Soe Myint

Soe.Myint@asu.edu
School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
Arizona State University
975 S Myrtle Ave
TEMPE

Professor
Faculty
TEMPE Campus
Mailcode
5302

Biography

Soe W. Myint spent four years at the United Nations Environment Program – Environment Assessment Program for Asia and the Pacific as a research specialist before starting his doctorate. During his doctoral study, he was invited to serve as a consultant at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

He received an Outstanding Achievement Award (AAG-RSSG), Prominent Alumnus of Asian Institute of Technology, Best Paper Award for Early Career Scholars in Remote Sensing (American Association of Geographers), AITAA Distinguished Alumni Award (2007) for Academic and Research Excellence, USGS scholar award (International Conference on GIScience, 2000), Intergraph Young Scholar award (University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS, 2002), and CPGIS Scholar, 2005 (selected by the Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Science Abroad). He was nominated for the Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award (tenured and tenure-track faculty members (2017) and invited as an Honored Guest (2009) by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, for making difference in multiple undergraduate students’ education. During his graduate studies, he received four best student paper awards and two 2nd-best paper awards at different national, international, and regional level professional meetings.

He has served as president, vice president, membership chair, and director of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Southwest U.S. Region. He also served as chair, vice chair, and director of the American Association of Geographers - RSSG and is faculty sponsor of the ASU student chapter of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. He has been serving as Editor-in-Chief of Urban Remote Sensing section, Remote Sensing journal, Subject Editor of Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, Editorial Advisory Board Member of the International Journal of Remote Sensing (formerly Associate Editor, IJRS), and Editorial Board Member of GIScience and Remote Sensing. 

He gave a graduation speech at the 129th graduation ceremony of the Asian Institute of Technology. Here's a chance to hear his message: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-un1liwqPRo

 

CV

74-Myint_CV_March_2019.pdf

Education

  • Ph.D. Louisiana State University
  • M.S. Asian Institute of Technology
  • Post Graduate Diploma, International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC, the Netherlands)
  • B.S. Rangoon University, Myanmar

Videos

Graduation Address by Professor Soe W. Myint at the 129th Graduation Ceremony of the Asian Institute of Technology

Research Interests

Remote sensing; GIS; geospatial statistics; land use land cover change and prediction; assessment and monitoring of drought, land degradation, and desertification; landscape fragmentation; urban environmental modeling including urban water use and climate analysis; forest characterization including coastal environments; disaster assessment, recovery, and monitoring; agriculture water use, evapotranspiration, and surface energy analysis; spatial modeling; and classification algorithm development.

Publications

 

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2018

 

2018: Estoque, R.C., S.W. Myint, C. Wang, A. Ishtiaque, T.T. Aung, L. Emerton, M. Ooba, H. Yasuaki, M.S. Mon, Z. Wang, C. Fan, 2018, Assessing environmental impacts and change in Myanmar’s mangrove ecosystem service value due to deforestation (2000-2014), Global Change Biology, DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14409.

2018: Wang, Y., B.K. Hu, S.W. Myint, C. Feng, W.T. Chow, P.F. Passy, 2018. Patterns of Land Change and Their Potential Impacts on Land Surface Temperature Change in Yangon, Myanmar, Science of the Total Environment, 643 (2018):738-750.

2018: Estoque, R.C., Y. Murayama, R. Lasco, S. W. Myint, F.B. Pulhin, C. Wang, M. Ooba, Y. Hijioka, 2018. Changes in the Landscape Pattern of the La Mesa Watershed – The Last 2 Ecological Frontier of Metro Manila, Philippines, Forest Ecology and Management, 430(2018): 280-290.

2018: Fan, P. J. Chen, N. Zaw; O. Zutao; N. K. Moe ; Z.N. Myint, J. Qi, and S.W. Myint, 2018.Urbanization and environmental changes in Yangon during economic transition of Myanmar, Environmental Research Letters (Accepted).

2018: Wang, C., S.W. Myint, P. Fan, M. Stuhlmacher, and J. Yang, 2018. The Impact of Urban Expansion on the Regional Environment in Myanmar: A Case Study of Two Capital Cities, Landscape Ecology, 33(5):765-782.

2018: Wang C., A. Middel, S.W.M. Myint, S. Kaplan, A. J. Brazel, and J. Lukasczyk, 2018. Assessing Local Climate Zones in Arid Cities: The Case of Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (Accepted).

2018. Fan, P.; J. Chen, Z. Ouyang, P. Groisman, T. Loboda, G. Gutman, A. Prishchepov, A. Kvashnina, J. Messina, N. Moore, S.W. Myint, J. Qi, 2018. Urbanization and sustainability under transitional economies: A synthesis for Asian Russia, Environmental Research Letters, 13 (2018) 095007, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aadbf8.

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2017

 

2017: Fan, C., S.W. Myint, S. Rey, and W. Li, 2017. Time series evaluation of landscape dynamics using annual Landsat imagery and spatial statistical modeling: Evidence from the Phoenix metropolitan region, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 58:12-25.

2017: Zhu, Y., Liu, K., Liu, L., Myint, S. W., Wang, S., Liu, H., & He, Z. (2017). Exploring the potential of world view-2 red-edge band-based vegetation indices for estimation of mangrove leaf area index with machine learning algorithms. Remote Sensing, 9(10), [1060]. DOI: 10.3390/rs9101060

2017: Myint, S.W., C. Wang, and A. Ishtiaque, 2017. A space-time analysis approach to tackle some emerging environmental issues, the 18th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty: Responsible Land Governance—Towards an Evidence-Based Approach, March 20-24, 2017, Washington, DC, p59.

2017: Song, J., Z. Wang, S.W. Myint, and C. Wang, 2017. The hysteresis effect on surface-air temperature relationship and its implications to urban planning: An examination in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Landscape and Urban Planning, 167(2017): 198-211.

2017: Fan, C., S. W. Myint, S. Kaplan, A. Middel, B. Zheng, A. Raham, H. Huang, A. Brazel, and D. G. Blumberg, 2017. Understanding the Impact of Urbanization on Surface Urban Heat Islands – A Longitudinal Analysis of the Oasis Effect in Subtropical Desert Cities, Remote Sensing, 2017, 9, 672; doi:10.3390/rs9070672.

2017: Wang, C, Wang, C., S.W. Myint, and Z. Wang, 2017. Landscape determinants of spatio-temporal patterns of aerosol optical depth in the two most polluted metropolitans in the United States, Science of the Total Environment, 609(2017):1556–1565.

2017: Tran, D.X., F. Pla, P. Latorre-Carmona, S.W. Myint, M. Caetano, and H. V. Kieu, 2017. Characterizing the Relationship between Land Use Land Cover Change and Land Surface Temperature, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 124: 119–132.

