Faculty

Profile

College / Department

Teaching areas

Geomatics/Surveying, GIS/LIS, Remote Sensing, Geodetic/Geospatial Science, Land Development, Highway Engineering, and Hydrology.

Research areas

GIScience, LiDAR Mapping, Mobile and Internet-based GIS, Coastal Mapping &GIS, Applications of GIS/Remote Sensing in Environmental & Transportation Engineering, Wide-Area GPS Networks, and Infrastructure Monitoring/Surveillance.

Education

PhD, Civil Engineering - Concentration: Geodetic Engineering And Surveying, The Ohio State University, United States, 2003

MS, Civil Engineering - Concentration: Geodetic Engineering And Surveying, The Ohio State University, United States, 1999

BS, Civil Engineering, Khartoum University, 1993

Professional experience

Professor, Civil Engineering, American University of Sharjah, PO Box 26666, 2020 - Present

Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, American University of Sharjah (AUS), United Arab Emirates, 2011 - 2020

Assistant Professor, American University of Sharjah (AUS), United Arab Emirates, 2009 - 2011

Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida (UCF), FL, United States, 2006 - 2009

Assistant Professor, East Tennessee State University (ETSU), TN, United States, 2003 - 2006

Memberships

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, International, August 2021

International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, ISPRS, International, August 2021

Florida Surveying and Mapping Society, September 2007

American Association for Geodetic Surveying, July 2003

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), USA., July 2003

Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS), July 2003

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), ASCE, International, August 2020 - June 2021

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Senior Member, International, August 2020 - June 2021

International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, ISPRS, International, January 2017 - June 2021

American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE, May 2008 - June 2021

American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE, International, August 2020 - May 2021

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, International, I have been Elected to Senior Member of IEEE, August 2020 - May 2021

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2985

Dr. Tarig Ali

Professor

PhD, The Ohio State University, United States

Prof. Tarig Ali has taught at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) and the University of Central Florida. Prof. Ali is recipient of the Earle J. Fennell Award, the Esri Award for Best Scientific Paper in Geographic Information Systems, the ETSU Faculty Excellence Award, the American Shore and Beach Preservation Educational Award, and The Ohio State University's Duane C. Brown Jr. Award. Prof. Ali's research interests include Coastal Mapping, Spatial Analytics, Remote Sensing and Coastal Ecosystems, and Geo-informatics.

Publications

Atta Attaelmanan, Huda Aslam, Tarig Ali And Lara Dronjak. Mapping of Heavy Metal Contamination Associated to Microplastics Marine Debris-A Case Study: Dubai, UAE, Science Of The Total Environment, May 2023

Eisa Alzarooni, Tarig Ali, Serter Atabay, Gokhan Yilmaz, Md. Mortula, Kazi Fattah And Zahid Khan. GIS-Based Identification of Locations in Water Distribution Networks Vulnerable to Leakage, Applied Sciences, 7 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2023

Serter Atabay, Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula And Soroosh Sharifi. Experimental Assessment of Leakage in Water Distribution Network, Springer Book Series: Lecture Notes In Civil Engineering.

Ahmed Elaksher, Tarig Ali And Abdullatif Alharthy. Towards Quantitative Assessment of LIDAR Data Accuracy, Remote Sensing, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2023

Ahmed Khalil, Zahid Khan, Mousa Attom, Kazi Fattah, Tarig Ali And Md. Mortula. Continuous Evaluation of Shear Wave Velocity from Bender Elements during Monotonic Triaxial Loading, Materials, 12 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2023

Daniel Simonet And Tarig Ali. A Smart Phone Evapotranspiration-Based App for Optimal Irrigation Scheduling for Thai Crops, European Journal Of Horticultural Science.

Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula And Rahul Gawai. A GIS-based Tool for Leak Detection in Water Distribution Networks (WDNs), 4th Euro-mediterranean Conference For Environmental Integration

Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula And Rahul Gawai. Coastal Vulnerability Analysis of the UAE Coast Due to Sea Level Rise, 4th Euro-mediterranean Conference For Environmental Integration

Md. Mortula, Tarig Ali, Rahul Gawai, Fatima Alblooshi And Fatima Alshamsi. Monitoring coastal salinity level and its impact on the environment by developing an empirical remote sensing model, 4th Euro-mediterranean Conference For Environmental Integration

Mohamed Yahia And Tarig Ali. SAR Image Denoising using MMSE Techniques, Intechopen, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2022

Mohamed Yahia, Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula And Riadh Abdelfattah. On MMSE Speckle Filtering of Polsar Images, September 2022

Qi Guan, Lian Feng, Jing Tang, Edward Park, Tarig Ali And Yi Zheng. Trends in river total suspended sediments driven by dams and soil erosion: A comparison between the Yangtze and Mekong rivers, Water Resources Research, September 2022

Mohamed Yahia, Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula And Riyadh Abdelfattah. On MMSE Speckle Filtering of Polsar Images, International Geoscience And Remote Sensing Symposium (igarss), July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2022

Md. Mortula, Mohamed Yahia, Tarig Ali And Riadh Abdelfattah. Effects of Spatial Filtering on Polsar Parameter Estimation, 6th International Conference On Advanced Technologies For Signal And Image Processing, Tunisia, May 2022

Mohamed Yahia, Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula, Sami Elmahdy And Rahul Gawai. Speckle Filtering of SAR Images over Mangrove Forests of UAE, Ieee 9th International Conference Science Of Electronics, Technologies Of Information And Telecommunications, Hammamet, Tunisia, May 2022

Md. Mortula, Asif Raihan, Rahul Gawai And Tarig Ali. Towards a Sustainable Management of the UAE Mangrove Forests: Analysis of the Climate and Land-Use/Land-cover (LULC) Changes impacts 1990-2020, 5th See Sdewes, Vlore, Albania, May 2022

Daniel Simonet And Tarig Ali. A Smart Phone Evapotranspiration-Based App for Optimal Irrigation Scheduling for Thai Crops., European Journal Of Horticultural Science

Lutfi Albasha, Mohamed Yahia, Ameen Awwad, Maruf Mortula And Tariq Ali. Adaptive Multitemporal Filtering of Water Pipe Ultrasound Images based on Change Analysis.

Samy Elmahdy And Tarig Ali. Monitoring Changes and Soil Characterization in Mangrove Forests of the United Arab Emirates Using the Canonical Correlation Forest Model by Multitemporal of Landsat Data, Frontiers In Remote Sensing, March 2022

Tarig Ali, Mohamed Abouleish, Rahul Gawai, Nasser Hamdan And Elaksher. Ammonium Nitrate Explosion at Main Port in Beirut Lebanon and Air Pollution: An Analysis of the Spatiotemporal Distribution of Nitrogen Dioxide, Euro-mediterranean Journal For Environmental Integration (emje), 26 February 2022

H Aslam, M Mortula, Sherif Yehia, Tarig Ali And M Kaur. Evaluation of the Factors Impacting the Water Pipe Leak Detection Ability of GPR, Infrared Cameras, and Spectrometers under Controlled Conditions, Applied Sciences, 1 February 2022

Soumaya Fatnassi, Mohamed Yahia, Tarig Ali And Md. Mortula. Enhancement of SAR Speckle Denoising Using Hybrid Non Local Sigma Filter

Soumaya Fatnassi, Yahia, Tarig Ali And Md. Mortula. SAR Speckle Filtering Using Hybrid NonLocal Sigma Filter, 2021 18th International Multi-conference On Systems, Signals & Devices (ssd), 2021

Mohamed Yahia, Tarig Ali, Md Maruf Mortula And Riyad Abdelfattah. Polarimetric SAR Data Adaptive Filtering, Encyclopedia Of Earth Sciences Series, 25 December 2021

Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula And Batoul Mohsen. Detection of Microplastic Pollution in Dubai Coastal Water, 16th Annual Conference On Sustainable Development Of Energy, Water And Environment, November 2021

