McGill University Department of Geography Land Use and the Global Environment Lab (LUGE) 805 Sherbrooke St Montréal, QC, Canada

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1 Jordan B. Graesser PERSONAL INFORMATION McGill University Department of Geography Land Use and the Global Environment Lab (LUGE) 805 Sherbrooke St Montréal, QC, Canada LUGE: nramankutty/index.html McGill Geography: Research Interests Remote Sensing Land cover mapping; Image processing; Feature extraction Land cover and land use change Land cover and land use dynamics; Drivers; Consequences Agriculture Extensification & Intensification; Cropping patterns; Food security Human-environment relationships Implications for food security, sustainability, and ecosystem conservation Latin America EDUCATION McGill University Sept Aug 2016 (Expected) Ph.D., Geography Advisor: Navin Ramankutty, Ph.D. South Dakota State University Sept May 2008 M.S., Geography Thesis: The Impact of Ethanol on Land Cover and Land Use in the Northwestern Corn Belt South Dakota State University Sept May 2006 B.S., Geography & GIS 1

2 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE McGill University Ph.D. student, LUGE Laboratory, Montréal, Quebec, Canada Advisor: Navin Ramankutty, Ph.D. Sept Present Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oct Aug R & D Assistant Researcher, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA Advisors: Eddie Bright & Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Ph.D. Conducted research on human settlement extraction techniques from remotely sensed imagery Explored new techniques to estimate human population Developed image extraction algorithms in an open source environment Explored MODIS time series analysis for crop identification Authored and co-authored peer-reviewed journal articles Hosted and supervised two student research assistants United States Census Bureau Aug Sept Geographer, Suitland, Maryland, USA Advisor: Ryan Engstrom, Ph.D. Co-managed and taught a two-week GIS workshop in Delhi, India Developed new techniques for population modeling and dasymetric mapping Managed the acquisition, pre-processing, and classification of remotely sensed imagery Specialized in human settlement land cover mapping Co-authored a peer-reviewed journal article Supervised student interns South Dakota State University June 2008 Aug Assistant Researcher, GIS Center of Excellence (GIScCE), Brookings, South Dakota, USA Advisor: Matthew Hansen, Ph.D. Contributed to a MODIS national tree cover mapping project Managed high-resolution imagery for a large scale supervised classification workflow South Dakota State University Sept May 2008 Teacher s Assistant, Geography Department, Brookings, South Dakota, USA 2

3 Instructed and assisted GIS and physical geography labs USGS EROS Center June 2007 Dec Physical Science Assistant Researcher, United States Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA Advisor: Jim Vogelmann, Ph.D. Integrated coarse and medium resolution datasets to improve land cover characteristics for a terrestrial monitoring system Explored the advantages of using AVHRR for widespread spatial patterns, and Landsat TM/ETM+ to help explain anomalies within south central North Dakota, USA USGS EROS Center May 2006 Sept Physical Science Assistant Researcher, United States Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA Advisor: Bruce Wylie, Ph.D. Used remotely sensed imagery to identify relationships between fires and permafrost within the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, USA Modeled land cover (i.e., water) within cloud-contaminated imagery with optical (Landsat TM/ETM+) and radar (JERS, ERS) imagery South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks June 2004 Sept GIS Analyst, Pierre, South Dakota, USA Managed GIS data and a geospatial database for the Park system PUBLICATIONS & CONFERENCE PAPERS Engstrom, Ryan, Jason Burgdorfer, and Jordan Graesser. A comparison of slum mapping methodologies in Accra, Ghana. Submitted to Applied Geography. Long, Jordan, Darrell Napton, Chandra Giri, and Jordan Graesser. A mapping and monitoring assessment of the Philippines mangrove forests from 1990 to In press, Journal of Coastal Research. Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Budhendra Bhaduri, and Jordan Graesser Complex settlement pattern extraction with multi-instance learning. Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, São Paulo. Derek Azar, Ryan Engstrom, Jordan Graesser, and Joshua Comenetz Generation of fine-scale population layers using multi-resolution satellite imagery and geospatial data. Remote Sensing of Environment (Accepted). Jordan Graesser, Anil Cheriyadat, Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Varun Chandola, Jordan Long, and Eddie Bright Image based characterization of formal and 3

4 informal neighborhoods in an urban landscape. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 5 (4) (August): Ranga Raju Vatsavai and Jordan Graesser Probabalistic change detection framework for rapid damage assessment using very high-resolution satellite images. Procedia Computer Science 9: Darrell Napton and Jordan Graesser Agricultural land change in the northwestern Corn Belt: Geo-Carpathica Anul XI (11): Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Eddie A. Bright, Varun Chandola, Budhendra L. Bhaduri, Anil Cheriyadat, and Jordan Graesser Machine learning approaches for high-resolution urban land cover classification: a comparative study. COM.Geo (11). Ranga Raju Vatsavai, M. Tuttle, Budhendra L. Bhaduri, Edward Bright, Anil Cheriyadat, Varun Chandola, and Jordan Graesser Rapid damage assessment using high-resolution remote sensing imagery: Tools and techniques. IGARSS: Derek Azar, Jordan Graesser, Ryan Engstrom, Joshua Comenetz, Robert M. Leddy Jr., Nancy G. Schechtman, and Theresa Andrews Spatial refinement of census population distribution using remotely sensed estimates of impervious surfaces in Haiti. International Journal of Remote Sensing 31 (21) (November): Jordan Graesser The impact of ethanol on land cover and land use in the northwestern Corn Belt. Master s Thesis. AWARDS, CERTIFICATES, & MEMBERSHIPS U.S. Census Bureau 2010 Director s Award for Innovation, Suitland, Maryland, USA, 2010 Spatial Modeling and Expert Systems, Training Course, ERDAS, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia, USA, 2009 Extending ENVI with IDL, Training Course, ITT, Vienna, Virginia, USA, 2009 Member of Great Plains/Rocky Mountains AAG National Finals GeoBowl Team, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2008 Member of Great Plains/Rocky Mountains AAG National Finals GeoBowl Team, San Francisco, California, USA, 2007 Top Graduate Student in the SDSU Geography Department award, SDSU, Brookings, South Dakota, USA, 2007/2008 USGS EROS Data Center Graduate Scholarship, SDSU, Brookings, South Dakota, USA, 2006/2007 Gamma Theta Upsilon, Member, Present 4

5 Association of American Geographers (AAG), Member, Present. SDSU Geography Club, Member, PRESENTATIONS Characterization of Formal and Informal Neighborhoods in an Urban Landscape, Annual Association of American Geographers, New York City, New York, USA, Population Modeling Using High-resolution Imagery Neighborhood Statistics, Annual Association of American Geographers, Seattle, Washington, USA, Sub-national Population Estimates Using Remotely Sensed Imagery, United Nations, New York City, USA, Population Estimates in Pakistan: A Study of Land Cover and Population Change, Annual Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C., USA, Mapping Impervious Surfaces in Haiti Using Landsat ETM+ Imagery, Annual Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, The Impact of Ethanol on Land Cover and Land Use in the Western Corn Belt, Annual Association of American Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Association of American Geographers COMPUTER SKILLS Software Languages ArcGIS Python Quantum GIS GDAL ERDAS Imagine R ENVI IDL PCI Geomatica Matlab See5/C5.0 PHP Cubist LaTeX Python Orange CSS Fragstats GIMP 5