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Profile for Dan Kimes
| Title: | Physical Scientist |
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| Affiliation: | NASA |
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RESEARCH AREA EXPERIENCE
Mathematical, Modeling of Optical and Thermal Radiation, Transfers in Vegetation Canopies.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
1975-1976 - Technician, Colorado Division of Wildlife, Fort Collins, Colorado
1976-1979 - Graduate Research Assistant
EDUCATION
1975 - B.S. Wildlife Biology, Colorado State University
1976 - M.S. Remote Sensing, University of Michigan
1979 - Ph.D. Remote Sensing Earth Resources, Colorado State University
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Selected Publications
2004
Kimes D, Levine E, Timmins S, Weiss SR, Bollinger ME, Blaisdell C, "Temporal dynamics of emergency department and hospital admissions of pediatric asthmatics", Environmental Research, 94 (1): 7-17, JAN 2004.
Kimes D, Ullah A, Levine E, Nelson R, Timmins S, Weiss S, Bollingere ME, Blaisdelle C, "Relationships between pediatric asthma and socioeconomic urban variables in Baltimore, Maryland", Health and Place, 10: 141-152.
2003
Amr, S., M. E. Bollinger, M. Myers, R. G. Hamilton, S. R.Weiss, M. Rossman, L. Osborne, S. Timmins, D. S. Kimes, E. R. Levine, and C. J. Blaisdell, "Environmental allergens and asthma in urban elementary schools", Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology, 90 (1): 34-40, 2003.
Kimes, D., R. Nelson, E. R. Levine, S. Timmins, S. Weiss, M. E. Bollinger, and C. Blaisdell, "Predicting paediatric asthma hospital admissions and ED visits", Neural Computing & Applications, 12 (1): 10-17, 2003.
2002
Amr, S., M. B. Bollinger, M. Myers, R. G. Hamilton, S. Weiss, M. Rossman, L. Osborne, S. Timmins, D. S. Kimes, E. R. Levine, C. J. Blaisdell, "Asthma and its environmental triggers in Baltimore City Public Schools", Annals of Asthma, Allergy, and Immunology, 90:34-44, 2002.
Blaisdell, C., M. B. Bollinger, S. Timmins, D. Kimes, E. Levine, M. Myers, and S. Weiss, "Temporal and Spatial Trends in Pediatric Asthma Hospitalization in Maryland", J. of Asthma, 39(7):567-575, 2002.
Kimes, D., J. Gastellu-Etchegorry, and P. Esteve, 2002, "Recovery of Forest Canopy Characteristics Thorough Inversion of a Complex 3D Model", Remote Sensing of Environment, 79 :320-328.
2001
Levine, E., D. Kimes, S. Fifer, and R. Nelson. "Evaluating Tropical Soil Carbon with Pedon Data, Satellite Imagery, and Neural Networks". (2001) In: (Lal, et al.) Global Climate Change and Tropical Ecosystems,19:365-374.
2000
Kimes, D., Y. Knjazikhin, J. L. Privette, A. Abuelgasim and F. Gao. 2000., Inversion methods for physically-based models, Remote Sens. Rev., 18:381-440.
1996
"Extracting Forest Age in a Pacific Northwest Forest from Thematic Mapper and Topographic Data", Kimes D.S., B.N. Holben, J.E. Nickeson, A.McKee, Remote Sensing of Environment, (In Press).
"Classifying Soil Structure Using Neural Networks", Kimes D.S., E.R. Levine, V.G. Sigillito, Ecological Modeling, (In Press).
1995
"VEG: Intelligent Workbench for Studying Earth's Vegetation", Kimes D.S., P.R. Harrison, P.A. Harrison, Expert Systems with Applications, 9:135-151.
1994
"Extension of Off-Nadir View Angles for Direction Sensor Systems", Kimes D.S., P.A. Harrison, P.R. Harrison, Remote Sensing of Environment, 49.
1993
"Spatial Errors in Creating Hemispherical Reflectance (Albedo) Maps from Directional Reflectance Data," Kimes, D.S., A.G. Kerber, P.J. Sellers, Remote Sensing of Environment, 45:85-94.
1991
"Radiative Transfers in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Vegetation Canopies", Kimes, D.S., In Photon-Vegetation: Applications in Optical Remote Sensing and Plant Ecology, 11:339-388, (Myneni and Ross, Editors), Springer-Verlag.
"A Knowledge-Based Expert System for Inferring Vegetation Characteristics", Kimes, D.S., P.R. Harrison, and P.A. Ratcliffe, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 12:1987-2020.
1987
"Hemispherical Reflectance Variations of Vegetation Canopies and Implications for Global and Regional Energy Budget Studies", Kimes, D.S., P.J. Sellers, and W.W. Newcomb, Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology, Vol. 26(8):959-972.
1984
"Modeling the Directional Reflectance from Complete Homogeneous Vegetation Canopies with Various Leaf Orientation Distribution", Kimes, D.S., Journal of the Optical Society of America 1:725, 737.
1983
"Dynamics of Directional Reflectance Factor Distributions for Vegetation Canopies", Kimes, D.S., Applied Optics 22:1364-1372.
1982
"Radiative Transfer Model for Heterogeneous 3-D Scenes", Kimes, D.S. and J.A. Kirchner, Applied Optics 21(22):4119-4129.
1981
"A Thermal Infrared Exitance Model of Plant Canopies", Kimes, D.S., J.A. Smith and L.E. Link, Applied Optics
Conference Proceedings
2002
Levine, E. and D. Kimes. "Assessing Links between Ecosystem Health and Childhood Asthma". Proceedings of the Healthy Ecosystems, Healthy People Conference, Washington, DC, 2002.
Book Chapters
2000
Levine, E., D. Kimes, S. Fifer, and R. Nelson. 2000. Evaluating Tropical Soil Carbon with Pedon Data, Satellite Imagery, and Neural Networks. In Lal, R., J. M. Kimble, and B. A. Stewart (ed). Global Climate Change and Tropical Ecoystems. CRC Press, Inc. Boca Raton, FL. pp. 365 -374.
Selected Publications
Boudreau, J., R. Nelson, H. Margolis, A. Beaudoin, L. Guindon, and D. Kimes (2008). Regional aboveground forest biomass using airborne and spaceborne LiDAR in Québec. Remote Sens. Environ., 112, 3876-3890
10.1016/j.rse.2008.06.003
Sun, G., K.J. Ranson, D. Kimes, J.B. Blair, and K. Kovacs (2008). Forest vertical structure from GLAS: An evaluation using LVIS and SRTM data. Remote Sens. Environ., 112, 107-117
10.1016/j.rse.2006.09.036
Hyde, P., R. Nelson, D. Kimes, and E. Levine (2007). Exploring LiDAR—RaDAR synergy—predicting aboveground biomass in a southwestern ponderosa pine forest using LiDAR, SAR and InSAR. Remote Sens. Environ., 106, 28-38
Kimes, D., K.J. Ranson, G. Sun, and J.B. Blair (2006). Predicting lidar measured forest vertical structure from multi-angle spectral data. Remote Sens. Environ., 100, 503-511
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