Education
Ph.D., 2001, LouisianaStateUniversity
M.S., 1994, Asian Institute of Technology
Post-Grad. Diploma, 1989, International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC), the Netherlands
B.S., 1983, RangoonUniversity
Appointments
2005 – Present Assistant Professor Department of Geography, ArizonaStateUniversity
2001 – 2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma
2001 – 2005 Associate Director, Center for Spatial Analysis, University of Oklahoma
1994 – 1998 Research Specialist, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP/EAP-AP)
1983 – 1992 Deputy Manager, National Forest Management/Inventory project, (UNDP/FAO/MYA/85/003)
Awards and Honors
(1) Who s Who in America (60th diamond edition of Marquis Who s Who in America – Oct. 2005)
(2) Who s Who in American Education (7th edition of Marquis Who s Who in America – Dec. 2005)
(3) 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
(4) Runner-up for the Early Career Award, 2004, AAG - Remote Sensing Specialty Group
(5) CSISS Scholarship (Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science) to attend 2003 Geographically Weighted Regression workshop, University of California, Santa Barbara
(6) Intergraph Young Scholar Award (UCGIS). 2002 UCGIS Summer Assembly, University of Georgia, Athens
(7) USGS Scholar Award. First International Conference on GIScience, 2000, Savannah, GA, USA
(8) Consultant (GIS) to World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland (1999)
(9) Best Student Paper Award (AAG - Remote Sensing Specialty Group - 2001 annual meeting)
(10) Best Student Paper Award. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) – Mid-South Region Meeting at Clemson University, South Carolina, 2000
(11) 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
(12) Best Poster Presentation Award (1998 - 18th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
(13) AAG - Otis Paul Starkey Dissertation Research Award. Association of American Geographers, 2001
(14) William G. Haag Award (2001). Most outstanding paper in professional meetings, Dept. of Geography and Anthropology, LSU
(15) Second Place Student Paper Award. 2000 South Western Division AAG meeting, TexasAandMUniversity
(16) Second Place Student Paper Award. 1999 South Western Division AAG meeting at TexasStateUniversity, San Marcos
(17) Robert C. West Field Research Award (November, 2000). Department of Geography, LSU
(18) Student Oral Paper Presentation Award and Travel Award, UCGIS-2000. UCGIS Summer Assembly, Portland, Oregon
(19) GraduateSchool Scholars Enhanced Assistantship Award and Tuition Award, (9,000 US$, 1999 - 2001), LSU (1999 - 2001)
(20) GraduateSchool Travel Awards (3 awards): Graduate School, LouisianaStateUniversity [(October, 1999), (April, 2000), (October, 2000)]
(21) Best Student Award. 87th Public Service Officers Training Course (No. 87), Myanmar, 1987
(22) Best Student Award. Basic Officer Training Course No.1 – Nanchun, Myanmar Timber Enterprise, Ministry of Forestry.
(23) Netherlands Government s Fellowship. Post Graduate Diploma studies at ITC, the Netherlands (1988 - 1989)
(24) French Government Scholarship. M.S. - Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok (1993 - 1994)
Federal Government Public Advisory Committees
- 2004 Panel member - EPA proposal review panel (Environmental Protection Agency)
- 2004 Panel member - NSF proposal review panel (National Science Foundation)
- 2004 Proposal reviewer for 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 Proposal reviewer - NSF (National Science Foundation)
- 2005 Panel member - EPA proposal review panel (Environmental Protection Agency)
- 2005 Panel member - NSF proposal review panel (National Science Foundation)
- 2005 Proposal reviewer - NSF (National Science Foundation)
Peer Reviewed Publications
(1) 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.
(2) 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.
(3) 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.
(4) 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.
(5) Myint, S.W., 2003. The Use of Wavelets for Feature Extraction of Cities in Satellite Images, Remotely Sensed Cities (Victor Mesev, editor), Taylors and Frances, pp. 109-134.
(6) 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.
(7) 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.
(8) 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 (Listed as the Science Direct TOP25 hottest articles).
(9) 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.
(10) Myint, S.W., 2005. Urban vegetation mapping using sub-pixel analysis and expert system rules: A critical approach, International Journal of Remote Sensing (accepted).
(11) S.J. Purkis, S.W. Myint, and B. M. Riegl, 2005. Enhanced detection of the coral Acropora cervicornis from satellite imagery using a textural operator, Remote Sensing of Environment (accepted).