Alhamaydeh Mohammad, Gaith Al-shamsi, Nader Aly And Tarig Ali. Seismic Risk Quantification and GIS-Based Seismic Risk Maps for Dubai-UAE_Dataset, Data In Brief, 12 November 2021

Daniel Simonet And Tarig Ali. A Smartphone Application to Compute Soil Erosion based on the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE), Emirates Journal Of Food And Agriculture, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2021

Mohammad Alhamaydeh, Ghaith Al-shamsi, Nader Aly And Tarig Ali. Geographic Information System-Based Seismic Risk Assessment for Dubai-UAE: a Step Towards Resilience and Preparedness, Practice Periodical On Structural Design And Construction, 27 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2021

Tarigmohammad Alhamaydeh, Gaith Al-shamsi, Nader Aly And Tarig Ali. GIS-Based Seismic Risk Assessment for Dubai-UAE: a Step towards Resilience and Preparedness, Asce Practice Periodical On Structural Design And Construction, 27 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2021

Mohamed Yahia, Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula, Riadh Abdelfattah And Sami El Mahdi. On the Use of Span Image in Polsar Speckle Filtering, Ieee International Geoscience And Remote Sensing Symposium, Brussels, Belgium, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2021

Samy Elmahdy, Tarig Ali And Mohamed Mohamed. Regional mapping of Groundwater Potential in Ar Rub Al Khali, Arabian Peninsula using the Classification and Regression Trees model, Remote Sensing, 11 June 2021

Samy Elmahdy, Tarig Ali And Moahmed Mohamed. Regional mapping of Groundwater Potential in Ar Rub Al Khali, Arabian Peninsula using the Classification and Regression Trees model, Remote Sensing, 11 June 2021

Samy Elmahdy, Tarig Ali And Mohamed Mohamed. Hydrological modeling of Ar Rub Al Khali, Arabian Peninsula: A modified remote sensing approach based on the weight of hydrological evidence, Geocarto International, May 2021

Mohamed Yahia, Rauol Gawai,, Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula, Lutfi Albasha And Taha Landolsi. Non-Destructive Water Leak Detection Using Multitemporal Infrared Thermography, Ieee Access, 7 May 2021

Noura Alghanim, Tarig Ali, Ahmed Elaksher And Gamal Seedahmed. Evaluation of 3D Cameras for Non-destructive Testing. Surveying and Land Information Science, Surveying And Land Information Science

Mohamed Yahia, Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula, Riadh Abdelfattah And Sami Elmahdy. Polarimetric SAR image Filtering by Infinite Number of Looks Prediction, Ieee Journal Of Selected Topics In Applied Earth Observations And Remote Sensing, 1 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2021

Mohamed Yahia, Tarig Ali And Md. Mortula. Polarimetric SAR Image Denoising Using the Improved Immse Filter, 2020 International Conference On Communications, Signal Processing, And Their Applications (iccspa), March 2021

Ahmed Elaksher, Tarig Ali And James Bethel. High-quality Building Information Models (BIMs) using Geospatial Datasets, Earth Science Informatics, March 2021

Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula And Rehan Sadiq. GIS-based vulnerability analysis of us to COVID-19 occurrence, Journal Of Risk Research, 19 February 2021

Mohamed Yahia, Tarig Ali And Md. Mortula. Span Statistics and Their Impacts on PolSAR Applications., Ieee Geoscience And Remote Sensing Letters, December 2020

Mohamed Yahia, Tarig Ali And Md. Mortula. Speckle Denoising of the Multipolarization Images by Hybrid Filters, 2020 5th International Conference On Advanced Technologies For Signal And Image Processing (atsip), September 2020

Ameen Awwad, Mohamed Yehia, Lutfi Albasha, Md. Mortula And Tarig Ali. Remote Thermal Water Leakage Sensor With a Laser Communication System, Ieee Access, 7 September 2020

Mohamed Yahia, Md. Mortula, Lutfi Albasha, Ameen Awwad And Tarig Ali. Ultrasound Water Leakage Image Denoising by the Iterative MMSE Filter, 2 September 2020

