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Bill Cooke
Assistant Professor
Office: Hilbun Hall Room
109B
Phone: (662) 325-9479
Fax: (662) 325-9423
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Dr. Cooke is an
Assistant Professor in the Department of
Geosciences at Mississippi State University and holds a joint
appointment as a research scientist at the GeoResources Institute (GRI).
He has over 18 years of experience in Remote Sensing and GIS
research at MSU and with the USDA Forest Service. Cooke has
published and presented on various Remote Sensing and GIS modeling
efforts including landscape risk assessment for fire and
vector-borne diseases, GIS-based site suitability modeling for
biofuel production, and sub-pixel analysis techniques for forest
inventory. Cooke has developed and implemented an operational fire
potential model for Mississippi that is featured as an enhancement
to the US Forest Service Wildland Fire Assessment System; a Decision
Support System for fire managers. Cooke is currently developing a
community self-assessment tool that depicts geospatial vulnerability
for the Gulf Coast region. He chairs the committee tasked with
developing the GIS disaster plan for the Mississippi Emergency
Management Agency.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Mississippi State University, Department of Forest Resources,
1992-1997
Dissertation: A Methodology for Quantitatively Testing the Applicability
and Implementation of Landscape Partitioning Systems for AVHRR Data.
M.S., Mississippi State University,
Department of Forest Resources, 1989-1991
Thesis: Use of Temporal Landsat Data for the Discrimination of Selected
Forest Species Composition Groups.
B.S., Mississippi State University,
Department of Forest Resources, 1975-1978
EXPERIENCE
Development of GIS curriculum for MSU
Geosciences Department
Over $4 million in research funding
Co-coordinator: Geospatial and Remote
Sensing Technologies Certificate Program
Leader of the USDA Forest Service
National Remote Sensing Band
Visiting Scientist Wageningen
Agricultural University, The Netherlands. RADAR analysis, Sumatra,
Indonesia.
PUBLICATIONS
(+ = Journal
publications, * = Conference proceedings)
+ Ashworth, A., Evans, D.L., Cooke,
W.H., Londo, A.J., Collins, C. and Neuenschwander, A., 2009.
Predicting Southeastern Forest Canopy Heights and Fire Fuel Models
Using GLAS Data. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. In
review.
+Grala, K. and Cooke, W.H.,
2009. Spatial and temporal characteristics of wildfires in
Mississippi, USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire. In review.
+Rodgers, J.C., Murrah, A.W. and
Cooke, W.H., 2009. The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the
coastal vegetation of the Weeks Bay Reserve, Alabama from NDVI data.
Estuaries and Coasts. In review.
+Cooke, W.H., Grala, K. and Wax
L.C., 2008. A Method for Estimating Pan Evaporation for Inland and
Coastal Regions of Southeastern U.S. Southeastern Geographer, 48(2):
149-171, In Press.
+Dixon, P.G., Goodrich, G.B. and
Cooke, W.H., 2008. Using teleconnections to predict wildfires in
Mississippi. Monthly Weather Review, 136(7): 2804-2811.[Abstract]
*Cooke, W.H., Anantharaj, V.,
Wax L.C.., Choi, J., Grala, K., Jolly, M., Dixon, P.G., Dyer, J.,
Evans, D.L. and Goodrich, G.B., 2007. Integrating climatic and fuels
information into National Fire Risk Decision Support Tools. In
Proceedings of the Fire environment--innovations, management, and
policy. Fort Collins, CO: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain
Research Station., Destin, FL, pp. 555-569.[Full
text]
+Cooke, W.H., Grala, K., Evans,
D.L. and Collins, C., 2007. Assessment of pre- and post-Katrina fuel
conditions as a component of fire potential modeling for southern
Mississippi. Journal of Forestry, 105(8): 389-397. [Abstract]
+Cooke, W.H., Grala, K. and
Wallis, R.C., 2006. Avian GIS models signal human risk for West Nile
virus in Mississippi. International Journal of Health Geographics,
5(36). [Full
Text]
*Cooke, W.H. and Jacobs, D.M.,
2005. Rapid Classification of Landsat TM Imagery for Phase 1
Stratification using the automated NDVI threshold supervised
classification (ANTSC) methodology. In Proceedings of the Fourth
annual forest inventory and analysis symposium. USDA Forest Service,
North Central Research Station, St. Paul, MN, pp. 81-86.[Full
Text]
*Cooke, W.H., Prabhu, C.,
Wallis, R., Morris, J., Smith, B. and Gilreath, J., 2005. Assessment
of current field plots and lidar 'virtual' plots as guides to
classification procedures for multitemporal analysis of historic and
current landsat data for determining forest age classes. In
Proceedings of the 2005 International Workshop on the Analysis of
Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images. IEEE, pp. 67-70. [Full
Text]
*Evans, D.L. and Cooke, W.H.,
2004. LiDAR - the future of remote forest assessments? . In
Proceedings of the Tenth Biennial Forest Service Remote Sensing
Applications Conference. USDA Forest Service, Salt Lake City, UT.
