JOHN R. G. TOWNSHEND

 

Department of Geography

1115 Lefrak Hall

University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland 20742

USA

 

Date of Birth: 11 December 1945 Telephone: 301-405-4558

Place of Birth: Peterborough, UK Fax: 301-314-9299

Nationality: British E-mail : JT59@umail.umd.edu

US Residence Status: Resident Alien

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EDUCATION

B.Sc. 1967 Geography with subsidiary Geology, University College London.

Ph.D. 1971 Geography (Geomorphology), University College London

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APPOINTMENTS

1997-98 Acting Director Earth Systems Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park.

1997-present Member, Institute for Advanced Computing Studies, University of Maryland, College Park.

1989-present Professor, Department of Geography, University of Maryland, College Park

1989-1996 Chair, Department of Geography, University of Maryland, College Park,

1987-1989 Professor, Department of Geography, University of Reading, Reading, UK,

1985-1989 Director, Natural Environment Research Council’s Unit for Thematic Information Systems (NUTIS), University of Reading, UK,

1984-1987 Reader, Department of Geography, University of Reading, Reading, UK

1979-1980 Visiting National Research Council Senior Post-Doctoral, Research Fellow at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA

1977-78 Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Massachusetts, USA

1972-1984 Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Reading, Reading, UK

1970-1972 Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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MEMBERSHIP OF LEARNED SOCIETIES

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Geophysical Union

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Association of American Geographers

Remote Sensing Society

Royal Geographical Society

AWARD

Recipient of the 1984 Royal Geographical Society’s Back Award for contributions to Remote Sensing.

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PUBLICATIONS

Books and edited volumes

  1. Townshend, J.R.G. (Editor) 1994 Global data sets for the land from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer, Special edition of the International Journal of Remote Sensing, 15 (17), 3315-3639.

  2. Townshend, J.R.G., Cihlar, J., Justice, C.O., Malingreau, J.-P., Ruttenberg, S., Sadowski, F., Skole, D., Teillet, P. 1992 Improved Global Data for Land Applications. IGBP Report No. 20, Stockholm, International Geosphere Biosphere Program.

  3. Millington, A.C., Townshend, J.R.G., Kennedy, P., Saull, R., Prince, S. and Madams, R. 1989 Biomass Assessment: Woody Biomass in the SADCC Region. Earthscan Publications, London.

  4. Townshend, J.R.G. (Editor) 1989 Comparison of passive microwave with near-infrared and visible data for terrestrial environmental monitoring. Special edition of the International Journal of Remote Sensing, 10 (10), 1575-1690.

  5. U.K. Working Group on Geographic Information 1988 Geographic Information in the Environmental Sciences. Natural Environment Research Council, Swindon, UK (Chairman of the Working Group).

  6. Townshend, J.R.G. 1988 Thematic Mapper Data - Characteristics and Use. Natural Environmental Research Council, Swindon,

  7. Thompson, R.D., Mannion, A.M., Mitchell, C.W., Parry, M. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1986 Processes in Physical Geography, Longman, London.

  8. Townshend, J.R.G. (Editor) 1981 Terrain Analysis and Remote Sensing. George Allen and Unwin, London.

Articles in review.

  1. Kearney, M.S., Rogers, A.S., Townshend, J.R.G., Stevens, J.L., Rizzo, E., Sundberg, K and Stevenson, C.J. 2000, Recent rapid deterioration in estuarine marshes in the US Middle Atlantic Coast, Nature (submitted).

    2. Articles in press

  2. Teillet, P.M., El Saleous, N., Hansen, M.C., Eidenshink, J.C., Justice, C.O. and Townshend, J.R.G., 2000, An Evaluation of the Global 1-km AVHRR Land Data Set, International Journal of Remote Sensing (in press).

  3. Steininger, M.K., Tucker. C.J., Townshend, J.R.G., Killeen, T.R., Desch, A., Bell, V., and Peter Ernst, P. Tropical Deforestation in the Bolivian Amazon, 2000, Environmental Conservation (in press).

    4. Refereed articles

  4. Kalluri, S.N.V., Ja Ja, J. Bader, D.A.,Zhang, Z., Townshend, J.R.G and Fallah-Adl, H. 2000 High performance computing algorithms for land cover dynamics using remotely sensed data, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 1513-1536

  5. El Saleous, N., Vermote, E., Justice, C. O., Townshend, J. R.G., Tucker, C.J., and Goward, S.N. 2000. Improvements in the global biospheric record from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 1251-1278.

  6. Tucker, C. J. and Townshend, J.R.G. 2000. Strategies for tropical forest deforestation assessment using satellite data, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 1461-1472.

  7. Hansen, M.C., DeFries, R. S., Townshend, J.R.G. and Sohlberg, R. 2000. Global land cover classification at 1 km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 1331-1364.

  8. DeFries, R. S., Hansen, M. and Townshend, J.R.G. 2000. Global continuous fields of vegetation characteristics: a linear mixture model applied to multi-year 8km AVHRR data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 1389-1414..

  9. Zhan, X., DeFries, R., Townshend, J.R.G., Dimiceli, C., Hansen, M., Huang, C., and Sohlberg, R. 2000. The global change indicator from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer of NASA’s Earth Observing System, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 1433-1460.

  10. Townshend, J.R.G., Huang, C., Kalluri, S.N.V., Defries, R.S., Liang, S. and Yang, K. 2000. Beware of Per-Pixel Characterization of Land Cover, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21,839-843.

  11. Defries, R. S., Hansen, M., Townshend, J.R.G, Janetos, A. and Loveland, T. 1999. A New Global 1km Data Set of Percent Tree Cover Derived from Remote Sensing, Global Ecology and Biogeography , 8 (5), 367-379.

  12. Estes, J.E., Belward, A., Loveland, T., Scepan, J., Strahler, A., Townshend, J.R.G. and Justice, C.O. (1999)The IGBP 1 km Land-Cover Data Set: The Way Forward., Photgrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 65 (9), 1099-1106.

  13. DeFries, R. S., Townshend, J.R.G. and Hansen, M. 1999. Continuous fields of vegetation characteristics at the global scale. J. Geophysical Research, 104, 16911-16923.

  14. Zhang, Z., Kalluri, S., Ja’ Ja’, J., Liang, S., and Townshend, J.R.G. 1998. High Performance Algorithms for Global Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function Retrieval, IEEE Transactions in Computational Science and Engineering, 5(4), 16-29.

  15. Justice, C. O., Vermote, E., Townshend, J . R. G., DeFries, R., Roy, D., Hall, D. K., Salomonson, V. V., Privette,, J. L., Riggs, G., Strahler, A., Lucht, W., Myneni, R. B., Knyazikhin, Y., Running, S. W., Nemani, R. M. Wan, Z., Huete, A. R., van Leeuwen, W., Wolfe, R. E., Giglio, L., Muller, J.-P., Lewis, P., and Barnsley, M. 1998. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): Land Remote Sensing for Global Change Research, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 36 (4), 1212-1227.

  16. DeFries, R. S., Hansen, M., Townshend, J.R.G. and Sohlberg, R. 1998. Global land cover classification at 8 km spatial resolution. The use of training data derived from Landsat imagery in decision-tree classifiers. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 19, 3141-3168.

  17. Kalluri, S.N.V., Townshend, J.R.G. and Doriswamy, P. 1998. A simple single layer model to estimate transpiration from foliage using multispectral and meteorological data, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 19 (5), 1037-1054.

  18. Skole, D.L., Justice, C.O., Townshend, J.R.G. and Janetos, A. C. 1997 A land cover change monitoring program: Strategy for an International effort, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2, (2-3), 157-175.

