Soe W. Myint

Working Group Member, Central Arizona - Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research
Affiliate, GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation

2001 - Ph.D., Louisiana State University
1994 - M.S., Asian Institute of Technology
1989 - Post Graduate Diploma, International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC, the Netherlands)
1983 - B.S., Rangoon University

Land use land cover change and prediction; forest mapping; land degradation/desertification; urban environmental modeling; geospatial techniques and algorithm development.

NASA project (Co-PI, 2008 – 2010), Tropical Mangrove Forests: Global Distributions and Dynamics (1990-2005) (Co-PI with Chandra Prasad Giri, USGS Science Application International Corporation)/National Center for EROS, Edward Barbier, University of Wyoming, and Zhiliang Zhu, USGS National Center for EROS.

DCDC project (Co-PI), Neighborhood Evapotranspiration Variation in the City of Phoenix: an Hourly, Seasonal, and Annual Evaluation Using the Local-scale Urban Meteorological Parameterization Scheme (LUMPS).

NSF project (PI, 2007 – 2008), Modelling Tsunami Effects on Mangrove Ecosystems and the role they play in saving lives and properties, (1st year seed grant).

Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy – FY 2006 Applied Border Environmental Research Program grant (2006-2007). Urban growth patterns along the U.S.-Mexico border, the case of Yuma-San Luis and Ambos Nogales (Co-PI with Jana Hutchins and Francisco Lara-Valencia).

CAP LTER ASU summer grant (PI, 2006), Modeling Urban Impervious Surface Areas in Relation to Urban Heat Island Effects.

NSF project (PI, 2004 - 2007). An Exploration of Frequency-based Multi-scale Multi-decomposition Techniques for Effective Urban Mapping (Single PI).

NASA project (PI, 2003 - 2004) through Institute for Advanced Education in Geospatial Sciences, University of Mississippi, (National Open Competition), Dynamic online course for Community Growth, (Co-PIs – Dr. Xiaojunn Yang, Florida State University, Dr. Qing Shen, University of Maryland, College Park).

NASA EPSCoR project (PI, 2002). Automated Spatial Feature Extraction and Classification Within and Around Urban Environment Using High-resolution Digital Image Data.

unior Faculty Research Grant (PI, 2002). An Exploration of Lacunarity Approaches in Texture Analysis and Classification of Remotely Sensed Data: Comparisons with Fractal Analysis, Spatial Autocorrelation, and Spatial Co-occurrence Matrix (University of Oklahoma).

AITAA Distinguished Alumni Award (2007) for Academic and Research Excellence, Asian Institute of Technology.

Best Paper Award for Early Career Scholars in Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing Specialty Group - AAG, 2007.

Listed in Who’s Who in the World (Marquis Who’s Who – 2007).

Listed in Who’s Who in America (61st edition of Marquis Who’s Who in America – 2005-2007).

Listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (9th edition of Marquis Who’s Who – 2006-2007).

Listed in Who’s Who in American Education (7th edition of Marquis Who’s Who in America – Dec. 2005).

CPGIS Scholar, 2005, selected by the Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Science Abroad (CPGIS) to give lectures and research presentations at Jiangxi Normal University and Hubei University as part of the CPGIS Young Scholar Summit.

Runner-up for the Early Career Award, 2004, Remote Sensing Specialty Group – AAG.

CSISS Scholarship (Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science) to attend 2003 Geographically Weighted Regression workshop, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Intergraph Young Scholar Award (UCGIS), 2002 UCGIS Summer Assembly, University of Georgia, Athens.

USGS Scholar Award, First International Conference on GIScience, 2000, Savannah, GA, USA.

Best Student Paper Award – AAG - Remote Sensing Specialty Group, 2001 AAG meeting.

Best Student Paper Award – American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) – Mid-South Region Meeting at Clemson University, South Carolina, 2000.

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.

Best Poster Presentation Award, 1998 - 18th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

AAG - Otis Paul Starkey Dissertation Research Award. Association of American Geographers, 2001.

See curriculum vita for additional awards and honors.

Journal Articles

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.

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.

Myint, S. W., M. Yuan, R. S. Cerveny, and C. Giri. 2008. Categorizing natural disaster damage assessment using satellite-based geospatial techniques. Natural Hazards Earth System Sciences, 8(4): 707-719.

Myint, S. W., Y. May, 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.

Myint, S., E. A. Wentz, and S. Purkis. 2007. Employing Spatial Metrics in Urban Land-use/Landcover Mapping: Comparing the Getis and Geary Indices. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 73(12): 1403-1415. (Best Paper Award - Winning Paper).

Myint, S. W. and G. S. Okin. 2007. Modeling Urban Land Covers Using Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis. International Journal of Remote Sensing, (accepted).

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.

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.

Myint, S. W., V. Mesev, and N. S. N. Lam. 2006. Texture Analysis and Classification Through A Modified Lacunarity Analysis Based on Differential Box Counting Method, Geographical Analysis, 38(2006): 371-390.

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.

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.

Tang, J, L. Wang, and S. W. Myint. 2006. Improving urban classification through fuzzy supervised classification and spectral mixture analysis, International Journal of Remote Sensing (accepted).

Book Chapters

Myint, S. W. 2006. Urban Mapping with Geospatial Algorithms. In Urban Remote Sensing, eds. Qihao Weng and Dale Quattrochi, 109-135. Taylor and Frances.

See curriculum vita for additional publications.

Air Photo Interpretation
Digital Analysis of Remotely Sensed Data
Advanced Digital Analysis of Remotely Sensed Data
Remote Sensing

Vice President, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Southwest Region
Vice Chair, Remote Sensing Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers
Membership Chair, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Southwest Region
Faculty Advisor, ASU Chapter of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing