Curtis Woodcock
Professor, Department of Geography and Environment and Center for Energy and Environmental Studies
Ph.D., 1986, Geography; University of California, Santa Barbara; "Understanding Spatial Variation in Remotely Sensed Imagery"
Research interests: Biophysical remote sensing: Particularly focusing on forests and natural vegetation, canopy reflectance models and their inversion, spatial modeling, and change detection, Biogeography, Spatial analysis, Geographic information systems, Digital image processing
Office: Stone Science (STO) 436A
Phone: 617-353-5746
Fax: 617-353-8399
E-mail: curtis@bu.edu
Address: Center for Remote Sensing
675 Commonwealth Avenue, 4th Floor
Boston, MA 02215, USA
Current Research
Current research includes: (1) monitoring forest change and its implication on terrestrial carbon budgets; (2) urbanization as a component of global change; (3) the influence of forest canopy structure on canopy gap structure and radiation transmission; (4) validation of terrestrial remote sensing products.
Courses Taught
GG 302 Remote Sensing of the Environment
GG 440/640 Digital Image Processing/Remote Sensing
Selected Publications
• Gopal, S.,
Woodcock, C.E., and A.H. Strahler, 1999. Fuzzy neural network classification
of global land cover from a 1-degree AVHRR data set, Remote Sensing of Environment,
67:230-243.
• Carpenter, G.A., Gopal, S., Martens, S., and C.E. Woodcock, 1999. A
neural network method for mixture estimation for vegetation mapping, Remote
Sensing of Environment, 70(2):138-152.
• Abuelgasim, A.A., Ross, W.D., Gopal, S., and C.E. Woodcock, 1999. Change
detection using adaptive fuzzy neural networks: Environmental damage assessment
after the Gulf War, Remote Sensing of Environment, 70(2):208-223.
• Woodcock, C.E., and S. Gopal, 2000. Fuzzy set theory and thematic maps:
Accuracy assessment and area estimation, International Journal of GIS, 14(2):153-172.
• Ni, W., and C.E. Woodcock, 2000. The effect of canopy structure and
the presence of snow on the albedo of boreal conifer forests, Journal of Geophysical
Research, 105(D9):11,879-11,888.
Personal Web Page
http://www.bu.edu/remotesensing/Faculty/Woodcock/Woodcock.html
