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Researchers
– Number of staff in October 2006: 26
– Number of staff in May 2015: 64
Facility space
– Square Feet in October 2006: 7,377
– Square Feet in May 2015: 17,527
Annual revenue growth rate of approximately 9%.
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Robert Shuchman and Nikola Subotic
Institute Co-Directors
Greg Leonard
Business and Operations Director
Sensor/Signal Processing Technologies Lab
Joe Burns
Environmental Science Lab
Colin Brooks
Lisa Phillips
Office Manager/FSO
Dawn Isakson
Tim Pattenaude
Michelle Wienert
Professional Hourlies
Terry Lewis (CO)
Research Staff
Don Atwood
William Buller
Ben Hart
John Kelly
Helen Kourous
Joel LeBlanc
Matthew Masarik
Chris Roussi
Mark Stuff
Brian Thelen
John Valenzuela
Lin van Nieuwstadt
Adam Webb
Brian White
Brian Wilson
Professional Hourlies
Gary Fahnenstiel (MI)
Ed Josberger (WA)
Eric Kasischke (MD)
Lou Lambert (MI)
Zachary Laubach (MI)
David Millie (FL)
Charles Olson (MI)
David Schwab (MI)
Robert Winokur (DC)
Research Staff
David Banach
Michael Battaglia
Mike Billmire
Laura Bourgeau-Chavez
David Dean
Rick Dobson
Sarah Endres
Arthur Endsley
Nancy French
Amanda Grimm
Liza Jenkins
Jessica McCarty
Mary Ellen Miller
John Payne (AK)
Reid Sawtell
Mike Sayers
Glenn Sullivan
Michelle Wienert
Student Interns
Ethan Ader
John Bennet
Karl Bosse
Maria Chavez
Molly Logue
Tom Malinaric
Kim Mobley
Amy Nesky
Helene Rivard
Elizabeth Schold
Nor Serocki
Kaitlyn Smith
Blaine Stormer
Matthew Whitley
Ismael Xique
June 2015
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16 MTRI summer interns, 4 are current or graduated Michigan Tech students
Ethan Ader : Studying for a B.S. in Environmental
Science - Earth Science at Tulane University.
John Bennett : Received a B.S. in Applied Ecology and
Environment Sciences & Wildlife Ecology and
Management from Michigan Technological University .
Karl Bosse: Studying for a M.S. in Natural Resources and Environment: Environmental Informatics and received a B.S. in Statistics & Sociology, both at the
University of Michigan.
Maria Chavez: Studying for a B.A. in Art and Design at the University of Michigan.
John (Jack) Kelly : Studying for a Ph.D. in Applied
Mathematics at the University of Michigan, B.S. in
Mathematics from Michigan Technological University .
Molly Logue : Studying for a M.S. in Mathematics and the
University of Wisconsin, Received a B.S. in Honors
Mathematics from the University of Michigan.
Thomas Malinaric Received a B.S. in Biology; Minor in
Mathematics at Texas A&M.
Kimberly Mobley : Completing a M.S. in Environmental
Science, and received a B.S. in General Studies, both at the University of Michigan.
Amy Nesky : Studying for a Ph.D. in Applied and
Interdisciplinary Mathematics at the University of
Michigan. Received a B.S. in Mathematics from
Boston College.
Helene Rivard : Received a M.S. in Biostatistics and
Public Health at UCLA. Received a B.S. in
Mathematics and Sociology from Aquinas College.
Elizabeth Schold : Received a B.A.S. in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University.
Eleanor Serocki : Received a B.S. in Applied
Ecology and Environmental Science from Michigan
Technological University .
Kaitlyn Smith : Received a B.S. in Wildlife and
Fisheries Management from Texas Tech University.
Blaine Stormer : Received a B.S. in Wildlife Ecology and Management from Michigan Technological
University .
Matthew Whitley : Received a B.A. in Geography from Middlebury College.
Ismael Xique : Received a M.S. in Applied and
Interdisciplinary Mathematics from the University of
Michigan, and a B.A. in Mathematics and
Economics from Bowdoin College.
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Federal
─ US Navy (ONR)
─ US Department of
Transportation
─ Great Lakes Observing
System (GLOS)
─ National Institutes of Health
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US EPA
─ NASA
─ DARPA
─ US Air Force
─ US Army
─ Bureau of Land
Management (BLM)
─ NOAA
─ US Geological Survey
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US Army Corps of
Engineers
─ US Fish & Wildlife Service
─ US Forest Service
─ National Science
Foundation) NSF
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State
Michigan Department of
Transportation (MDOT)
Michigan Department of
Environmental Quality
(MDEQ)
Universities
McMaster University
Carnegie Institution of
Washington
Bowdoin College
Ohio State University
Mississippi State University
South Dakota State
University
University of Michigan
University of Alaska –
Fairbanks
Georgia Institute of
Technology
Western Michigan
University
University of Toledo
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Industry and Non-
Government Organizations
Akela, Inc.
General Dynamics (GD)
LimnoTech, Inc.
National Institute of Aerospace
Center for Automotive Research (CAR)
University of Michigan Transportation
Research Institute (UMTRI)
AmericaView Consortium
Integrity Applications Incorporated (IAI)
Matrix
Leidos, Inc.
Toyota Motor Engineering and
Manufacturing North America
International Cryosphere Climate Initiative
Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna
Enbridge, Inc.
