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Dr.
Daniel L. Civco | Professor,
Director of CLEAR |
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Education | Experience | Recent
Honors and Awards | Selected
Current or Recent Grants | Selected
Publications | Other |
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| Education |
| B.S., 1974 |
University of Connecticut Storrs,
CT |
Natural Resource Conservation |
| M.S., 1976 |
University of Connecticut Storrs, CT |
CT Landscape Planning |
| Ph.D., 1987 |
University of Connecticut Storrs, CT |
Remote Sensing |
| Experience |
| 2004- |
University of Connecticut Storrs,
CT |
Professor |
| 1996-2004 |
University of Connecticut Storrs, CT |
Associate Professor |
| 1992-1996 |
University of Connecticut Storrs, CT |
Assistant Professor |
| 1976-1992 |
University of Connecticut Storrs, CT |
Research Associate |
| Recent
Honors and Awards |
| 2007 |
ESRI Best Practices in Science Modeling Challenge (with J. Parent and S. Angel) (1st place) |
| 2004 |
University of Connecticut Teaching Fellow |
2003 |
Elected Fellow, American Society
for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) |
| 2003 |
ASPRS ESRI Award (1st Place) for Best Scientific
Paper in GIS 2003 |
| 2003 |
North American Colleges of Teachers of Agriculture
Teaching Award of Merit |
| 2001 |
University of Connecticut Chancellor's Information
Technology Award |
| 2001 |
ASPRS ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in
GIS (1st place) |
| 1999 |
ASPRS ERDAS Award for Best Scientific Paper in
Remote Sensing (2nd place) |
| 1999 |
UCANRAA Excellence in Teaching Award |
| 1997 |
ASPRS ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in
GIS (1st place) |
| 1992 |
American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote
Sensing Merit Award |
| 1992 |
Kinsman Award for Excellence in Teaching for Junior
Faculty |
| Selected
Current or Recent Grants |
| Coupling of Spatially-distributed Non-point Source Pollution, Urban Growth, and Forest Fragmentation Models. Principal Investigator. Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station. October 1, 2006 to September 30, 2008. $104,737. |
| Development of a Digital Geospatial Database to Support the Connecticut Water Allocation Policy Planning Model. Co-Principal Investigator. Connecticut Institute of Water Resources. March 1, 2006 to February 28, 2008. $50,362. |
| Incorporating NASA’s Applied Sciences Data
and Technologies into Local Government Decision
Support in the National Application areas of Coastal
Management, Water Management, Ecologic Forecasting
and Invasive Species. PrincipalInvestigator. National
Aeronautics and Space Administration. January 1,
2005 – April 14, 2008. $2,612,797 |
| Causes and Consequences of Urban Expansion. National
Science Foundation. Co-Investigator (Stephen Sheppard,
Williams College, Principal Investigator). July
1, 2004-June 30, 2007. $111,422. |
| Application of Remote Sensing Technologies for
the Delineation and Assessment of Coastal Marshes
and their Constituent Species. Co-Principal Investigator.
US EPA Long Island Sound Study Research Fund. April
1, 2004 – March 31, 2006. $179,159. |
| Mapping and Monitoring
Changes in Impervious Surfaces in the Long Island
Sound Watershed. Principal Investigator. US EPA
Long Island Sound Study. July 1, 2003 – June
30, 2004. $102,884. |
| Remote sensing and GIS analysis of
landscape parcelization and forest fragmentation
. Principal Investigator. Storrs Agricultural Experiment
Station. October 1, 2002 - September 30, 2005. $127,794. |
| Preliminary study to link increasing
impervious surfaces with decreasing water quality
in Connecticut . NOAA Coastal Services Center. Principal
Investigator. September 1, 2002 – December
31, 2003. $29,669. |
| Earth Grant Geospatial Technology
Extension Program. NASA Space Grant, NASA Applications,
and NOAA Sea Grant. Co-Principal Investigator. September
1, 2001 – August 31, 2004. $330,000. |
| Connecticut Space Grant College Consortium:
UConn Campus Director Subcontract. Principal Investigator.March
1, 2000 – February 28, 2005. $12,400. |
| Green Valley Institute. A Cooperative
Agreement with the Quinebaug-Shetucket Heritage
Corridor, Inc. Co-Investigator (Steve Broderick,
UConn CES, Principal Investigator). February 1,
2001-December 31, 2003. $ 51,475. |
| Extraction of Land Cover Information
at the Landsat TM Subpixel Level: A Systematic Evaluation.
