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

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.

NOAA Project (PI 2012 - 2014) Evaluation of Drought Risks and its Impact on Agricultural Land and Water Use to Support Adaptive Decision-making.

NASA Project (PI 2012 – 2015), Understanding Impacts of Desert Urbanization on Climate and Surrounding Environments to Foster Sustainable Cities Using Remote Sensing and Numerical Modeling

NSF Project (Single PI 2012 - 2014), Wavelet Analysis of High Spatial Resolution Imagery for Urban Mapping Using Infinite Scale Decomposition Techniques

NSF Project, Elizabeth Wentz (PI), Soe Myint (Co-PI), International Workshop on Geospatial Solutions to Analyze Rapid Urbanization.

Decision Center for a Desert City (DCDC) funded project (PI, 2010/2011), The sensitivity of urban climate models to land cover fractions (with Elizabeth Wentz, Anthony Brazel).

DCDC funded project (PI 2009 - 2010), Exploring heat island effect and water consumption in relation to spatial distribution and pattern of urban land covers in a desert city (with Tony Brazel and Libby Wentz).

DCDC funded project (Co-PI 2009 - 2010), Building spatially-explicit analytical tools for assessing and understanding water use under climatic uncertainty (with Libby Wentz and Tony Brazel).

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.

Junior 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.

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.

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

Middel, A., Brazel, A., Gober, P., Myint, S.W., Heejun Chang, and Jiunn Duh, 2011. Land Cover, Climate, and the Summer Surface Energy Balance in Phoenix, AZ and Portland, OR, International Journal of Climatology (accepted).

Myint, S.W., and Mesev, V., 2011. A comparative analysis of spatial indices and wavelet-based classification, Remote Sensing Letters, 3(2):141-150.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

Book Chapters

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, 129-140.

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

See curriculum vita for additional publications.

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

Editorial roles:

(1) Editor – International Journal of Remote Sensing
(2) Editorial Board Member – Remote Sensing Journal
(3) Editorial Board Member – GIScience and Remote Sensing Journal
(4) Editorial Board Member - Journal of Geology & Geosciences
(5) Editorial Board Member – Urban Studies Research Journal
(6) Editorial Board Member - Environmental Sciences

Chair, Remote Sensing Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (2011-2013)
President, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Southwest US Region (2009/2010)
Faculty Advisor, ASU Chapter of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2007-present)