JEFFREY DOZIER: is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, received his B.A. from California State University, Hayward in 1968 and his Ph.D. in 1973 from the University of Michigan. He has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 1974. He is a Principal Investigator on NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS), chairman of the Science Advisory Panel for EOS Data and Information, and, with Dr. Michael Stonebraker of UC Berkeley, co-Principal Investigator on Digital Equipment Corporation's flagship external research project, Sequoia 2000: Large-Capacity Object Servers for Global Change Research. From 1990-1992 he was the EOS Senior Project Scientist. He provides the perspective of a working scientist who is well versed about computing challenges in modern Earth science and who works with large volumes of data. He has published more than 150 articles, chapters, and books in his research interests: snow hydrology, Earth System Science, radiative transfer in snow, remote sensing and data systems, image processing, and terrain analysis. Dr. Dozier is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, Editor of Geophysical Research Letters from 1990-1993, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He serves on two Boards of the National Academy of Science: the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board and the Board on Global Change. He received the NASA Public Service Medal in 1993.
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Dozier, J., Looking ahead to EOS: the Earth Observing System, Computers in Physics, 4(3):248-259, 1990.
Dozier, J. and J. Frew, Rapid calculation of terrain parameters for radiation modeling from digital elevation data, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 28(5):963-969, 1990.
Dozier, J., Opportunities to improve hydrologic data, Reviews of Geophysics, 30(4):315-331, 1992.
National Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Computing the Future: A Broader Agenda for Computer Science and Engineering, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1992.
Gershon, N., and J. Dozier, The difficulty with data, Byte, 18(4):143-148, April 1993.
Dozier, J., A method for satellite identification of surface temperature fields of subpixel resolution, Remote Sensing of Environment, 11:221-229, 1981.
Dozier, J. and S. G. Warren, Effect of viewing angle on the infrared brightness temperature of snow, Water Resources Research, 18(5):1424-1434, 1982.
Dozier, J., Spectral signature of alpine snow cover from the Landsat Thematic Mapper, Remote Sensing of Environment, 28:9-22, 1989.
Wan, Z. and J. Dozier, Land-surface temperature measurement from space: physical principles and inverse modeling, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 27(3):268-278, 1989.
Elder, K., J. Dozier, and J. Michaelsen, Snow accumulation and
distribution in an alpine watershed, Water Resources Research,
27:1541-1552, 1991.
MICHAEL F. GOODCHILD:
is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and
Director, National Center for Geographic Info. and Analysis. He received his BA degree from
Cambridge University in Physics in 1965 and his PhD in Geography from McMaster University in 1969.
After 19 years at the University of Western Ontario, including three years as Chair, he moved to Santa
Barbara in 1988. In 1990 he was given the Canadian Association of Geographers Award for Scholarly
Distinction. He was Editor of Geographical Analysis between 1987 and 1990, and serves on the editorial
boards of eight other journals and book series.
His research interests center on the development of models
of error and uncertainty in geographical data;
the theory of geographical data models; and national spatial
data policy issues. He has published some 200 articles and three books.
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M.F. Goodchild, B.O. Parks, and L.T. Steyaert, editors.
Environmental Modeling with GIS. New York: Oxford University Press (1993).
M.F. Goodchild. "Geographical information science". Int. J. of Geographical Info. Systems 6(1): 31-46 (1992).
D.J. Maguire, M.F. Goodchild and D.W. Rhind (editors) Geographical Info. Systems: Principles and Applications (2 volumes). Longman Scientific and Technical, London (1991).
M.F. Goodchild and Yang Shiren. A hierarchical spatial data structure for global geographic information systems. Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing 54(1): 31-44 (1992).
M.F. Goodchild. "Geographic data modeling". Computers and Geosciences 18(4): 401-408 (1992).
M.F. Goodchild, Sun Guoqing and Yang Shiren. "Development and test of an error model for categorical data". Int. J. of Geographical Info. Systems 6(2): 87-104 (1992).
B. Klinkenberg and M.F. Goodchild. "The fractal properties of topography - a comparison of methods". Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 17(3): 217-234 (1992).
M.F. Goodchild, R.P. Haining, S. Wise and 12 others. "Integrating GIS and spatial data analysis: problems and possibilities". Int. J. of Geographical Info. Systems 6(5): 407-423 (1992).
K.K. Kemp and M.F. Goodchild. "Developing a curriculum in geographic information systems: the National Center for Geographic Info. and Analysis Core Curriculum project". J. of Geography in Higher Education 15(2): 121-132 (1991).
