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Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies

University of Arkansas

Bruce Gorham

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OVERVIEW: Bruce Gorham is a remote sensing specialist at CAST. For the past seventeen years Mr. Gorham's work has focused on the design and implementation of satellite remote sensing-based land-use analysis projects. His duties at CAST include remote sensing project management, methodology research and development, proposal preparation, and the training and supervision of graduate students workers and hourly staff. Through the AmericaView program, he performs outreach and educational activities designed to inform the public, at all levels of government as well as private sector and NGOs, about the benefits of remote sensing. Mr. Gorham has taught two upper-level university courses: Introduction to GPS, and Digital Remote Sensing.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

Current Position (1993 - Present), Research Assistant, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas - Fayetteville.

• Serves as project manager for the Arkansas Comprehensive Land-use Land-cover mapping project. This project, funded in part by the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission, maintains current land-use/land-cover data for the state of Arkansas. Maps, derived from Landsat 5 TM and Landsat 7 ETM+ satellite imagery were produced in 2000, 2004, and 2006.
• Project manager on the ArkansasView project. This project, funded by the U.S. Geological Survey, focuses on expanding remote sensing and GIS research through outreach and education. 2001-Present.
• CAST's principle contact person for remote sensing and GPS technologies. Duties include: responding to user questions, filling special data requests, and performing outreach and educational activities such as workshops and lectures.
• Team remote sensing scientist on the NASA, SIAM-SERVIR Central America Project: Land-cover mapping component: Project goal was to produce an accurate and consistent land-use, land-cover map for all of Central America for the years 1980, 1990, and 2000. Mr. Gorham performed all image processing on MODIS and Landsat data. He also performed all image classifications, and helped design the change detection algorithm for carbon flux models.
• Developiong automated watershed delineation from sampling site points.
• Developing Terrestrial Habitat modeling techniques with high resolution CIR aerial imagery

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor of Arts: History and Political Science, Henderson State University. May 1987
• Master of Arts: Geography (GIS Emphasis), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. May 1993.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

• Association of American Geographers
• American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

• Gorham, Bruce. 2007. Mapping the Ever-changing Landscape: Geospatial technologies provide up-to-date look at Arkansas land use. RGIS Innovator. November 2007.
• Tullis, Jason A., et. al. 2007. "Yearly Extraction of Central America's Land Cover for Carbon Flux Monitoring." GIScience & Remote Sensing. October-December 2007; 44(4):334-355. 
• Luscier, J. B. Gorham, and John Wilson. 2006. Using Digital Photographs and GIS Software to Rapidly Quantify Vegetation around Active Ground Nests. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2006; 4(8): 408-413.
• Cothren, J., Gorham, B. (2005). Automated Feature Extraction: Software Advances Extract Impervious Surfaces from Satellite Imagery. Earth Imaging Journal, Jan/Feb 2005.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS:

• Presented "Terrestrial Habitat Mapping: Strategies for Updating the National GAP Analysis Dataset" at the 2008 America View Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. November 21, 2008.
• Co-presented poster: "America View: A National Resource" at the 2008 PECORRA Symposium in Denver, Colorado. November 2008.
• Co-presented poster: "America View: A National Resource" at the Mid-America GIS Meeting in Kansas City, MO. April 2008.
• Presentation: "The Earth from Space" at the 2007 Upward Bound Upward Bound Academy for Math & Science. UA, Fayetteville. February 17, 2007. 
• Workshop: "Land-use / Land-cover Background and Applications" at the 2007 Arkansas GIS User Forum Meeting in Eureka Springs. September 16, 2007.
• Presentation (with John Wilson): "The Arkansas Land-use / Land-cover Mapping Program: 1992-2007" at the GIS User Forum meeting in Eureka Springs. September 19, 2007.
• Presentation: "Arkansas' Land-use and Land-cover Mapping Program: an Example of Landsat Heritage" at the 2007 AmericaView Annual Fall Meeting in Fayetteville. September 20, 2007.
• Presentation: J.D. Luscier, W.L. Thompson, J.M. Wilson, B.E. Gorham and L.D. Dragut. "Using digital photographs and object-based image analysis to estimate percent ground cover in vegetation plots" at the 1st International Conference on Object-based Image Analysis at Salzburg University, Austria, July 4-5, 2006.
• Poster: Bruce Gorham and Jason Tullis. 2006. Poster: "The Landsat Legacy: Arkansas Land-use Mapping 1984-2006" MAGIC Conference. Kansas City, MO. April 25-26, 2006.
• Presentation: "Mapping Arkansas' Land-use: 1992-2004." ASPRS Central Region meeting. Fayetteville, AR. February 2005.