Assistant Professor, Natural Resource Conservation Management and Geography
Phone: 828-227-3819
Email: jbugden@wcu.edu
Office Address: Stilwell 320
Website: http://paws.wcu.edu/jbugden
Areas of Interest:
Remote sensing, polarimetric radar, land-use/land-cover mapping and change detection.
Courses:
- NRM 140: "Natural Resource Conservation and Management"
- NRM 150: "Careers in NRM"
- GEOG 150: "Environmental Geography"
- GEOG 300: "Weather and Climate"
- GEOG 440: "Special Topics in Regional Geography"
- GEOG 424: "Advanced Remote Sensing"
- NRM 470: "Land Suitability Classification"
Education:
Publications & Presentations:
Bugden, J.L., Pattey, E. and McNairn, H., 2007, Object-based classification of multi-polarization SAR using crop and soil homogeneous zones, Canada Journal for Remote Sensing, submitted August 2008.
Smith, A.M., Eddy, P.R., Bugden-Storie, J., Pattey, E., McNairn, H., Nolin, M., Perron, I., Hinther, M., Miller, J. and Haboudane D., 2006, Multi-polarized radar for delineating within-field variability in corn and wheat, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. Accepted September 2006.
Bugden, J.L., J.Andrey and P.J. Howarth, 2004. A SAR process model for land-cover mapping, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp.195-204.