Principal Investigator. Storrs Agricultural Experiment
Station. October 1, 2000 - September 30, 2002. $
62,747. |
| NASA EPSCoR Preparation Grant Proposal
to Stimulate Competitive Aerospace Research in Connecticut
(Year 2). Research Director at The University of
Connecticut. (Sallie (Lee) S. Townsend, Connecticut
Space Grant College Consortium, University of Hartford,
Principal Investigator). June 1, 2000 - December
31, 2001. UConn Share: $84,400. ($225,000 Total
Award). |
| Better Land Use Planning for the Urbanizing
Northeast: Creating a Network of Value-Added Geospatial
Information, Tools, and Education for Land Use Decision
Makers. Co-Principal Investigator. NASA Regional
Earth Science Applications Center (RESAC), NRA-98-OES-08.
January 1, 1999 – December 31, 2001. $1,100,000.
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| Impervious Surface Mapping for Improved
Landuse Planning for the Urbanizing Northeast, Principal
Investigator.Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station,
October 1, 1998 - September 30, 2000. $59,148. |
| Selected
Publications |
| Journal |
| Civco, D.L., R.W. Kiefer, and A. Maclean.
1992. Perspectives on earth resources mapping education
in the United States. Photogrammetric Engineering
and Remote Sensing 63(8)1087-1092. |
| Civco, D.L. 1993. Artificial neural
networks for land cover classification and mapping.
International Journal of Geographic Information
Systems 7(2):173-186. |
| Zhou, J. and D.L. Civco. 1996. Using genetic learning
neural networks for spatial decision-making in GIS.
Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 62(11):1287-1295. |
| Wang, Y. and D.L. Civco. 1996. Three artificial
neural network paradigms in high dimensional multisource
spatial data classification. The Association of
Chinese Professionals in GIS Geographic Information
Science 1(2):73-87. |
| Zhou, J. and D.L. Civco. 1998. A wavelet transform
method to merge Landsat TM and SPOT Panchromatic
Data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 19(4):743-757. |
| Mickelson, J.G., D.L. Civco, and J.A. Silander,
Jr. 1998. Delineating forest canopy species in the
Northeastern United States using multi-temporal
TM imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote
Sensing 64(9):891-904. |
| Bonneau, L.R., K. Shields, and D.L. Civco. 1999.
Using satellite images to classify and analyze the
health of hemlock forests infested by the Hemlock
Woolly Adeligid. Biological Invasions 1:255-267. |
| Bonneau, L.R. K. Shields, and D. L. Civco. 1999.
A technique to identify changes in hemlock forest
health over space and time using satellite image
data. Biological Invasions 1:269-279. |
| Arnold, C.A., Jr., D.L. Civco, and S. Prisloe.
2000. Remote sensing-enhanced outreach education
as a decision support system for local land use
officials. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote
Sensing 66(10):1251-1260. |
| Civco, D.L., J.D. Hurd, E.H. Wilson, C.L.
Arnold, and S. Prisloe 2002. Quantifying
and Describing Urbanizing Landscapes in the Northeast
United States. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote
Sensing 68(10): 1083-1090. |
| Merwin, D.A., R.G. Cromley and D.L. Civco. 2002.
Artificial Neural Networks as a Method of Spatial
Interpolation for Digital Elevation Models. Cartography
and Geographic Information Science 29(2). |
| Wilson, E.H., J. D. Hurd, D.L. Civco, S.
Prisloe, and C. Arnold . 2003. Development of a
Geospatial Model to Quantify, Describe and Map Urban
Growth. Special Issue on Remote Sensing to Urban
Planning and Urban Ecology. Remote Sensing of Environment
. 86(3):275-285. |
| Song, M. and D.L. Civco. 2004. Road Extraction
Using SVM and Image Segmentation. Photogrammetric
Engineering and Remote Sensing. 70(11):1365-1372. |
| Song, M., D.L. Civco, and J.D. Hurd. 2005. A Competitive Pixel-object Approach for Land Cover Classification. International Journal of Remote Sensing 26(22):4981–4997. |
| Conference
(Recent) |
| Civco, D.L. and J.D. Hurd. 1999. A hierarchical
approach to land use and land cover mapping using
multiple image types. Proc. 1999 ASPRS Annual Convention,
Portland, OR. pp. 687-698. |
| Pyle, C., G. E. Heilman, Jr., and D. L. Civco.
1999. Modifications of a Natural Resources Conservation
Service Digital Soils Data Set for Application to
Conservation Planning in Mansfield, CT. Proc. 1999
ASPRS Annual Convention, Portland, OR. pp. 137-148. |
| Joel W. Stocker, J.W., C. A. Arnold, S. Prisloe,
and D. L. Civco. 1999. Putting Geospatial Information
into the Hands of the "Real" Natural Resource
Managers: Lessons from the NEMO Project in Educating
Local Land Use Decision Makers. Proc. 1999 ASPRS
Annual Convention, Portland, OR. pp. 1070-1076. |
| Civco, D.L., J.D. Hurd, C.L. Arnold, and S, Prisloe.
2000. Characterization of Suburban Sprawl and Forest
Fragmentation Through Remote Sensing Applications.
Proc. 2000 ASPRS Annual Convention, Washington,
D.C. 13 p. |
| Sleavin, W., S. Prisloe, L. Giannotti, J. Stocker,
D.L. Civco. 2000. Measuring Impervious Surfaces
for Non-point Source Pollution Modeling. Proc. 2000
ASPRS Annual Convention, Washington, D.C. 11 p. |
| Hurd, J.D., E.H. Wilson, S. Lammey and D.L. Civco.
2001. Characterization of Forest Fragmentation and
Urban Sprawl using Time Sequential Landsat Imagery.
Proc. 2001 ASPRS Annual Convention, St. Louis, MO.
13 p. |
| Flanagan, M. and D.L. Civco. 2001. Subpixel Impervious
Surface Mapping. Proc. 2001 ASPRS Annual Convention,
St. Louis, MO. 13 p. |
| Civco, D.L., J.D. Hurd, E.H. Wilson, M. Song,
and Z. Zhang. 2002. A comparison of land use and
land cover change detection methods. Proc. 2002
ASPRS Annual Convention, Washington, D.C. 12 p. |
| Hurd, J.D., E.H. Wilson, and D.L. Civco. 2002.
Development of a forest fragmentation index to quantify
the rate of forest change. Proc. 2002 ASPRS Annual
Convention, Washington, D.C. 10 p. |
| Wilson, E.H., J.D. Hurd, and D.L. Civco. 2002.
Development of a model to quantify and map urban
growth. Proc. 2002 ASPRS Annual Convention, Washington,
D.C. 11 p. |
| Song, M. and D.L. Civco. 2002. A knowledge-based
approach for reducing cloud and shadow. Proc. 2002
ASPRS Annual Convention, Washington, D.C. 7 p. |
| Ruiz, J., M. C. Fandino, T. H. Meyer, D.L. Civco,
and I. M. Ortega. 2002. Long term dry tropical forest
succession assessed through remote sensing in Providencia
Island, Colombia. Proc. Of the X Symposium of Latin
American Specialists in Remote Sensing and GIS (SELPER),
Cochabamba, Bolivia, Novermber 10-15. |
| Hurd, J.D., D.L. Civco, E.H. Wilson, S.Prisloe,
and C. Arnold. 2003. Temporal characterization of
Connecticut’s Landscape: Methods, results,
and applications. Proc. 2003 ASPRS Annual Convention,
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| Chabaeva, A., D.L. Civco, and S, Prisloe. 2004.
Development of a population density and land use
based regression model to calculate the amount of
imperviousness. Proc. 2004 ASPRS Annual Convention,
Denver, CO. 9 p. |
| Hurd, J.D. and D.L. Civco. 2004. Temporal characterization
of impervious surfaces for the state of Connecticut.
Proc. 2004 ASPRS Annual Convention, Denver, CO.