  19. DeFries, R., Hansen, M. Steininger, M., Dubayah, R., Sohlberg, R. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1997. Sub-pixel forest cover in Central Africa from multisensor, multitemporal data, Remote Sensing of Environment 60, 228-246.

  20. Liang, S., Fallah-Adj, H., Ja’ Ja’, J., Kalluri, S., Kaufman, Y.J. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1997. An operational atmospheric correction algorithm for Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery, J. Geophysical Res. 102 (17),173-17,186.

  21. Fallah-Adj, H., Ja’Ja’, J., Liang, S., Townshend, J..R.G. and Kaufman, Y. J. 1996. Fast algorithms for removing atmospheric effects from satellite images. IEEE Transactions in Computational Science and Engineering, 3 (2), 66-77.

  22. Liang, S. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1996 Parametric Soil BRDF Model: a four-stream approximation. Remote Sensing of Environment, 55, 1303-1315.

  23. Liang, S. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1996 A modified Hapke model for soil bidirectional reflectance, Remote Sensing of Environment, 55, 1-10.

  24. DeFries, R., Field, C.R., Fung. I., Justice, C.O., Los, S., Matson, M.A., Matthews, E.A., Mooney, H.A., Potter, C.S. Prentice, K.A., Sellers, P.J., Townshend, J.R.G., Tucker, C.J., Ustin, S.L. and Vitousek, P.M., 1995 Mapping the land surface for global atmosphere-biosphere models: Towards continuous distributions of vegetation’s functional properties, Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, D10, 20,867-20,882.

  25. DeFries, R., Hansen, M. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1995. Global discrimination of land cover from metrics derived from AVHRR Pathfinder- data sets. Remote Sensing of Environment, 54, 209-222.

  26. Townshend, J.R.G. and Justice, C.O. 1995. Spatial variability of images and the monitoring of changes in the normalized difference vegetation index. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 16 (12), 2187-2196.

  27. Hall, F.G., Townshend, J.R.G. and Ingman, T. 1995 Status of remote sensing algorithms for the estimation of land surface parameters. Remote Sensing of Environment, 51 (1), 138-156.

  28. Justice, C.O. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1994, Data sets for global remote sensing: lessons learnt, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 15 (17), 3621-3639.

  29. Townshend, J.R.G., Justice C.O., Skole, D.,, C.O., Malingreau, J.-P., Cihlar J., Teillet, P., Sadowski, F. and Ruttenberg, S. 1994. The 1 km resolution global data set: needs of the International Geosphere Biosphere Program, International Journal of Remote Sensing 15 (17), 3417-3442.

  30. Townshend, J.R.G. 1994. Global data sets for land applications from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer: an introduction, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 15 (17) 3319-3332.

  31. DeFries, R. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1994. NDVI-derived land cover classifications on a global scale. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 15 (17), 3567-3586.

  32. Townshend, J.R.G. and Rasool, S.I. 1993 Global change, In Codata Bulletin, 24 (4) (special issue on Data for Global Change), 1-14.

  33. Townshend, J.R.G., Justice, C.O., Gurney, C. and McManus, J. 1992. The effect of misregistration on the detection of vegetation change. Trans. Inst. of Electronic and Elec. Engineers, Geosciences and Remote Sensing, 30 (5), 1054-1060.

  34. Townshend, J.R.G. 1992. The European contribution to the application of remote sensing to land cover classification, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 13, 1319-1328.

  35. Quarmby, N.A., Townshend, J.R.G., Settle, J.J., White, K.H., Milnes, M., Hindle, T.L. and Silleos, N. 1992 Linear mixture modelling applied to AVHRR data for crop area estimation. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 13 (3), 415-426.

  36. Townshend, J.R.G., Justice, C.O., Li, W., Gurney, C., and McManus, J. 1991. Global land classification by Remote Sensing: Present Capabilities and Future Prospects. Remote Sensing of Environment, 35, 243-256.

  37. Baker, J.R., Briggs, S.A., Gordon, V., Jones, A.R., Settle, J.J., Townshend, J.R.G. and Wyatt, B. 1991. Advances in classification for land cover mapping using SPOT HRV imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 5, 1071-1085.

  38. Justice, C.O., Townshend, J.R.G. and Kalb V.T. 1991. Representation of vegetation by continental data sets derived from AVHRR data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 5, 999-1021.

  39. Justice, C.O., Dugdale, G., Townshend, J.R.G., Narracott, A.S. and Kumar, M. 1991. Synergism between NOAA-AVHRR and Meteosat data for studying vegetation in semi-arid West Africa. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 6, 1349-1368.

  40. Townshend, J.R.G. and Justice, C.O. 1990. The spatial variation of vegetation at very large scales. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 11, 149-157.

  41. Quarmby, N.A., Townshend, J.R.G., Millington, A.C., White, K.H. and Reading, A.J. 1989. Monitoring sediment transport systems in a semi-arid area using Thematic Mapper data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 28, 305-315.

  42. Millington, A.C., Drake, N.A., Townshend, J.R.G., Quarmby, N.A., Settle, J.J. and Reading, A.J. 1989. Monitoring salt playa dynamics using Thematic Mapper data. Trans. Inst. of Electronic and Elec. Engineers, Geosciences and Remote Sensing, 27, 754-761.

  43. Townshend, J.R.G., Quarmby, N.A., Millington, A.C., Drake, N., Reading, A.J., and White, K.H. 1989. Monitoring playa sediment transport systems using Thematic Mapper data. Advances in Space Research, 9, 177-183.

  44. Townshend, J.R.G., Choudhury, B.J., Giddings, L., Justice, C.O., Prince, S.D., and Tucker, C.J. 1989. Comparison of data from the Scanning Multifrequency Microwave Radiometer with data from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer for terrestrial environmental monitoring: an overview. International Journal of Remote Sensing 10, 1687-1690.

  45. Townshend, J.R.G., Justice, C.O., Choudhury, B.J., Tucker, C.J., Kalb, V.T. and Goff, T.E. 1989. A comparison of SMMR and AVHRR data for continental land cover characterization. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 10, 1633-1642.

  46. Justice, C.O., Townshend, J.R.G. and Choudhury, B.J. 1989. Comparison of AVHRR and SMMR data for monitoring vegetation phenology at a continental scale. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 10, 1607-1632.

  47. Justice, C.O., Markham, B.L., Kennard, R. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1989. Spatial degradation of satellite data International Journal of Remote Sensing, 10, 1539-1561.

  48. Mason, D.C. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1988. Research related to geographical information systems at the Natural Environment Research Council’s Unit for Thematic Information Systems. International Journal of Geographic Information Systems, 2, 121-141.

  49. Townshend, J.R.G. and Justice, C.O. 1988. Selecting the spatial resolution of satellite sensors required for global monitoring of land transformations. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 9, 187-236.

  50. Townshend, J.R.G., Justice, C.O. and Kalb, V. 1987. Characterization and classification of South American land cover types using satellite data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 8, 1189-1207.

  51. Justice, C.O., Townshend, J.R.G. and Markham, B.L. 1987. MODIS spatial resolution study. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 8, 1189-1207.

  52. Quarmby, N.A. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1986. Preliminary analysis of SPOT data for a semi-arid area. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 7, 1869-1877.

  53. Townshend, J.R.G. and Justice, C.O. 1986. Analysis of the dynamics of African Vegetation using the normalized difference vegetation index. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 7, 1435-1445.

  54. Atkinson, P., Cushnie, J.L., Townshend, J.R.G. and Wilson, A. 1985. Improving Thematic Mapper land cover classification using filtered data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 6, 955-961.