2017: Wang, C., J. Yang, S.W. Myint, Z. Wang, and B. Tong, 2016. Empirical Modelling and Spatio-temporal Patterns of Urban Evapotranspiration for the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, Arizona, GIScience and Remote Sensing, 53 (6), 778-792.

2017: Kamal, S., Huang, H. P., & Myint, S. W. (2017). Numerical simulations to quantify the diurnal contrast in local climate trend induced by desert urbanization. Environment Systems and Decisions, 1-13. DOI: 10.1007/s10669-017-9657-2.

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2016

 

2016: Feng, X., and S.W. Myint, 2016. Exploring the Effect of Neighboring Land Cover Pattern on Land Surface Temperature of Central Building Objects, Building and Environment, 95:346-354.

2016: Jenerette, G.D., S.L. Harlan; A. Buyantuev; W.L. Stefanov; J. Declet-Barreto; B.L. Ruddell; S.W.Myint; S. Kaplan; X. Li, 2016. Micro scale urban surface temperatures are related to land covers and lived experiences of residents in Phoenix, AZ USA, Landscape Ecology, 31(4):745-760.

2016: Hamdan, A. and S.W. Myint, 2016. Biogeomorphic relationships and riparian vegetation changes along altered ephemeral stream channels: Florence to Marana, AZ, Professional Geographer, 68(1):26-38.

2016: Li, Z., W. Shi, S.W. Myint, and G. Qiao, 2016. Semi-automated landslide inventory mapping from bitemporal aerial photographs using change detection and level set method, Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 175, pp. 215-230. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2016.01.003.

2016: S. Kaplan, C. Gilletti, W. Chow, and S.W.Myint, 2016. First order approximation of Broadband Albedo with High Resolution Quickbird Imagery: a case study for arid urban areas, Giscience and Remote Sesnsing (Accepted).

2016: Wang, C., S.W. Myint, Z. Wang, J. Song, 2016. Spatio-temporal Modeling of the Urban Heat Island in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area: Land Use Change Implications, Remote Sensing, 8(185):1-17.

2016: Galletti, C.S., B.L. Turner II, S.W. Myint, 2016. Land changes and their drivers in the cloud forest and coastal zone of Dhofar, Oman, between 1988 and 2013, Regional Environmental Change, 1-13, 10.1007/s10113-016-0942-2.

2016: Ishtiaque, A., S.W. Myint, C. Wang, 2016. Examining the ecosystem health and sustainability of the world’s largest mangrove forest using multi-temporal MODIS products, Science of the total Environment, 569-570: 1241-1254. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969716313870​.

2016: Wang, C. and S.W. Myint, 2016. Environmental Concerns of Deforestation in Myanmar 2001-2010, Remote Sensing. 2016, 8(9), 728; doi:10.3390/rs8090728.

2016: Wang, C., J. Yang, S.W. Myint, Z. Wang, and B. Tong, 2016. Empirical Modelling and Spatio-temporal Patterns of Urban Evapotranspiration for the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, Arizona, GIScience and Remote Sensing, 53 (6), 778-792.

2016: Wang, Z., C. Fan, S.W. Myint, C. Wang, 2016. Size matters: what are the characteristic window sizes for urban planning strategies?, PLOS-1, Source Areas for Urban Planning Strategies? PLoS ONE 11(11): e0165726. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0165726.

2016: Estoque, R.C., Y. Murayama, and S.W. Myint, 2016. Effects of landscape pattern on land surface temperature: an urban heat island study in the megacities of Southeast Asia, Science of the total Environment / Science of the Total Environment, 577: 349–359.

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2015

 

2015: Myint, S.W., Tong Zhu, and Baojuan Zheng, 2015. A Novel Image Classification Algorithm Using Over-complete Wavelet Transforms, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 12(6):1232-1236.

2015: Wang, C. and S.W. Myint, 2015. A Simplified Empirical Line Method of Radiometric Calibration for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems-based Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 8(5):1-10.

2015: Myint, S.W., B. Zheng, E. Talen, C. Fan, S. Kaplan, A. Middel, M. Smith, H. Huang, and A. Brazel. 2015. Does the spatial arrangement of urban landscape matter? Examples of urban warming and cooling in Phoenix and Las Vegas. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 1(4):15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/EHS14-0028.1.

2015: Zheng, B., S.W. Myint, P.S. Thenkabail, and R. Aggarwal, 2015. A support vector machine to identify irrigated crop types using time-series Landsat NDVI data, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 34 (2015):103-112.

2015: Fan, C., S.W. Myint, and B. Zheng, 2015. Measuring spatial arrangement of urban vegetation and its impacts on seasonal surface temperatures, Progress in Physical Geography, 39(2), 199-219. doi: 10.1177/0309133314567583.

2015: Wang, C., S.W. Myint, M. Hutchins, 2015. The Assessment of Deforestation, Forest Degradation, and Carbon Release in Myanmar (2000-2010), Editor: Pankaj Thapa, Environment and conservation in the human-dominated Himalaya Book, Springer (accepted).

2015: Kamal, S., H. Huang, and S.W. Myint, 2015. The influence of urbanization on the climate of Las Vegas metropolitan area: A numerical study, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 54, 2157-2177.

2015: Zhao, Q., S.W. Myint, Elizabeth Wentz, Chao Fan, 2015. Rooftop Surface Temperature Analysis in Urban Residential Environment, Remote Sensing, 7(9):12135-12159.

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2014

 

2014: Kaplan, S., S. W. Myint, F. Chao and A. J. Brazel. 2014. Quantifying outdoor water consumption of urban landuse/land cover: Sensitivity to drought. Environmental Management 53(4):855-864. DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0245-7.

2014: Wentz, E.A., A.J. Wills, W.K. Kim, S. W. Myint, P. Gober, and R. C. Balling, Jr., 2014. Factors Influencing Summertime Water Consumption in Multifamily Housing in Tempe Arizona, Professional Geographer, 66:3, 501-510, DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2013.805627.

2014: Fan, C. and Myint, S.W., 2014.A comparison of spatial autocorrelation indices and landscape metrics in measuring urban landscape fragmentation. Landscape and Urban Planning, 121, 117-128.

2014: Zhang, C., H. Cooper, D. Selch, X. Meng, F. Qiu, S.W. Myint, C. Roberts, and Z. Xie, 2014. Mapping Urban Land Covers Using Object-based Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture 1 Analysis, Remote Sensing Letters, 121(2014): 117-128.

2014: Galletti, C., and S.W. Myint, 2014. Land-use mapping in a mixed urban-agricultural arid landscape using ASTER imagery: An object-based image analysis approach, Remote Sensing, 2014, 6, 6089-6110.

2014: Zheng, B., Myint, S.W., and C. Fan, 2014. Spatial configuration of anthropogenic land cover impacts on urban warming, Landscape and Urban Planning, 130(2014):104-111.