M.F. Goodchild and S. Gopal, editors. The Accuracy
of Spatial Databases. Taylor and Francis, Basingstoke,
UK (1989) 290pp.
OSCAR H. IBARRA: received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from UCB in
1967. He was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota in 1969-90,
and is currently Professor of Computer Science at UCSB. Ibarra's primary
research interests are parallel computing, design and analysis of algorithms,
theory of computation, computational complexity, and VLSI computation. He
has over 150 research publications and has presented papers at numerous
national and international conferences. Ibarra was awarded a Guggenheim
Fellowship in 1984 for his work in systolic systems. He is a Fellow of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute.
He is on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Computers,
J. of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Thoretical Computer
Science, Int. J. of Foundations of Computer Science,
and J. of VLSI Signal Processing. Ibarra has graduated sixteen
PhD students and is currently supervising several graduate students.
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Systolic Tree Implementation of Data Structures (with J. Chang,
M. Chung and K. Rao), IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 37, 727-735,
1988.
Two-Dimensional Convolution on the Pyramid Computer (with J. Chang, T. Pong, and S. Sohn), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 10, 590-593, 1988.
String Processing on the Hypercube (with T. Pong and S. Sohn), IIEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 38, 160-164, 1990.
Systolic Algorithms for Some Scheduling and Graph Problems (with T. Jiang, J. Chang, and M. Palis), J. of VLSI Signal Processing, vol. 1, 307-320, 1990.
On Mapping Systolic Algorithms onto the Hypercube (with S. Sohn), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 1, 48-63, 1990.
Parallel Recognition and Parsing on the Hypercube (with T. Pong and S. Sohn), IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 40, 764-770, 1991.
On Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Solving Set Recurrence Equations (with H. Wang and T. Jiang), J. of Algorithms, vol. 14, pp. 244-257, 1993.
Quadtree Building Algorithms on an SIMD Hypercube (with M. Kim), J. of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 18, pp. 71-76, 1993.
Fast Parallel Algorithms for Solving Triangular Systems of Linear Equations on the Hypercube (with M. Kim), J. of Parallel and Distributed Computing, to appear, 1994.
Transformations Between Boundary Codes, Run Length Codes and Linear
Quadtrees (with M. Kim), to be presented at the 1994 Int.
Parallel Processing Sym., Cancun, Mexico, April 1994.
SANJIT MITRA: received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Physics in
1953 from Utkal University, Cuttack, India; the M.Sc. (Tech.) degree in
Radio Physics and Electronics in 1956 from Calcutta University; the M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California,
Berkeley, in 1960 and 1962, respectively. From June 1962 to June 1965, he
was at the Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, as an Assistant Professor
of Electrical Engineering. He was with Bell Telephone Laboratories,
Holmdel, New Jersey, from June 1965 to January 1967.
He has been on the faculty at the University
of California since then, first at the Davis campus and more recently at
the Santa Barbara campus as a Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, where he served as Chairman of the Department from July 1979
to June 1982.
He has published over 420 papers in analog and digital signal processing,
and image processing, eight books, and holds two patents.
Dr. Mitra is the recipient of the 1973 F.E. Terman Award and the
1985 AT& Foundation Award of the American Society of Engineering
Education, the Education Award of the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society in
1989 and the Distinguished Senior U.S. Scientist Award from the Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation of West Germany in 1989. In May 1987 he was
awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Technology degree from the Tampere
University of Technology, Tampere, Finland. He is an Honorary Professor of
the Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing, China. Dr. Mitra is a Fellow of
the IEEE, AAAS and SPIE.
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T-H Yu and S. K. Mitra, "A New Two-Dimensional Window," IEEE Trans. on
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. ASSP-33, August 1985, pp.
1058-1061).
A. Kundu, S. K. Mitra, and P.P. Vaidyanathan, "Application of Two-Dimensional Generalized Mean Filters for Removal of Impulse Noises from Images," IEEE Trans. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. ASSP-32, June 1984, pp. 600-609.
A. Kundu and S. K. Mitra, "A New Algorithm for Image Edge Extraction Using a Statistical Classifier Approach," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. PAMI- 9, July 1987, pp. 569-577.
Y. Wang, R. Leonardi, and S. K. Mitra, "The Connectivity Hough Transform and Its Fast Implementation," Proc. Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Singapore, September 1989, pp. 548-552.
