Sean Ahearn

Phone: (212) 772-5327
Office: 1023 Hunter North CARSI Lab
Email: sca@geo.hunter.cuny.edu

Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Ahearn received his Ph.D. in environmental monitoring in 1986 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.S. in 1982 from the same institution. He received a B.S. in 1978 from the College of Environmental Science and Forestry-Syracuse University. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota from 1986-1990 in the College of Natural Resources. He has worked with GIS for over fifteen years on a diversity of environmentally related projects and has published numerous articles on both GIS and remote sensing. He teaches both introductory and advanced courses in remote sensing and GIS. His interests include environmental monitioring, cartographic modeling, computer vision and digital image analysis. Some of the recent projects that Professor Ahearn has been involved in are the Implementation and Placement of a GIS-Bases Environmental Monitoring System in Greenpoint/Williamsburg section of Brooklyn; Technology Transfer and System Development of the DEP Natural Resource GIS for NYC; A Temporal Analysis of Crop Production in the ASA Region of Kwara, Nigeria using Satellite Remote Sensing; and Development of a Digital Cartographic Base Map For the State of New York.

Curriculum Vitae:
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Courses Taught:
GTECH 362/732 - Geographic Information Science
GTECH 733- Advanced GIS
GTECH 321/712 - Principles of Remote Sensing
GTECH 322/713 - Digital Image Processing