CLINT SLATTON
Assistant Professor

 

Education:

PhD, EE, University of Texas-Austin, 2001
MS, EE, University of Texas-Austin, 1999
MS, ASE, University of Texas-Austin, 1997
BS, ASE, University of Texas-Austin, 1993

Contact Information:

Email: slatton@ece.ufl.edu
Phone: 352-392-0634
Office: 459 New Engineering Building
Homepage:  www.slatton.ece.ufl.edu

Program Affiliation:

Area:  Signals & Systems
Lab:   Adaptive Signal Processing Lab, Geosensing Engineering and Mapping Center, UF Water Institute

Fields of Interest:

• Multiscale stochastic estimation
• Data fusion
• Information-theoretic segmentation of complex 3D data
• Sensor Modeling and remote sensing applications (especially for laser ranging and radar

Employment:

2003 - Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida
2003 - Assistant Professor, Civil & Coastal Engineering, University of Florida

Refereed Journals in the Last 3 Years:

2007
W. E. Carter, R. L. Shrestha, and K. C. Slatton, “Geodetic Laser Scanning,” Physics Today, Dec., 2007, pp. 41 – 47

K. Clint Slatton, William E. Carter, Ramesh L. Shrestha, William Dietrich, , “Airborne Laser Swath Mapping: Achieving the resolution and accuracy required for geosurficial research,” Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 34, L23S10, doi:10.1029/2007GL031939, 2007

Brian E. Roth, K. Clint Slatton, and Matthew J. Cohen, “On the potential for high-resolution lidar to improve rainfall interception estimates in forest ecosystems,” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2007, 5(8): pp. 421-428, doi 10.1890/060119.01

2005
Brian J. Luzum, K. Clint Slatton, and Ramesh L. Shrestha, "Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Stability of Airborne Laser Swath Mapping Data in Feature Space", IEEE Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 1403-1420, Jun., 2005.

K. Clint Slatton, S. Cheung, and H. Jhee, "Reduced-Complexity Fusion of Multiscale Topography and Bathymetry Data over the Florida Coast", IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 2, no. 4, Oct, 2005, pp. 389 – 393.

R. L. Shrestha, W. E. Carter, M. Sartori, B. J. Luzum, and K. C. Slatton, "Airborne Laser Swath Mapping: Quantifying Changes in Sandy Beaches Over Time Scales of Weeks to Years," ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, vol. 59, no. 4 , Jun. 2005, pp. 222-232.

Contracts and Grants:

• National Science Foundation, renewal for the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping
• National Science Foundation, "Design and demonstration of a distributed sensor array for predcting water flow and nitrate flux in the Santa Fe Basin
• Army Engineer Research and Development Center, "A new paradigm for calculating below-canopy line-of-sight in forests through estimation of under-sampling probabilities in lidar point clouds"
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Remote Sensing of Ancient Maya Land Use Features at Caracol, Belize Related to Rainforest Canopy Structure"
• US Army Research Office, "An Information-Theoretic Sampling Theorem for Lidar Point Cloud Data in Forested Terrain"
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration, "Development and Validation of an Improved Performance Model for Airborne Photon-Counting LIDAR"
• US Army Research Office, "PECASE: Predictive Modeling of Diffractive and Non-Diffractive Propagation in Forested Terrain"
• Office of Naval Research, "Probabilistic Graphical Models for Data Co-Registration and Contact Fusion"

Honors and Awards

2007 - Elevation to IEEE Senior Member
2007 - Semifinalist, International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge
2007 - Awarded Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Office of the President