  55. Justice, C.O., Townshend, J.R.G., Holben, B.N. and Tucker, C.J. 1985. The phenology of global vegetation using meteorological satellite data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 6, 1271-1318.

  56. Townshend, J.R.G., Goff, T.E. and Tucker, C.J. 1985. Multitemporal dimensionality of imagery of the normalized difference vegetation index at continental scales. Trans. Inst. of Electronic and Elec. Engineers, Geosciences and Remote Sensing, GE-23, 888-895.

  57. Tucker, C.J., Townshend, J.R.G. and Goff, T.E. 1984. Continental land cover classification using meteorological satellite data. Science, 227, 369-375.

  58. Townshend, J.R.G. and Tucker, C.J. 1984. Objective assessment of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer data for land cover mapping. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 5, 681-698.

  59. Townshend, J.R.G., Gayler, J.R., Hardy, J.R., Jackson, M.J. and Baker, J.R. 1983. Preliminary assessment of Landsat 4 Thematic Mapper products. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 4, 187-828.

  60. Townshend, J.R.G. 1983. Remote sensing of land resources. Bull. Soc. of University Cartographers, 16, 1-8.

  61. Forshaw, M.R.B., Haskell, A., Miller, P.F., Stanley, D.J. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1983. A review paper: spatial resolution of remotely sensed imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 4, 479-520.

  62. Gurney, C.M. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1983. The use of contextual information in the classification of remotely sensed data. Photogrammetric Engng. and Remote Sensing, 49, 55-64.

  63. Townshend, J.R.G. and Justice, C.O. 1981. Image processing of remotely sensed data - a user view. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2, 313-330.

  64. Townshend, J.R.G. 1981. The spatial resolving power of Earth resources satellites. Progress in Physical Geography, 5, 32-55.

  65. Justice, C.O. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1981. A comparison of unsupervised classification procedures using Landsat MSS data for an area of complex surface conditions in Basilicata, southern Italy. Remote Sensing of Environment, 12, 407-420.

  66. Townshend, J.R.G. and Justice, C.O. 1980. Unsupervised classification of MSS Landsat data for mapping an area of complex terrain: principles and problems. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 1, 105-20.

  67. Townshend, J.R.G. and Justice, C.O. 1980. The role of Landsat 3 RBV images for thematic mapping. Annales des Mines, Avril-Mai 1980, 139-144.

  68. Penning-Rowsell, E.C. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1978. The influence of scale on the factors affecting stream channel slope. Trans. Inst. of British Geographers, New Series 3, 395-415.

  69. Townshend, J.R.G. 1970. Geology, slope form and slope processes and their relation to the occurrence of laterite. Geographical Journal, 136, 392-399.

    70. Book Chapters

  70. DeFries, R. S., Townshend, J.R.G. and Los, S.O., 1997. Scaling land cover heterogeneity for global atmosphere-biosphere models, in Scale in Remote Sensing and GIS, CRC Press, 231-246.

  71. Spence, T., and Townshend, J.R.G. 1996 The Global Climate Observing System, in Karl, T. (ed.)., Long-term climate monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 1-4.

  72. Townshend. J.R.G. and Skole, D.L. 1995. The global 1km AVHRR data set. In P. Mather (editor), Understanding the Terrestrial Environment, Remote Sensing Data Systems and Networks, Ed P.M. Mather, John Wiley and Sons, 75-82.

  73. Drake, N.A., Bryant, R.G., Millington, A.C., and Townshend, J.R.G. 1994. Playa sedimentology and geomorphology: mixture modelling applied to Landsat Thematic Mapper data of Chott el Djerid, Tunisia, Sedimentology and Geochemistry of Modern and Ancient Saline Lakes, Society for Sedimentary Geology Special Publication, No. 50, 125-131.

  74. DeFries, R.S. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1993. Global land cover: comparison of ground-based data sets with AVHRR data. In Foody, G.M. and Curran, P. (Eds.) Environmental Remote Sensing from Regional to Global Scales, John Wiley, New York, pp. 84-110.

  75. Townshend, J.R.G., Tucker, C.J. and Goward, S.N. 1993. Global Vegetation Mapping. In Gurney, R., Foster, J. and Partensin, C. (Eds.) Atlas of Satellite Observations related to Global Change, Cambridge University Press 301-311.

  76. Townshend, J.R.G. 1991 Environmental data bases. In Maguire, D., Goodchild, M. and Rhind D. (Eds.) Geographical Information Systems: Principles and Applications. Longman, UK. , 201-216.

  77. Townshend, J.R.G. 1988. Remote sensing: local and global views. In Clark, M.J., Gregory, K.J., and Gurnell, A.M. (eds.) Horizons in Physical Geography, MacMillan, London 62-85.

  78. Millington, A.C., Jones, A.R., Quarmby, N.A. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1987. Remote sensing of sediment transfer processes in playa basins. In Frostick, L. and Reid, I. (eds.). Desert sediments: Ancient and Modern. Geol. Soc. of London Special Pub., 369-381.

  79. Tucker, C.J., Townshend, J.R.G., Goff, T.E. and Holben, B.N. 1986. Continental and global scale remote sensing of land cover. In Trabalka, J.R. and Riechle, D.E. (eds.) The Changing Carbon Cycle: a Global Analysis. Springer-Verlag, New York, 221-241.

  80. Millington, A.C. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1986. The potential of satellite remote sensing for geomorphological investigations. In Gardner, V. (ed.) International Geomorphology, John Wiley, London, 331-342.

  81. Townshend, J.R.G. 1983. Effects of sensor resolving power on the utility of imagery from Earth resources satellites. In Fuller, R.M. (ed.) Ecological mapping from ground, Earth and Space. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Monks Wood, 101-112.

  82. Townshend, J.R.G. 1981. Regionalization of terrain and remotely sensed data. In J.R.G. Townshend (Ed) Terrain Analysis and Remote Sensing, George Allen and Unwin, London, 109-132.

  83. Townshend, J.R.G. 1981. Image analysis and interpretation for land resources survey. In J.R.G. Townshend (Ed) Terrain Analysis and Remote Sensing, George Allen and Unwin, London, 59-108.

  84. Townshend, J.R.G. 1981. An introduction to the study of terrain. In J.R.G. Townshend (Ed) Terrain Analysis and Remote Sensing, George Allen and Unwin, London, 1-15.

  85. Townshend, J.R.G. and Hancock, P. 1981. The role of remote sensing in mapping surficial deposits. In J.R.G. Townshend (Ed) Terrain Analysis and Remote Sensing, George Allen and Unwin, London, 204-218.

  86. Justice, C.O. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1981. The use of Landsat data for land cover inventories of Mediterranean lands. In J.R.G. Townshend (Ed) Terrain Analysis and Remote Sensing, George Allen and Unwin, London, 133-153.

  87. Justice, C.O. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1981. Integrating ground data with remote sensing. In J.R.G. Townshend (Ed) Terrain Analysis and Remote Sensing, George Allen and Unwin, London, 38-58.

  88. Townshend, J.R.G. and Bush, P. 1980. The materials and origins of the Bahrain playas. In Doornkamp, J.C., Brunsden, D. and Jones, D.K.C. (eds.) Bahrain Surface Materials Resource Survey, Geobooks, Norwich, 169-191.

  89. Townshend, J.R.G. 1976. Ground sampling for interpretation of Skylark rocket photography. In E.C. Barrett and L.C. Curtis (eds.) Environmental Remote Sensing II, Edward Arnold, London, 237-262.