2014: Kang, M.J., V. Mesev, and S.W. Myint, 2014. Urbanization and Quality of Stormwater Runoff: Remote Sensing Measurements of Land Cover in an Arid City, Korean Journal of Remote Sensing, 30(3):399-415.

2014: Li, X., S.W. Myint, Y. Zhang, C. Galletti, X. Zhang, B.L. Turner, 2014. Object-based Land-Cover Classification for Metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, Using Aerial Photography, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 33 (2014): 321–330.

2014: Wentz, E.A., S. Anderson, M. Fragkias, M. Netzband, V. Mesev, S.W. Myint, D. Quattrochi, A. Rahman, and K.C. Seto, 2014. Supporting Global Environmental Change Research: A Review of Trends and Knowledge Gaps in Urban Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, 6:3879-3905.

2014: Fan, C., B. Zheng, S.W. Myint, and R. Aggarwal, 2014. Characterizing changes in cropping patterns using sequential Landsat imagery: An adaptive threshold approach and application to Phoenix, Arizona, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 35 (20):7263-7278.

2014: Fan, C., W. Li, L.J. Wolf, and S.W. Myint, 2014. A Spatiotemporal Compactness Pattern Analysis of Congressional Districts to Assess Partisan Gerrymandering: A Case Study with California and North Carolina, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 105: 736-753, DOI:10.1080/00045608.2015.1039109.

2014: Ackley, J.; J. Wu, M. Angilletta, S. W. Myint, and B. Sullivan, 2014. Rich lizards: How affluence and land cover influence the diversity and abundance of native lizards persisting in an urban landscape, Conservation Biology, 182:87–92.

2014: Huang, H., B.C. Hedquist, T. Lee, and S.W. Myint, 2014, Climate Modeling for Renewable Energy Applications, Advances in Meteorology , Volume 2014, Article ID 354862, 2 pages (Editorial), http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/354862.

2014: Myint, S.W., B. Zheng, F. Chao, and M. Smith, 2014. The impact of spatial arrangements of built land cover types on urban warming, Proceedings of the 2014 Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Nay Pyi Daw, Oct. 27 – 31, 2014, http://www.a-a-r-s.org/acrs/administrator/components/com_jresearch/files/publications/OS-311%20Paper-2014-ACRS-Myint-final.pdf.

2014: Myint, S.W., V. Mesev, D. Quattrochi, and E. A. Wentz,, 2014. Urban Image Classification: Per-pixel Classifiers, Sub-pixel Analysis, Object-based Image Analysis, and Geospatial Methods, Editor Prasad Thenkabail, Remote Sensing Handbook (Accepted).

2014: Myint, S.W., J. Franklin, M. Buenemann, W. K. Kim, and C. P. Giri, 2014. Examining change detection approaches for tropical mangrove monitoring, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 80(10):983-993.

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2013

 

2013: Myint, S.W., E.A. Wentz, A.J. Brazel, and D.A. Quattrochi, 2013. The impact of distinct anthropogenic and vegetation features on urban warming, Landscape Ecology, 28:959-978.

2013: Myint, S.W., C.S. Galletti, S. Kaplan, W. K. Kim, 2013. Object vs. Pixel: A systematic evaluation in urban environments, Geocarto International, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2013.776642, 28(7):657-678.

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2012

 

2012: Kaplan, S., and S.W. Myint, 2012. Estimating agricultural water use through Landsat TM and a simplified surface energy balance modeling in the semi-arid environments of Arizona, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 78(8):849-859.

2012: Wagner, M. A., Myint, S.W., and R.S. Cerveny, 2012. Geospatial Assessment of Reconstruction Rates Following a Tornado Disaster, IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, 50(11):4313-4322.

2012: Myint, S.W., 2012. The effects of the spatial pattern of vegetation cover on urban warming in a desert city, Advances in Mapping from Aerospace Imagery: Techniques and Applications (Editors X. Yang and J. Li), Taylor and Francis Group, LLC, pp 261-278.

2012: Middel, A., Brazel, A. J., Kaplan, S., & Myint, S. W., 2012. Diurnal summer cooling-water use tradeoff in Phoenix, AZ. Climate Research, 54:21-34, DOI: 10.3354/cr01103.

2012: Wentz, E. A., D. A. Quattrochi, M. Netzband & S.W. Myint, 2012. Synthesizing urban remote sensing through application, scale, data and case studies, Geocarto International, 27:425-442.

2012: Judkins, G. and S.W. Myint, 2012. Spatial Variation of Soil Salinity in the Mexicali Valley, Mexico: Application of a Practical Method for Agricultural Monitoring, Environmental Management, 50(3): 478-489.

2012: Myint, S.W., and Mesev, V., 2012. A comparative analysis of spatial indices and wavelet-based classification, Remote Sensing Letters, 3(2): 141–150.

2012: Middel, A., Brazel, A. J., Gober, P., Myint, S. W., Chang, H., & Duh, J.-D., 2011. Land cover, climate, and the summer surface energy balance in Phoenix, AZ and Portland, OR. International Journal of Climatology, 32, 2020-2032.

2012: Gober, P., Middel, A., Brazel, A. J., Myint, S. W., Chang, H., Duh, J.-D., and L. House-Peters, 2012. Tradeoffs between water conservation and temperature amelioration in Phoenix and Portland: implications for urban sustainability. Urban Geography, 33(7):1030-1054.

2012: Wentz, E.A., K.C. Seto, S.W. Myint, M. Netzband, and M. Fragkias, 2012. Urban Remote Sensing (URS) and Forecasting Urban Landuse (FORE) workshops: common ground and targeted opportunities, UGEC Viewpoint.

2012: Dell'Acqua, F., E.A. Wentz, S.W. Myint, and M. Netzband, 2012. Understanding the Drivers and Consequences of Global Urbanization using Emerging Remote Sensing Technologies, Earthzine - http://www.earthzine.org/2011/09/30/understanding-the-drivers-and-consequences-of-global-urbanization-using-emerging-remote-sensing-technologies.

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2011

 

2011: Myint, S.W., and Stow, D., 2011. An object‐oriented pattern recognition approach for urban classification. In X. Yang (Editor), Urban Remote Sensing, Monitoring, Synthesis and Modeling in the Urban Environment, John Wiley & Sons, pp 129-140.

2011: Myint, S.W., Gober, P., Brazel, A, Grossman-Clarke, S., and Weng, Q., 2011. Per-pixel versus object-based classification of urban land cover extraction using high spatial resolution imagery, Remote Sensing of Environment, 115(2011): 1145-1161.

2011: Middel, A., A. Brazel, B. Hagen, and S. Myint 2011. Land Cover Modification Scenarios and Their Effects on Daytime Heating in the Inner Core Residential Neighborhoods of Phoenix, Arizona, Journal of Urban Technology, 18(4):61–79.