12 p. |
| Civco, D.L., A. Chabaeva, S. Angel, S. Sheppard. 2005. The Urban Growth Management Initiative - Confronting the Expected Doubling of the Size in the Developing Countries in the Next Thirty Years - Methods and preliminary results. Proc. 2005 ASPRS Annual Convention, Baltimore, MD. 12 p. |
| Hurd, J.D., D.L. Civco, M.S. Gilmore, S. Prisloe, and E.H. Wilson. 2005. Coastal marsh characterization using satellite remote sensing and in situ radiometry data. Proc. 2005 ASPRS Annual Convention, Baltimore, MD. 12 p. |
| Prisloe, S., W. Wilson, D.L. Civco, J.D. Hurd, and M. Gilmore. 2006. Use of LIDAR data to aid in discriminating and mapping plant communities of the lower Connecticut River: preliminary results. Proc. 2006 ASPRS Annual Convention, Reno, NV. 8 p |
| Hurd, J.D., D.L. Civco, M. Gilmore, S. Prisloe, and E. Wilson. 2006. Tidal wetland classification from Landsat imagery using an integrated pixel-based and object-based classification approach. Proc. 2006 ASPRS Annual Convention, Reno, NV. 11 p. |
| Civco, D.L., J.D. Hurd, S. Prisloe, E. Wilson, and M. Gilmore. 2006. Characterization of coastal wetland systems using multiple remote sensing data types and analytical techniques. Proc. IGARSS 2006, Denver, CO. 4 p. |
| Civco, D.L., A. Chabaeva, and J. Parent. 2006. A comparison of approaches to impervious surface characterization. Proc. IGARSS 2006, Denver, CO. 4 p. |
| Parent, J., D.L. Civco, and J.D. Hurd. 2007. Simulating future forest fragmentation in a Connecticut region undergoing suburbanization. Proc. 2007 ASPRS Annual Convention, Tampa, FL. 12 p. |
| Angel, S., J.P. Parent, and D.L. Civco 2007. Urban sprawl metrics: an analysis of global urban expansion using GIS. Proc. 2007 ASPRS Annual Convention, Tampa, FL. 12 p |
| Chabaeva, A., J.D. Hurd. and D.L. Civco. 2007. Quantitative assessment of the accuracy of spatial estimation of impervious cover. Proc. 2007 ASPRS Annual Convention, Tampa, FL. 11 p. |
| Parent, J., J.D. Hurd, and D.L. Civco. 2007. Simulating Future Forest Fragmentation in Northeastern United States. Proc. 2007 ESRI User Group Conference, San Diego, CA. |
| Parent, J., D.L. Civco, and S. Angel. An Analysis of Global Urban Sprawl. Proc. 2007 ESRI User Group Conference, San Diego, CA. |
| Gilmore, M., D.L. Civco, J.D. Hurd, E. Wilson, S.Prisloe, C. Chadwick, and N. Barrett. 2007.Object-oriented classification and mapping of salt marsh vegetation using in situ radiometry and multi-seasonal, high resolution satellite remote sensing data. Proceedings MultiTemp 2007, The Fourth International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Images, Leuven, Belgium, 7 p. |
| Book
Chapters |
| Civco, D.L. and R.W. Kiefer. 1997. Photointerpretation
Education and Training in North America. Appendix
in Manual of Photointerpretation, W. Philipson (ed.),
American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,
Bethesda, MD. pp. 643-651. |
| Warner, G.S., A.R Garcia-Martino, F.N. Scatena,
and D.L. Civco. 2001. Watershed Charcaterization
by GIS for Low Flow Prediction. Chapter 9 in GIS
for Water Resources and Watershed Management. J.G.
Lyon (ed.), Ann Arbor Press, Chelsea, MI. pp. 101-107. |
| Other
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| Campus Director, Connecticut Space Grant College
Consortium |
| Director, Center for Land use Education And Research |
| National Advisor, ASPRS Remote Sensing Model
Curriculum, University of Mississippi Center for
GeoSpatial Workforce Development |
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Dr. Daniel L.
Civco
Professor, Director of CLEAR
Center
for Land use Education And Research
Department
of Natural Resources Management and Engineering
The University of Connecticut
U-4087, 1376 Storrs Road
Storrs, CT 06269-4087
Tel: (860) 486-0148
Fax: (860) 486-5408
Email:daniel.civco@uconn.edu
Web:
clear.uconn.edu |
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