    90. Conference Proceedings and Published Reports

  90. Huang, C. Townshend, J.R.G., X., Hansen, M., DeFries, R., and Solhberg, R. (2000) Detecting land cover changes based on their trajectories in the spectral space, IGARSS2000, Honolulu, Hawaii.

  91. Huang, C., Chan, C.W., Townshend, J.R.G., and DeFries, R. (2000) Impact of data dimension on the comparative performance of classification algorithms. IGARSS2000, Honolulu, Hawaii

  92. Justice, C.O, Townshend, J R. G., Vermote, E. Sohlberg, R., Descloitre, J., Roy, D., Hall, D., Salomonson, V., Riggs, G., Huete, A., Didan, K., Miura, T., Wan, Z., Strahler A., Schaaf, C., Myneni, R., Running, S, Glassy, J., Nemani, R., El Saleous, N., Wolfe, R. Preliminary land surface products from the NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), IGARSS2000, Honolulu, Hawaii.

  93. Townshend, J.R.G. (1999) The Integrated Global Observation Strategy (IGOS) and Data and Information Systems and Services, Paper IGOS-P_4_doc_04, 4th Meeting of the IGOS Partnership, Stockholm Sweden.

  94. Townshend, J.R.G. (1999) The Integrated Global Observation Strategy: a framework for enhancing Earth Observations, Earth Observation: from Data to Information, Proceedings 1999 Remote Sensing Society Conference, Cardiff, U.K. pp. 7-12.

  95. Kalluri, S.N.V., Zhang, Z., JaJa, J., and Townshend, J.R.G. (1999) Retrieval of global broad band albedo from AVHRR using high performance computing techniques, Proceedings of IGARRSS 99, Hamburg, Germany, 28th. June - 2nd. July pp. 2244-2246

  96. Kalluri, S.N.V., Zhang, Z., JaJa, J., Bader, D.A., Song, H., El Saleous, N., Vermote, E. and Townshend, J.R.G. (1999) A hierarchical data archiving and processing system to generate custom tailored products from AVHRR data, Proceedings of IGARRSS 99, Hamburg, Germany, 28th. June - 2nd. July pp. 2374-2376.

  97. Zhan, X., DeFries, R. M., Hansen, M. Townshend, J.R.G., DiMiceli, C. Sohlberg, R., Huang, C. (1999) MODIS Enhanced Land Cover and Land Cover Change Product, Algorithm Theoretical Basis Documents (ATBD) Version 2.0., NASA, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 94pp.

  98. Townshend, J.R.G. and Maiden, M. (1999). NASA’s Earth System Information Partnership Proceedings Land Use/Cover Change/Data and Information Systems Workshop (LUCC-DIS), SEA-START Report No. 3 The Environmental Research Institute, University of Chulalonkorn, Bangkok, Thailand, 13-18th August 1998, pp. 27-31.

  99. Townshend, J.R.G. (1999) Introduction to Land Cover Classification Approaches and Methods. Proceedings Land Use/Cover Change/Data and Information Systems Workshop (LUCC-DIS), SEA-START Report No. 3 The Environmental Research Institute, University of Chulalonkorn, Bangkok, Thailand, 13-18th August 1998, pp. 17-19.

  100. Huang, C., Townshend, J.R.G., Zhan, X. W., Hansen, M., DeFries, R. and Sohlberg, R. (1998) Developing the spectral trajectories of major land cover processes. Proceedings SPIE, Hyperspectral Remote Sensing and Application, Beijing, China, v. 3502, pp. 155-162.

  101. Hansen, M., DeFries, R., Dimiceli, C., Huang, C., Sohlberg, R., Zhan, X. and Townshend, J. (1998). Red and infrared space partitioning for detecting land cover change. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 1998, Seattle, Washington, July 1998, pp. 2512-2514.

  102. Zhan, X., Huang, C. Townshend, J., DeFries, R., Hansen, M., Dimiceli, C., Sohlberg, R., Hewson-Scardelletti, J. and Tomkins, A. (1998). Land cover change detection with change vector in the red and near infrared space. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 1998, Seattle, Washington, July 1998, pp. 859-861.

  103. Huang, C., Kalluri, S.N.V., Townshend, J.R.G. and Yang, K. (1998) Assessing and deconvolving the impacts of the point spread function on satellite remote sensing. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 1998, Seattle, Washington, July 1998, pp. 2035-2037.

  104. Williams, D. and Townshend, J.R.G. (1998) The concept of an integrated global observation strategy. 27th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, Tromso, Norway, June 1998 ,pp. 95-98

  105. Townshend, J.R.G. (1997) Statement (pp. 47-48), Evidence (pp. 49-53), Response to written questions (pp. 129-135), The Commercial Space Act of 1997, Parts I-III, Hearings before the Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, One hundred fifth Congress, 1st Session, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington 1997.

  106. Townshend, J. R.G.. DeFries, R., Dubayah, R. Goward, S.N., Kearney, M., Tucker, C., and Vermote, E. (1997) Land cover characterization at regional and global scales: lessons learnt and prospects. Observations and Interactions, Proceedings Remote Sensing Society Conference, Reading U.K., Remote Sensing Society, Nottingham, U.K., pp. 367-372.

  107. Liang, S. and Townshend, J.R.G. (1997) Angular signatures of NASA/NOAA Pathfinder AVHRR land data and applications to land cover identification (1997) International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 1997, Singapore, pp. 1781-1783.

  108. Kalluri, S.N.V., Zhang, Z., Liang. S., Ja’ Ja’, J., Townshend, J.R.G. (1997) Retrieval of bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) at continental scales from AVHRR data using high performance computing, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 1997, Singapore, pp. 174-176.

  109. Kalluri, S.N.V., Huang, C., Mathieu-Marni, S. , Townshend, J.R.G., Yang. K. Chellappa, R., and Fleig, A. (1997) A comparison of mixture modelling algorithms and their applicability to MODIS data. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 1997, Singapore, pp. 171-172.

  110. Townshend, J.R.G. 1997 Data policy and SEA-START. Proc Worskshop on Development of the data and information system for SEA-START Region: First Step in Implementation, Jan 27-31 1997, Bangkok, Thailand, Ed J. Boonjawat, SEA-START RC Report No. 1, pp. 110-113

  111. Townshend, J.R.G. 1997 Implementation of the Global Climate Observing System: Strategies for implementation of in situ components, First Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, American Meteorological Society, Long Beach, California, pp. 96-101.

  112. Strahler, A. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1996 MODIS Land Cover Product, Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD), Version 4.1.

  113. Townshend, J.R.G. 1996. Data policy in the IGBP, IGBP Newsletter, 27. p.23.

  114. Townshend, J.R.G. 1996. Data in IGBP, IGBP Newsletter, 27, p.3.

  115. Townshend, J.R.G., Justice, C.O., Wolf, D., Maiden, M. and James, M. 1996. Long term data sets for the land from remote sensing, in Takagi, M. (ed.) Proceedings of the 2nd SEIKEN Symposium on Global Environmental Monitoring from Space, 26th-28th Feb. 1996, University of Tokyo, pp. 127-146.

  116. Kearney, M.S., Rogers, A.S., Townshend, J.R.G., Lawrence, W.T., Dorn, K., Eldred, K., Stutzer, D., Lindsay, F. and Rizzo, E. 1995. Developing a model for determining coastal marsh health, Third Thematic Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, Seattle, Washington, Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, ann Arbor, pp.527-537.

  117. Kalluri, S.N.V., Townshend. J.R.G., Smith P.E. and James, M.E. 1995. Processing long term satellite data for global change research: the AVHRR Pathfinder challenge, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) on Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications, Firenze Italy, pp. 1171-1173.

