Mort Canty's Home Page

Dr. Mort Canty
Juelich, Germany
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Juelich Research Center
email

Personal Interests

Reading (e.g. David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest)
Listening (e.g. Lise de la Salle plays Bach, List)
Hiking(Wandern) and Biking(Radeln)

Research Interests

Digital image processing and remote sensing. (See my Blog about my IDL and Python programming experiences.)
Non-cooperative game theory and international treaty verification. (Here is a draft paper on game-theoretical analysis of aquisition paths.)

Software

ENVI/IDL/CUDA/Python
Image Analysis on the Cloud

Monographs

Image Analysis, Classification and Change Detection in Remote Sensing, With Algorithms for ENVI/IDL, Second Revised Edition
M. J. Canty, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press 2010.
Most recent versions of the programs described in the text.
Errata for the First Edition
Errata for the Second Revised Edition
The MAD MAN, a users manual for the iMAD and RADCAL extensions (Google Docs).
email me for a PDF of the Solutions Manual

Resolving Conflicts with Mathematica: Algorithms for Two-Person Games
M. J. Canty, Academic Press 2003. Errata
BIMATRIX.M A Mathematica package for solving two-person non-cooperative games.
(Described in Resolving Conflicts with Mathematica.)

Compliance Quantified, An Introduction to Data Verification
R. Avenhaus and M. J. Canty, Cambridge University Press 1996.

Teaching (Image Analysis) and Presentations

CRPSM April 2008, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
TUBAF February 2009, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
DLR Summer School, July/August 2009, DLR Neustrelitz
Kernel methods, ZFL, University of Bonn, November 5, 2009
HU Berlin ENVI/IDL Course, June 14-17, 2010
ZFL Bonn ENVI/IDL Course, February/March 2011
ZFL Bonn Radiometric Normalization Course, March/April 2012
Sequential inspections, IAEA Vienna, December 3, 2009
Statistics, Juelich Research Center, IBG-3, Juelich, September, 2012

Links

Allan Nielsen's Home Page
GPULib (CUDA interface for IDL)
David Fanning's IDL Page
Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces (ZFL-Bonn)
Global Monitoring for Security and Stability (GMOSS)
Game Theory .net

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications (Remote Sensing)

M. J. Canty and A. A. Nielsen (2012), Linear and kernel methods for multivariate change detection, Computers and Geosciences 38, 107-114.

J. Schlittenhardt, M. J. Canty and I. Gruenberg (2010), Satellite Earth Observations Support CTBT Monitoring: A Case Study of the Nuclear Test in North Korea of Oct. 9, 2006 and Comparison with Seismic Results Pure and Applied Geophysics 167(4-5), 601-618.

M. J. Canty (2009), Boosting a fast neural network for land cover classification Computers and Geosciences 35, 1280-1295. (Awarded Best Paper of 2009 by Computers and Geosciences)

M. J. Canty and A. A. Nielsen (2008), Automatic radiometric normalization of multitemporal satellite imagery with the iteratively re-weighted MAD transformation Remote Sensing of Environment. 112(3), 1025-1036.

T. A. Schroeder, W. B. Cohen, C. Song, M. J. Canty and Y. Zhiqiang (2006), Radiometric calibration of Landsat data for characterization of early successional forest patterns in Western Oregon, Remote Sensing of Environment 103(1), 16-26.

M. J. Canty and A. A. Nielsen (2006), Visualization and unsupervised classification of changes in multispectral satellite imagery (Google Docs) International Journal of Remote Sensing 27(18), 3961-3975.

M. J. Canty, A. A. Nielsen and M. Schmidt (2004), Automatic radiometric normalization of multispectral imagery (Google Docs) Remote Sensing of Environment 91(3,4) 441-451.

T. Duda and M. J. Canty (2002), Unsupervised classification of satellite imagery: Choosing a good algorithm (Google Docs), International Journal of Remote Sensing, 23(11) 2193-2212.

M. J. Canty, J. Schlittenhardt (2001), Satellite data used to locate site of 1998 Indian nuclear test (Google Docs), Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 82(3), Jan. 16, 2001, 25-29.

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications (Game Theory)

R. Avenhaus and M. J. Canty (2011), Deterrence, technology and the sensible distribution of arms control verification resources (Google Docs) Naval Research Logistics 58(3) 295-503.

R. Avenhaus and M. J. Canty (2009), Inspection Games (Google Docs) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (Ed. R. A. Meyers) Vol 5, Springer New York, 4855-4868.

R. Avenhaus and M. J. Canty (2007), Formal Models for NPT Safeguards (Invited review) (Google Docs) Journal of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management 35(4) 69-74.

R. Avenhaus and M. J. Canty (2005), Playing for time: A sequential inspection game (Google Docs) European Journal of Operational Research, 167(2) 475-492.

R. Avenhaus and M. J. Canty (2002) Multi-level variable sampling in the variable mode (Google Docs), Journal of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Vol XXXI(1), 39-44.

M. J. Canty, D. Rothenstein and R. Avenhaus (2001), A sequential attribute sampling inspection game for item facilities (Google Docs), Naval Research Logistics 48, 496-505.

M. J. Canty, D. Rothenstein and R. Avenhaus (2001), Timely inspection and deterrence(Google Docs), European Journal of Operational Research 131(1), 208-223.

R. Avenhaus and M. J. Canty (2000), Multi-level attribute sampling in the attribute mode (Google Docs), Journal of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Vol XXIX(1), 28-34.

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