2011: Md Aktaruzzaman, Sharon Biermann, Anthony Brazel, Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Bjoern Hagen, Hans Hagen, Luc Heischbourg, Dongwoo Lee, Ariane Middel, Kerstin Müller, Soe Myint, Kyushik Oh, and Changsug Park, 2011. Planning Support Toolkits for Building Sustainable Communities, Journal of Urban Technology, 18(4), 113-114.

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2010

 

2010: Myint, S.W., 2010. Multi-resolution Decomposition in Relation to Characteristic Scales and Local Window Sizes Using an Operational Wavelet Algorithm, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 31(10):2551-2572.

2010: Gober, P., A. Brazel, R. Quay, S.W. Myint, S. Grossman-Clarke, A. Miller, and S. Rossi, 2010. Using Watered Landscapes to Manipulate Urban Heat Island Effects, How Much Water Will It Take to Cool Phoenix?, Journal of the American Planning Association, 76:109-121.

2010: Myint, S.W., 2010. Spatial Autocorrelation,  Encyclopedia of Geography editor B. Warf, London and Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.Publications, Inc., pp 2607-2608.

2010: Myint, S.W., Brazel, A., Okin, G., and Buyantuyev, A., 2010. An interactive function of impervious and vegetation covers in relation to the urban heat island effect in a rapidly urbanizing desert city, GIScience and Remote Sensing, 47: (3) 301-320.

2010: Myint, S. W., Jyoti, J., S Guhathakurta, 2010. Patterns and rates of land use change: a case study of Ambos Nogales (Arizona and Sonora), Journal of Latin American Geography, 9(3): 246-274.

2010: Myint, S.W., Jain, J., Lukinbeal, C., and Lara-Valencia, F., 2010. Simulating urban growth on the U.S.-Mexico border: Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing , 36(3): 166-184.

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2009

 

2009: Myint, S.W., and G.S. Okin, 2009. Modelling land-cover types using multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis in a desert city, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 30(9):2237 – 2257.

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2008

 

2008: Myint, S.W., C.P. Giri, L. Wang, Z. Zhu, and S. Gillette, 2008. Identifying mangrove species and their surrounding land use and land cover classes using an object oriented approach with a lacunarity spatial measure, GIScience and Remote Sensing, 45(2):188-208.

2008: Myint, S.W., 2008. An Exploration of Spatial Dispersion, Pattern and Association of Socio-economic Functional Units in an Urban System, Applied Geography, 28(2008):168-188 (Listed as one of the top 25 hottest articles by Science Direct).

2008: Myint, S.W., M. Yuan, R. Cerveny, and C.P. Giri, 2008. Categorizing Natural Disaster Damage Assessment Using Satellite-Based Geospatial Techniques, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 8:707-719.

2008: Myint, S.W., M. Yuan, R. Cerveny, and C.P. Giri, 2008. Comparison of remote sensing image processing techniques to identify tornado damage areas from Landsat TM data, Sensors, 8: 1128-1156.

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2007

 

2007: Tang, J, L. Wang, and S.W. Myint, 2007. Improving urban classification through fuzzy supervised classification and spectral mixture analysis, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28(18): 4047-4063.

2007: Myint, S.W., E. Wentz, and S. Purkis, 2007. Employing spatial metrics in urban land use/land cover mapping: comparing the Getis and Geary indices, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 73(21):1403-1415. (Best Paper Award Winner).

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2006

 

2006: Myint, S.W., 2006. Urban vegetation mapping using sub-pixel analysis and expert system rules: A critical approach, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27(12-14):2645-2665.

2006: S.J. Purkis, S.W. Myint, and B. M. Riegl, 2006. Enhanced detection of the coral Acropora cervicornis from satellite imagery using a textural operator, Remote Sensing of Environment, 101(2006):82-94.

2006: Myint, S.W., V. Mesev, and N.S.N Lam, 2006. Urban Textural Analysis from Remote Sensor Data: Lacunarity Measurement based on the Differential Box Counting Method, Geographical Analysis, 38:371-390.

2006: Myint, S.W. and L. Wang, 2006. Multi-criteria Decision Approach for Land Use Land Cover Change Using Markov Chain Analysis and Cellular Automata Approach, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 32(6):390-404.

2006: Myint, S.W., 2006. A New Framework for Effective Urban Land Use Land Cover Classification: A Wavelet Approach, GIScience and Remote Sensing, 43(2):155-178.

2006: Myint, S.W., 2006. Urban Mapping with Geospatial Algorithms, Urban Remote Sensing (Qihao Weng and Dale Quattrochi, editors), Taylor and Frances, pp. 109-135.

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2005

 

2005: Myint, S.W., and N.S.N Lam, 2005. A Study of Lacunarity-Based Texture Analysis Approaches to Improve Urban Image Classification, Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, 29(2005):501-523.

2005: Myint, S.W., and N.S.N Lam, 2005. Examining Lacunarity Approaches in Comparison with Fractal and Spatial Autocorrelation Techniques for Urban Mapping, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 71(8):927-937.

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2004

 

2004: Myint, S.W., N.S.N. Lam, J. Tyler, 2004. Wavelet for Urban Spatial Feature Discrimination: Comparisons with Fractal, Spatial Autocorrelation, and Spatial Co-occurrence Approaches, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 70(7):803-812.

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2003

 

2003: Myint, S.W., 2003. Fractal Approaches in Texture Analysis and Classification of Remotely Sensed Data:  Comparisons with Spatial Autocorrelation Techniques and Simple Descriptive Statistics, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24(9): 1925-1947.

2003: Myint, S.W., 2003. The Use of Wavelets for Feature Extraction of Cities in Satellite Images, Remotely Sensed Cities (Victor Mesev, editor), Taylor and Frances, pp. 109-134.

2003: Walker, N., S.W. Myint, A. Babin and A. Haag, 2003. Advances in satellite radiometry for the surveillance of surface temperatures, ocean eddies and upwelling processes in the Gulf of Mexico using GOES-8 measurements during summer, Geophysical Research Letters, 30(16): 1854,doi:10.1029/2003GLO17555.

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2002

 

2002: Myint, S.W., and N. Walker, 2002. Quantification of Surface Suspended Sediments Along a River Dominated Coast with NOAA AVHRR and SeaWiFS Measurements: Louisiana, USA, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 23(16): 3229-3249.

2002: Myint, S.W., N.S.N. Lam, J. Tyler, 2002. An Evaluation of Four Different Wavelet Decomposition Procedures for Spatial Feature Discrimination Within and Around Urban Areas, Transactions in GIS, 6(4):403-429.

2002: Walker, N.D., H. Roberts, G. Stone, S. Bentley, O. Huh, A. Sheremet, L. Rouse, M. Inoue, S. Welsh, S.A. Hsu, and S.W. Myint, 2002. Satellite-based assessment of sediment transport, distribution and resuspension associated with the Atchafalaya River discharge plume, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions 52, 967-973.