  118. Townshend, J.R.G. 1995. Global observing systems and how they relate to the IGBP. Global Change Newsletter, 24, pp. 17-18.

  119. Townshend, J.R.G., V. Bell, A. Desch, C. Havlicek, C. Justice, W. L. Lawrence, D. Skole, W. Chomentowski, B. Moore III, W. Salas and C.J. Tucker, 1995. The NASA Landsat Pathfinder Humid Tropical Deforestation Project. In Proceedings Land Satellite Information in the Next Decade, ASPRS Conference, Vienna Virginia, 25-28th Sep. 1995, IV-76 to IV-87.

  120. Kalluri, S.N,V., J.R.G. Townshend P.M. Smith and M E James 1995. Processing Long Time Satellite Data for Global Change Research: The AVHRR Pathfinder Challenge, Proceedings International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARRS, Florence, Italy, pp. 1171-1173.

  121. Townshend, J.R.G. 1993. Remote sensing and GIS Development. In Eynon, D. (ed.), 1993 GIS Sourcebook, GIS World Inc., Fort Collins Colorado, pp. 226-228.

  122. Townshend, J.R.G. 1992. The Global 1 km AVHRR Data Set: Further Recommendations. International Geosphere Biosphere Program's Data and Information System Paris. IGBP-DIS Working Paper No. 4.

  123. Townshend, J.R.G., Achutuni, R., Avissar, A., Grody, N., Hastings, D., Justice, C.O. Ropelewski, C., Shaake, J., and Tarpley, D. 1991 Product development plan for operational satellite land surface products for the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program. In Product Development Plans for Operational Satellite Products, NOAA Climate and Global Change Program Special Report No. 5, pp. 43-57.

  124. Townshend, J.R.G. 1991. Complementarity and Synergism in Remote Sensing (invited paper). In Spatial Data 2000, Joint Meeting of the Remote Sensing Society and the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Christ Church Oxford, 17-20 September 1991, pp. 56-62.

  125. Townshend, J.R.G. 1991. Land Use Planning. Proc. Earth Observation User Consultation Meeting, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands 29-31 May 1991, European Space Agency, ESA SP-1143, 196-206.

  126. Townshend, J.R.G. 1990. Global Environmental Monitoring (invited opening paper), In Proc. 5th Australasian Remote Sensing Conference, Perth, Western Australia, pp. 19-26.

  127. Townshend, J.R.G. 1990. Geoprocessing technologies for environmental analysis planning and monitoring. (invited paper) Geoprocessamento, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil, pp. 109-117.

  128. Quarmby, N.A., Tobin, A., Townshend, J.R.G., Singh, S.M., Milnes, M., and Silleos, N. 1989. Crop production and yield monitoring, In Remote Sensing for Operational Applications. Proc. 15th Annual Conference of the Remote Sensing Society, University of Bristol, UK, pp. 345-350.

  129. Townshend, J.R.G. and Justice, C.O. 1989. The spatial variation of land cover at very coarse scales. In Remote Sensing for Operational Applications. Proc. 15th Annual Conference of the Remote Sensing Society, University of Bristol, UK, pp. 415-420.

  130. Townshend, J.R.G., Justice, C.O. Markham, B.L., and Briggs, S.A. 1989. Spatial resolution requirements for MODIS-N. Proceedings of 4th International Colloqium on Spectral Signatures of Objects in Remote Sensing, Aussois, France, 18th-22nd January 1988, ESA, Nordwijk; ESA SP-287, pp. 329-333.

  131. Quarmby, N.A., Townshend, J.R.G. and Cushnie, J.L. 1988. Monitoring urban land cover from SPOT HRV imagery in south east England. Proc. Int. Conference on SPOT-1, Image Utilisation Assessment and Results, Paris, France, pp. 575-582.

  132. Quarmby, N.A. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1988. Preliminary analyses of SPOT HRV multispectral products for an arid and a temperate environment. Proc. Int. Conference on SPOT-1, Image Utilisation, Assessment and Results, Paris, France, pp. 583-612.

  133. Townshend, J.R.G., Millington, A.C., Quarmby, N.A., White, K.H. and Reading, A. 1987. The use of Thematic Mapper data in monitoring sediment transport in semi-arid areas. Proc. 3rd Annual Landsat Workshop, NASA, pp.169-174.

  134. Quarmby, N.A., Townshend, J.R.G. and Millington, A.C. 1987. Change detection algorithms for monitoring sediment transport in south-central Tunisia. Advances in Digital Image Processing, Proc. 13th Annual Conf. of the Remote Sensing Society, Nottingham, pp. 174-183.

  135. Townshend, J.R.G., Justice, C.O. and Tucker, C.J. 1986. Techniques for land cover classification using remotely sensed satellite data. Proc. Int. Symp. on Mapping from Modern Imagery, Proc. of the 12th Annual Conf. of the Remote Sensing Society. Edinburgh, UK, pp. 34-44.

  136. Milton, E.J., Townshend, J.R.G., Webb, J. and Pugh, C. 1984. The use of Thematic Mapper data for land cover survey. Proc. of an EARSeL/ESA Symp., on Integrated Approaches in Remote Sensing, Guildford, UK (ESA SP-214) pp. 151-159.

  137. Townshend, J.R.G., Justice, C.O., Holben, B.N. and Tucker, C.J. 1984. Monitoring and mapping global vegetation using data from meteorological satellites. Proc. of an EARSeL/ESA Symp, on Integrated Approaches in Remote Sensing, Guildford, UK (ESA SP-214), pp. 75-80.

  138. Townshend, J.R.G. and Harrison, A. 1984. Estimation of the spatial resolving power of the Thematic Mapper of Landsat 4. Proc. 10th Annual Conf. of the Remote Sensing Society. Satellite Remote Sensing: Review and Preview, Reading, UK, pp. 433-442.

  139. Townshend, J.R.G. and Jackson, M.J. 1983. Down to detail with the Thematic Mapper, Geographical Magazine, 55, pp. 442-443.

  140. Townshend, J.R.G. and Tucker, C.J. 1981. The utility of AVHRR data from NOAA 6 and 7 for vegetation mapping. Proc. Int. Conf. on Matching Remote Sensing Technologies and their Applications, Remote Sensing Society, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, pp. 97-110.

  141. Markham, B., and Townshend, J.R.G. 1981. Land cover classification accuracy as a function of sensor spatial resolution. Proceedings 15th Int. Symp. on Remote Sensing of Environment, Ann Arbor, MI, pp. 1075-1090.

  142. Justice, C.O. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1979. Clear images from space. Geographical Magazine, 51, pp. 828-831.

  143. Townshend, J.R.G., Williams, D.F. and Justice, C.O. 1979. An evaluation of Landsat RBV imagery for an area of complex terrain. Proceedings 13th Int. Symp. on Remote Sensing of Environment, Ann Arbor, MI, pp. 1839-1852.

  144. Townshend, J.R.G. 1977. A framework for monitoring the environment through the use of remote sensing. In Van Genderen, J.L. and Collins, W.G. (eds.) Monitoring Environmental Change by Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing Society, Reading, UK, pp.1-5.

  145. Townshend, J.R.G., Savigear, R.A.G., and Justice, C.O. 1974. A comparison of the capabilities of the ERTS and the Earth Resources Skylark Rocket within Central Argentina, in B.T. Battrick and N.T. Duc (eds.) European Earth Resources Experiments, ESRO SP-100, pp. 383-403.

  146. Justice, C.O., Williams, D.F., Townshend, J.R.G. and Savigear, R.A.G. 1976. The provision of environmental information from space imagery for Basilicata, southern Italy. In Van Genderen, J.L. and Collins, W.G. (eds.) Land Use Studies by Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing Society, Reading, U.K., pp. 1-39.