Great Lakes Protection Fund
Ducks Unlimited
Great Lakes Fishery Commission
Center for the Advancement of Science in
Space (CASIS)
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Continue sponsor diversification
─ Captured more automotive programs
─ Expanded Arctic measurement and exploration programs
─ Increase State and commercial transportation
─ Increased U.S. Navy activities
Continue to capture higher level DoD security programs
─ Additional US Government sponsors
Next generation instrumentation
─ Purchased automotive radar to support growing transportation work
─ Developed and built field deployable radiometers
Increase MTRI skill set
─ Hired computer scientist to support environmental programs
─ Hired senior microwave scientist on overhead funds
─ Capture program, then hire as needed; always looking for best and brightest
Added new measurement platforms
─ Dedicated water research vessel “Husky Traveler”
─ UAV (helicopter)/hex-copter/photo-copter
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Transition “Research Findings” to commercial products (i.e., transportation algorithms)
Continue intellectual property push: “Patent Exploitation” will be the theme
The MTRI matrix has fostered the capture and management of larger programs, and will in the future
Goals for a politically uncertain Federal Government in 2015/2016:
– Continue non-Government sponsor diversification
– Create entrepreneurial thinking staff
– Capture higher DoD and intelligence security programs
– Continue to develop next generation instrumentation … FLIR, distributed RADAR, passive imaging, hyperspectral, and water sensors
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MTRI
Contacts
Campus
Contact
MTU Dept. Sponsor Program
Commercialization of 3DOBS, MOREV
Tool, and URCAS
Discipline
• Transportation
Planning
• Remote Sensing
Brooks Baker ATDC
BridgeGuard licensing
Remarks
URCAS commercialization pursued with
Woolpert; 3DOBS with
BridgeGuard/ Talon
Awaiting follow on
RFP
Modeling of Great
Lakes Carbon
Eurasian
Watermilfoil
Spread in Lake
Superior
• Remote Sensing
• Biology
Shuchman
Sayers
Sawtell
• Remote Sensing
• Modeling
• Hydrodynamics
• Biology
Brooks
Grimm
Mapping Harmful
Algal Blooms
Legacy Mining
• Remote Sensing
• Biology
Shuchman
Sayers
Sawtell
• Remote Sensing
Geology
Chemistry and
Biology
Shuchman
Brooks
Larval Fish
Entrainment
• Biology
Brooks
Grimm
Fahnenstiel BioSci
Huckins
Marcarelli
Meadows
BioSci
GLRC
Fahnenstiel BioSci
Kerfoot
Green
N. Auer
BioSci
Chemistry
BioSci
NASA
GLRI
NOAA/EPA
USACE
PI Huckins
Fieldwork, Mapping
Products
Funding hiatus
Senes-Arcadis/
Consumers Energy
Field work April –
Sept. 2015; $90k add’l funding 9

Program
Aerosol Variability from Land Change and Anthropogenic
Emissions
Discipline
• Environmental
Science
• Remote Sensing
Central Texas Soil
Moisture
Geotechnical Asset
Management
• Environmental
Science
• Remote Sensing
• Transportation
• Environmental
Science
• Remote Sensing
Bridge Inspection
Software Tool
• Transportation
3-DOBS
Great Lakes
Cladophora
Mapping
• Transportation
• Environmental
Science
• Remote Sensing
MTRI Contacts
Campus
Contact
MTU Dept. Sponsor
McCarty
French
Brooks
Bourgeau-
Chavez
Brooks
Brooks
Sawtell
Brooks
Dobson
Brooks
Shuchman
Grimm
Wu CEE
Watkins CEE
Oommen
Lautala
Stan Vitton
CEE
Ahlborn CEE
Ahlborn CEE
M. Auer CEE
EPA
Remarks
In proposal stage
NOAA SARP
Two years 2013-
2015
USDOT/RITA Project 2013-2015
MDOT
Grew out of USDOT funding
MDOT
Formerly
NASA, EPA-
GLRI
Part of the MDOT
NDE Bridge
Decision Project
Nuisance algae early warning system funding being pursued
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Program
Prestressed
Concrete
Inspection
Discipline
• Transportation
• Civil Engineering
• Signal Processing
Burns
Bridge Scour
• Transportation
Brooks
Sawtell
Improving Spatial
Observability of
Dynamic Traffic
Systems
• Transportation
SERDP SEED
Proposal
Brooks
• Remote Sensing
• Contaminant
Monitoring
Wilson
Post-fire Erosion
• Hydrology
• Engineering
• Remote Sensing
• Computer
Science
Miller
MTRI
Contacts
Campus
Contact
MTU Dept. Sponsor
Human-Computer
Interactions &
Usability
• Human-Machine
Interface
Buller
Ahlborn
Swartz
Kuilin
Zhang
Caneba
Pastel
Pastel
CEE
CEE
CEE
Chemical
Eng.
SERDP
Computer
Science
Computer
Science
USDOT/
AKELA
USDOT/RITA
NSF
Remarks
Proposal submitted
Proposal selected for funding, June 2015
Proposal (not funded yet)
Served as a citizen scientist for app development course students worked on app to record and store burn severity field data
Served as a Citizen scientist consultant for Michigan Tech interdisciplinary course
CS4760, HU4628 &
CS5760 11

Program
Submerged Aquatic
Vegetation
Discipline
• Biology Modeling
• Remote Sensing
MTRI
Contacts
Brooks
Shuchman
Grimm
Campus
Contact
Auer
MTU Dept. Sponsor
ECE
EPA
NASA
Advanced Signal
Processing and
Detection Algorithms for Handheld Explosive
Hazard Detection
Forward Looking GPR for Buried Object
Detection
• Signal Processing
• Electromagnetics
Burns
• Signal Processing
• Electromagnetics
Burns
Webb
Advanced Signal
Processing and
Detection Algorithms for Handheld Explosive
Hazard Detection
• Signal Processing
• Electromagnetics
Burns
Havens
Havens
Havens
ECE
ECE
ECE
US Army
US Army
US Army
UAV Transportation
Applications
• Transportation
Brooks
Havens
Ahlborn
Oommen
ECE
CEE
GMES
MDOT
Remarks
Exploring additional funding sources
Project runs through Oct
2015
Project runs through Oct
2015
Seeking follow-on funding from MDOT
Multi-Domain
Intelligence
• Data fusion and data simulation
Subotic
Burns
Wilson
Roggemann
Demars
ECE AFRL
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Program
Assessing Vulnerability of Boreal Peatlands to
Wildfire
Discipline MTRI Contacts
Campus
Contact
• Remote Sensing
• Ecology
• Carbon cycle
Bourgeau-Chavez
Jenkins
French
Chimner
MTU Dept. Sponsor
Forestry NASA
Remarks
Program ran through
August 2014
Tropical Peatland
• Carbon cycle
• Ecology
• Remote Sensing
Bourgeau-Chavez
Endres
Chimner
Lilieskov
Forestry USAID Chimner lead
Boreal Peatlands II
• Carbon cycle
• Wildfire
• Ecology
• Remote Sensing
Bourgeau-Chavez
Miller
French
Kane Forestry NASA
Falkowski lead of original program, worked with E.Kane on new ABoVE proposal
Post Fire Erosion
Great Lakes Buoys
Rip Current Detection
• Forestry
• Hydrology
Miller
Billmire
• Physical and
Biological
Measurements of the Great
Lakes
Shuchman
Brooks
Endsley
• Physical
Oceanography
• Remote Sensing
Shuchman
Brooks
Wagenbrenner Forestry
Meadows
Kerfoot
Green
Meadows
NASA
GLRC
BioSci
Chemistry
GLOS
GLRC
Proposal submitted
Program runs through 2015
MDEQ-Matt
Warner
Fieldwork and modeling 13

Program
Dangerous Current
Hazard Messaging
Straits of Mackinaw Oil
Spill Response System
SERDP Underwater UXO proposal
Discipline
MTRI
Contacts
Campus
Contact
MTU
Dept.
Sponsor
• Environmental Science
• Remote Sensing
Shuchman
Grimm
Brooks
• Buoys
• Modeling
• GIS
• Remote Sensing
Shuchman
Brooks
Meadows GLRC
Meadows GLRC
MDEQ-Matt
Warner
Enbridge
• Remote Sensing
Brooks
Dobson
Meadows
Havens
GLRC
ECE
US Army
SERDP
Remarks
Use Rip Current project to improve education, signage, beach policies
Talked with program manager 4/15, new effort planned
A Science & Technology
Center (STC) for
Sustainable Ecosystems in Ice-bound Coastal
Environments (SEICE).”
