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Dr.
Thomas Meyer
Associate Professor
Veni, Vidi, Agrum Mensus Sum
NRME Geomatics Concentration
Link to NRME Cooperative CORS GPS Base Station
Link to ACSM New England Section for regional surveying information |
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Education | Monographs | Peer-Review
Papers | Thesis | Book
Reviews | Other
Papers | Grants | Directorships | Professional
Societies and Memberships |
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| Education |
| Ph.D. |
Forest Science |
Texas A&M University 1998 |
| M.S. |
Computer Science |
University of New Mexico 1986 |
| B.S. |
Mechanical Engineering |
University of Arizona 1981 |
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| Peer-Review
Papers |
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| Rudnicki, M., Meyer, T.H., Lieffers, V.J., Silins, U., Webb, V.A. (accepted) The periodic motion of ledgepole pine trees as affected by collisions with neighbors. To appear in Trees - Structures and Function. |
| Meyer, T. H. (2007) Fast algorithms using minimal data structures for common topological relationships in large, irregularly-spaced topographic data sets. In Computers & Geosciences, vol. 33 no. 3, pp. 325-334. DOI:10.1016/j.cageo.2006.07.002. |
| Rudnicki, Mark and Meyer, Thomas H. (2007) Methods to convert local sampling coordinates into GIS/GPS-compatible coordinate systems. In The Northern Journal of Applied Forestry, vol. 24 no. 3, pp. 233-238. |
| Tranes, M. D., Meyer, T. H. and Massalski, D. (2007) Comparisons o GPS-Derived Orthometric Heights Using Local Geometric Geoid Models. In Journal of Surveying Engineering, vol. 133 no. 1, pp. 6-13. |
Jeffress, Gary and Meyer, Thomas (2006) Two Perspectives on GIS/LIS education in the United States. In Surveying and Land Information Science, vol. 66 no. 2, pp. 123-126. |
| Meyer, T. H., Roman, Daniel, and Zilkoski, David B (2006) What does height really mean? Part III: Height Systems. In Surveying and Land Information Science vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 149-160. |
| Meyer, T. H., Roman, Daniel, and Zilkoski, David B. (2006) What does height really mean? Part IV: GPS Orthometric Heighting. In Surveying and Land Information Science, vol. 66 no. 3, pp. 165-183. |
| Meyer T.H. and Hiscox, A. (2005) Position Errors Caused by GPS Height of Instrument Blunders. In Survey Review vol. 38, no. 298, pp. 262-273. |
| Meyer, T. H., Roman, Daniel, and Zilkoski, David B (2005) What does height really mean? Part I: Introduction. In Surveying and Land Information Science, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 223-234. |
| Meyer, T. H., Roman, Daniel, and Zilkoski, David B (2005) What does height really mean? Part II: Physics and Gravity. In Surveying and Land Information Science vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 5-15. |
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| Thesis |
| Meyer T.H . (1998) A conceptual framework
for digital terrain modeling. Ph.D. thesis, Texas
A&M University. |
| Book
Reviews |
| Meyer, T.H. (2001) A Review of Terrain Analysis:
Principles and Applications . In Ecological Engineering
, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 121-122. |
| Other
Papers |
Meyer, Thomas H. (2004) An Airborne Topographic
Mapping Lidar Simulator: Preliminary Results .
In Proceedings of the ASPRS Annual Conference ,
May 23-28, Denver, CO. |
Meyer, Thomas H. (2003) The Discontinuous Nature
of Kriging Interpolation for Digital Terrain Modeling.
In Proceedings of the ACSM Annual Conference ,
Phoenix, AZ. |
Meyer, Thomas H. (2003) Computing Spherical Voronoi
Diagrams on The Sphere. In Proceedings of the ASPRS
Annual Convention , Anchorage, Alaska, on CDROM. |
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| Grants |
Connecticut Cooperative Highway Research Program. Improving
Surveying Accuracy and Efficiency in Connecticut: An Accuracy Assessment
of GEOID03. $78K, 2006-2008 (with Baron & Massalski DOT, Fish DEP)
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Connecticut Cooperative Highway Research Program. Creating
useful data products from Connecticut's LIDAR dataset, $50K, 2007-2008
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McIntire-Stennis project, M823: Assessing deciduous forest
structure in Connecticut using imagery and LIDAR, Rudnicki, Meyer and
Civco, 2007-2008.
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McIntire-Stennis: A High-Resolution, Spatially
Explicit Model of Small-Footprint Full-waveform
LIDAR Returns . Sept, 2002 – Aug, 2004. $42,000
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The Connecticut Institute
of Water Resources: A Characterization of the Discontinuous
Nature of Kriging Digital Terrain Models . March
1, 2001 to February 28, 2002.
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| Office of Sponsored Programs
Fall 1998 Equipment Competition Award: Javad Survey-Quality
TRK GPS System, $28,559. |
| Directorships |
| President of the New England
Section of the American Congress for Surveying
and Mapping |
| On the board of directors for Geographic and Land Information Science (GLIS) |
| Professional
Societies and Memberships |
| American Congress for Surveying and Mapping. |
| America Society for
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
| Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers |
| Gamma Sigma Delta Agricultural
Honor Society |
| National Atomic Museum
Foundation (Charter Member) |
| The Honor Society of
Phi Kappa Phi |
| Served for one year on
the library committee of the Non-profit International
Consortium for Eiffel (NICE). |
| Xi Sigma Pi Forestry
Honor Society |
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