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Dr. David S. Linden


PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

1992 to present DSL Consulting Private Consultant. Providing GIS, Remote Sensing, eCommerce solutions, Windows and UNIX system integration services for corporate and government clients.
1990 to 1992 TGS Technology Vice President. Responsible for the overall management of the GIS/Remote Sensing Division of a subsidiary of the Fortune 150 company Johnson Controls, Inc.
1989 to 1990 Genasys Executive Vice President. Directed all the business administration, sales, and marketing of an international GIS software company.
1986-1989 QC Data Collectors Executive Vice President. Directed all the R&D, Technical Services and MIS activities of an international computer services firm. Recommended to the President the overall growth direction of the company.
1986 QC Data Collectors President. Assumed control of company from owner during oil price crash and resulting financial crisis. Responsible for all operations, finance, P&L, R&D, and strategic planning. Cut costs by over 20% and diversified company into non-oil markets. Re-established company profitability and returned control to owner
1985-1986 QC Data Collectors Director of Computer Services. Responsible for developing and maintaining a customer oriented Computer Services division of personnel and equipment that provides timely international support to production, marketing and accounting; and, at the direction of the CEO pursuing research and development for future services and products.
1984-1985 Optronics International Asian Marketing Manager. Responsible for marketing and direct sales of scanning micro-densitometers, film recorders, and remote sensing systems throughout Asia.
1982-1984 TGS Technology Division Manager. Computer Mapping Division. Management of sixty people involved in all phases of digital mapping and remote sensing including, photo interpretation, compilations, digitizing, processing, systems development, and computer operations. Responsible for all marketing and profit and loss.
1980-1982 TGS Technology Technical Director. Bureau of Land Management Operations. Supervise scientists and data analysts in the day to day use of a digital image processing computer laboratory. Consult with system analysts regarding software design, hardware procurement, and programming.
1979-1980 TGS Technology Applications Scientist. EROS Data Center Operations. Consult with Federal and State agencies and private industry, providing assistance in the incorporation of remotely sensed data into natural resource inventories. Provide statistical and data analysis support to other scientists.
1977-1978 University of N.H. Graduate Research Assistant. Hatch 149 project: "Growth and Yield of White Pine". Developed a computerized forest inventory system for N.H. Set up a data processing system at UNH where computer programs were made available to field foresters in N.H. Private consulting work including timber stand improvement, logging, fire road construction, timber marking, and land surveying.

 


EDUCATION

1989-1995 Colorado State University Ph.D. in Remote Sensing/Forestry. 4.0 GPA. Dissertation Topic: "Automated Digital Processing of Airborne Videography" funded by U.S. Forest Service Pest Management.
1976-1978 University of N.H. Master of Science in Forest Resources concentrating in computerized forest inventory systems. 3.95 GPA
1968-1972 Cornell University A.B. in Mathematics with an unofficial minor in Computer Sciences

 


PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

  • GIS World Editorial Advisory Board
  • American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing,
  • Society of American Foresters
  • International Society of Tropical Foresters.

 


TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE

Programming Languages C++, C#, VB, FORTRAN, Assembler
Programming Environments Windows .NET, X-Windows/Motif, SGI/GL
Operating Systems UNIX, Windows, MPE, VMS
Relational Database Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Informnix,  SQL/400
Networking TCP/IP, Novell, OSI, DECNET, SNA
GIS ArcMap ArcView, MapInfo
Remote Sensing Erdas, Imagine, IDIMS, I2S, MIPS, PCI

 


LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

UPGRADING THE FOREST SERVICE'S AIRBORNE VIDEOGRAPHY SYSTEM TO SUPPORT AUTOMATED DIGITAL MOSAICKING by David S. Linden, Roger M. Hoffer, and Jeanine L. Paschke. 15th ASPRS Biennial Workshop on Color Photography and Videography in Resource Assessment. Terra Haute, Indiana, 1995.

AUTOMATED DIGITAL MOSAICKING OF AIRBORNE VIDEOGRAPHY. by David S. Linden. Ph.D. Dissertation, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, 1995.

SCANNED, ZAPPED, TIMED AND DIGITIZED! ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR MEASURING AND MONITORING VEGETATION DIVERSITY by H. Gyde Lund, David L. Evans, and David S. Linden. IUFRO Conference on Measuring and Monitoring Biodiversity in Tropical and Temperate Forests. Chiang Mai, Thailand, 1994.

AUTOMATED DIGITAL MOSAICKING OF AIRBORNE VIDEOGRAPHY by David S. Linden and Roger P. Hoffer. Fifth Biennial USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Conference, Portland, Oregon, 1994.

AIRBORNE VIDEO AUTOMATED PROCESSING by David S. Linden, David P. Mueller, and Lowell G. Lewis. US Forest Service internal report, Fort Collins, Colorado, March 1993.

FIRE-FUELS MAPPING FROM LANDSAT IMAGERY AND DIGITAL TERRAIN DATA by Steven A. Sader, David S. Linden, and Mark McGuire. Paper presented at the 1982 ASCM-ASP Fall Convention.

QUANTIFYING LANDSAT'S CONTRIBUTION TO INPLACE MAPPING by David S. Linden and William J. Bonner, Jr. Paper presented at the Inplace Inventories Workshop, Orono, Maine, August 9-14, 1981.

A DOUBLE CLUSTER SAMPLING APPROACH TO LANDSAT CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY ASSESSMENT by David S. Linden and John Szajgin. Invited paper presented at Symposium on Machine Processing of Remotely Sensed Data, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, June 23-26, 1981.

MAPPING RIPARIAN VEGETATION IN SOUTHEASTERN OREGON USING DIGITIZED LARGE SCALE INFRA-RED AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY by David S. Linden and Diane M. Concannon. Paper presented at the Eighth Biennial Workshop on Color Aerial Photography in the Plant Sciences, Luray, Virginia, April 21-23, 1981.

USING CLUSTER SAMPLING FOR VERIFICATION OF LAND COVER MAPS FROM LANDSAT DATA by David S. Linden and John Szajgin. Invited paper presented at the Western Regional Remote Sensing Conference, Monterey, California, March 30-April 1, 1981

ESTIMATING THE AREA OF VEGETATION TYPES WITH LANDSAT AND ANCILLARY DATA:SIX APPROACHES by David S. Linden et al. Paper presented at the Arid Land Resource Inventories Workshop, La Paz, Mexico, November 30-December 6, 1981.

ASVT PROJECT, PHASE 1, DENALI STUDY AREA, ALASKA: TECHNICAL REPORT OF THE EVALUATION by Paula Krebbs, David S. Linden, et al. BLM, Alaska. 1980.

TIMBER VALUE OF TOWN FORESTS: PRESENT AND POTENTIAL by J.P. Barrett, D.S. Linden, et al. Station Report 77, N.H. Agricultural Experiment Station. 1979.

INVENT: FOREST INVENTORY SYSTEM FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE LAND OWNERS by David S. Linden and J.P. Barrett. Station Bulletin 510, N.H. Agricultural Experiment Station. 1979.

USING SHORT PROGRAMS IN NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORIES by J.P. Barrett and David S. Linden General Technical Report RM-55, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 1978.

DR. MONTE - PROFESSOR OF SAMPLING by J.P. Barrett and D.S. Linden. Paper presented at Workshop on Using Computers to Teach Statistics, Durham, N.H. 1978.

 

 

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