• Environmental Science Atwood
Automated COST Carbon
Systems for STEM
Education
Remote Sensing of
Volcanogenic
Environments
• Carbon Cycle
• Technology/
Instrumentation
• STEM Education
• Remote Sensing
• Volcanology
• Data Fusion/Data
Visualization
McCarty
Hart
McCarty
Billmire
Meadows GLRC
Deering
Kane
NSF
GMES
Forestry
NSF/Sloan
Foundation
Deering
Mariotto
GMES
Forestry
NASA
Proposal submitted
Proposal development, submission fall 2015
Proposal submitted
February 2015
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Program
Serving on PhD
Committee
Discipline
MTRI
Contacts
Campus
Contact
MTU Dept. Sponsor
• Remote Sensing
• Climate Change
• Atmospheric Science
• Fire
McCarty Wu GMES EPA STARS
Remarks
McCarty serving on
Pei Hou’s PhD committee per invite from Prof. Wu
HyspIRI coral reef & volcano research
• Environmental
Science
McCarty
Deering
Mariotto
GMES
Forestry
NASA Proposal submitted
SFRES Faculty Search
Committee
• Remote Sensing
• Forestry
French Maclean SFRES N/A
Search is completed as of 1 April 2014
Torch Lake Historical
GIS
• Restoration
Data Mining for
Geospatial Applications
Class
• Big Data
Infrared Technology,
Sensors, and
Applications Class
• Remote Sensing
Brooks MacLennan
McCarty
Billmire
Levin
Olson Levin
Social
Sciences
SOT
SOT
MDEQ
Work completed
3/2015
McCarty is now SOT adjunct
Taught for first time
January-March 2014
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Program Discipline
MTRI
Contacts
Campus
Contact
MTU Dept. Sponsor
Advanced Driver
Assistance Systems
Simulation (ADAS-SIM)
• Human-Machine
Interface
• Vehicle Safety
Systems
Buller Ye Sun ME-EM
NHTSA
USDOT
Remarks
Pre-proposal activity
GIS Technology
Fundamentals class
• GIS
Brooks
McCarty
Levin
Frendewey
SOT
Offered for 4 th time
Fall 2014.
J.McCarty taking over in 2015
Human-computer interactions and UAVs
• Human-computer interfaces
McCarty Levin SOT NGA
New proposal submitted Jan. 2015
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Landscapes
─ Post-fire erosion
─ Great Lakes coastal wetlands
─ Tropical peatland mapping
─ Modeling LCLUC change & fire activity
─ Gulf of Maine wetlands mapping with
L-band SAR
Websites, Apps, and Data Portals
─ Soil moisture mobile app
─ Twitter data mining for public health in B.C.
─ Google Earth Engine
─ GLOPGD
─ Great Lakes water products
─ NSSI
─ MichiganView
Water
─ Fish Habitat
─ Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)
─ Carbon
─ Freshwater Lakes Productivity
─ CPA-A Algorithm
─ Oil Spill Response
─ Dangerous nearshore currents
─ Eurasian watermilfoil mapping
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Post-fire erosion
─ MTRI’s team utilized their NASA BAER database ( http://geodjango.mtri.org/geowepp/ ) to support post-fire remediation on four wild fires in California last fall (French, Silverado,
King and Happy Camp) and for two fuels projects (Mokelumne, CA and Flagstaff, AZ).
─ NASA BAER program won an award for best presentation at the 36th International
Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment. a) b)
Predicted first-year post-fire hillslope erosion a) for the
King fire and b) expected reduction in erosion due to proposed mulching treatments. 19

Great Lakes – Coastal Wetlands
First ever comprehensive binational Map of Great Lakes coastal wetland type and
LULC. Map is based on fusion of 520
PALSAR scenes and 159 Landsat-5 scenes. Top map shows the complete regional map and bottom map shows an inset of the St. Clair River Delta. Overall accuracy 94%.
The maps are used for coastal wetland assessment and management by agencies at the local, tribal, state and federal levels.
Data are available for viewing and download ( http://geodjango.mtri.org/coastal-wetlands/ )
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Tropical Peatland Mapping
MTRI is working with Michigan Tech scientists Chimner and Lilleskov to develop mapping methods to detect and monitor tropical peat swamps (bottom
Peru unsupervised classification map) and alpine peatland types(right). The extent and location of peatlands (fens and bogs) in the world are largely unmapped. Peatlands represent large reservoirs of carbon and are important for
REDD+ carbon counting. The preliminary map is currently being field checked in the Andes of Peru.
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M o d e l i n g l a n d c o v e r / l a n d u s e c h a n g e a n d f i r e a c t i v i t y
Spring Fires Strongly Associated
2002
1. Crop production activity
2. Social marginalization
With
2009
1. Crop production activity
Summer Fires Strongly Associated
2002
With
2009
1. Crop production 1. Crop production activity
2. Social marginalization activity
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Mapping cryptic wetlands with PALSAR
L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
─ MTRI has developed a technique to map wetlands under forest canopies with
SAR. This method was applied to the 4 major watershed basins in Maine and cover a portion of New Brunswick:
Androscoggin, Penobscot, Kennebec, and St Johns watersheds.
Improving land cover maps with hybrid
EO-SAR remote sensing
─ The map of forested wetlands developed with SAR was then combined with more traditionally-mapped land cover (Landsat-based) to create an improved land cover map for the 4-basin region.
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Seasonal drought forecasting in Texas
─ Working with Dave Watkins, MTRI is demonstrating how high-resolution SAR
& optical products can help with drought monitoring & prediction in central Texas for the Lower Colorado River Authority
─ 2014 field work helped calibrate SAR soil moisture change results
─ Remote sensing results help calibrate
Dave Watkins’ VIC20 drought model
Study sites at the Mason Mountain Wildlife Area
Soil moisture data logger installation in central Texas
Principal Component Analysis of RADARSAT-2 imagery for the Mason Mountain Wildlife Management area
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Soil moisture App
(Enhanced Field Data collection for IRI, extension agents, development economists, etc.)
─ Photographs GPS marked
─ Record qualitative levels of productivity failure or success
(follows USDA protocol)
─ Record levels of soil moisture and type
MRTI iOS App
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Twitter Data Mining for Assessing
Public Health Targets in British
Columbia
The full python code (for download) and installation: https://bitbucket.org/billmirem/bccdc-twitter-mining
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Google Earth Engine
─ MTRI joined the Google Earth Engine Research Consortium last year. This provides MTRI with beta-access and allow us to test our data and algorithms on the Google Earth Engine system.
GLOPGD
─ MTRI is updating the online Great Lakes Optical Properties Geospatial Database (GLOPGD) to share water quality and optical field measurements ( http://glopgd.org
).
Great Lakes Water Products
─ Harmful Algal Bloom mapping posted to www.mtrihabsmapping.org
and Great
Lakes remote sensing products to http://www.greatlakesremotesensing.org/ on a weekly basis in 2014 & 2015. Data also shared through the GLOS Data Portal at http://data.glos.us/portal/
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North Slope Science Initiative (NSSI)
─ MTRI has continued to host & maintain the NSSI web page, support multiagency workshops, improve data catalogs & project tracking, share longterm monitoring summaries, and other help advance intergovernmental efforts to support research, inventory & monitoring needs of Alaska’s North
Slope.
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MichiganView
─ MichiganView was refunded for 2014 & 2015.