(12) Myint, S.W., V. Mesev, and N.S.N Lam, 2005. Texture Analysis and Classification Through A Modified Lacunarity Analysis Based on Differential Box Counting Method (submitted).
(13) Myint, S.W. and L. Wang, 2005. Multi-criteria Decision Approach for Land Use Land Cover Change Using Markov Chain Analysis and Cellular Automata Approach (submitted).
(14) Myint, S.W., 2005. An Exploration of Spatial Pattern and Association of Socio-economic Functional Units in an Urban System (submitted).
(15) Myint, S.W., 2005. A New Framework for Effective Urban Land Use Land Cover Classification: A Wavelet Approach, GIScience and Remote Sensing (accepted).
(16) Myint, S.W., 2006. Urban Mapping with Geospatial Algorithms, Urban Remote Sensing (Qihao Weng and Dale Quattrochi, editors) (accepted).
(17) Myint, S.W., 2006. Examining multi-level decomposition in relation to spatial scales of different textures using an operational wavelet algorithm (submitted).
(18) Myint, S.W., 2006. Performance analysis of classification decision rules using an operational wavelet algorithm in comparison to other geospatial and traditional approaches (forthcoming).
Other Publications
(1) Myint, S. W., C. Thongthap, and A. Eiumnoh, 1997. Soil Nutrient Depletion Modeling Using Remote Sensing and GIS: A Case Study in Chonburi, Thailand. Proceedings of the 18th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, 20-25 October, 1997, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. R51-R53.
(2) Myint S. W., and S. Shrestha, 1997. Macro-level Assessment and Monitoring of Coastal and Suspended Sediment Concentration and Vegetation Conditions (South China Sea), Technical Report, United Nations Environment Program/Environment Assessment Programme for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok.
(3) Myint, S.W., 2000. Image texture analysis with high-resolution multi-spectral image data using wavelet transforms – UCGIS Website (http://dusk2.geo.orst.edu/ucgis/web/oregon/papers/myint.htm).
(4) Myint, S.W., 1994. The use of NOAA/AVHRR data for the vegetation cover mapping of Myanmar through digital image processing and GIS (M.S. Thesis).
(5) Myint, S.W., 2001. Texture Analysis and Classification of Urban Environment Using High-resolution multispectral image Data (Ph. D. Dissertation).
Grants and Contracts
(1) NSF grant (PI, 2004 - 2006). An Exploration of Frequency-based Multi-scale Multi-decomposition Techniques for Effective Urban Mapping, $99,315 (Single PI).
(2) NASA grant (PI, 2003 - 2005) through the Institute for Advanced Education in Geospatial Sciences, University of Mississippi, (National Open Competition), Dynamic online course for Community Growth, $80,000 (Co-PIs – Dr. Xiaojunn Yang, FloridaStateUniversity, Dr. Qing Shen, University of Maryland, College Park).
(3) NASA EPSCoR Grant (PI, 2002). Automated Spatial Feature Extraction and Classification Within and Around Urban Environment Using High-resolution Digital Image Data, $21,000.
(4) 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), $6,000.
(5) NASA EPSCoR (2001) travel grant to visit a NASA center of excellence, ~$1,500.
(6) Vice President for Research, OU travel grant (2001), ~$1,500.
Professional Membership
Association of American Geographers
Association of PacificCoast Geographers
American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Conference Presentations/ Exhibitions/ Colloquia
Myint, Soe Win (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, Soe Win (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).
Myint, Soe Win (2005). A New Wavelet Based Classification Framework. Paper presented at Poyang Lake Complex Environment Conference, Nanchang, Jinagxi province, China (June 27-29, 2005).
Myint, Soe Win (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)
Myint, Soe Win (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)
Myint, Soe Win (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, Soe Win (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)
Myint, Soe Win, (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 TexasAandMUniversity (2 - 4 November, 2000).
Myint, Soe Win (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, Soe Win (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).
Myint, Soe Win (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)
Myint, Soe Win, (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 SouthwestTexasStateUniversity (19 - 23 October, 1999).
Myint, Soe Win (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 LouisianaStateUniversity (29 - 31 October, 1998).
Myint, Soe Win, 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).
Myint, Soe Win (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).
Myint, Soe Win (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).