  147. Drennan, D.S.H., Hardy, J.R., Savigear, R.A.G., Townshend, J.R.G., Bray, C.J., Justice, C.O. and Owen-Jones, E.S. 1974. The interpretation and use of false-colour infrared and true colour photography of part of Argentina obtained by Skylark Earth Resources Rocket. Proc. 9th Int. Symp. on Remote Sensing of Environment, Ann Arbor, MI, pp. 1475-1496.

  148. Townshend, J.R.G. 1974. The relationship between slope angle and particle size of some coarse debris covered slopes. In Mitchell, C.W. (ed.) Studies on the Geomorphology and Agriculture of the northern Sahara. University of Reading, Reading, UK, pp. 45-53.

  149. Cooke, R.U. and Townshend, J.R.G. 1970. Pattern of Peru’s great earthquake, Geographical Magazine, 42, pp. 765-766.

  150. Townshend, J.R.G. 1968. A measure of topological asymmetry for drainage basin networks, Bloomsbury Geographer, 1, pp. 1-13.

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PRINCIPAL RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

2000 - 2002 Advanced methods for monitoring deforestation, NASA, LCLUC Program $360k.

1998 – 2004 National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure UMCP Partnership with the San Diego Super-Computing Center, National Science Foundation (Co-Principal Investigator) 90k/year.

1997-2001 Land Cover Earth System Information Partnership, NASA, $3.65m (Principal Investigator).

1997 Advanced Center for Global Remote Sensing Studies, Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing NASA, $430,000 (Co-Principal Investigator).

1997-2002 Enhancing Earth System Science using Commercial Terrestrial Remote Sensing Systems, Stennis Space Flight Center, NASA, $206k/year (Co-Principal Investigator).

1997 -2000 A Meta-data System for the Global Observing Systems, $80k, NOAA (Principal Investigator).

1997 Support for the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, NASA, $600k (Co-Principal Investigator).

1996-2001 MODIS Science Team - Enhanced Land Cover products. NASA $1.76M (PI and Team member).

1995-1997 AVHRR Version 2 Pathfinder product. NASA $900k (Co-PI)

1995 Workshop on electronic networking. NSF and START, $50k (PI)

1995-1998 Global Climate Observing System, support for Chairman, NASA, $360k (PI).

1993-1998 NSF High Performance Computing Grand Challenge grant on Land Cover Change, NSF, (Co-PI) $3.5m.

1993-1997 Coastal marshland loss in Chesapeake Bay. NASA $190k/year (Co-PI)

1993-1995 AVHRR Land Pathfinder support. NASA $80k (PI).

1992-1998 Landsat Pathfinder Humid Tropical Forest Project. National Aeronautical and Space Administration (Co-PI). $1.7m.

1992-1993 Compositing Methods for Pathfinder. National Aeronautical and Space Administration. $30,000. (PI)

1991-1997 Global Classification of Land Cover. National Aeronautical and Space Administration. $900,000 (PI).

1988-1989 Tropical Rain Forest Monitoring. European Community, $145,000.

1988-1989 Estimation of Crop Statistics using AVHRR data. European Community. $35,000.

1988 Impact of misregistration on image properties. National Aeronautical and Space Administration, $20,000.

1985-1989 Support of the NERC Unit for Thematic Information Systems (NUTIS) to conduct research into Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems and Digital Cartography. United Kingdom’s Natural Environment Research Council. $2,250,000.

1985 Image Processing Equipment Grant, United Kingdom’s Natural Environment Research Council. $64,000.

1984-1987 The Use of Advanced Methods for Classification of Remotely Sensed Data. United Kingdom’s Natural Environment Research Council. $72,000.

1983-1986 The Use of Thematic Mapper Data for Soil Survey. United Kingdom’s Natural Environment Research Council. $72,000.

1981-85 Spatial Analysis of Thematic Mapper Data. United Kingdom’s Natural Environment Research Council. $136,000.

1977-80 Use of Contextual Information for Classification of Remotely Sensed Data. United Kingdom’s Atomic Energy Research Establishment. $25,000.

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TEACHING

Reading University

1st Yr.

Introductory Geomorphology

Introductory Air Photograph Interpretation

Philosophical and Methodological Bases of Physical Geography

Introduction to Physical Geography Field Class

2nd Yr.

Fluvial geomorphology

Sediment Transport Systems

Process Response Systems in Geomorphology

U.K. Geomorphological Mapping Field Class

3rd Year

Remote Sensing

Applied Geomorphology

Terrain Evaluation

Tropical Geomorphology

Field class leader in Central Spain, Southern Italy, Southern France and Tunisia

Clark University

100 level

Pedology

Climatology

200 level

Fluvial Geomorphology

300 level

Remote Sensing

Terrain Evaluation

University of Maryland, College Park

300 level

Research and Writing in Geography (310)

600 level

Introduction to Graduate Geography (600)

Research Preparation in Geography (610)

Remote Sensing (609) (Spring 1999)

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GRADUATE STUDENTS

Principal Advisor: Completed Theses

C.O. Justice (1978) The effects of ground conditions on Landsat multispectral scanner data for an area of complex terrain in southern Italy. Ph.D.

D.F. Williams (1978) The identification of the location and intensity of gully erosion in Basilicata, Southern Italy. Ph.D.

C.M. Gurney (1980) The use of contextual information in remote sensing. Ph.D.

E.J. Milton (1982) Factors affecting the multispectral response of vegetated surfaces. Ph.D.

P.J. Hancock (1982) Landsat multispectral scanner and radiometer investigations of selected bare particulate flood plain surfaces in Basilicata Province, southern Italy. Ph.D.

G. Gisladottir (1984) The application of remotely sensed data for land cover mapping in Icelandic rangelands. M. Phil.

A. Singh (1984) Tropical forest monitoring using digital Landsat data in northeastern India. Ph.D.

T.J. Munday (1985) Multispectral remote sensing of surficial materials. Ph.D.

D.W. Lynn (1986) The use of thermal infrared data for soil mapping. Ph.D.

M.J. Barnsley (1986) Bidirectional characteristics of vegetated surfaces. Ph.D.

J.L. Cushnie (1987) The use of spatial filtering in the classification of finer resolution data. Ph.D.

K. White (1989) Piedmont Erosion and Deposition in the Tunisian Southern Atlas. Ph.D.

P. Kennedy (1989) Monitoring the vegetation of Tunisian grazing lands using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Ph.D.

Eric Brown de Coulston (1993) Estimating APAR using ASAS data. MA.

Moon Kim (1994) The use of narrow spectral bands for improving remote sensing estimation of fractionally absorbed photosynthetically active radiation. MA.

Marc Steininger (1994) Monitoring tropical reforestation using Thematic Mapper data. MA.

Satya Kalluri (1994) Estimating ET from remotely sensed data. Ph.D.

Holly Offerman (1995) Modeling the impact of deforestation on habitat. MA.

Marc Steininger (1998) Tropical secondary forests in the Amazon. Ph.D.

Nathan Pollack (1998). The impacts of ENSO on the vegetation response of the Indian sub-continent. MA.

Chengquan Huang (1999). Improved land cover characterization from satellite remote sensing. Ph.D.

Currently I am principal advisor to two Ph.D. students (Hanson and Brown) at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR HIGHER DEGREES

University of Dundee (Ph.D.),

Imperial College, University of London (Ph.D.),

University College London (Masters in Remote Sensing),

University of Lund, Sweden, (Ph.D.)

University of Sheffield, (Ph.D.)

Towson University, Western Australia, (Ph.D.)

