Research Interests
Remote Sensing, Geospatial Information Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Digital Image Processing, Automated Target Detection, Pattern Recognition, Wavelet Transforms, Hyperspectral Imaging, Digital Mammography, Agriculture Applications, Invasivee Species Applications

Current Research Projects
Assured Strategic Communications During Natural and Willful Disasters

Rapid Detection of Agriterrorism via Remote Sensing

A Rapid Prototyping Capability Experiment to Evaluate Potential Soil Moisture Retrievals of Aquarius Radiometer

A Rapid Prototyping Capability Experiment to Evaluate CrIS ATMS Observations for Urban Modeling Applications

Evaluation of GPM Precipitation Estimates for Cross-cutting Earth Science Applications via Land Data Assimilation Studies

Optimizing GPM Precipitation Estimation Using High Resolution Land Surface Modeling for Decision Support

Using Simulated OCO Measurements for Assessing Terrestrial Carbon Pools in Southern United States

Most Current Publications:
Du, Q., N. Raksuntorn, A. Orduyilmaz, L. M. Bruce. 2008. Automatic registration and mosaicking for airborne multispectral image sequences. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. Vol. 74, no. 2. 169-181.

Prasad, S., L. M. Bruce. 2008. Decision Fusion With Confidence-Based Weight Assignment for Hyperspectral Target Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Vol. 46. 1448-1456.

Ball, J. E., L. M. Bruce, N. H. Younan. 2007. Hyperspectral pixel unmixing via spectral band selection and DC insensitive singular value decomposition. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. Vol. 4, No. 3. 382-386.

Ball, J. E., T. R. West, S. Prasad, L. M. Bruce. 2007. Level Set Hyperspectral Image Segmentation using Spectral Information Divergence (SID) based Best Band Selection. Proc. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.

Ball, J. E., L. M. Bruce. 2007. Level Set-Based Core Segmentation of Mammographic Masses Facilitating Three Stage (Core, Periphery, Spiculation) Analysis. Proc. 29th Annual International Conference IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology.

Prasad, S., L. M. Bruce. 2007. Hyperspectral Feature Space Partitioning via Mutual Information for Data Fusion. Proceedings of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Barcelona, Spain.

Prasad, S., L. M. Bruce. 2007. Limitations of Subspace LDA in Hyperspectral Target Recognition Applications. Proceedings of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Barcelona, Spain.

West, T. R., S. Prasad, L. M. Bruce. 2007. Multiclassifiers and Detection Fusion in the Wavelet Domain for Exploitation of Hyperspectral Data. Proc. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.