Samy Elmahdy, Tarig Ali And Mohamed Mohamed. Flash Flood Susceptibility Modeling and Magnitude Index Using Machine Learning and Geohydrological Models: A Modified Hybrid Approach, Remote Sensing, August 2020

Samy Elmahdy, Tarig Ali And Mohamed Mohamed. Topographically and hydrologically signatures express subsurface geological structures in an arid region: a modified integrated approach using remote sensing and GIS, Geocarto International, August 2020

Md. Mortula, Tarig Ali, Abdallah Bachir, Ahmad Elaksher And Mohamed Abouleish. Towards Monitoring of Nutrient Pollution in Coastal Lake Using Remote Sensing and Regression Analysis, Water, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2020

Samy Elmahdy, Tarig Ali, Mohamed Mohamed, Fares Howari, Mohamed Abouleish And Daniel Simonet. Spatiotemporal Mapping and Monitoring of Mangrove Forests Changes From 1990 to 2019 in the Northern Emirates, UAE Using Random Forest, Kernel Logistic Regression and Naive Bayes Tree Models, Frontiers In Environmental Science, 16 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2020

Md. Mortula, Md Ahmed, Arif Sadri, Tarig Ali, Irtishad Ahmad And Alaeldinne Idris. Improving Resiliency of Water Supply System in Arid Regions: Integrating Centrality and Hydraulic Vulnerability, Journal Of Management In Engineering, June 2020

Mohammad Yahia, Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula, Riadh And Sami Elmahdy. Polarimetric SAR Speckle Reduction by Hybrid Iterative Filtering, Ieee Access, May 2020

Ahmed Elaksher, Tarig Ali And James Bethel. Delineating planner surfaces from correlation-based DEMs, Earth Science Informatics, May 2020

Samy Elmahdy, Mohamed Mohamed And Tarig Ali. Land Use /Land Cover Changes Impact on Groundwater Level and Quality in Northern Emirates, UAE, Remote Sensing, 27 May 2020

Asem Zabin, Baha Khalil, Tarig Ali, Jamal Abdalla And Ahmed Elaksher. A semi-automated method for integrating textural and material data into as-built BIM using TIS, Advances In Computational Design, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2020

Mohammad Yahia, Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula, Riadh Abdelfattah, N Arampola And Sami Elmahdy. Multitemporal SAR Image Despeckling Based on IMMSE Filtering, Ieee Mediterranean And Middle-east Geoscience And Remote Sensing Sysmposium, March 2020

Md. Mortula, Tarig Ali And Ahmed Elaksher. Municipal Wastewater Treatment using Different Coagulants, Desalination And Water Treatment, March 2020

Ameen Awwad, Mohammad Yahia, Lutfi Albasha, Md. Mortula And Tarig Ali. Communication Network for Ultrasonic Acoustic Water Leakage Detectors, Ieee Access, February 2020

Mohammad Yahia, Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula, Riad Abdelfatteh, Sami El Mahdi And N. S. Arampola. Enhancement of SAR Speckle Denoising Using the Improved Iterative Filter, Ieee Journal Of Selected Topics In Applied Earth Observations And Remote Sensing, February 2020

S Elmahdy, M Mohamed, Tarig Ali, Jamal Abdalla And Mohamed Abouleish. Land subsidence and sinkholes susceptibility mapping and analysis using random forest and frequency ratio models in Al Ain, UAE, Geocarto International Journal, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2020

Samy Elmahdy, Mohamed Mohamed, Tarig Ali, Jamal Abdalla And Mohamed Abouleish. Land subsidence and sinkholes susceptibility mapping and analysis using random forest and frequency ratio models in Al Ain, UAE, Geocarto International, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2020

Huda Aslam, Tarig Ali, Md Mortula And Atta Attaelmanan. Evaluation of microplastics in beach sediments along the coast of Dubai, UAE, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2020

Md. Mortula, Kazi Fattah, Tarig Ali, Alaeldine Idris And Mayada Albardan. Spatiotemporal Assessment of Water Quality in the Distribution Network of City of Sharjah, UAE, International Journal Of Information And Decision System, 2019

