Melba is interested in studying the methods in statistical pattern recognition for high dimensional data analysis, data fusion techniques for multisensor problems, multiresolution methods in image analysis, and knowledge transfer in data mining.

Selected Publications

E. M. Rathje, M.M. Crawford, K. Woo, and A. Neuenschwander, Damage patterns from satellite images from the 2003 Bam, Iran earthquake, Earthquake Spectra, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, in press.

A. L. Neuenschwander, M. M. Crawford, and S. Ringrose, Results of the EO-1 experiment - use of Earth Observing-1 Advanced Land Imager (ALI) data to assess the vegetational response to flooding in the Okavango Delta, Botswana," International Journal of Remote Sensing, in press.

J. Ham, Y. Chen, M. M. Crawford, and J. Ghosh, "Investigation of the random forest framework for classification of hyperspectral data," IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2005), 43(3), 492-501.