Faculty Profile for Dr. Soe Win Myint
Dr. Soe Win Myint
Professor - Endowed Chair — Dept of Geography & Environmntl Studies
phone: (512) 245-0382
Biography Section
Biography and Education
Ph.D., Geography (GIScience), Louisiana State UniversityM.S., Natural Resources Program (Environmental Remote Sensing and Geoinformation for Development), Asian Institute of Technology
Post-Grad. Diploma, Forest Survey (Aerospace Remote Sensing Techniques), International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC), the Netherlands
B.S., Forestry, Rangoon University
Teaching Interests
(1) Digital Image Processing(2) Advanced Digital Image Processing
(3) Remote Sensing
(4) Seminar in Remote Sensing
(5) Air Photo Interpretation
(6) Applied Water Resources
(7) Advanced Quantitative Methods
(8) Principles of Geographic Information Science
(9) Advanced Quantitative Methods
Research Interests
(1) Urban Ecology(2) Urban Water Use
(3) Agriculture Water Use
(4) Urban Climate and Emission
(5) Deforestation and Forest Degradation
(6) Land Use Land Cover Change
(7) Spatial pattern and fragmentation
(8) Space Time Analysis
(9) Landscape Ecology
(10) Ground and surface water changes
(11) Human-environment interactions
(1) Sustainability
Selected Scholarly/Creative Work
- Zhu, Y., Murugesan, S. B., Masara, I. K., Myint, S. W., & Fisher, J. B. (2024). Examining wildfire dynamics using ECOSTRESS data with machine learning approaches: the case of South‐Eastern Australia’s black summer. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 1–16. https://doi.org/doi: 10.1002/rse2.422
- Myint, S. W. (2024). Fundamentals of Aerial Photo Interpretation. In The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge – UCGIS. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge – UCGIS. Retrieved from DOI:10.22224/gistbok/2024.1.4
- Liu, K., Zhu, Y., Dang, X., Myint, S. W., Liu, L., & Cao, J. (2024). Examining spatial dynamics and interactions of planted alien, native, and invasive alien species in China’s largest artificial mangrove forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 1–10. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121755
- Zhu, Y., Myint, S. W., Liu, K., Liu, L., & Cao, J. (2024). Integration of UAV LiDAR and WorldView-2 images for modeling mangrove aboveground biomass with GA-ANN wrapper. Ecological Processes, 1–16. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-024-00566-w
- Shi, D., Song, J., Zhong, Q., Myint, S. W., Zeng, P., & Che, Y. (2024). Cooling wisdom of ‘water towns’: How urban river network scan shape city climate? Remote Sensing of Environment, 300, 113925. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113925
Selected Awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Fellow of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), American Association of Geographers (AAG). December 5, 2024 - Present
- Award / Honor Recipient: E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award, American Association of Geographers (AAG). January 1, 2024 - Present
- Award / Honor Recipient: World’s top 2% most influential scientists in their respected research categories, Stanford University/Elsevier. January 1, 2019 - Present
- Award / Honor Recipient: John Jensen distinguished lecture at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) meeting (2024) – Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RSSG), American Association of Geographers (AAG). October 31, 2023 - April 20, 2024
- Award / Honor Recipient: Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Water, Environment, and Clean Energy. June 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019
Selected Service Activities
Member
NASA ECOSTRESS Program
August 2019-December 2024
Member
NASA Land Cover Land Use Change Program Science Member
August 2012-December 2024
Member
Graduate Committee
January 1, 2024-December 31, 2024
Member
Promotion Committee
January 1, 2024-December 31, 2024
Editor
Ecological Processes
January 1, 2019-December 31, 2024