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Dr. Daniel L. Civco
| Professor, Director of CLEAR
Education | Experience | Recent Honors and Awards | Selected Current or Recent Grants | Selected Publications | Other
 
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
2008 Phi Kappa Phi
2007 National Award for Excellence in College and University Teaching in the Food and Agricultural Sciences. National Award. National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. USDA and CSREES.
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
Fifth International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Imagery (MultiTemp 2009) Co-sponsorship Agreement. Principal Investigator US EPA, NASA, and USGS. April 1, 2008 to December 31, 2009. $ 45,696.
A Multi-scale Approach to the Forecast of Potential Distributions of Invasive Plant Species. Ecological Impacts from the Interactions of Climate Change, Land Use Change and Invasive Species: A Joint Research Solicitation–EPA&USDA. EPA-G2007-STAR-H2 Terrestrial Ecosystems. Co-Principal Investigator. (John Silander, UConn EEB, Principal Investigator). May 1, 2008 to December 31, 2011. $545,000.
Mapping of Key Habitats for Species of Greatest Conservation Need. Principal Investigator. Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. March 1, 2008 - April 30, 2009. $85,992.
Connecticut's Changing Salt Marshes: A Remote Sensing Analysis of Sea Level Rise and Possible Salt Marsh Migration. Principal Investigator. Nature Conservancy. October 1, 2007 – September 30, 2008. $10,000.
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.
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. Principal Investigator. 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.
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.
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.

Selected Publications
Journal
Merwin, D., R. Cromley, and D. Civco. 2009. A neural network-based method for solving "nested hierarchy" areal interpolation problems. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 36(4):347-365.
Chabaeva, A., D.L. Civco, and J.D. Hurd. 2009. An Assessment of Impervious Surface Estimation Techniques. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 14(4):377-387.
Gilmore, M.S., E.H. Wilson, D.L. Civco, S. Prisloe, J.D. Hurd, and C. Chadwick. 2008. Integrating multi-temporal spectral and structural information to map dominant tidal wetland vegetation in a lower Connecticut River marsh. Special Issue on Applications of Remote Sensing to Monitoring Freshwater and Estuarine Systems, Remote Sensing of Environment 112(11):4048-4060.
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.
Song, M. and D.L. Civco. 2004. Road Extraction Using SVM and Image Segmentation. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 70(11):1365-1372.
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. 
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). 
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. 
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 1996. Using genetic learning neural networks for spatial decision-making in GIS. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 62(11):1287-1295.
Civco, D.L. 1993. Artificial neural networks for land cover classification and mapping. International Journal of Geographic Information Systems 7(2):173-186.
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.
Conference (Recent)
Civco, D.L., A. Chabaeva, J. Parent, M. Ehlers, and A. Angel. 2008. Fusion of KH-Series Declassified Satellite Imagery and Landsat MSS Data in Support of Urban Land Cover Classification. Proc. 17th William Pecora Memorial Remote Sensing Symposium, Denver, CO 12 p.
Civco, D.L., M.S. Gilmore, E. H. Wilson, N. Barrett, S. Prisloe, J.D. Hurd, and C. Chadwick. 2008, Multitemporal spectroradiometry-guided object-oriented classification of salt marsh vegetation. Proc. SPIE Europe Remote Sensing, Cardiff, Wales, UK. 12 p.
Hurd, J.D. and D.L. Civco. 2008. Assessing the Impact of Land Cover Spatial Resolution on Forest Fragmentation Modeling. Proc. 2008 ASPRS Annual Convention, Portland, OR. 10 p.
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.
Parent, J., D.L. Civco, and S. Angel. An Analysis of Global Urban Sprawl. Proc. 2007 ESRI User Group Conference, San Diego, CA.
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. 
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. 
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
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.
Civco, D.L., A. Chabaeva, and J. Parent. 2006. A comparison of approaches to impervious surface characterization. Proc. IGARSS 2006, Denver, CO. 4 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.
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.
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.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.
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. and D.L. Civco. 2004. Temporal characterization of impervious surfaces for the state of Connecticut. Proc. 2004 ASPRS Annual Convention, Denver, CO. 12 p.
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., 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, 
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. 
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.
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.
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.
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.
Flanagan, M. and D.L. Civco. 2001. Subpixel Impervious Surface Mapping. Proc. 2001 ASPRS Annual Convention, St. Louis, MO. 13 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Book Chapters

Gilmore, M.S., D.L. Civco, E.H. Wilson, N. Barrett, S. Prisloe, J.D. Hurd, and C. Chadwick. 2009. Remote sensing and in situ measurements for delineation and assessment of coastal marshes and their constituent species. Chapter 13 in Remote Sensing of Coastal Environment, Y.Q. Wang (ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

Hurd, J.D., D.L. Civco, E.H. Wilson and C.L. Arnold. 2009. Coastal Area Land Cover Change Analysis for Connecticut. Chapter 17 in Remote Sensing of Coastal Environment, Y.Q. Wang (ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

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.
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.

Other
Deputy Chairman, ASPRS Education and Professional Development Committee
Director, Center for Land use Education And Research
National Advisor, ASPRS Remote Sensing Model Curriculum, University of Mississippi Center for GeoSpatial Workforce Development

   
  Dr. Daniel L. Civco
Professor, Director of CLEAR


Center for Land use Education And Research
Department of Natural Resources and the Environment
The University of Connecticut
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Email:
daniel.civco@uconn.edu
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