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2001

 

2001: Myint, S.W., 2001. A Robust Texture Analysis and Classification Approach for Urban Land-Use and Land-Cover Feature Discrimination, Geocarto International, 16(4)27-38.

Research Activity

Courses

Spring 2019
Course Number Course Title
GIS 351 Air Photo Interpretation
Fall 2018
Course Number Course Title
GIS 205 Geographic Info Science I
GPH 494 Special Topics
GPH 598 Special Topics
Spring 2018
Course Number Course Title
GIS 351 Air Photo Interpretation
GIS 592 Research
GPH 599 Thesis
GPH 690 Reading and Conference
GPH 799 Dissertation
Fall 2017
Course Number Course Title
GPH 494 Special Topics
GPH 569 Digital Analysis Remote Data
GPH 598 Special Topics
GPH 599 Thesis
GPH 799 Dissertation
Spring 2017
Course Number Course Title
GPH 590 Reading and Conference
GIS 592 Research
GPH 792 Research
GPH 799 Dissertation
Fall 2016
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GPH 494 Special Topics
GPH 569 Digital Analysis Remote Data
GPH 598 Special Topics
GPH 792 Research
GPH 799 Dissertation
Summer 2016
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GPH 795 Continuing Registration
Spring 2016
Course Number Course Title
PUP 792 Research
GPH 792 Research
Fall 2015
Course Number Course Title
GPH 494 Special Topics
GPH 569 Digital Analysis Remote Data
GPH 592 Research
GPH 598 Special Topics
GPH 792 Research
Spring 2015
Course Number Course Title
GPH 792 Research
Fall 2014
Course Number Course Title
GPH 494 Special Topics
GPH 569 Digital Analysis Remote Data
GPH 592 Research
GPH 598 Special Topics

Presentations

Conference Presentations/ Exhibitions/ Colloquia

 

2016 Presentations

 

Invited presentations

Myint, S.W. (2016). Invited talk given at the 4th International Conference on Environmental Sciences (Dubai - Dec 8, 2016 )  Title: The impact of distinct anthropogenic and vegetation features on desert urban warming.

Myint, S.W. (2016). Invited talk given at International Land Cover/Land Use Changes Regional Sciences Meeting in South and Southeast Asia, Yangon, Myanmar, January 13-15, 2016  Titled: Deforestation in Myanmar  Land and Atmospheric Effects.

Myint, S.W. (2016). Invited talk given at San Diego State University Department of Geography (October 7, 2016)  Title: A space-time analysis to tackle some emerging environmental issues.

Myint, S.W. (2016). Invited talk given at the 2016 International Meeting on Land Use and Emissions in South/Southeast Asia, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, October 1719, 2016. Titled: An Examination of the impacts of Urbanization on the Environment: Experiences from current and former capitals of Myanmar.

Myint, S.W. (2016). Invited talk given at University of Yangon, Myanmar, January 12, 2016. Titled: Environmental Consequences Due to Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Myanmar.

 

Non-invited presentations

  1. Soe Myint, 2016. Titled: Urban heat islands: Global variation and determinants in hot desert cities, presented at the LCLUC Spring Science Team Meeting, 2016 (20th Anniversary), 18th-19th April, 2016, North Bethesda, Maryland.
  2. Soe Myint, 2016. Titled: Environmental Concerns on Deforestation in Myanmar (2001  2010), presented at 2016 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting (AAG), San Francisco.

 

2015 Presentations

 

Invited presentations

Myint, S.W. (2015). Invited talk titled Research Management in a New American University to a delegation and members from Chinese Academy of Sciences at the ASU Memorial Union, Sept. 11, 2015.

Myint, S.W. (2015). Keynote Speaker at Harbin Normal University. Titled Remotely sensed climate stories: micro and macro scale examples , July 1, 2015.

Myint, S.W. (2015). Invited talk at United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Titled Remotely sensed stories: land use land cover change, desert urbanization, population growth, and climate change.

Myint, S.W. (2015). Invited talk at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. Titled Remotely sensed urban data for planning a sustainable future on April 7, 2015 at KFUPM Building #19.

Myint, S.W. (2015). Invited talk at a workshop titled Innovations in Sustainable Food Systems: Improving Youth Engagement and Entrepreneurship on the Farm and Beyond, organized by the the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. Talk titled Farmer-friendly Support Tools Using Remote Sensing.

Myint, S.W. (2015). Invited talk titled Land use land cover change in connection to water use, carbon release, land degradation, food security, disaster issues, and climate change, Second 2015 International Workshop: To Explore Research Frontiers through Partnerships in the Lower Mekong Basin and the Mekong National History Museum, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam, 30 Nov  1 Dec, 2015.

Myint, S.W. (2015). Invited talk titled Remotely sensed stories: land use land cover change, desert urbanization, population growth, and climate change, Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment at ASU, 2 March, 2015.

 

Non-invited presentations

Myint, S.W. (2015). Exploring the influence of built and vegetative features on urban warming and cooling: Does spatial arrangement matter? American Meteorological Society 95th Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ.

Myint, S.W. (2015). Gave a talk to officials from SRP. Title Evaluation of Drought Risks and its Impact on Agriculture Land and Water Use to Support Adaptive Decision-making (2012-2015).

Myint, S.W. (2015). A Novel Image Classification Algorithm Using Over-complete Wavelet Transforms, AAG Meeting, Chicago, 2015.

Myint, S.W. (2015). Remotely sensed stories: land use land cover change, desert urbanization, population growth, and climate change, Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment at ASU, 2 March, 2015.

 

2014 Presentations

 

Invited presentations

Myint, S.W. (2014). Invited talk given at Summit Parkview Hotel, organized by ECODEV, February 11, 2014. Titled: Remotely Sensed Environmental Issues and Solutions: Examples and Case Studies.

Myint, S.W. (2014). Invited talk given at National University of Singapore (14th February 2014). Titled: Can pixels tell climate related stories?.

 

Non-invited presentations

Myint S.W. (2014). Exploring the spatial configuration of anthropogenic features and the effect it has on surface temperatures, 2014 AAG Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida.

Myint, S.W. (2014). The impact of spatial configuration of anthropogenic features on urban warming, 35th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS), held in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, 27-31 October, 2014.

Myint, S.W. (2014). Does the spatial arrangement of vegetation and anthropogenic land cover features matter? Case studies of urban warming and cooling in Phoenix and Las Vegas, 2014. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, 15-19 December, 2014.

Myint, S.W. (2014). I gave a talk at a workshop for K-12 teachers organized by Arizona Geographic Alliances, Title "Remote Sensing (Background and example applications)."

 

2013 Presentations

 

Invited presentations

Myint, S.W. (2013). Fall regional NASA LCLUC Science Meetings on Land Use and Water Resources (Both leadership summit and technical meeting) from Nov 6 to Nov 13, 2013 in Uzbekistan. I attended the meetings and gave presentations.