[PDF]
*Cooke, W.H., 2002. Overview of
Remote Sensing in Support of Forest Inventory and Analysis Annual
Inventories In Proceedings of the Ninth Forest Service Remote
Sensing Applications Conference. USDA Forest Service, Salt Lake
City, UT. [PDF]
*Huang, C., Yang, L., Homer, C., Coan,
M., Rykhus, R., Zhang, Z., Wylie, B., Hegge, K., Zhu, Z., Lister,
A., Hoppus, M., Tymcio, R., DeBlander, L., Cooke, W.H.,
McRoberts, R.E., Wendt, D. and Weyermann, D., 2002. Synergistic use
of FIA plot data and Landsat 7 ETM+ images for large area forest
mapping. In Proceedings of the Thrid Annual Forest Inventory and
Analysis Symposium. USDA Forest Service, St. Paul, MN, pp. 50-55.
[Full
Text]
*Cooke, W.H. and Hartsell, A.J.,
2001. Landsat TM classifications for SAFIS using FIA field plots. In
Proceedings of the Second annual Forest Inventory and Analysis
symposium. USDA Forest Service, Salt Lake City, UT, pp. 15-18.[Full
Text]
+Lannom, K.B., Evans, D.L. and
Cooke, W.H., 2001. Forest mapping of Central America and Mexico
with AVHRR data Geocarto International, 16(1): 45-53. [Full
Text]
*Cooke, W.H., 2000.
Forest/non-forest stratification in Georgia with Landsat Thematic
Mapper data. In Proceedings of the First Annual Forest Inventory and
Analysis Symposium. USDA Forest Service, St. Paul, MN, pp. 28-30. [Full
Text]
*Cooke, W.H. and Hartsell, A.J.,
2000. Wall-to-wall Landsat TM classifications for Georgia in support
of SAFIS using FIA plots for training and verification In
Proceedings of the Eighth Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications
Conference USDA Forest Service, Albuquerque, New Mexico.[Full
Text]
*Cooke, W.H., 1996. Evaluating
the utility of partitioning remotely sensed data. In: J.D. Greer
(Editor), Remote Sensing: People in Partnership with Technology:
Proceedings of the Sixth Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications
Conference. CRC Press, pp. 191-195. [PDF]
Other
Cooke, W.H., 2001. Development
of a methodology for predicting forest area for large-area resource
monitoring. USDA, Forest Service, Asheville, NC Southern Research
Station, Res. Pap. SRS-024, pp. 16. [Full
Text]
Jacobs, D.M. and Cooke, W.H.,
2000. Generating continuous surface probability maps from airborne
video using two sampling intensities along the video transect. USDA,
Forest Service, Asheville, NC, Southern Research Station, Res. Pap.
SRS-022, pp. 7. [Full
Text]
Cooke, W.H. and Saucier, A.,
1995. Correction of line interleaving displacement in frame captured
aerial video imagery. USDA, Forest Service, Southern Forest
Experiment Station, Res. Pap. RN-SO-380, pp. 5. [Full
Text]
Service
USFS –WFAS Wildland Fire Assessment
System
http://www.wfas.net/content/view/50/73/
Success
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GeoSpatial Video ~164Megs
(Large) MP4 File
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http://www.gri.msstate.edu/os/eid/geosol.php
Geospatial and Remote Sensing Technologies
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http://www.msstate.edu/dept/geosciences/pdf/GeospatialCertificate.pdf
Curriculum Vita
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