Samy Elmahdy, Tarig Ali, Mohamed Mohamed, Mohamed Yahia And Mohamed Abouleish. Support vector machine for better monitoring and analysing the city of Sharjah’s land use/land cover changes, The Second Arabian Journal Of Geosciences (ajgs) Conference

Adil Al-tamimi, Tarig Ali, Rawan Anoohi, Ahmed Rajput And Kaltham Alkamali. Evaluations of 3D Concrete Printing Produced in the Environment of United Arab Emirates, International Journal Of Civil And Environmental Engineering, November 2019

Adil Al-tamimi, Tarig Ali, Rawan Anoohi, Ahmed Rajput And Kaltham Alkamali. Properties and Assessment of 3D Concrete Printing, August 2019

Tarig Ali And Ahmed Elaksher. Application of Fuzzy Set Theory to Update Linear Features in Digital Mapping and GIS, International Journal Of Advanced Computational Engineering And Networking, June 2019

Lian Feng, Junguo Liu, Tarig Ali, Junsheng Li, Juan Li And Xingxing Kuang. Impacts of decreased freeze-up period on primary production in Qinghai Lake., International Journal Of Applied Earth Observations And Geoinformation

Huan-chin Kao, Chungyen Kuo, Kh Tseng, Ck Shum, Tp Tseng, Yy Jia, Ty Yang, Tarig Ali, Y Yi And D Hussain. Assessment of Cryosat-2 and SARAL/AltiKa Altimetry for Measuring Inland Water and Coastal Sea Level Variations: A case study on Tibetan Plateau Lake and Taiwan Coast, Marine Geodesy

Samy Elhamhdy, S., Mohamed Mohamed And Tarig Ali. Automated detection of lineaments express geological linear features of a tropical region using topographic fabric grain algorithm and the SRTM DEM, Geocarto International, May 2019

L Feng, J Liu, J Li, J Li, Tarig Ali And X Kuang. Impacts of decreased freeze-up period on primary production in Qinghai Lake, International Journal Of Applied Earth Observations And Geoinformation

X Hou, X Chen, W Liu, L Feng And Tarig Ali. Changes in the wetland vegetation growth patterns in large lakes on the Yangtze Plain, International Journal Of Remote Sensing, 13 May 2019

Samy Elhamhdy, Mohamed Mohamed And Tarig Ali. Land subsidence and sinkholes susceptibility mapping and analysis using random forest and frequency ratio models in Al Ain, UAE

Samy Elhamhdy, Mohamed Mohamed And Tarig Ali. Remote sensing and hydrological signatures of subsurface geological structures in an arid region: a case study of the Al Jaaw Plain, UAE

Chi-ming Lee, Chung-yen Kuo, Jian Sun, Tzu-pang Tseng, Kwo-hwa Chen, Wen-hau Lan, Ck Shum, Tarig Ali, , And . Evaluation and Improvement of Coastal GNSS Reflectometry Sea Level Variations from Existing GNSS Stations in Taiwan, Advances In Space Research, 1 February 2019

Md. Mortula, Tarig Ali, Rehan Sadiq, Ala Idris And Asam Al Mulla. Impacts of Water Quality on the Spatiotemporal Susceptibility of Water Distribution Systems, Clean - Soil, Air, Water, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2019

Ahmed Elaksher, Tarig Ali, F Kamtchang, C Wegmann And A Guerrero. Performance analysis of multi-GNSS static and RTK techniques in estimating height differences, International Journal Of Digital Earth

Ck Shum, L Zhang, Tarig Ali, Bpy Loo And Wm Wong. Satellite-based Environmental & Infrastructure Monitoring System of Smart Cities, International Conference On Smart Mobility And Logistics In Future Cities, Hong Kong, 18- 20 October 2018, 20 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2018

H. Aslam, M. Kaur, S. Sasi, Md. Mortula, Sherif Ahmed And Tarig Ali. Detection of Leaks in Water Distribution System using Non-Destructive Techniques, 22 May 2018