Cranfield Institute of Technology (Masters in Remote Sensing)

University of Southampton (Ph.D.)

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SERVICE

SERVICE FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, UMCP

1998-99 Chair, Departmental Appointments, Promotion and Tenure Committee.

1998 Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee for Assistant Professor Martha Geores.

1998 Member, Departmental Faculty Salary Review Committee.

1997-98 Chair, Five Year Review Committee for Dr. H. Brodsky.

1998 Member, 3 year Review Committee for Dr. S. Liang and 5 year Review Committee for Dr. S. Prince.

1997-99 Departmental Director of Research.

1997 Chair, Research Faculty Salary Review Committee.

1997 Chair, Departmental Faculty Salary Review Committee.

SERVICE FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

1999 Member of the UMCP Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center Steering Committee.

1999 Member of the APT Committee of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center.

1998 Chair and then member, Search Committee for the Director and Faculty of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center.

1996-7 Coordinated discussions between UMCP and NASA/GSFC leading to the foundation of the Earth Systems Science Inter-disciplinary Center.

1994-5 Represented campus at Executive Committee meetings of CIESIN.

1992-3 Chair Internal Review Committee, Department of Geology.

1991-2 Member of the APAC Committee on Environmental Science and Policy.

1991 Member of the Search Committee for the Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

1989-91 Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

1989-90 Member of the Computing Committee of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

International

2000-02 Chair Science and Technical Board of Global Observations of Forest Cover (GOFC).

1999-00 Chair, Ad hoc Committee on Data and Information System and Services of the Integrated Global Observation Strategy Partnership.

1999 Session Chairman and Member of Organizing Committee of the Technical Forum on the Integrated Global Observation Strategy into the New Millenium, Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space UNISPACE III, Vienna, Austria, 23rd. July 1999.

1998 Co-chair of a one day meeting on the Development of Early Warning Capabilities in the United Nations Environmental Program, Washington DC, 8th December 1998.

1998 Organizer and Chairman, Seminar on Remote Sensing Applications in Ecological and Global Change Studies, Chinese Ecological Research Network, Beijing China, 29th June-3rd July 1998.

1997 Organizer of the Land Section at the UK Remote Sensing Society Conference, Reading, U.K. September 1997.

1996-99 Member (and Organizing Committee member) of the Strategic Implementation Team of the Committee for Earth Observing Satellites.

1996-97 Member, Organizing Committee, START Workshop for SE Asia on Data and Information Systems for SEA-START, Bangkok, Thailand.

1995-98 Chairman Joint Scientific and Technical Committee of the Global Climate Observing System.

1995-96 Chairman of the Organizing Committee and editor of the Report of an international meeting on In Situ Observations for the Global Observing Systems: Development of an integrated strategy and identification of priorities for implementation, 10th-13th September 1996, Geneva, International Conference Center, Switzerland.

1995 Organizer of the START Workshop on the Use of the World Wide Web, University of Maryland July-August 1995.

1995 Member (1995-6) and then chairman (1996 - present), Steering Committee of the UNEP-GRID’s Center at the EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls SD.

1994-6 Chairman International Geosphere Biosphere Programme’s - Data and Information System's Standing Committee.

1994-6 Member of the IGBP Science Committee.

1994-5 Member of the GTOS Data Management Working Group.

1994-5 Chairman of the Joint GCOS/GTOS Terrestrial Observation Panel.

1993 Member of the Ad Hoc Planning Committee of the Global Terrestrial Observation System (GTOS) (invited by UNEP).

1992-4 International Council of Scientific Unions’ nominated member of the Joint Standing Committee of the Global Climate Observing System.

1992 Member FAO/UNEP Review Panel of the Global Forest Assessment, Nairobi, Kenya.

1991-3 Member International Geosphere Biosphere Program’s - Data and Information System's Standing Committee.

1989-2 Chairman, International Geosphere Biosphere Program’s Land Cover Change Committee.

1987-93 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal for Geographic Information Systems.

1987-9 Member of the European Space Agency’s Expert Advisory Group on High Resolution Imaging Spectrometers

Federal

2000-03 Member NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information Systems and Services Advisory Subcommittee.

1998-00 Member of NASA’s Earth Science Enterprise’s New Data and Information Systems and Services (New-DISS) Team.

1998 Co-chair of Session 1 on Earth System Science, 36th Goddard Memorial Symposium, Greenbelt Md. March 18th-19th. 1998.

1993 Member Review Panel of the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

1993 Member of Review Panel of the NASA/EPA Landsat Pathfinder Project on North American Land Cover Project.

1992-5 Member of NOAA's Climate Post-Doctoral Selection Committee.

1992-3 Member NOAA’s Operational Measurements Science Review Panel.

1992 Member Review Panel of NASA's Earth Sciences Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center.

1992 Member National Science Foundation's Review Committee for the National Center for Geographic Information Analysis.

1991-4 Chairman, NASA/NOAA AVHRR Pathfinder Science Working Group for Land Applications.

1990 Chairman, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Operational Advisory Team on Land Surface Products for the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program.

1990- Associate Member (1992-96) and then member (1996- present) of NASA’s MODIS Science Team.

National

United States

2000 Member National Research Council’s Review Panel on NASA’s Earth Science Enterprise Science Plan.

1999 Organizing Committee Chairman, Meeting on The Earth Science Information Partnership's Federation: Progress and Future Prospects, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC 13th. July, 1999.

1999-2000 Elected Chair, Committee of the Whole, Earth Science Information Partnership's Federation.

1999 Member, National Research Council's Board on Earth Sciences and Resources.

1998-9 Chair, Rules Sub-Committee, Earth Science Information Partnership Federation .

1997-98 Member of National Research Council’s Visiting Group to the Distributed Active Archive Center at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

1993 Member, External Review Committee of the Department of Geography, Michigan State University, Michigan.

1992-8 Member National Academy of Science’s Committee on Geophysical and Environmental Data.

1991 Organizer of the Annual Mid-Atlantic Division Meeting of the Association of American Geographers.

United Kingdom

1987-90 Member of the Council of the Royal Geographical Society .

1987-8 Chairman of the United Kingdom’s Natural Environment Research Council’s Working Group on Geographic Information.

1986-9 Member of the Royal Geographical Society's Research Committee.

1986-9 Member of the Natural Environment Research Council's Services and Facilities Committee.

1986-9 Member of the Natural Environment Research Council's Geological Grants Committee.

1986-9 Member of the British National Space Centre’s Earth Observation Programme Board.

1985-9 Member of the Natural Environment Research Council's Geological Training Awards Committee .

1985-7 Member of the United Kingdom’s Department of the Environment’s Committee on Handling Geographic Information (Chorley Committee).

1985-6 Member of the Royal Geographical Society's Maps and Libraries Committee.

1980-96 Associate Editor of the International Journal of Remote Sensing.

1975-7 Honorary General Secretary of the Remote Sensing Society.

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RECENT PRESENTATIONS:

2000

Satellite Contributions to the monitoring of the terrestrial carbon cycle. Joint GTOS/IGBP Meeting on Defining Terrestrial Carbon Observations, Ottawa, Canada, 8th-11th February 2000.

The Role of the Earth Science Information Partnership Federation, Presentation of position paper NASA Meeting on New-DISS, University of Maryland University College, 23rd -25th February 2000.

The Global Climate Observing System: The Challenges of Implementation. 28th. International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment, Cape Town South Africa, 27th. March 2000. (Invited paper)

The Earth Science Information Partnership. NASA’s Inter-disciplinary Working Group, Tucson, Arizona, April 2000.

Global Observations of Forest Cover. NASA’s Land Cover and Land Use meeting, Reston, Virginia, April 2000.