Myint, S.W. (2013). I was asked to give a talk and present a poster with regards to the NASA project overview, and preliminary results and findings of my current NASA project at the annual NASA LCLUC Science meeting. Hence, I attended and gave presentations at the NASA Science meeting between April 2, 2013 and April 4, 2013 in Washington DC.

Myint, S.W. (2013). Can pixels tell climate change stories?, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning Colloquium, Sept. 20, 2013.

Myint, S.W. (2013). The Impact of distinct Anthropogenic and Vegetation Features on Urban Warming, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India on March 19, 2013

Myint, S.W. (2013). The Impact of Detailed Land-cover Categories on Urban Warming, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India on March 19, 2013.

 

Non-invited presentations

Myint, S.W. (2013). The impact of distinct anthropogenic and vegetation features on urban warming, Association of American Geographers Meeting, April 9-13, 2013, Los Angeles, CA.

Myint, S.W. (2013). Exploring the relation between spatial configuration of buildings and remotely sensed temperatures, American Geophysical Union Annual meeting, Dec 11  Dc 13, 2013, San Francisco, CA.

Myint, S.W. (2013). The impact of detailed land-cover classes on desert urban warming, Deserts & Desertification Conference, 12 -15 November, 2012, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

Myint, S.W. (2013). Land Change and Degradation Along the US-Mexico Border, The Case of Ambos Nogales, Drylands, Deserts & Desertification Conference, 12 -15 November, 2012, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

 

2012 Presentations

Myint, S.W. (2012). An evaluation of segmentation parameters and nearest neighbor classifier in comparison to per-pixel supervised and unsupervised approaches, Association of American Geographers Meeting, 02/24/2012-02/28/2012, New York, New York.

 

2011 Presentations

Myint, S.W. (2011). Monitoring mangrove deforestation: a comparison of change detection techniques, Association of American Geographers Meeting, 4/13/11, Seattle, Washington.

 

2010 Presentations

Myint, S.W. (2010). The impact of detailed land-cover categories on urban warming, Association of American Geographers Meeting, Friday, 4/16/10, Washington DC.

 

2009 Presentations

Invited presentations

Myint, S.W. (2009). First Brown Bag Lunch presentation for GeoDa titled Object-based urban classification using a fine resolution imagery February 5, 2009.

Myint, S.W. (2009). Object-Based Urban Mapping, Southwest US Region, American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (SWASPRS) Technical Meeting and 53rd Annual Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences (ANAS) Meeting, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 4 April 2009.

 

Non-invited presentations

Myint, S.W. (2009). Identification of Urban Land Covers Using An Object-oriented Approach, 2009 AAG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, Thursday, 3/26/09.

Myint, S.W. (2009). Land use and Land Cover Change along the US-Mexico Border, The Case of Ambos Nogales, USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN) & SW Region, American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (SW-ASPRS), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, October 2, 2009.

 

2008 Presentations

 

Invited presentations

Myint, S.W. (2008). Urban Growth Patterns along the U.S.-Mexican Border: The Case of Yuma-San Luis and Ambos Nogales, 2008 Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy (SCERP) Annual Technical Conference at Arizona State University Memorial Union, December 5, 2008.

Myint, S.W. (2008). From sub-pixel to a group of pixels in environmental remote sensing, School of Geographical Sciences, ASU, February 8, 2008.

 

Non-invited presentations

Myint, S.W. (2008). An object-oriented approach and a lacunarity measure to identify different mangrove species and their surrounding land-use and land-cover types, 2008 AAG meeting, (April 15 to 19, 2008) in Boston.

Myint, S.W. (2008). Identifying Tornado Damaged Areas Using An Object-oriented Approach and Change Detection Techniques, Southwest Region of the ASPRS technical meeting and the 52nd annual meeting of the Arizona Nevada Academy of Science (ANAS) at Southwest College, Phoenix.

 

2007 Presentations

 

Invited presentations

Myint, S.W. (2007). Which approach is the best: sub-pixel, per-pixel, or geospatial techniques in image processing, Oregon State University (invited), November 2, 2007.

Myint, S.W. (2007). An interactive function of impervious and vegetation covers in relation to the urban heat island effect, University of Oklahoma, August, 24, 2007.

Myint, S.W. (2007). Modeling Urban Land Covers Using Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis at the American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Southwest Region Spring 2007 Technical Meeting, March 7, 2007, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University.

 

Non-invited presentations

Myint, S.W. (2007). Quantifying impervious surfaces in the Phoenix metropolitan area using multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis, 2007 AAG meeting, (April 17 to 23, 2007) in San Francisco.

Myint, S.W. (2007). A Lacunarity Approach for Urban Land Use Land Cover Classification at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences and part of Southwest Region, American Society of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, Northern Arizona University (March 31, 2007).

Myint, S.W. (2007). Quantifying impervious surfaces in the Phoenix metropolitan area using multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis, The CAP LTER Symposium, January 10th from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, Carson Ballroom, Arizona State University.

 

2006 Presentations

Myint, S.W. (2006). An Exploration of Spatial Dispersion, Pattern, and Association of Socio-economic Functional Units in an Urban System, The 2006 Meeting of The AAG, March 7-11 2006, Chicago, IL.

Myint, S.W. (2006). Mapping urban vegetation using sub-pixel analysis and expert system rules, 50th Annual Meeting of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, April 8, 2006.

 

2005 Presentations

 

Invited presentations

Myint, S.W. (2005). A Multi-scale Framework for Effective Land-Use Land-Cover Mapping: A Wavelet Approach in Comparison to Other Advanced Geospatial Techniques. Paper presented at the USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, South Dakota (September 19-20, 2005).

Myint, S.W. (2005). A Multi-scale Framework for Effective Land-Use Land-Cover Mapping. Paper presented at the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute, New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, Lyndhurst, New Jersey (October 16 -18, 2005).

 

Non-invited presentations

Myint, S.W. (2005). A New Wavelet Based Classification Framework. Paper presented at Poyang Lake Complex Environment Conference, Nanchang, Jinagxi province, China (June 27-29, 2005).

Myint, S.W. (2005). A New Operational Algorithm for Effective Urban Classification: A Wavelet Approach. Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Denver (5 - 9 April, 2005).

 

2003 Presentations

Myint, S.W. (2003). An Exploration of Lacunarity Approaches in Urban Texture Analysis and Classification. Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting, New Orleans (5 - 8 March, 2003).

 

2001 Presentations

Myint, S.W. (2001). Fractal Approaches in Texture Analysis and Classification of Remotely Sensed Data: Comparisons with Spatial Autocorrelation Techniques and Simple Descriptive Statistics. Paper presented at the Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers SWAAG Meeting, Ft. Worth, Texas (14-17 November, 2001).

