Douglas A. Miller

Contact Information

E-mail: miller@essc.psu.edu
2217 Earth-Engineering Science Bldg., University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 863-7207
Fax: (814) 865-3191

Background

Faculty; Director, Center for Environmental Informatics, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute

B.S. (Earth Science), The Pennsylvania State University, 1981
M.S. (Agronomy), The Pennsylvania State University, 1987
Ph.D. (Soil Science), The Pennsylvania State University, 1999

Interests

Remote sensing, geographic information science, land surface processes, soils, and geomorphology.

View Dr. Miller's curriculum vitae for a full list of professional experiences, teaching interests, current grants and contracts, professional affiliations, professional service, honors and awards, service to the University, and presentations and publications.

Teaching

Geography 497A - Advanced Remote Sensing:

Soils 597A - Soil Properties and Functions

Graduate Advisees

Sara Holm - MGIS Candidate

Patricia Laird - MGIS Candidate

Mark Wagaman - MGIS Candidate

Honors and Awards

The Pennsylvania State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences: Faculty Mentoring Award, 2004

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation - Best Feature Article Honorable Mention, 2002

Publications and Presentations

Miller, D.A. and B.W. Bills. 2005. Reconsidering soil survey information delivery in the new millennium. Soil Survey Horizons (In preparation).

Kumar, M. and D.A. Miller. 2005. Class distribution independent classification of remotely sensed imagery. Photo. Eng. Remote Sens. (Currently in Submission).

Miller, D.A., L.Kump, S. Crawford, B. Bills, and M. Bachman. 2005. A Web map-based approach to decision-support wastewater injection well management . Journal of Environmental Informatics. (In preparation).

Jacobs, J., B.P. Mohanty, E.-C. Hsu, and D.A. Miller. 2003. Field Scale Variability and Similarity of Soil Moisture During SMEX02. Remote Sensing of Environment 92:436-446.

Miller, D.A., G.W. Petersen, P.J. Kolb, and J.J. Voortman. 2002. The soil survey report: New forms for the 21st Century. J. Soil and Water Conservation 57(5): 120A-127A.

Miller, D. A., Hall, M. H., Voortman, J., and Kolb, P. J. 2002. A web-based decision support tool for forage species selection. Online. Crop Management doi:10.1094/CM-2002-1014-01-MA.

Mohanty, B.P., P.J. Shouse, D.A. Miller, and M.T. van Genuchten. 2002. Soil property database: Southern Great Plains 1997 Hydrology Experiment. Water Resources Res. 38:5, 10.1029/2000WR000076.

Miller, D.A. and R.A. White. 1998. A Conterminous United States multi-layer soil characteristics data set for regional climate and hydrology modeling. Earth Interactions, 2. [Available on-line at http://EarthInteractions.org].

White, R.A. and D.A. Miller. 1998. Processing soil survey information with Perl. Computers and Geosciences 24:591-593.