1999

The Integrated Global Observation Strategy (IGOS) and Data and Information Systems and Services, 4th. Meeting of the IGOS-Partnership, during the meeting of the Committee of Earth Observing Satellites, 8th. November 1999. Stockholm, Sweden, 8th. November 1999.

Global Observations of Forest Cover and the Integrated Global Observation Strategy: Vision and Pragmatics. GOFC Forest Fire Monitoring and Mapping Workshop Italy, 3rd November 1999. Joint Research Center Space Applications Institute Ispra, Italy.

The Integrated Global Observation Strategy. Remote Sensing and the Kyoto Protocol: A Review of available and future technology for monitoring treaty compliance. October 20-22, 1999, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI), USA.

The Integrated Global Observation Strategy: a framework for enhancing Earth Observations, Earth Observation: from Data to Information Earth Observations, Earth Observation: from Data to Information, Proceedings 1999 Remote Sensing Society Conference, Cardiff University, U.K, 8th September 1999 (Invited keynote lecture).

The Earth Science Information Partnership's Federation: First Steps in Self-organization. The Earth Science Partnership's Federation: Progress and Future Prospects, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC 13th July, 1999.

Observations for Land Cover and Land Use Change, Presentation to the Office of Science and Technology Policy, White House, Washington DC, 6th July 1999.

The Global Observations for Forest Cover project and the role of NASA’s Land Cover and Land Use Change Program. 3rd NASA Land Cover and Land Use Change Science Team Meeting, Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia, May 18-21, 1999.

The Requirements of the IGBP for Land Cover Information. 95th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 23-27th March 1999, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Land Requirements for MODIS, Landsat and AVHRR products from GOIN. Fourth Japan-U.S. Joint Technical Workshop on the Global Observation Information Network (GOIN), 24th March, 1999, University of Hawaii.

The Landsat Pathfinder Program & Meeting Summary, Global Observations of Forest Cover, Tropical Forests Meeting, 15th March 1999, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC.

1998

The Land Cover Suite of Products from MODIS. MODIS Science Team Meeting, 9th December 1998, University College, University of Maryland.

NASA’s Earth System Information Partnership; Introduction to Land Cover Classification Approaches and Methods. Joint IGBP-DIS/LUCC/SEA-START-LUCC/DIS Workshop, University of Chulalonkorn, Bangkok, Thailand, 13-18th August 1998.

Global Land Cover Classification; Remote Sensing for Ecological Applications; International Activities in Global Change Research, Remote Sensing Applications in Ecological and Global Change Studies, Chinese Ecological Research Network, Beijing China, 29th June-3rd July 1998.

The Global Climate Observing System and International Conventions (invited paper). Information for Sustainability, 27th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, Tromso, Norway, June 8th 1998.

Relations between the Global Climate Observing System and the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme, Invited presentation at the Science Committee of IGBP at NCAR, Boulder Colorado, March 1998.

Status, Progress and Future Plans of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), Ninth Symposium on Global Change Studies and 2nd. Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Az., 12th January 1998.

1997

Use of Commercial Data to Support Earth Systems Science, NASA/CSRP Remote Sensing Verification and Validation Workshop. NASA’s Stennis Space Center, 4th November 1997.

The Global Climate Observing System. The Status of the Global Climate Observing System, Public Information Seminar on the Global Climate Observing System, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 26th September 1997.

Land cover characterization at regional and global scales: lessons learnt and prospects. Observations and Interactions 23rd Annual Remote Sensing Society Conference, Reading U.K. September 4th. 1997.

"The Landsat Pathfinder Program: an Overview" & "Future Sensor Systems". Conference on the Use of Remote Sensing for Mapping Tropical Forests, Institute of Botany, Caracas, Venezuela, 15th-16th July 1997.

The Global Climate Observing System: An overview of recent progress, (1997). Joint Assemblies of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences and International Association for Physical Sciences of the Oceans, Earth-Ocean-Atmosphere Forces for Change, Melbourne, Australia, July 1997, Abstract IM 21-3.

Invited opening presentation on "Cooperation between IGBP DIS and the WDC" IGBP-DIS/WDC Workshop, NCAR, Boulder CO, April 8-11 1997.

The Application of Global Data Sets, the Development of the Data and Information System for SEA START, and Data Policy and START, Presentations at the START Workshop on the Development of Data and Information Systems in SE Asia, Bangkok, Thailand, 27th-31st January 1997.

1996

The Global Climate Observing System, Seminar on the Global Climate Observing System, University of Victoria, Canada. 28th October 1996.

Opening and closing presentations at In Situ Observations for the Global Observing Systems: Development of an integrated strategy and identification of priorities for implementation, 10th-13th September 1996, Geneva, International Conference Center, Switzerland.

1995

Global Data Bases and the Global Observing System, Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting for the IGBP SAC-IV, Beijing, China., October 1995

Panel member National Geodata 1995 Forum, Crystal City Virginia, May 9th. 1995.

1994

Lecture on "Global Information Systems" at a Symposium on International and Australian activities in Global Change, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, 12th December 1994.

Presentation on "Land AVHRR Pathfinder Data Sets" to the NASA Interdisciplinary Working Group Meeting, Baltimore Maryland, October 1994.

Presentation on "From global to local needs" at the UNEP-GRID User's Meeting at the EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, May 1994.

Presentation on "Contribution of IGBP-DIS to the program of IGBP" IGBP National Committees Meeting, Bonn, Germany, March 1994.

1993

Panelist in session on Commercial Earth Observation Opportunities for Global Change: Possible Roles of the Private Sector, at the conference Global Change: A New Direction for Decision Making, 27-28th October 1993, National Press Club, Washington DC

1992

Lecture on "Data Requirements for Global Change" Invited plenary presentation to the International Council of Scientific Union’s CODATA Conference, Beijing, China, October 1992.

Lecture on the "IGBP 1 km Global Product" Invited presentation at the International Geographical Congress at Washington DC, August 1992

Lecture on the "Requirements for Remotely Sensed Data for Global Modelling". Invited presentation at the ISLSCP - Americas Meeting, Colombia, Maryland, June 1992

1991

Lecture on "Synergy and Complementarity of Remotely Sensed Data." Invited presentation at the Spatial Data 2000 meeting; joint conference hosted by the Photogrammetric Society, the Remote Sensing Society, and the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 17th September 1991 at Christ Church, Oxford.

Presentation to the United Kingdom’s Science and Engineering Research Council’s Astronomy and Planetary Science Committee, on "Earth Observation" at Bristol, United Kingdom, 18th. Nov. 1991.

Keynote opening address on "GIS and Remote Sensing for Natural Resources Assessment and Monitoring", at the United Nations/ECA/UNITAR/UNEP-sponsored workshop on Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for African Decision-Makers on 26th August 1991 at the headquarters of the United Nations Environmental Program, Nairobi, Kenya.

Presentations on " Matching Data Requirements to the Characteristics of Future Global data Sets." and "Workshop Summary" at the International Geosphere Biosphere Workshop on Requirements for Global Scale Terrestrial Biospheric Data Sets for IGBP Core Projects, Toulouse France June 17th -19th 1991 .

Lecture on "The Science of Global Change and the Data Sets: Where are they?" on March 27th 1991 at Baltimore, Maryland at the Spring Meeting of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Lecture on "The International Geosphere-Biosphere Program and its Information Needs" to the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee of the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space at the United Nations Building, New York February 19th 1991.

1990

Keynote and opening address on "Global Monitoring" at the 5th Australasian Remote Sensing Conference, Perth, Western Australia, 8th October 1990.

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