MTRI Principal Investigator met with senior staff in
Senator Peters’ and
Senator Stabenow’s offices to discuss the importance of earth science and educational outreach.
─ The web page is undergoing revision to help with remote sensing outreach, including for classroom science education. www.michiganview.org
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Fish Habitat
─ Through Great Lakes
Fisheries Commission funding, MTRI completed a paper on using remote sensing to map the
Drummond Island lake trout spawning area in September as pre-spawning imagery and a post-spawning
November for a postspawning comparison imagery data set; potential next steps including UAV mapping were defined.
Change detection analysis UAV view of Binder Reef
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Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB)
─ MTRI started its 2015 HAB sampling field season on Lake Erie after a full 2014 season. Many water samples were collected characterizing the extent of the toxin producing surface scum algae.
─ MTRI worked with Battelle, NOAA
GLERL, and U-M Water Center to extend
HABs mapping analysis capabilities in platforms & time.
Great Lakes Carbon Modeling
─ All five Great Lakes annual primary production derived from the Great Lakes
Primary Productivity Model (GLPPM) were generated and delivered to NASA under the completed project.
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Freshwater Lakes
─ MTRI’s USGS Global Fisheries
Production project team completed work on matching (temporally and spatially) referenced in-situ data provided by USGS with MODIS and
MERIS derived CHL estimates, as well as developing a 300m – 1km
Global Freshwater Lakes
Composite image for 2011.
─ The same aquatic remote sensing team completed creating chlorophyll estimates at over
500 lakes worldwide to help
USGS GLSC understand freshwater fish production.
A paper was published (Sayers et al.
2015) in IJRS.
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CPA-A
─ MTRI continues to generate Color
Producing Agent Algorithm Great Lakesspecific derived remote sensing products (Chl, CDOM, DOC, SM), extending results back to 1998 with
SeaWIFS data. For 2015,
Absorption/backscatter, Kd490, & photic zone data are being added to distributed products.
Oil Spill
─ MTRI is collaborating with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Coast Guard in applying geospatial technology to geographic response plans for oil spill response at sensitive sites in the western basin of
Lake Erie.
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Detecting & monitoring dangerous nearshore currents
─ Under MDEQ funding, MTRI has been working closely with GLRC
Director Guy Meadows to identify areas in Michigan State Parks that are prone to rip currents
─ Existing aerial/satellite imagery provides a rich database to identify rip current projects
─ Work is continuing in 2015 with field work in the Au Train area.
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MTRI is working with PI Casey
Huckins & Co-I Amy Marcarelli to identify how multi-source, multidate remote sensing can help identify invasive Eurasian
Watermilfoil in the Torch Bay arm of Portage Lake & the Les
Cheneaux Islands of the eastern
Upper Peninsula.
Field work will take place to identify spectral profiles of aquatic vegetation & bottom types in the region to produce a new EWM mapping algorithm that can be collected with UAV-based multispectral sensing.
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We have been funded for a second phase on our
USDOT unpaved roads assessment project, focused on outreach & commercial implementation. A successful technical demo to local & state transportation agencies in Sioux
Falls, SD is being followed up by demonstrations in Kansas & Louisiana. Updated algorithms help improve processing results & speed. We’re working with Woolpert, Inc. on evaluating commercialization options in light of more sensible FAA rules.
SD Demonstration
3D Models of Rutting & Washouts of Rutting Created from UAV Imagery Automated Pothole Detection
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We are developing the 3D Wireless Bridge Inspection System (3DWBIS) to demonstrate how MDOT can use a tablet-based software tool to collect element-level bridge distress data, helping to speed up the process & increase reliability of location-specific data. We are working closely with
MDOT staff with field tests to understand their practical needs to replace their paper-form inspection system with digital recording of condition inspection data. MDOT is considering funding an implementation phase in
2015-2016 based on positive reviews of the beta app.
3DWBIS Interface, helping MDOT Bridge Inspectors Record
Locations-specific Data on Bridge Distresses Testing the 3DWBIS App with MDOT for a Bridge Inspection
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Car-deer collisions are a significant hazard in Michigan and many other states. MTRI has an active program with Toyota’s
Collaborative Safety Research
Center to characterize the reflectivity of deer at wavelengths of automotive radar and lidar.
MTRI is providing expertise in measurement procedures and analysis to provide sensor models of deer. Collection campaigns have been completed in 2014 &
2015. The project is using a 77-
GHz automotive radar and a near IR lidar to measure the scattering from live stationary and moving deer.

Sustainable Geotechnical Asset Management
(SGAM)
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Collected data in 2014 & 2015 in Alaska, Nevada,
Michigan, & Ohio to understand landslide & hillslope stability using multi-temporal UAV-based
3D assessments & we’re now comparing detectable changes with Thomas Oommen
(Michigan Tech)
Started development of the web-based SGAM
DSS to enable stakeholder access to 3D geospatial data evaluating slope stability & movement
Bridge Scour DSS
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Completing the Bridge Scour Early Warning
System DSS for A. Swartz’s “Automated Scour
Detection Arrays using Bio-Inspired
Magnetostrictive Flow Sensors” USDOT OST/R project to enable access to bridge scour post monitoring data
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Evaluated uses of UAVs for confined space inspection, traffic monitoring, road furniture inventory, bridge inspection; presented at ITS
World Congress in Sept. 2014 at the request of MDOT. Collected bridge deck condition data over the I-96 Fix project in Livonia. Demoed crash scene reconstruction imaging. Worked with T. Oommen & T. Ahlborn on thermal data assessment of bridge decks & T. Havens on flying lidar with UAV. MDOT putting out RFP for Phase 2 in 2016.

Delivered over 8 million well-documented truck tracking GPS records to project lead Dr. Mark McCord at OSU, along with new examples of geospatial data visualization to complete the Nextrans 2.0 project. We have been reaching out to end users such as MDOT, GM, & SEMCOG so that our delay and crossing time data and visualization efforts could become part of their operational & management efforts.
Understanding Changes in Border Crossing Times through
Changes as the Canadian Side of the Blue Water Bridge
Evaluating Data Validity for Peace Bridge Analysis
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Developed methods to collect, analyze, and integrate 3D optical plus thermal infrared data for vehicle-based assessment of bridge deck condition, working closely with T. Ahlborn & commercialization partner
BridgeGuard. Drafted license agreement for BridgeGuard to implement
3DOBS technology. MDOT to fund $76k add-on for advanced testing / use at 12 bridges in 2015.
Delaminations Detected with
Brideguard Thermal IR System
Spalls (Potholes) Automatically
Detected with MTRI 3DOBS
System
Collecting Thermal + Optical Data Integrated into
BridgeGuard Data Collection Van
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R&D Magazine has named the automotive phased array radar research of N. Subotic and his research colleagues at Toyota
TEMC as a recipient of a 2014 R&D 100 Award. The award recognizes the 100 most significant high-tech products developed in the past year. B. Wilson and H. Kourous worked on the software for this program.
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Under the DARPA Visual Media Reasoning program, MTRI developed an algorithm for doing depth/distance estimation of objects in a camera image based on defocus estimation and relating to camera parameters. It is a significant improvement over the state of the art, since all algorithms in the literature cannot operate effectively with JPEG quantization. In contrast, the MTRI-developed algorithm automatically accommodates
JPEG quantization in its model, and maintains performance which is close to that achievable with no JPEG quantization.
