James Carr

Office: 403 LME
Phone: 775-784-4244
Fax: 775-784-1833
E-mail: carrmines.unr.edu

Home page: http://unr.edu/homepage/carr/

Mailing address: MS 172, UNR, Reno, NV 89557-0138

Areas of Interest:
Geological Engineering, Remote Sensing, Erosion and Sediment Control, Geostatistics

Education:
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1983
M.S., University of Arizona, 1981
B.S., University of Nevada, Reno, 1979

Selected Publications:

Books:

1. Carr, J.R., Numerical Analysis for the Geological Sciences, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, 592p, 1995.
2. Carr, J.R., Data Visualization in the Geosciences, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, 267p, 2002.

Refereed Journal Articles (50 others; please see home page for complete vita):

1. Carr, J.R. and W.B. Benzer, (1991), "On the Practice of Estimating Fractal Dimension," Mathematical Geology, Vol. 23, pp 945-958.
2. Miranda, F. and J.R. Carr, (1994), "Application of the Semi-variogram Textural Classifier (STC) for Vegetation Discrimination Using SIR‑B Data of the Guina Shield, Northwestern Brazil ," Remote Sensing Reviews, Vol. 10, pp. 155-168.
3. Carr, J.R. and Miranda, F. P., (1998), The semi‑variogram in comparison to the co-occurrence matrix for classification of image texture , IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 1945-1952.
4. Metzger, S.M., Carr, J.R., Johnson, J., Parker, T., and Lemmon, M. (1999), Dust Devil Vortices as seen by the Mars Pathfinder Camera, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol 26, No. 18, pp. 2781-2784.
5. Metzger, S.M., Carr, J.R., Johnson, J., Parker, T., and Lemmon, M. (2000), Techniques for Identifying Dust Devils in Mars Pathfinder Images, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 870-876.
6. Glenn, N.F. and Carr, J.R., (2003), The Use of Geostatistics in Relating Soil Moisture to RADARSAT-1 SAR Data Obtained Over the Great Basin, Nevada, USA, Computers and Geosciences, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 577-586.