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Dr. Soe Win Myint

  • Professor - Endowed Chair - Dept of Geography & Environmntl Studies
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Biography and education

Ph.D., Geography (GIScience), Louisiana State University
M.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

Research Interests

  • Myint, Soe Win (Co-Principal). Decoding Land Transitions across the Urban-Rural Continuums (URC): A Synthesis Study of Patterns, Drivers, and Socio-environmental Impacts in Southeast Asia, NASA, Federal, $2021134. (Funded: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2026). Grant.
  • Wang, P., Yuan, Y., & Myint, S. W. (2025). Developing mobility zones based on heat exposure and vegetation condition: a tale of two transportation modes. International Journal of Digital Earth, 12(2), 2552878.
  • 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
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  • 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
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  1. Member

    NASA ECOSTRESS Program

  2. Member

    NASA Land Cover Land Use Change Program Science Member

  3. Member

    Graduate Committee

  4. Member

    Promotion Committee

  5. Editor

    Ecological Processes

  6. Editor

    Remote Sensing

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