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Under the ONR DIRAC program, MTRI generated a fully automatic jointestimation approach for dealing with significantly degraded IR imagery
(e.g., due to fog or heavy haze), and providing dramatic improvements of imagery in terms of removing the degradation component, and leaving intact a high-quality rendering of the scene. This represents a significant improvement over the current state-of-the art which is very limited in being applicable to only low-to-moderate fog/haze conditions, and not to moderate-to-severe conditions which our algorithms have been shown to be effective.
MTRI developed a significant improvement of the so-called Generalized
Additive Model algorithm which does multivariate regression (data-fitting) utilizing spline models. Current state of the art models utilized a fixed degrees of freedom/curvature approach, which may easily over- or underfit due to its non-adaptivity. In contrast, the MTRI-developed algorithm is totally adaptive/iterative scheme in estimating the "right" degrees of freedom/curvature based on the data and the concept of generalized cross-validation.
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Under the DARPA SSPARC program, MTRI developed a signal processing scheme that is able to simultaneously process radar and communications signals, thereby enabling a communications system to operate in the presence of a radar, and a radar to operate in the presence of a communications network. MTRI developed a dual-purpose radar and communications receiver. The receiver uses an M-Ary GLRT scheme to mitigate comms interference and a GLRT to mitigate the radar interference.
Novel aspects of the processing scheme include: highly efficient evaluation of the log-likelihood ratio; fully vectorized communications M-Ary GLRT computation to obviate sequential M-Ary tests; and a technique to obtain sub-pixel resolution of the radar signal parameters using ML optimization.
Under the DARPA Multi-Aperture Image Analysis program, MTRI experimentally demonstrated GMTI and target imaging using passive interferometric microwave measurement concepts. The successful demonstration will provide the basis for the development of future passive sensing systems.
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Under the US Army Advanced Signal Processing and Detection Algorithms for
Handheld Explosive Hazard Detection (HHEHD) program, MTRI developed a novel method of fusing ground penetrating radar and metal detector data using ensemble learning techniques and exercised on actual field measurements provided by the US Army. The detection/classification performance using the combined data was significantly better than the performance obtained using any one sensing modality. The algorithmic advancement provides a framework for the next generation of handheld explosive detection sensors.
Using simulated radar and lidar measurements, MTRI developed and demonstrated a statistical framework, based on Gaussian Copulas, for characterizing the discriminability of targets and features in the presence of measurement uncertainty. This framework provides AFRL a methodology for designing and evaluating the performance of sensing systems in the presence of real world measurement uncertainty. Based on this work, AFRL plans to fund a four-year follow-on effort to the current Object Physics for Enhanced Recognition
Algorithms (OPERA) project.
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MTRI performed two data collections for the DARPA Marine HF program. The first collection was a demonstration that a ship could passively be tracked in the HF using ambient radiation. This is the first empirical demonstration of passive HF tracking of a ship. The second collection showed that passive HF over the horizon operation could be attained.
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Joe Burns began a NIH-funded R21 study with Dr. Renee
Shellhaas from the University of Michigan Department of Pediatric
Neurology to investigate the impact of neonate intensive care unit
(NICU) sounds on the sleep and neurological processes of neonates. One of the more interesting aims will investigate if neonate sleep changes when recordings of the mother speaking are played.
Under a NIH-funded K23 study Joe Burns with Dr. Renee
Shellhaas (UM Pediatric Neurology) observed for the first time that
Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) measurements of neonate cerebral function vary with sleep stage and that NIRS measurements are significantly correlations with low frequency
(.5-4 Hz) central EEG power. Further, the strength of the
NIRS/EEG correlation is indicative of neurologic outcome. Thus, the level of NIRS/EEG correlation may be a prognostic indicator.
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Joe Burns initiated an effort with Dr. Devin Brown from the
University of Michigan Department of Neurology to examine the impact of stroke on sleep disordered breathing in a cohort of subjects being monitored in South Texas. The project will specifically examine measures of cardio-respiratory coupling to see if signals collected using a home monitor system can be exploited to assess cardiovascular health and SDB.
J. Burns initiated a NIH-funded study with Dr. Tracy Bayley from the University of Michigan Department of Neurology for a four-year program to study the impact of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) on patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) to the National Multiple
Sclerosis Society. SDB can worsen the symptoms of MS. The proposed study will investigate whether treatment of SDB will improve quality of life for MS patients.
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In progress
─ Liza Jenkins, Ph.D. (University of Michigan)
─ Mike Sayers, Ph.D. (Michigan Tech)
─ Colin Brooks, Ph.D. (Michigan Tech)
Graduated
─ Foad Yousef, Ph.D. and Post Doc (Michigan Tech)
─ Rasika Kishor Gawde, M.S. (Michigan Tech)
─ Marcelo Dijkstra, Ph.D. (Michigan Tech)
─ Liza Jenkins, M.S. (University of Michigan)
Undergraduate research opportunities program at Michigan Tech
─ Martin Hobmeier
─ Wesley Ellenwood
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─ Less NASA dependence
─ Food security/resource management
─ Ocean science
─ Cryosphere/climate change studies
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Nancy French and Robert Shuchman served on the Science Definition
Team for NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System.
Nikola Subotic served on a DARPA panel to develop a new program that creates technology to perform electronic warfare against next generation cognitive RADAR systems.
Colin Brooks was appointed a member of the Transportation Research
Board’s ABJ50 Information Systems and Technology Committee (since
January 2011). Since then has also been CoChair of TRB’s
Subcommittee in Sensing Technologies, and has joined the TRB subcommittee on Unmanned Aerial Systems. He is a board member of the Northern Michigan Unmanned Aerial Systems Consortium.
Nancy French has been part of the Science Steering Group of the North
American Carbon Program since 2010.
Dr. Bourgeau-
Chavez recently served on the National Research Council’s committee for addressing emerging research in the Arctic (2012-2014) as the remote sensing expert.
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Nancy French is head of the Student Scholarship Committee for
International Association of Wildland Fire.
Colin Brooks serves on the Advisory Board of MTU’s Center for
Water and Society (CWS, since 2009), and on the Executive
Committee of the Michigan Tech Transportation Institute (MTTI, since 2010).
Bourgeau-Chavez is currently the NASA ABoVE representative on the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee’s (IARPC)
WildfiresWorkshop Planning committee.
Nancy French served a second 3-year term on the User Working
Group for NASA’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed
Active Archive Center (ORNL-DAAC).
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Jessica McCarty is a Committee member of the National Wildfire
Coordinating Group (NWCG) Smoke Committee (SmoC) Emissions
Inventory Task Team.
Robert Shuchman serves on a Secretary of the U.S. Department of the
Interior nominated committee referred to as the North Slope Science
Initiative (NSSI) Science Technical Advisory Panel (STAP). The STAP gives advice to North Slope, Alaska stakeholders on oil and gas extraction using environmentally sound practices.
