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Richard A. Whiteraw.essc.psu.edu | ||
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Dr. White received the B.A. in Physics from Oberlin College and the
Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Wisconsin. He served as
Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Physics at Makerere University, Kampala,
Uganda from 1963 through 1969. His involvement in designing and
implementing software systems for processing remotely sensed imagery
began in 1969, when he joined Computer Sciences Corporation, a
contractor supporting NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. White
came to Penn State in 1989, initially with the Office for Remote Sensing
of Earth Resources, moving to the Earth System Science Center in 1994.
Dr. White is actively involved in developing algorithms and software for preprocessing and analyzing remotely sensed imagery in combination with other surface characteristics data and model outputs. He is also building tools for creating, maintaining, and accessing a hierarchical database containing datasets at widely diverse scales, ranging from global coverages down to regions of a few square kilometers. Honors and Awards1986 NASA Group Achievement Award to the Developers of the Massively Parallel Processor (MPP).1979 NASA/JSC Group Achievement Award to the GSFC Support Team for the Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment (LACIE). Professional ActivitiesMember, American Association for the Advancement of ScienceMember, American Physical Society Member, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Member, IEEE Computer Society Member, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Selected ReferencesLakhtakia, M.N., D.A. Miller, R.A. White, and C.B. Smith, "GIS as an integrative tool in climatologic and hydrologic modeling," Proceedings of the Second International Conference/Workshop on Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling, September 26-30, 1993, Breckenridge, Colorado, (in press).White, R.A., "Data Structures for Implementing the CLASSY Algorithm on the MPP," in Potter, J.L., ed., The Massively Parallel Procesor, pp. 31-61, The MIT Press, 1985. White, R.A., "Inversion of Positive Definite Matrices on the MPP," in Potter, J.L., ed., The Massively Parallel Procesor, pp. 7-30, The MIT Press, 1985. | |||
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