Currently, I am working as a computer programmer
on the NED project. NED will provide site specific
expert recommendations on silvicultural prescriptions, promoting management
for a variety of traditional and nontraditional goals including; wildlife,
timber, aesthetics, water quality, pest management, and recreation. C++
is being used to develop the user interface and data management portions
of the program. The expert rules, and inference engine used to develop
the expert management recommendations are being coded in PROLOG. Program
development is being done for Windows, however there are future plans to
port the software to other operating systems.
Previous to my work on NED, I was a Digital Remote Sensing analyst for
Lockheed's Spatial Analysis Laboratory. Lockheed is the major contractor
with the US Environmental Protection Agency's Advanced Monitoring Systems
Laboratory, in Las Vegas. The work I was involved in used satellite imagery
to produce land cover maps. The main software packages I worked with included
ARC/INFO, ERDAS, and PCI.
My formal education includes a Bachelor's degree in Biology with an
emphasis on Terrestrial Ecology from Grand
Valley State University, earned in 1978. I returned to college and
earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Michigan
Technological University in the spring of 1987. I became interested
in Remote Sensing because it allowed me to combine my interests in Ecology
with my technical background in Computer Science. I went on to earn my
Master's degree in Forestry in the spring of 1989, with an emphasis in
Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing.