Robert Shuchman serves as the Chair of the Chicago/Great Lakes
Chapter of the Explorers Club.
Dave Dean completed a second term on the board of the American
Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Eastern
Great Lakes Regional Chapter.
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Bourgeau-Chavez, L.L., S.L. Endres, M.J. Battaglia, M.E. Miller, E.C. Banda, Z. Laubach, P. Higman,
P. Chow-Fraser, and J Marcaccio. "Development of a Bi-National Great Lakes Coastal Wetland and Land
Use Map Using Three-Season PALSAR and Landsat Imagery." Remote Sens. 7, no. 7 (2015): 8655-
8682.
Brooks, C.
, A. Grimm , R.A. Shuchman , M. Sayers , and N. Jessee . "A satellite-based multi-temporal assessment of the extent of nuisance Cladophora and related submerged aquatic vegetation for the
Laurentian Great Lakes." Remote Sensing of Environment 157(2015): 58-71. doi:
10.1016/j.rse.2014.04.032
Buller, W.
, R. Sherony, B. Wilson , and M. Wienert . "Measurements of Deer with RADAR and LIDAR for
Active Safety Systems." SAE 1, no. 2 (2015): 17.
Dobson, R.J.
, T. Colling, C. Brooks , C. Roussi , M. Kueber Watkins, and D. Dean . "Collecting Decision
Support System Data Through Remote Sensing of Unpaved Roads." Transportation Research Record:
Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2433, no. 1 (2015): 108-115. doi: 10.3141/2433-12
Hootsma, H.A., M.D. Rowe, C.N. Brooks , and H. Vanderploeg. "Commentary: The need for model development related to Cladophora and nutrient management in Lake Michigan." Journal of Great Lakes
Research (2015).
Milillo, T., R. Hard, B. Yatzor, M.E. Miller, and J. Gardella. "Image fusion combining SEM and ToF-SIMS images." Surface and Interface Analysis 47, no. 3 (2015): 371-376.
Miller, M.E.
, M. Billmire , W.J. Elliot, K.A. Endsley , and P.R. Robichaud. "Rapid response tools and datasets for post-fire modeling: linking Earth Observations and process-based hydrological models to support post-fire remediation." Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.
XL-7, no. W3
(2015): 469-476.
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Ogle, S.M., K.J. Davis, T. Lauvaux, A. Schuh, D. Cooley, T. West, L. Heath, N. Miles, S. Richardson, F.
Breidt, J. Smith, J.L. McCarty , K.R. Gurney, P.P Tans, and A. Denning. "An approach for verifying biogenic greenhouse gas emissions inventories with atmospheric CO2 concentration data." Environmental
Research Letters 10, no. 3 (2015).
Potapov, P.V., S.A. Turubanova, A. Tyukavina, A.M. Krylov, J.L. McCarty , V.C. Radeloff, and M.C.
Hansen. "Eastern Europe's forest cover dynamics from 1985 to 2012 quantified from the full Landsat archive." Remote Sensing of Environment 159(2015): 28-43.
Sayers, M.J.
, A.G. Grimm, R.A. Shuchman , A.M. Deines, D.B. Bunnell, Z.B. Raymer , M.W. Rogers, W.
Woelmer, D.H. Bennion, C.N. Brooks , M.A. Whitley , D.M. Warner, and J. Mychek-Londer. "A new method to generate a high-resolution global distribution map of lake chlorophyll." International Journal of
Remote Sensing 36, no. 7 (2015): 1942-1964.
Turubanova, S., P. Potapov, A. Krylov, A. Tyukavina, J.L. McCarty , V. Radeloff, and M.C. Hansen.
"Using the Landsat data archive to assess long-term regional forest dynamics assessment in Eastern
Europe, 1985-2012." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial
Information Sciences XL-7, no. W3 (2015): 531-537. doi: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-7-W3-531-2015
Wang, L. , C.M. Riseng, L.A. Mason, K.E. Wehrly, E.S. Rutherford, J.E. McKenna, C. Castiglione, L.
Johnson, D.M. Infante, S. Soware, M. Robertson, J. Schaeffer, M. Khoury, J. Galot, T. Hollenhorst, C.N.
Brooks , and M. Coscarelli. "A spatial classification and database for management, research, and policy making: The Great Lakes aquatic habitat framework." Journal of Great Lakes Research (2015). DOI:
10.1016/j.jglr.2015.03.017
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Battaglia, M.J., G.L. Buckley, M.F. Galvin, and J.M. Grove. "It’s Not Easy Going Green: Obstacles to
Tree-Planting Programs in East Baltimore." Cities and the Environment 7, no. 2 (2014).
Billmire, M ., N.H.F. French , T. Loboda, R.C. Owen , and M. Tyner. "Santa Ana winds and predictors of wildfire progression in southern California." International Journal of Wildland Fire 23, no. 8 (2014): 1119-
1129. doi: 10.1071/WF13046
Bourgeau-Chavez, L.
. "The Arctic in the Anthropocene: Emerging Research Questions." The National
Academies Press (2014).
Brooks, C.
, A. Grimm , R.A. Shuchman , M. Sayers , and N. Jessee . "A satellite-based multi-temporal assessment of the extent of nuisance Cladophora and related submerged aquatic vegetation for the
Laurentian Great Lakes." Remote Sensing of Environment 157(2015): 58-71. doi:
10.1016/j.rse.2014.04.032
Dobson, R.J.
, T. Colling, C. Brooks , D. Dean , and M.K. Watkins. "Collecting Decision Support System
Data via Remote Sensing of Unpaved Roads." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the
Transportation Research Board 2433(2014): 108-115.
French, N.H.F.
, D. McKenzie, R.D. Ottmar, J.L. McCarty , R.A. Norheim, N. Hamermesh, and A.J. Soja.
"A US national fuels database and map for calculating carbon emissions from wildland and prescribed fire." Wade, F. R.L., & M.L. Robinson (Eds.), 4th Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference St. Petersburg,
Russia: International Association of Wildland Fire (2014): 522-529.
French, N.H.F.
, D. McKenzie, T. Erickson , B. Koziol , M. Billmire , K.A. Endsley , N.K.Y.
Scheinerman , L. Jenkins , M.E. Miller , R. Ottmar, and S. Prichard. "Modeling regional-scale fire emissions with the Wildland Fire Emissions Information System." Earth Interactions 18, no. 16 (2014).
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Huntington, T.G., and M. Billmire . "Trends in precipitation, runoff, and evapotranspiration for rivers draining to the Gulf of Maine in the United States." Journal of Hydrometeorology 15, no. 2 (2014): 726-
743. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-13-018.1
Jenkins, L.K.
, L.L. Bourgeau-Chavez , N.H.F. French , T.V. Loboda, and B.J. Thelen . "Development of
Methods for Detection and Monitoring of Fire Disturbance in the Alaskan Tundra Using a Two-Decade
Long Record of Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite Images." Remote Sensing 6, no. 7 (2014): 6347-6364.
Josberger, E.
, R.A. Shuchman , L.K. Jenkins , and K.A. Endsley . "Melt water input from the Bering
Glacier Watershed into the Gulf of Alaska." Geophys. Res. Lett (2014).
