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Ellsworth LeDrew
Professor
Geography and Environmental Management
Contact Information:
Phone: +1-519-888-4567 ext. 32783
Office: EV1 - 121
Email: ells(at)uwaterloo.ca
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Degrees:
| Ph.D. |
University of Colorado, United States, 1976 |
| M.A. |
University of Colorado, United States, 1974 |
| B.A. |
University of Toronto, Canada, 1972 |
Academic Honours:
- Fellow of the International Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
- Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI)
- 2005 - Awarded the Canadian Remote Sensing Society Gold Medal.
- 2001 - Recipient of the Faculty of Environment Research Award.
Research Interests:
Research interests include climate-cryosphere interactions using Passive Microwave imagery and numerical climate models, the exploration of high spectral and spatial resolution imagery for analysis of environmental stress on tropical coral reefs, the use of earth observations in international energy management, and data management and archiving for Polar Environmental Science.
Contact Ellsworth LeDrew for more information on research opportunities.
Graduate Student Supervision:
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# of students currently
supervising/co-supervising |
Total # of student
supervisions/co-supervisions |
| Masters |
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30 |
| PhD |
2 |
16 |
Professional Activities
- Member of the International Polar Year Data Management Committee (International), 2005 to present.
- Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE peer reviewed journal entitled "IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing"
- Vice-President, Publications and Outreach, of IEEE Committee on Earth Observations.
- Co-Chair of the Users Interactions Committee of the Global Earth Observations System of Systems (GEOSS), 2007 to present.
- Chair of CRC Geomatics Review Panel, 2008-09
Recent/Key Publications:
- Lim, A, A. J. Hedley, E. F. LeDrew, P. Mumby, C. Roelfsema, 2009, The effects of ecologically determined spatial complexity on the classification accuracy of simulated coral reef images, Remote Sensing of Environment,113:965-978.
- Newman, C. M., A. J. Knudby, E. F. LeDrew, 2008, Assessing the effect of management zonation on live coral cover using multi-date IKONOS satellite imagery, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (invited paper). 1, DOIP: 011504
- Koulis, T., M. Thompson, E. LeDrew, 2008, Capturing Antarctic Sea Ice Formation with a Spatio-Temporal Model, In Review, Environmetrics. 20: 68-85
- McDermid, G., S. Franklin, E. LeDrew, 2009, Operational Radiometric Normalization and Continuous-Variable Model Extension for Landsat-based Mapping of Large Areas, Forest Ecology and Management,
- LeDrew, E.F., H. Holden, M. Wulder, C. Derksen, C. Newman, 2004, A Spatial Statistical Operator Applied to Multidate Satellite Imagery for Identification of Coral Reef Stress, Remote Sensing of Environment, 91:271-279.
- Mumby PJ, Skirving W, Strong A, Hardy JT, LeDrew, E.F., Hochberg EJ, Stumpf RP,David, LT, 2004, Remote sensing of coral reefs and their physical environment, Marine Pollution Bulletin , 48219-228.
- Derksen, C., A. Walker, E. LeDrew, and B. Goodison. 2003. Combining SMMR and SSM/I data for time series analysis of central North American snow water equivalent. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 4(2): 304-316.
- Piwowar, J.M., E.F. LeDrew, 2002, ARMA Time Series Modelling of Remote Sensing Imagery: A New Approach for Climate Change Studies, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 23(24):5225-5248.
- Derksen, C., A. Walker, E. LeDrew, and B. Goodison, 2002, Time Series Analysis of Passive-Microwave-Derived Central North American Snow Water Equivalent Imagery, Annals of Glaciology, 34:1-7.
- Holden, H. and E. LeDrew, 2002, Measuring and modeling water column effects on hyperspectral reflectance in a coral reef environment, Remote Sensing of Environment, 81 (2-3), 300-308.
Read a complete list of publications
Courses Taught:
- GEOG 102: Geography and Our Planetary Environment
- GEOG 309: Physical Climatology
- GEOG 409: Energy Balance Climatology
- GEOG 471: Remote Sensing Project
- GEOG 601: Environmental Change and Remote Sensing
- GEOG 603: Remote Sensing
- GEOG 642: Micrometeorology
