Kenneth M^cGwire

Associate Research Professor

Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences

Email: Ken.McGwire@dri.edu

Education

Professional Interests

Dr. McGwire has extensive experience in mapping, monitoring, and modeling of cultural and environmental systems using remote sensing, geographic information systems, statistical, and modeling techniques. Past research topics have included modeling the potential impacts of climate change on vegetation communities, comparing image data of tropical deforestation to socio-demographic models of colonization, using remote sensing and GIS techniques for habitat analysis, developing original land cover mapping strategies using satellite imagery, characterizing the scale dependence in parameters extracted from satellite imagery, identifying information systems requirements for Earth science research, testing GIS-based approaches to hazardous waste site management, developing artificial intelligence interface capabilities for environmental analysis software, and field testing and evaluating prototype imaging sensors. Dr. McGwire is currently working on grants from NASA, NSF, and NIH to test new hyperspectral satellite imaging systems, to develop internet-accessible databases of three-dimensional representations of fossil specimens, and modeling the spatial dynamics of hantavirus.

Research Areas

• Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
• Geographic Information Systems
• Biodiversity
• Invasive Species
• Geographical Epidemeology - Hantavirus

Selected Publications

McGwire, K.C., J.R. McConnell, R.B. Alley, J.R. Banta, G.M. Hargreaves, and K.C. Taylor, in press:

Dating Annual Layers of a Shallow Antarctic Ice Core with an Optical Scanner, Journal of Glaciology.

McGwire, K.C., G.M. Hargreaves, R.B. Alley, T.J. Popp, D.B. Reusch, M.K. Spencer, K.C. Taylor, 2008:

An integrated system for optical imaging of ice cores, Cold Regions Science and Technology 53(2):216-228.

McGwire, K., Boone, J., and S. St. Jeor, 2006:

Field Sampling Design for Zoonoses with Geospatial Technologies, Sociedad Especialistas Latinoamericana en Percepción Remota (SELPER), special edition on remote sensing applications to health, June, 2006, pp. 52-56, ISSN 0717-2915.

McGwire, K., E. Segura, M. Scavuzzo, and M. Lamfri, 2006:

Spatial Pattern of Infestation by Triatoma infestans in Chancani, Argentina Following Insecticide Treatment, Journal of Vector Ecology 31(1):17-28. Fairbanks, D. and K. McGwire, 2004. Patterns of Floristic Richness and Diversity in Vegetation Communities of California: Regional Scale Analysis with Multi-temporal NDVI, Global Ecology and Biogeography 13:221-235.

Boone, J., K. McGwire, R. DeBaca, E. Kuhn, E. Otteson, and S. St. Jeor, 2002:

Infection dynamics of sin nombre virus following a widespread decline in density of host populations. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 67 (3):310-318.

McGwire, K. and P. Fisher, 2001:

Spatially Variable Thematic Accuracy: Beyond the Confusion Matrix, Chapter 15 in Spatial Uncertainty in Ecology edited by C. Hunsaker, M. Goodchild, M. Friedl, and T. Case. Springer Verlag, New York.

Friedl, M., K. McGwire, and D. McIver, 2001:

An Overview of Uncertainty in Remote Sensing for Ecological Applications, Chapter 11 in Spatial Uncertainty in Ecology edited by C. Hunsaker, M. Goodchild, M. Friedl, and T. Case. Springer Verlag, New York.

Fairbanks, D. and K. McGwire, 2001:

Coarse-Scale Gradient Analysis of Environmental Factors in Relation to Plant Species Diversity for Vegetation Communities of California. Geographic Information Sciences 6(1):48-60.

McGwire, K., T. Minor, and L. Fenstermaker, 1999:

Hyperspectral Mixture Modeling for Quantifying Sparse Vegetation Cover in Arid Environments. Remote Sensing of Environment 72:360-374.

Husak, G., B. Hadley, and K. McGwire, 1999:

Registration Accuracy of High-Resolution Satellite Data Used in the IGBP Validation. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 65(9):1033-1039.

Boone, J., E. Otteson, P. Villard, K. McGwire, J. Rowe, and S. St. Jeor, 1998:

Ecology and demography of hantavirus infections in rodent populations in the Walker River Basin of Nevada and California. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 59(3):445-451.

McGwire, K., 1998:

Improving Landsat Scene Selection Systems. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 64(7):717-722.

McGwire, K., 1998:

Mosaicking Airborne Scanner Data with the Multiquadric Rectification Technique. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 64(6):601-606.

McGwire, K., and M. Goodchild, 1997:

Accuracy, pp. 110-133, in Integration of Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing (J. Star, J. Estes, and K. McGwire, eds.). Cambridge University Press, New York.

Star, J., J. Estes, and K. McGwire (Eds.), 1997:

Integration of Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing. Cambridge University Press, New York.

McGwire, K., 1996:

Cross-validated geometric accuracy assessment. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 62(10):1179-1187.

Frohn, R., K. McGwire, J. Estes, and V. Dale, 1996:

Using satellite remote sensing analysis to evaluate a socioeconomic and ecological model of land-use change in Rondonia, Brazil. International Journal of Remote Sensing 17(16):3233-3255.

McGwire, K., J. Estes, and J. Star, 1996:

A comparison of maximum likelihood-based supervised classification strategies. GeoCarto 11(2):3-13.

Ehrlich, D., J. Estes, J. Scepan, and K. McGwire, 1994:

Agricultural crop area monitoring with an advanced agricultural information system. GeoCarto 4:31-42.

McGwire, K., M. Friedl, and J. Estes, 1993:

Spatial Structure, Sampling Design, and Scale in Remotely Sensed Imagery of a California Savanna Woodland. International Journal of Remote Sensing 14:2137-2164.

McGwire, K., 1992:

Analyst Variability in Labeling of Unsupervised Classification. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 58(12):1673-1677.

Lunetta, R., R. Congalton, L. Fenstermaker, J. Jensen, K. McGwire, and L. Tinney, 1991:

Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System Data Integration: Error Sources and Research Issues. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 57(6):677-687.

Estes, J., K. McGwire, G. Fletcher, and T. Foresman, 1987:

Coordinating Hazardous Waste Monitoring Activities Using Geographic Information Systems. International Journal of Geographic Information Systems 1(4):359-377.