Myint, S.W. (2001). Comparisons Between Wavelet Transforms and Fractal Analysis Methods for discriminating classes of Urban Land Cover From High Resolution Image Data. Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting, New York (27 Feb. - 3 March, 2001).

 

2000 Presentations

 

Invited presentations

Myint, S.W. (2000). Image texture analysis with high-resolution multispectral image data using wavelet transforms. Paper presented at the 2000 University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Annual Assembly and Summer Retreat, Portland, Oregon (21 - 24 June, 2000).

 

Non-invited presentations

Myint, S.W. (2000). Wavelet transforms: an efficient alternative approach to traditional land cover classifiers. Paper presented at the Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers SWAAG Meeting at the Texas A&M University (2 - 4 November, 2000).

Myint, S.W. (2000). Comparisons between Urban Mapping Units Derived from Spatial Co-occurrence Matrix and Wavelet Transforms. Paper presented at the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Fall 2000 Mid-South Region Meeting (MS-ASPRS), at the Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina (19 - 20 October, 2000).

Myint, S.W. (2000). The Use of Wavelets for Feature Extraction of Urban Areas in Satellite Images. Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (4 - 8 April, 2000).

 

1999 Presentations

Myint, S.W., (1999). Application of NOAA AVHRR and SeaWiFS reflectance measurements for the Detection and Quantification of Surface Suspended Sediments along a River Dominated Coast, Louisiana. Paper presented at the Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers (SWAAG) Meeting at the Southwest Texas State University (19 - 23 October, 1999).

 

1998 Presentations

Myint, S.W. (1998). Three Different Models for Mapping Salt Affected Soils Using Remote Sensing and GIS. Paper presented at the Fall Meeting for Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers (SWAAG) meeting at the Louisiana State University (29 - 31 October, 1998).

 

1997 Presentations

Myint, S.W., C. Thongthap, and A. Euimnoh(1997). Nutrient Depletion Modeling Using Remote Sensing and GIS: A Case Study in Chonburi, Thailand. Paper presented at the 18th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Kuala Lumpur (20 - 24 October, 1997).

 

1996 Presentations

Myint, S.W. (1996). Assessment and Monitoring of Coastal and Suspended Sediment Concentration and Vegetation Conditions. Paper presented at the third working group meeting for Coastal and Marine Environment Management Information System, Sanya, Hainan, China (27 - 29 August, 1996) (organized and sponsored by ADB and UNEP).

 

1995 Presentations

Myint, S.W. (1995). Assessment and Monitoring of Land Degradation and Desertification using Remote Sensing and GIS. Paper presented at the Asia-Pacific meeting on the follow-up to the international convention to combat Desertification, IBC, Ygn (10 - 13 April 1995) (organized and sponsored by ESCAP/UNDP/UNEP).

 

Honors/Awards

  1. Delivered a graduation speech at the 129th Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Graduation Ceremony on May 18, 2018 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-un1liwqPRo.
  2. Member, European Union Academy of Sciences (EUAS), elected 2018.
  3. Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology, 2017 (Co-author). United States International Association for Landscape Ecology, US-IALE annual meeting, Baltimore.
  4. Outstanding Achievement Award  American Association of Geographers (AAG) - Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RSSG), 2016 AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco. According to AAG-RSSG, this Award is the most prestigious award for established remote sensing scholars at AAG.
  5. Prominent Alumnus of AIT - Received the title of Prominent Alumnus of Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), http://www.aitalumni.com/prominent-alumni-people.
  6. 2015 Best Imported Book Award given by the China Press Association  Chinese version of the book titled Advances in Mapping from Aerospace Imagery: Techniques and Applications My chapter contribution: Myint, S.W., 2012. The effects of the spatial pattern of vegetation cover on urban warming in a desert city, Advances in Mapping from Aerospace Imagery: Techniques and Applications (Editors X. Yang and J. Li), Taylor and Francis Group, LLC, pp 261-278.
  7. Success Story - Among those awarded as Prominent Alumni, my biography was published under Success Stories of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Alumni Association, http://www.aitalumni.com/success-stories-view/10.
  8. Nominated for the Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award (given to tenured and tenure-track faculty members), 2017.
  9. Honored Guest (2009) College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Convocation ceremony, for making difference in multiple undergraduate students education, Arizona State University.
  10. ASPRS Conference Management Award (2010) Recipient. Received at the 2010 American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) annual conference in San Diego (April 26-30, 2010). The intent of this award is to recognize the great effort put forth by the individuals who volunteer their time to assist in the planning and execution of a successful annual conference.
  11. AITAA Distinguished Alumni Award (2007) for Academic and Research Excellence, Asian Institute of Technology.
  12. Best Paper Award for Early Career Scholars in Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing Specialty Group - AAG, 2007 - Published in PE&RS journal.
  13. CPGIS Scholar, 2005, selected by the Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Science Abroad (CPGIS) to give lectures and research presentations at Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang University, and Hubei University as part of the CPGIS Young Scholar Summit.
  14. CSISS Scholarship (Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science) to attend 2003 Geographically Weighted Regression workshop, University of California, Santa Barbara.
  15. Intergraph Young Scholar Award (UCGIS), 2002 UCGIS Summer Assembly, University of Georgia, Athens.
  16. USGS Scholar Award, First International Conference on GIScience, 2000, Savannah, GA, USA.
  17. Consultant (GIS) to World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland (1999) (while studying as a Ph.D. student).
  18. Best Student Paper Award  AAG - Remote Sensing Specialty Group, 2001 AAG meeting.
  19. Best Student Paper Award  American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)  Mid-South Region Meeting at Clemson University, South Carolina, 2000.
  20. Best Student Paper Award (UCGIS-2000), 2000 UCGIS Summer Assembly, Portland, Oregon. Forty-two GIS/RS Graduate students from different Disciplines/Departments and Universities across the United States participated in the competition.
  21. Best Poster Presentation Award, 1998 - 18th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  22. AAG Otis Paul Starkey Dissertation Research Award. Association of American Geographers, 2001.
  23. William G. Haag Award (2001). Most outstanding paper in professional meetings, Dept. of Geography & Anthropology, LSU.
  24. Best Student Paper Award (2nd place), 2000 South Western Division AAG meeting, Texas A&M University.
  25. Best Student Paper Award (2nd place), 1999 South Western Division AAG meeting at Texas State University, San Marcos.
  26. Robert C. West Field Research Award (November, 2000). Department of Geography and Anthropology, LSU.
  27. Student Oral Paper Presentation Award and Travel Award, UCGIS-2000. UCGIS Summer Assembly, Portland, Oregon.
  28. Scholars Enhanced Assistantship Award and Tuition Award (Graduate School), (9,000 US$, 1999 - 2001), LSU (1999 - 2001).
  29. Graduate School Travel Awards (3 awards): Graduate School, Louisiana State University [(October, 1999), (April, 2000), (October, 2000)].
  30. Best Student Award, 87th Public Service Officers Training Course (No. 87), Public Service Selection and Training Board, Myanmar, 1987.
  31. Best Student Award, Basic Officer Training Course No.1  Myanmar Timber Enterprise, Ministry of Forestry, Myanmar, 1986.
  32. Netherlands Government's Fellowship, Post Graduate Diploma studies at ITC, the Netherlands (1988 - 1989).
  33. French Government Scholarship, M.S. - Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok (1993 - 1994).

