Faculty Profile for Dr. Soe Win Myint

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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 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

(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

  • Shi, D., Song, J., Zhong, Q., Myint, S. W., Zeng, P., & Che, Y. (2024). Cooling wisdom of ‘water towns’: How urban river networkscan shapecityclimate? Remote Sensing of Environment, 300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113925
  • Schaffer-Smith, D., DeMeester, J. E., Tong, D., Myint, S. W., Libera, D. A., & Muenich, R. L. (2023). Landscape Pollution Source Dynamics Highlight Priority Locations for Basin-Scale Interventions to Protect Water Quality Under Hydroclimatic Variability. Earth’s Future, 11(9). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003137
  • Zhu, Y., Myint, S. W., Feng, X., & Li, Y. (2023). An Innovative Scheme to Confront the Trade-Off Between Water Conservation and Heat Alleviation With Environmental Justice for Urban Sustainability: The Case of Phoenix, Arizona. AGU Advances, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022AV000816
  • Tran, T. V., Bruce, D., Huang, C. Y., Tran, D. X., Myint, S. W., & Nguyen, D. B. (2023). Decadal assessment of agricultural drought in the context of land use land cover change using MODIS multivariate spectral index time-series data. GIScience and Remote Sensing, 60(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2022.2163070
  • Zhou, X., & Myint, S. W. (2023). Shadow Pattern-Enhanced Building Height Extraction Using Very-High-Resolution Image. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 16, 180–190. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2022.3221146

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: John Jensen distinguished lecture at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) meeting (2024) – Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RSSG). 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
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Keynote speaker - 2019 conference banquet of the Canadian Association of Geographers’ Prairie Division. September 27, 2019 - September 29, 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Commencement speech delivered at the 129th Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Graduation Ceremony. May 18, 2018
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Nominated for the Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award (given to tenured and tenure-track faculty members). January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017

Selected Grants

  • 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.

Selected Service Activities

Editor
Ecological Processes
2019-Present
Editor
Urban Remote Sensing Section, Remote Sensing
2018-Present
Editorial Review Board Member
International Journal of Remote Sensing
2017-Present
Editorial Review Board Member
GIScience and Remote Sensing
2015-Present
Member
Graduate Committee
August 2023-December 2023