Huda Aslam, Manreet Kaur, Sneha Sasi, Md. Mortula, Sherif Ahmed And Tarig Ali. Detection of Leaks in Water Distribution System using Non-Destructive Techniques, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2018

Heba Hussein, Serter Atabay, Md. Mortula And Tarig Ali. Investigation of Water Quality Parameters for Coastal Lagoon, Pollution Research, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2018

Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula And Serter Atabay. Monitoring and assessment of water quality of a coastal lake using high resolution imagery and GIS, Pollution Research, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2017

Md. Mortula, Kazi Fattah And Tarig Ali. Study the Variability of Water Quality in a Large Water Distribution Network, 2016

Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula, Serter Atabay And Ehsan Navadeh. A GIS-based spatiotemporal study of the variability of water quality in the Dubai creek, UAE, Water Quality Research Journal Of Canada, 1 August 2016

Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula And Serter Atabay. GIS-based study on the susceptibility of dubai creek (UAE) to eutrophication, Polish Journal Of Environmental Studies, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016

Tarig Ali, Serter Atabay, Md. Mortula And Ruijin Ma. Semiautomatic extraction of the shoreline from high-resolution satellite imagery and coastal terrain model, Surveying And Land Information Science, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2015

Conference Presentations

Experimental Assessment of Leakage in Water Distribution Network, 2023 7th International Conference On Civil Engineering, March 2023

Satellite-based Environmental & Infrastructure Monitoring System of Smart Cities, International Conference On Smart Mobility And Logistics In Future Cities, 18-20 October, 2018, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, 20 October 2018

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Development of a Machine Learning Based Smart Water Leak Detection System, June 2022 - 31 May 2024

Grant, Development of a Mangrove Forests Monitoring System: Use of Multisource Remote Sensing Data and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for Building a Geodatabase of the UAE Mangroves (1980s-date), June 2021 - May 2024

Grant, Microplastic Research Group Fund, June 2022

Grant, Satellite-Based Coastal Monitoring System for Multidisciplinary Science to Support UAE-Wide Smart City Initiatives, AUS, January 2019 - May 2022

Grant, Erosion Computation, Geospatial Analysis Center., - 2020

Sponsored Research, Development of Smart Leak Detection Technologies for Water Distribution Network, SEWA, June 2020

Grant, Development of Smart Leak Detection Technologies for Water Distribution Network, Sharjah Research Academy, June 2020

Sponsored Research, SEWA Business Intelligence proposal, SEWA, June 2020

Grant, Study of Microplastics Contamination in Beach Sediment and Surface Water

Grant, Development of Smart Leak Detection Technologies for Water Distribution, SCRI

Grant, Experimental Assessment of Leakage in Water Distribution Network, Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority

Awards and Honors

Earle J. Fennell Award, United States National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS), Presented for distinguished educational contributions to the surveying and mapping profession. The awardee should have a sustained record of superior performance in surveying and mapping education for more than ten years at the local, state, or national level., 2 February 2024

Best Paper Award at the 18th International Conference on Agricultural, Environmental, Ecological and Ecosystems Sciences, Rome, Italy, SEPTEMBER 15-16, 2016, World Academy of Science, Engineering, and Technology (WASET), 16 September 2016

The 2006 ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS, 3rd Place, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), Award is presented annually to the best scientific paper in GIS published in the Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing Journal of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)., 10 March 2006

Study of the Spatio-temporal Variation of the Level of the Atmospheric Water Vapor using ground-based GPS and GIS, East Tennessee State University Office of Research, 10 August 2005

The 2005 Faculty Excellence Award, College of Business and Technology, East Tennessee State University, Teaching Award, 17 May 2005

The 2004 Educational Award, American Shore & Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA), Award presented for furthering the state of the coastal and riverine science., 20 August 2004

The 2003 Duane C. Brown Jr. Award, Ohio State University College of Engineering, Award is presented to the top graduating PhD-student, 26 November 2003

NOAA Research Fellowship, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, 3 July 2000