Dr. Samuel Goward

 
Education

PhD  Physical Geography, Indiana State University, 1979
MA   Geography, Boston University, 1974
BA    Geography, Boston University, 1967

Research Interests

• Land Remote Sensing
• Geographic Data Systems & Handling
• Bioclimatology
• Global Change
  

Dr. Goward, professor in Geography, also hold a joint appointment  with the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland College Park.  He pursues biophysical applications of land remotely sensed data.  The goal of this research is to improve our understanding of state and dynamics of land conditions, as influenced by natural variability and human activities. Dr. Goward also explores advanced geographic data systems to facilitate access to and exploitation of large volume remote sensing data sets. He recently served as the Team Leader for the NASA Landsat Science Team (1997-2001) and continues to work with the Landsat Project Science Office at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on mission operation. He is also the science co-chair of the advisory committee for the USGS National Land Satellite Remote Sensing Data Archive (NSLRSDA) at the EROS Data Center. He has published extensively in professional journals and books and serves a variety of advisory panels including an associate editor for Remote Sensing of Environment.

• Validation of the Landsat-7 long-term acquisition plan
  
• Assessing eastern North America forest disturbance and regrowth: Potential for passive optical remote sensing
  

Cohen, W.B. & Goward, S.N. (2004)

Landsat's Role in Ecological Applications of Remote Sensing.

Bioscience (in press)

Zanoni, V and S. N. Goward, guest editors, (2003)

Special Issue on the NASA IKONOS Scientific Data Buy

Remote Sensing of Environment 88 (1-2): 1-219

Goward, S.N., Davis, P.E., Fleming, D., Miller, L., & Townshend, J.R.G. (2003)

Empirical comparison of Landsat 7 and IKONOS multispectral measurements for selected Earth Observation System (EOS) validation sites.

Remote Sensing of Environment 88 (1-2): 196-2.

Goward, S.N., Townshend, J., Zanoni, V., Pollicelli, F., Stanley, T., Ryan, R., Pagnutti, M., Fletcher, R., Holekamp, K., & Underwood, L. (2003)

Acquisition of earth science remote sensing observations from commercial sources:  Lessons learned from the Space Imaging IKONOS example
Remote Sensing of Environment 88 (1-2): 80-99

Ouaidrari, H., Goward, S. N., Czajkowski, K.P., Sobrino, J.A., Liang, S., and Vermonte, E. (2003)

Land surface temperature estimentation from AVHRR thermal measurements: An assessment for the AVHRR Land Pathfinder II data set
Remote Sensing of Environment  81 (1): 114-128

Czajkowski, K.P., Goward, S. N., Shirey, D., and Walz, A (2002)

Thermal remote sensing of near-surface water vapor
Remote Sensing of Environment, 79(2-3): 253-265.

Goward, S. N. and J. Masek, guest editors, 2001.

Special issue on Landsat 7

Remote Sensing of Environment 78(1-2) 222pp .

Goward, S.N., Masek, J., Williams, D.L., Irons, J.R., and Thompson, R.J. (2001)

The Landsat 7 mission: terrestial research for the 21st century.
Special Issue on Landsat 7, Remote Sensing of Environment, 78(1-2): 3-12.

Masek, J., Schock, T., and Goward, S.N. (2001)

Research environment for advanced Landsat monitoring (REALM): Achieving Landsat 7 global science goals.
Special Issue on Landsat 7, Remote Sensing of Environment, 78(1-2): 204-216.