 

Editorships

  1. Editor-In-Chief  Urban Remote Sensing Section, Remote Sensing (started Sept 2018-present)
  2. Associate Editor  Remote Sensing (2016-2018)
  3. Subject Editor - Ecosystem Health and Sustainability (started April 2016)
  4. Editor  International Journal of Remote Sensing (2013-2016)
  5. Editorial Advisory Board - International Journal of Remote Sensing (started 2017)
  6. Editorial Board Member  GIScience and Remote Sensing Journal
  7. Guest Editor  Special Issue, Thermal Remote Sensing Applications: Present Status and Future Possibilities, Remote Sensing Journal.

Professional Associations

(1) Association of American Geographers (2) Association of American Geophysical Union (3) Remote Sensing Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (4) GIS Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (5) American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (6) American Association for the Advancement of Science (7) Ecological Society of America

Service

Significant Services

  1. Member, Scholarship Committee, Remote Sensing Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (2016-2017)
  2. Chair, Remote Sensing Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (2011-2013)
  3. President, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Southwest US Region (2009)
  4. NASA Land Cover and Land Use Change Science Team member.
  5. Project Associate - Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC) - An International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) Core Project.
  6. Member, USGS John Wesley Powell Center Working Group on Global Croplands and Water Use for Food Security in the 21st Century.
  7. Vice Chair, Remote Sensing Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (2009-2011)
  8. Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee - 2010 ASPRS Annual Conference (2009-2010)
  9. Vice President, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Southwest Region (2008)
  10. Director, Remote Sensing Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (2008-2009)
  11. Session Organizer for the 2008 AAG meeting, Remote Sensing Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers
  12. Director, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Southwest US Region (2006 – 2007)
  13. Membership Chair, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Southwest Region (2006)
  14. Faculty Advisor, ASU Chapter of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2007 – present)
  15. Award Committee, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Southwest Region (2007 – present)
  16. UCGIS – ASU delegate (2006-2007)
  17. Member –  Computer Committee (2006-2007), School of Geographical Sciences, ASU
  18. Member – Graduate Recruiting and Admission Committee (2006-2007), School of Geographical Sciences, ASU
  19. Forum organizer - School of Geographical Sciences, ASU (Fall 2006)
  20. Associate Director – Center for Spatial Analysis (2001-2005), University of Oklahoma
  21. Faculty Advisor – Geography Club (2002-2005), University of Oklahoma
  22. Faculty Sponsor – OU Chapter of the Gamma Theta Upsilon (2002-2005), University of Oklahoma
  23. Faculty Fellow – Institute for Science and Public Policy (2002-2005), University of Oklahoma.
  24. GIS Consultant – World Health Organization, Switzerland, 1999 (ref:STC 797794/001 - WHO)

 

 

Federal Government Public Advisory Committees

  1. EPA panel member (2004) – Environmental Protection Agency proposal review panel.
  2. NSF panel member (2004) – National Science Foundation proposal review panel.
  3. NSF proposal reviewer (2004) – National Science Foundation (different program from the above).
  4. Proposal reviewer for the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation and for science advisors to the State Department at Los Alamos, Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, Brookhaven and Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (2004).
  5. EPA proposal review panel (2005) – Environmental Protection Agency proposal review panel.
  6. NSF proposal review panel (2005) – National Science Foundation proposal review panel.
  7. NSF proposal reviewer (2005) – National Science Foundation (different program from the above).
  8. NSF proposal reviewer (2007) – National Science Foundation.
  9. NSF proposal reviewer (2009) - National Science Foundation.
  10. ARO proposal reviewer (2009) - U. S. Army Research Office.
  11. Proposal reviewer for Canada Foundation for Innovation, LEADERS OPPORTUNITY FUND (2011).
  12. Proposal reviewer for Research Grants Council, General Research Fund, Hong Kong (2011).
  13. Proposal reviewer for Belgian Earth Observation Programme, Belgian Science Policy Office, Belgium (2011).
  14. NSF proposal reviewer (2011) - National Science Foundation.
  15. NASA proposal review panel (2012) - National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
  16. NASA proposal review panel (2013) - National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
  17. NSF proposal reviewer (2015) - National Science Foundation.
  18. NSF proposal reviewer (2017) - National Science Foundation.

 

 

Other services

  1. Gave a talk at Trevor G Browne High School (minority serving school in an under-resourced community) on May 6, 2014. The talk was well attended by middle and high school students from all science classes, followed by question and answer sessions. The talk was split into different sessions for middle school and high school students throughout the afternoon.
  2. Served as a Judge for student poster competition at 2014 American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.
  3. Reviewer for Promotion: Served as a reviewer for the promotion of 2 Assistant Professors to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure in 2009, 1 Assistant Professor to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure in 2010, 1 Assistant Professor to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure in 2012, 1 Associate Professor to the rank of Full Professor with tenure in 2014, 1 Assistant Professor to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure in 2015, 1 Assistant Professor to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure in 2016, and 2 Associate Professors to the rank of Full Professor with tenure in 2016. 1 Assistant Professor to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure in 2017, and 1 Associate Professor to the rank of Full Professor with tenure in 2017. 3 Assistant Professors to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure in 2018, and 2 Associate Professor to the rank of Full Professor with tenure in 2018.
  4. Served as a judge for the AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group student honors paper competition at the 2010 AAG meeting. in Washington DC (April 14 to 18, 2010).
  5. Session Chair, Remote Sensing and GIS for Urban Analysis I - Friday, 4/16/10, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM, 2010 Association of American Geographers Meeting, Washington DC.
  6. Organizer for the Spring 2007 - Southwest Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (SW-ASPRS) technical meeting at the Arizona State University. Served as Chair of two sessions and presented a paper titled Modeling Urban Land Covers Using Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis at the Technical Meeting, Date: March 7, 2007.
  7. Forum organizer - School of Geographical Sciences, ASU (Fall 2006).
  8. Participated as a Judge in a Graduate Student Competition - Explain Your Research 1, 2, 3 held on March 3, 2006.
  9. Participated as a Judge in a Graduate Student Competition titled “2006 Earth, Life, and Social Sciences Graduate Research Symposium” (Competition for the best presentation awards) at Arizona State University.
  10. Served as Chair of the Geography session at the Arizona Nevada Academy of Science in Flagstaff, Arizona (31 March 2007).
  11. Served as a judge for the AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group student honors paper competition at the 2007 AAG meeting. in San Francisco (April 17 to 23, 2007).

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