William J. Emery
Professor
Aerospace Engineering Sciences
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0429
Phone: (303) 492-8591
William.Emery@colorado.edu
William J. Emery
Professor
Aerospace Engineering Sciences
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0429
Phone: (303) 492-8591
William.Emery@colorado.edu
Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Research Award, 2009
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Outstanding Service Award 2009
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Education Award 2004
IEEE Fellow (2002)
CU Engineering College Research Excellence Award, 2001
IEEE/GRS Outstanding Reviewer Award (1998)
Visiting Fellow of the Australian Earth Observation Center (EOC) (1997-98)
NASA Group Achievement Award, TOPEX/Poseidon Verification Team (1996)
GFSC Group Achievement Award for GSFC DAAC (1995)
GSFC Group Achievement Award, EOSDIS V0 (1995)
Distinguished Lecturer Award, Inst. Indus. Sci, Univ. of Tokyo (1995)
Editor's Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, J. Geophys. Res. (1993)
Associate Fellow, American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics (1990)
NASA/JPL TOPEX Team Award (1980-85)
Study of ocean surface processes such as sea surface temperature, ocean color, surface currents, coastal satellite altimetry. The development of processing software for operational weather satellites. Study of high-resolution satellite imagery for urban change detection and mapping of disaster effects. Application of high and moderate resolution satellite imagery to the study of terrestrial vegetation and its variations.
Pickard, G.L. and W.J. Emery, 1992: Descriptive Physical Oceanography, 6th edition, Pergamon Press, Oxford, England, 241 pp.
Emery, W.J. and R.E. Thomson, 1998: Data and their analysis methods in physical oceanography. 1st and 2nd eds, Pergam Press, Amsterdam, 634 pp
Emery, W.J., A. Camps, and A. Moreira, Introduction to satellite remote sensing of the Earth. IEEE-Press and Wiley Interscience. (in preparation)
Fowler, C., W.J. Emery and J.A. Maslanik, 2004: Satellite Derived Evolution of Arctic Sea Ice Age: Oct. 1978 to Mar. 2003, IEEE Geosci and Rem Sens Lett, 1, 71–74.
Bowen, M. , J. Wilkin and W.J. Emery, 2005: Variability and forcing of the East Australia Current, J. Geophys. Res., 110, C03019.
Crocker, R.I, W.J. Emery, D. Matthews and D. Baldwin, 2006: Computing Ocean Surface Currents from Infrared and Ocean Color Imagery, Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens. Volume 45, Issue 2, Feb. 2007 Page(s):435 - 447
Emery, W.J., P. Brandt, A. Funk, and C. Böning, 2006: A comparison of sea surface temperatures from microwave remote sensing of the Labrador Sea with in situ measurements and model simulations, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 111, No. C12, C12013
Pacifici, F., F. Del Frate, D. Solimini and W.J. Emery, 2007: A New Method for Assessing Urban Change Detection in High Resolution Optical Satellite Imagery, Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens., 45, 2940-2952.
Maslanik, J. A., C. Fowler, J. Stroeve, S. Drobot, J. Zwally, D. Yi, and W. Emery, 2007: A younger, thinner Arctic ice cover: Increased potential for rapid, extensive sea-ice loss, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L24501,
Castro, S.L., G.A. Wick, D. Jackson and W.J. Emery, 2008: Error Characterization of Infrared and Microwave Sea Surface Temperature Products for Merging and Analysis, J. Geophys. Res., 113, C03010, doi:10.1029/2006JC003829.
Emery, W.J., R.I. Crocker and D. Baldwin, 2008: Automated AVHRR image navigation., chapter in Wiley, Geo-registration in satellite images Lemoine and Netanyahu eds. (in press) Pacifici, F., M. Chini, and W.J. Emery, 2008: Multi-scale textural analysis of WorldView-1 panchromatic imagery for urban land-use classification. Submitted to Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sci.
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