Co-Investigator, Applying Remote Sensing/GISA to Arab Fertility, NSF Geography and Regional Science Program Grant (John Weeks, P.I.), $120,000/yr. for three years starting April 2001.
Co-Investigator, San Diego County-Baja California Water Quality Prediction and Monitoring Program. California State Water Resources Control Board. (Richard Wright, P.I.), $190,000. 6/2001 through 8/2003.
Co-Investigator, Operational Monitoring of Alteration in Regional Land Cover Using Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data, NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program Grant (Janet Franklin, P.I.), $120,000/yr. for three years, 1999 — 2003.
Principal Investigator, California Department of Fish & Game — Subcontract to the City of San Diego, Application of Digital Imaging Technologies for Monitoring and Managing MSCP/NCCP Reserves, $141,000 1999-2001.
Principal Investigator, NASA Remote Sensing Applications Research in Agriculture, Forestry and Range Resources Management,, Regional Change Monitoring of Habitat Reserve Systems with Very High Resolution Remotely Sensed Data, $190,000/yr., 9/1999 through 2/2003
Principal Investigator, US Department of Transportation, Subcontract for Shenandoah Mountain Geographics, Inc., Updating Land Use Information in Support of Transportation Planning, $32,000,. 1999-2000.
Co-Investigator, Regional Variability in Carbon and Energy Fluxes: Towards a Global Synthesis, NSF Land-Air-Ice-Interactions ATLAS Study Grant, $450,000/yr. 4/1998 - 3/2004 (W. Oechel, P.I.).
Co-Investigator, NSF/DOE/NASA TECO Program, Patterns and Controls of Temporal Variation in CO 2 Sequestration and Loss from Arctic Ecosystems, National Science Foundation; $130,000/yr. for two years (W. Oechel, P.I.).
Principal Investigator, NASA Visiting Investigator Program Affiliate Center, NASA Contract, $475,000, 1997-1999.
Co-Investigator, Geo-spatial Technologies for Monitoring Shrubland Habitats in Southern California, Electrical Power Research Institute Contracts, $60,000. 1997-1999.
Principal Investigator, Use of High Resolution Digital Camera Data to Map Wildlife Habitat in the Torrey Pines State Park Reserve, State of California Parks and Recreation and Los Penasquitos Lagoon Foundation, $12,000. 1996-1997.
Principal Investigator, Estuarine Wetland and Watershed Inventory Using NOAA's CoastWatch Change Analysis Project Protocol in California's Central Coast, NOAA and Calif. Coastal Commission, $13,000.1995-96
Co-Investigator, High Resolution Multispectral Imaging for Environmental Monitoring Applications, NASA and Positive Systems, Inc. Subcontract. $195,000. 1994-1996.
Co-Investigator, GIS Mapping Project for Bi-national Coordinated Land-Use Planning and Education in the Tijuana River Watershed, NOAA Contract, $136,000. 1994-
Co-Investigator, Regional Estimates of CO2 Flux for Arctic Tundra Ecosystems, NSF Grant, $1,400,000. 1993-
Principal Investigator, High Resolution Digital Imaging for Coastal Wetland Restoration Projects, $300,000, Southern California Edison. 1992-95
Principal Investigator, High Resolution Digital Imaging for Habitat Restoration Projects (Riparian Ecosystems), $35,000, California Dept. of Transportation. 1992-
Collaborator, NSF Grant, Jornada Long Term Ecological Research Program, $700,000. 1989-93
Co-Investigator, State of California Department of Parks and Recreation Contract; Ecological Monitoring at Rancho Cuyamaca State Park, $65,000. 1987-93
Principal Investigator, NASA EOCAP Contract, Efficient Updates of Vector-Coded Geographic Information Systems Using Remotely Sensed Data, $600,000. 1988-1991
Co-Investigator, Department of Energy subcontract; R4D Arctic Tundra Project, $460,000. 1987-1991
Co-Investigator, California Sea Grant Program (NOAA) grant; Maintenance of Entrance Channels of Coastal Lagoons and River Mouths, $180,000. 1986-1989
Principal Investigator, SDSU Grants-in-Aid for Faculty Research; An Assessment of Pacific Mackerel Habitat Using Remotely Sensed Data, $2,000. 1987
California Institute of Technology President's Fund (NASA) grant; Mapping Pleistocene Shoreline Deposits from Multi-spectral Thermal Infrared and other Remotely Sensed Data for Seismically-active Salton Trough, $36,000. 1986-1987
Participation in Professional Associations:
American Association of Geographers, Washington D.C.; Full Member.