Josberger, E.G.
, R.A. Shuchman , L. K. Jenkins , and K.A. Endsley . "Melt water input from the Bering
Glacier watershed into the Gulf of Alaska." Geophysical Research Letters , no. 41
(2014). 10.1002/2013GL058734
Kerfoot, W.C., M.M. Hobmeier, F. Yousef, S.A. Green, R. Regis, C.N. Brooks , R. Shuchman , J.
Anderson, and M. Reif. "Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and Multispectral Scanner (MSS) Studies
Examine Coastal Environments Influenced by Mining." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 3, no. 1 (2014): 66-95. doi:10.3390/ijgi3010066
Krylov, A., J. McCarty, P. Potapov, T. Laboda, A. Tyukavina, S. Turubanova, and M. Hansen. "Remote sensing estimates of stand-replacement fires in Russia, 2002 –2011." Environ. Res. Lett.
9, no. 10 (2014):
5007.
Lin, H.W., J.L. McCarty , D. Wang, B.M. Rogers, D.C. Morton, G.J. Collatz, Y. Jin, and J. T. Randerson.
"Management and climate controls to satellite-derived active fire trends in the contiguous United
States." Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences (2014).
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Meingast, K.M., M.J. Falkowski, E.S. Kane, L.R. Potvin, B.W. Benscoter, A.M.S. Smith, L.L. Bourgeau-
Chavez , and M.E.
Miller . "Spectral detection of near-surface moisture content and water-table position in northern peatland ecosystems." Rem. Sens. Env.
152(2014): 536-546.
Romanenkov, V., D. Rukhovitch, P. Koroleva, and J.L. McCarty . "Estimating black carbon emissions from agricultural burning ." Novel Measurement and Assessment Tools for Monitoring and Management of
Land and Water Resources in Agricultural Landscapes of Central Asia (2014): 347-364. 10.1007/978-3-
319-010175_20
Shellhaas, R.A., J.W. Burns , J.D.E. Barks, and R.D. Chervin. "Quantitative sleep stage analyses as a window to neonatal neurologic function." Neurology 82(2014): 1-6. van Leeuwen, T. T., G. R. van der Werf, A. A. Hoffmann, R. G. Detmers, G. Rücker, N. H. F. French , S.
Archibald, J. A. Carvalho Jr., G. D. Cook, W. J. de Groot, C. Hély,E. S. Kasischke, S. Kloster, J.L.
McCarty , M. L. Pettinari, P. Savadogo, E. C. Alvarado, L. Boschetti, S. Manuri, C. P. Meyer, F. Siegert, L.
A. Trollope, and W. S. W. Trollope. "Biomass burning fuel consumption rates: a field measurement database." Biogeosciences Discuss.
11(2014): 8115-8180.
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Battaglia, M.J., S.L. Endres, and L.L. Bourgeau-Chavez . "An Evaluation of Satellite Synthetic Aperture
Radar for Vernal Pool Detection." IAGLR 58th Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research (2015).
Brooks, C.N.
, R.A. Shuchman , M. Sayers , A. Grimm , R. Sawtell, and M. Billmire . "Developing and
Applying User-Friendly Web Portals for Sharing Great Lakes Remote Sensing Data." IAGLR 58th Annual
Conference on Great Lakes Research (2015).
Brooks, C.N.
, T. Ahlborn, R. Sawtell, H. Kourous, R. Dobson , and G. Sullivan . "MDOT Wireless Bridge
Tablet Inspection System Project Update for the 2015 Structure Inspection Alignment Meeting." MDOT
Structure Inspection Alignment Meeting (2015).
Brooks, C.N.
, T. Oommen, T.C. Havens, T.M. Ahlborn, R.J. Dobson , D.B. Dean , B. Hart , C. Roussi, N.
Jessee , R.E. Wolf, M. Wienert , B. Stormer, and J. Behrendt. "Evaluating the Use of Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles for Transportation Purposes." Michigan Connected and Automated Vehicle Working Group
(January) (2015).
Buller, W.
. "Measurements of Deer with RADAR and LIDAR for Active Safety Systems." SAE 2015 World
Congress & Exhibition (April 23) (2015).
Dean, D.
. "Application of Geospatially Enabled Geographic Response Plans for Oil Spill Response in the
Western Basin of Lake Erie." IAGLR 58th Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research (2015).
Dobson, R.J.
, C.N. Brooks , C. Roussi , T. Colling, D. Dean , and V. Lefler. "Demonstrations for
Implementation of the Unsurfaced Road Condition Assessment System." TRB 2015 Annual Meeting -
Special Workshop on Sensing Technologies for Transportation Applications (2015).
Elliot, W.J., M.E. Miller , and N. Enstice. "Combining fire and erosion modelling to target forest management activities." Procs. Of the 10th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (2015).
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Endres, S., C.N. Brooks , M. Battaglia , L.L Bourgeau-Chavez, R. Walker, and L. Liou. "Evaluating
Wetland Hydroperiod for Northwest Ohio Wetlands Using Multi-Source Remote Sensing Imagery." IAGLR
58th Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research (2015).
Lee, Y.M., H. Enander, and L.L. Bourgeau-Chavez . "Developing an Approach for Identifying and
Mapping Vernal Pools in Michigan." Science, Practice and Art of Restoring Native Ecosystems (January
24) (2015).
McCarty, J.L.
. "Anthropogenic Fire in European Russia, Belarus, and Lithuania and Its Impact on Air
Quality, 2002-2012.." Celebrating Ten Years of Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative
Research: Synthesis and Future Plans (April 10) (2015).
McCarty, J.L.
. "Occurrence of Open Agricultural Burning – The “Where and When” of Burning Satellite mapping of burning from 2003-2013." UN CCAC Andes Regional Conference: Mitigating Open
Agricultural Burning (February 12) (2015).
McCarty, J.L.
. "Satellite data on open agricultural burning – where and when." UN CCAC Himalayas
Regional Conference: Mitigating Open Agricultural Burning (February 20) (2015).
Meadows, G.
, A. Grimm , C.N. Brooks , and R.A. Shuchman . "Remote Sensing-Based Detection and
Monitoring of Dangerous Nearshore Currents." IAGLR 58th Annual Conference on Great Lakes
Research (2015).
Sawtell, R., M. Sayers, R.A. Shuchman , G Leshkevich, C.N. Brooks , and C. Hatt . "Water Quality
Observations in the Great Lakes Using an Optimized Satellite Bio-optical Algorithm." IAGLR 58th Annual
Conference on Great Lakes Research (2015).
Sayers, M.
, A. Grimm , R.A. Shuchman , A.M. Deines, D.B. Bunnell, M.W. Rogers, W. Woelmer, D.H.
Bnnion, and D.M. Warner. "A New Method to Generate a High-Resolution Global Distribution Map of Lake
Chlorophyll." IAGLR 58th Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research (2015). 62

Sayers, M.
, A. Korosov, D. Pozdnyakov, R.A. Shuchman , and R. Sawtell. "Bio-Optical Retrieval
Algorithm for Optically Shallow Water of the Great Lakes." IAGLR 58th Annual Conference on Great
Lakes Research (2015).
