Contact information:
Phone: 907-474-6958
Fax: 907-474-7151
Location: Denali Building, 3352 College Road
Email: wcunningham@alaska.edu

Curriculum vitae:
BS, 1985, University of Missouri - Columbia
MS, 1986, University of Missouri - Columbia
PhD, 1997, University of Kansas - Lawrence

Courses:
GEOG 309 - Digital Cartography & Geovisualization
special topics courses:

• Introduction to Remote Sensing
• Survey of Elevation Modeling Techniques
• LiDAR for Geospatial Applications

Research interests: 
light detection and ranging (LiDAR), synthetic aperture radar (SAR), geospatial modeling, carbon/biomass estimation, carbon trading market audit and assurance.

Current research programs:

1. Remote sensing for biomass estimation
2. Audit and assurance of carbon trading markets
3. Feature extraction from LiDAR& SAR
4. Unmanned aerial systems for remote sensing

Examples of research support:
"Geospatial Model to Estimate US National Hydrokinetic Resources " US Department of Energy, $100,000., 2011

"Synthetic Aperture Radar for Pavement Inventories and Inspections" US Department of Transportation, $305,000., 2011

Examples of publications:
Cunningham, Keith and M. Montgomery. 2011. Remote Sensing for the Audit and Assurance of the Carbon Market. IEEE Global Humanitarian Conference.

Cunningham, Keith and G. Walker. 2011. Cadastral Audit and Assessments using Unmanned Aerial Systems. International Archives of Photogrammetry , Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Systems.