American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C.; Full Member.
American Society of Photogrammetry, Falls Church, Virginia; Full Member.
NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center, Science Panel Member, 1995-present.
Phi Kappa Phi Scholarly Association, Faculty Member
SPOT Image Corporation (SICORP) Academic Advisor Committee, Reston, Virginia; Council Member, 1990 - 1997.
Remote Sensing Specialty Group Regional Councilor, 1992-1995, Association of American Geographers.
Association of American Geographers Annual Meetings, 1992, Workshops Coordinator.
Consultant Services
Precise Automatic Image Coregistration Tools to Enable Pixel-level Change Detection, scientific and technical consultant to Positive Systems, Inc. for NASA Small Business Innovative Research project,
Contract NNS04AA28C, 2004.
Remote sensing system evaluation for the development of an inland wetland monitoring system. Scientific and technical consultant to Environmental Science and Engineerng, Inc. of Tampa, Florida for the West Coast Regional Water Supply Authority in Florida, 1996-98.
Interpretation of Aerial Photogaphs to Measure Off-Road Vehicle (ORV) Disturbance in the California Desert District, U. S. Bureau of Land Management; principal consultant, designer of field and image sample design, superivor of student intern; learned how to develop sampling strategies for large area estimates of ORV-related disturbances of deserts, 1989.
Analysis of the Reliability of Photogrammetric Estimates of Culvert Sizes Using Stereo Ground Photographs, Higgs, Fletcher & Mack, Attorneys-at-Law; expert witness; legal ramifications of photogrammetric measurements of engineering structures, 1986.
Committee Assignments and Other University Service
California State University System:
Chair, Remote Sensing Committee, State-wide GIS Specialty Center, 2003-present.
University:
Chair, Intercollegiate Athletics Authority Board, 2000 - present
Chair, Associate Vice President of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies Search Committee,
AY 2002-03.
Associate Vice President of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies Search Committee,
AY 2001-02.
SDSU Foundation General Manager Search Committee, AY 1999-2000
Chair, Academic Progress & Eligibility Committee, Intercollegiate Athletics Authority, 1998 - present
Faculty Merit Increase Appeals Committee for AY 1998-99, Dec. 1999.
Middle East Desert Development Program, Advisor to SDSU Foundation and Workshop Facilitator
Instructor, University (Freshman) Seminar, Fall Semesters 1994-1996.
Panel Member, Formation of a Center for Applied Lands Research at SDSU.
Presented "The CESAR lab as an integrated instructional and research facility" to San Diego high school councilors, 1994.
Presented "The CESAR lab as an integrated instructional and research facility" to Executive Vice Chancellor Molly Broad, 1993.
Panel discussion on the Teacher-Scholar Model at San Diego State University, WASC Acreditation Visit, 1993.
Associate Dean of Graduate Division Search Committee, 1991-1992
Graduate Council and Graduate Curriculum Committee, Fall 1988 -present.
Center for Marine Studies, Fall 1986 - Spring 1988; member of Executive Committee.
Systems Biology Research Group, Fall 1988 - present; faculty member of Advisory Committee.
Commencement Marshal, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1997, 1999.
Graduate Division, Spring 1987, reviewer of summer faculty fellowship proposals.
College:
Research Committee, Fall 1984- Spring 1986, Fall 1997 - Spring 1999.
Outstanding Professor Selection Committee, 1992-1995, 1997-1999.
Presentation of College of Arts & Letters Showcase, Counselors’ Conference, 1994.
Personnel Committee (Promotions and Tenure), 1991-92.
SSRL Steering Committee, Spring 1985 (sabbatical replacement).
Department:
Doctoral Program Coordinator, Fall 1998 to present
Center for Earth Systems Analysis Research, Fall 1986 - present; Co-director and a principal investigator; oversee purchases of equipment and supplies, training, etc., and give numerous tours and demonstrations.
Computing Committee, 2002 to present.
Assessments Committee, Fall 2000 to 2003
Policy Advisory Committee (elected member ): Fall 1985 - Spring 1987, Fall 1988 - Spring 1989;, chair Fall 1988 - Spring 1989; Fall 2002 - 2004; advise Department Chair, initiate and enforce departmental policy, select graduate assistants.
Personnel Committee
Colloquium presentation "Commercial and Public Sector Applications of Remote Sensing: Results from Two NASA Projects", Spring 2000.
Scholarships and Awards Committee, AY 1999-2000.