Shuchman, R.A.
, G. Fahnenstiel , M. Sayers , S. Pothoven, R. Sawtell, and F. Yousef. "Long-term
Trends in Lake-wide Phytoplankton Productivity in the Upper Great Lakes: 1998-2013." IAGLR 58th
Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research (2015).
Shuchman, R.A.
, M. Sayers, A. Grimm , M Weber, M. Whitley, C.N. Brooks , and H. Stone. "Extending the Satellite-Based Time Series of Harmful Algal Bloom Extents in the Great Lakes." IAGLR 58th Annual
Conference on Great Lakes Research (2015).
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Bourgeau-Chavez, L.L.
, M. Battaglia , S. Endres , Z. Laubach , M.E. Miller , and L. Banda. "Mapping the
U.S. and Canadian Coastal Great Lakes Wetlands and Stressors." IAGLR 57th Annual Conference (May
26-30) (2014).
Bourgeau-Chavez, L.L.
, M. Lang, S. Endres , M. Battaglia , E. Banda , and K. Scarbrough . "Detection of forested wetlands with active remote sensing." NASA ICESat-2 Vegetation Tutorial with Landsat (May 7-
8) (2014).
Bourgeau-Chavez, L.L.
, S. Endres , M. Battaglia , E. Banda , M.E. Miller , and Z. Laubach . "Mapping the
U.S. and Canadian Coastal Great Lakes Wetlands and Stressors." Oral presentation at the Annex 7 –
Habitat and Species Subcommittee In-Person Meeting - U.S. EPA Offices - Federal Metcalfe Building
(November 5-6) (2014).
Bourgeau-Chavez, L.L.
. "Developing Improved Predictions of Fuel Moisture with SAR in Boreal
Ecosystems for Fire Danger Assessment." 2014 Joint US-IALE Symposium Workshop & Soil Moisture
Active Passive (SMAP) Applications workshop program and NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System (CMS)
Initiative (May 18) (2014).
Bourgeau-Chavez, L.L.
. "Improving Soil Moisture Retrieval with Polarimetric SAR data." NISAR
Applications Workshop: Linking Mission Goals to Societal Benefit (Oct. 28-29) (2014).
Brooks, C.
, A. Grimm , R.A. Shuchman , M. Sayers , and M. Auer. "Using a Satellite Time-Series Dataset to Analyze Growth of Cladophora and Other Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in the Great Lakes." IAGLR
57th Annual Conference (May 26-30) (2014).
Brooks, C.
, R. Dobson , C. Roussi , T. Colling, D. Dean , and M.K. Watkins. "Implementing Assessment of
Unpaved Road Condition with High-Resolution Aerial Remote Sensing." TRB 2014 Annual Meeting -
Special Workshop on Sensing Technologies for Transportation Applications (2014). P14-6192
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Brooks, C.
, R.A. Shuchman , M. Sayers , N. Jessee , N. Molen, and K.A. Endsley . "Extending Great
Lakes Remote Sensing Products to Stakeholders through GLOS, Coastwatch, and Custom
Portals." IAGLR 57th Annual Conference (May 26-30) (2014).
Dean, D.
, C.N. Brooks , R. Dobson , C. Roussi , T. Colling, T. Ahlborn, T. Oommen, T. Havens, and M.
Kuebler. "Transportation Infrastructure Assessment With High Resolution Remote Sensing." Mid-
Continent Transportation Research Symposium (2014).
Dean, D.
, C.N. Brooks , R. Dobson , C. Roussi , T. Colling, T. Ahlborn, T. Oommen, T. Havens, and M.
Kuebler. "Transportation Infrastructure Assessment With High Resolution Remote Sensing." American
Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference (2014).
Endsley, K.A.
, M. Sayers, R.A. Shuchman , C.N. Brooks , and G. Leshkevich. "The Great Lakes Optical
Properties Geospatial Database ." IAGLR 57th Annual Conference (May 26-30) (2014).
Fahnenstiel, G.
, F. Yousef, M. Sayers , undefined Pothoven, and R. Shuchman . "Long-term trends in lake-wide phytoplankton productivity in the Upper Great Lakes: 1998-2013 ." IAGLR 57th Annual
Conference (May 26-30) (2014).
Grimm, A.G., and G.A. Meadows. "Remote sensing-based detection and monitoring of dangerous nearshore currents." Eastern Lakes Division of the American Association of Geographers (ELDAAG)
(October 17) (2014).
Jenkins, L.K., L.L. Bourgeau-Chavez, N. French, and M. Chavez. "Temporal and Spatial Trends in Soil
Moisture in Arctic Alaska." AGU Fall Meeting (2014).
Krezek-Hanes, C., and L.L. Bourgeau-Chavez . "Improving the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating
System fuel moisture codes using Radarsat 2 data." In the Remote sensing approaches to fuel moisture/fire Risk validation session of the Alaska CFFDRS Summit (Oct. 29) (2014).
65

LeBlanc, J.
. "Joint camera-blur and pose estimation from aliased data: Robust system identification with applications to restoration." U of M Graduate Symposium (November) (2014).
Lee, Y.M., H. Enander, L.L. Bourgeau-Chavez , and M. Battaglia . "Developing an Effective Approach for
Detecting and Mapping Vernal Pools." Michigan Wetlands Association Annual Meeting, Vernal Pools
Session (Aug. 28) (2014).
Liou, L., R.A. Shuchman , S. Greb, G. Leshkevich, J. Bratton, J. Read, J. Lekki, C.N. Brooks , and A.G.
Grimm. "Initial Results from the Workshop on Developing a Great Lakes Remote Sensing
Community ." IAGLR 57th Annual Conference (May 26-30) (2014).
McCarty, J.L.
. "Anthropogenic Fire in Central Europe." NASA’s International LCLUC Regional Science
Meeting in Central Europe (November 17) (2014).
McCarty, J.L.
. "Burn Scar Mapping on Mount Kenya, Central Kenya using Landsat Data." ASPRS Annual
Conference (March 26) (2014).
McCarty, J.L.
. "Environmental, Socioeconomic, Institutional Impacts of Fire." NASA LCLUC Science
Team Meeting (April 23) (2014).
McCarty, J.L.
. "Mapping agricultural fires in the Himalayan and Andean orographic regions." UN CCAC
(April 1) - Presented via skype (2014).
McCarty, J.L
.. "Using Satellite Imagery to Improve the Characterization of Crop Residue Burning
Emissions in the US National Emission Inventory." Contributing Author. AGU Fall Meeting (December
17) (2014).
Miller, M.E.
, W.J. Elliot, K.A. Endsley , P.R. Robichaud, and M. Billmire . "Rapid response tools and datasets for post-fire erosion modeling: linking remote sensing and process-based hydrological models to support post-fire remediation." Proceedings from Pecora 19(2014).
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Raymer, Z.
, R.A. Shuchman , M. Sayers , G. Fahnenstiel , and C.N. Brooks . "Mapping Harmful Algal
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Dobson, R.J.
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Banach, D.
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Bourgeau-Chavez, L.L.
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Bourgeau-Chavez, L.L.
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Bourgeau-Chavez, L.L.
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