C-H Chen, Y. Wang, S. K. Mitra, and J. W. Gray, "Automated Detection of Chromosome Aberration Using Color Info.," Proc. SPIE 1989 Sym. on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision VIII: Algorithms and Techniques, Philadelphia, PA, November 1989, pp. 339-343 - (Invited Paper).
R. D. Brandt, Y. Wang, A. Laub, and S. K. Mitra, "The Recognition of Shapes in Binary Images Using a Gradient Classifier," IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, vol. SMC-19, November/December 1989, pp. 1595-1599.
T-H Yu, S. K. Mitra, and J. F. Kaiser, "A Novel Nonlinear Filter for Image Enhancement," Proc. SPIE/SPSE Sym. on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, San Jose, CA, February 1991, pp. 303-309.
T. Ramstad, Y. Wang, and S. K. Mitra,"Efficient Image Interpolation Scheme Using Hybrid IIR Nyquist Filters," Optical Engineering, vol. 31, June 1992, pp. 1277-1283.
T-H Yu and S. K. Mitra, "A New Robust Approach to Diffuse Edge Detection," Proc. 1992 IEEE Military Communications Conf. (MILCOM'92), San Diego, CA, October 1992, pp. 1116-1121 - Invited Paper.
Y. Wang and S. K. Mitra, "Image Representation Using Block Pattern
Models and Its Image Processing Applications," IEEE Trans. on Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 15, April 1993, pp. 321-336.
TERENCE R. SMITH: received his undergraduate degree in Geography from Cambridge
University in 1965, and a PhD in environmental engineering
from Johns Hopkins University in 1971.
He served on the faculties of the University
of Western Ontario and of the University of Rochester before coming to UCSB in 1976.
Dr. Smith is currently Professor of Geography and Professor of Computer Science at UCSB.
He served as Chair of the Department of Computer Science from 1986-90;
he was Associate Director the National Center for Geographic Information
and Analysis for the period 1988-90; and he is currently director
of the Center for Computational Modeling and Systems.
His current research interests focus on the design, development and testing
of spatial and scientific databases,
and the design and development of computational systems that support the modeling
of complex phenomena. Dr. Smith is currently PI on a three-year award from
NSF and another 3-year award from NASA
to study computational support for scientific databases,
and he has been CO-PI on nearly 40 research awards.
Dr. Smith has published over 80 research papers; he has
presented papers at numerous conferences and workshops;
and he has graduated 8 PhD students, and is currently supervising
several PhD candidates.
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Smith, T.R., D.P. Peuquet, S. Menon, and
P. Agarwal, 1987.
"KBGIS-II: A Knowledge-based Geographical
Info. System", Int.
J. of Geographical Info. Systems, 1, 149-172.
Menon, S., G. Peng and T.R. Smith, 1988. "Multi-Colored Quadtrees for GIS: Exploiting Bit-Parallelism for Rapid Boolean Overlay." Pattern Recognition Letters, 8, 171-179.
Menon, S. and T.R. Smith, 1989. "Search for Multicomponent Objects in Large Spatial Databases", Proc. of the FODO Conf., Paris, pp. 246-251.
Menon, S. and T.R.Smith, 1989. "A Declarative Spatial Query Processor for GIS", in Photo-Grammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Vol. 55, pp. 1593-1600.
Smith, T.R. and G. Peng, 1990. "Experimental Performance Evaluations of Spatial Access Methods",Proc. of 4th Int. Sym. on Spatial Data Handling, Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 991-1002.
Smith, T.R. and A. Frank, 1990. "Report on Workshop on Very Large Spatial Databases", J. of Visual Languages and Computing. 1, 291-309.
Smith, T.R., Ramakrishnan, R. and A. Voisard, 1991. "An Object-Based Data Model and a Deductive Language for Spatio-Temporal Database Applications", Proc. of the Int. Workshop on DBMS for Geographical Applications", ESPRIT BRA Working Group, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag.
Smith, T.R. and K. Park, 1992. "An Algebraic Basis for Spatial Reasoning", Int. J. for Geographic Info. Systems, 6, 177-192.
Smith, T.R., 1992. "Towards a Logic-based Language for Modeling and Database Support in Spatio-Temporal Domains". Proc. of the 5th Int. Sym. on Spatial Data Handling, IGU, 592-601.
Smith, T.R. Su, J., Agrawal, D. and A. El Abbadi, 1993. Database and Modeling Systems for the Earth Sciences, Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering, v.16 (1), 33-37.