Department Chair, Fall 1992 - Fall 1997
Colloquium presentation (with others associated with CESAR):What’s Up in the Way of Geographic Technologies at the Center for Earth Systems Analysis Research (CESAR)?," October 1992.
Geojaunt (informal bag lunch slide presentation), "What do Egypt and Thailand have in Common?," May, 1990.
Geojaunt , "What Do South Africa and Spain Have in Common?," April, 1990.
Ad Hoc Committee on Joint Doctoral Program, Spring 1988 1990; member; assisted in generation of proposal, curriculum and catalog copy, and have attended meetings in San Diego and Santa Barbara for proposed program with U.C.-Santa Barbara.
Ad Hoc Committee on Journals, Fall 1989; member; update University library holdings.
Budget Committee, Fall 1983 - Spring 1990; member; chair Fall 1985 - Spring 1986, Fall 1989 - Spring 1990.
Internal Operations Committee, Fall 1983- Spring 1985, Fall 1990; chair Fall 1984 - Spring 1985, Fall 1998 to present.
Service to the Community:
Articles in Newspapers
Article in San Diego Union Tribune Quest section on NASA project pertaining to habitat monitoring in San Diego County, November, 2001.
Supplied information and graphics for Maps, Bytes and the Revolution in Geography, College of Arts and Letters Alumni Newsletter, Fall 2000.
Supplied information for article on commercial satellites in San Diego Union Tribune, Fall 1999.
Supplied information and graphics for Satellite, Computers New Tools of Discovery for SDSU Geographers, CSU Stateline, April 1989.
Supplied information and graphics for Remapping an Ancient Science: The New Face of Geography, SDSU Alumni Newsletter.
XTRA NewsRadio Interview on remote sensing and GIS technology and related research projects at SDSU, 1987.
Supplied information/interview for Daily Aztec Articles on Geography Program/weather station.
Supplied information/interview for Daily Aztec Articles on Geography Program/weather station.
Television
Interviewed on KUSI Channel 51 News - CESAR Laboratory, 6/2002.
Interviewed on Fox Channel 6 News - Launch of IKONOS commercial satellite, 12/1999.
Other Services to Community
Speaker, Applications of Remote Sensing to Land Use Changes in San Diego County, San Diego Partners for Biodiversity, May 2003.
Speaker, Serving Imagery in Wireless and Optical Formats Via the Internet in the Context of Monitoring Habitat Reserves and Adjacent Lands presented at SDSU Technology Show and Tell, June 2002.
Speaker, San Diego Urban Regional Information Systems (URISA) Chapter, October 2000.
Speaker, San Diego Women's Environmental Council, October 2000.
Speaker, Technology Advisory Committee of the San Diego Multiple Species Conservation Program, October 2000.
Co-Chair, City of San Diego Multiple Species Conservation Program, Technical Advisory Committee, 1998 to present.
Member Selection Committee, San Diego County Imagery Consortium, July 2000 - May 2001.
City of San Diego Multiple Species Conservation Program, Habitat Tracking Committee, 1998-99.
Speaker, Forest Service Bureau of Land Management 11th Annual Meeting, San Diego, 1993.
Workshop Speaker, Workshop on athe Use of Geographic Information Systems and Digital Image Processing Land Use Analysis and Facilities Planning and Monitoring, sponsored by the Center for Earth Systems Analysis Research (CESAR), Department of Geography, 1992.
Contributor, first ERDAS training video for teaching remote sensing, 1992.
Speaker, Meeting on Satellite Imaging and Remote Sensing, sponsored by URISA San Diego, 1992.
Host, California Map Society Meetings, 1991.
Workshop Speaker, Workshop on the Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Digital Image Processing (DIP) in Land Use Analysis, Planning and Monitoring, for City/County Managers and Land Use Planning Directors, sponsored by the Center for Earth Systems Analysis Research (CESAR), Department of Geography, 1991.
Speaker, Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation for Earth Observations, The Twelve-Thirty Club of La Jolla, April 1990, retired senior citizens.
Basic Concepts of Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing and the ERDAS - ARC/INFO Live Link, Hungry Valley SVRA GIS Workshop, SDSU, June 1989; lecturer.
ERDAS and Basic Concepts of Remote Sensing/Image Processing, Cuyamaca Ranch State Park GIS Workshop, SDSU, April 1988; organizer and lecturer.
Aerial Photographic Interpretation for Resource Management, Short Course for State of California Resources Agency, Santa Barbara, March 1988; lecturer and lab designer.
Remote Sensing and Physical Geography, Geography Workshop for Secondary Educators, SDSU, August 1984.