National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Dr. James C. Tilton
• Computer Engineer
• NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Educations

• 1981: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
• 1978: M.S. in Optical Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
• 1976: M.E.E. (Electrical Engineering), Rice University, Houston, Texas.
• 1976: B.A. in Electrical Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, and Anthropology, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

Previous Positions

• 1983-1985: Senior Scientist, Science Applications Research (SAR), Riverdale, MD.
• 1982-1983: Senior Engineer, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Silver Spring, MD.
• 1981-1982: Visiting Professor and Research Assistant, Electrical Engineering Department, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN.

Research Specialties

Image analysis and data management for remotely sensed imagery data:

• Current focus is on the design and implementation of hierarchical image segmentation, and the use of hierarchical image segmentation for Earth science applications.
• A side interest is the use of image segmentation for image registration.
• Have also conducted research in data compression tailored to image data archival and retrieval, and image classification exploiting spatial information.
• Current and past research has included extensive algorithm development on massively parallel computing systems.

Professional Organizations

• Senior member of the IEEE: Member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing and Signal Processing Societies.
• Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi.

Professional Services

• Served from 1992-1996 on the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.
• Since 1996 is serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
• Since 2002 is serving on the editorial board of the Pattern Recognition journal.