Brief Bio
Dr. Tilton is currently a Computer Engineer with the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office (CISTO) of the Science and Exploration Directorate at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. As a member of CISTO, Dr. Tilton is responsible for designing and developing computer software tools for space and earth science image analysis, and encouraging the use of these computer tools through interactions with space and Earth scientists. His development of a recursive hierarchical segmentation algorithm has resulted in two patents and two other patent applications.
Dr. Tilton is a senior member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing and Signal Processing Societies, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi. From 1992 through 1996, he served as a member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Administrative Committee. Since 1996 he has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
Education
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1981.
MS Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1978.
MEE (Electrical Engineering), Rice University, Houston, TX, 1976.
BA Electrical Engineering, Environmental Science & Engineering, and Anthropology (cum laude), Rice University, Houston, TX, 1976.
Brief Bio
Dr. Tilton is currently a Computer Engineer with the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office (CISTO) of the Science and Exploration Directorate at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. As a member of CISTO, Dr. Tilton is responsible for designing and developing computer software tools for space and earth science image analysis, and encouraging the use of these computer tools through interactions with space and Earth scientists. His development of a recursive hierarchical segmentation algorithm has resulted in two patents and two other patent applications.
Dr. Tilton is a senior member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing and Signal Processing Societies, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi. From 1992 through 1996, he served as a member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Administrative Committee. Since 1996 he has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
