Announcing Acting Director of CIS

Dear Colleagues:

It is my pleasure to announce the appointment of Dr. John Schott as acting director of the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science effective September 1, 2011.  Dr. Schott will cover the responsibilities of Dr. Stefi Baum while she is on sabbatical during this academic year.

Dr. Schott founded the Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Laboratory (DIRS Lab) and was its director from 1980 to 2008.  He was also instrumental in securing the first RIT Ph.D. degree in Imaging Science.  Dr. Schott has held the position of endowed chair of the Frederick and Anna B. Wiedman endowed professorship since 1997.  The professorship was created by Frederick Wiedman Jr., to honor the memory of his parents and to promote excellence in scholarship and teaching in the field of Imaging Science.  

Dr. Schott earned his B.S. in Physics/Sociology from Canisius College, his M.S. in Environmental Engineering, Remote Sensing from the College of Environmental Science & Forestry (SUNYCESF), Syracuse University, and his Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Remote Sensing from SUNYCESF, Syracuse University.  He was the recipient of The 2009 Trustees Scholarship Award which recognizes an outstanding record of academic scholarship.  In 2007, he received the Presidential Award in recognition of his outstanding impact on students using an interdisciplinary approach and fostering inter-institutional collaboration through scholarship.

Dr. Schott’s research interests are in advanced technology for solving problems related to imaging science and remote sensing.  He has conducted extensive research in the areas of water quality using remote sensing platforms and on the effects of atmospheric transmission on visible and infrared detectors aboard remote sensing platforms.  He has also investigated the utility of remote sensing in assessing and quantifying vegetation stress induced by air pollutants and insect infestation.  Most recently Dr. Schott has focused on the development of physics-based, hyper spectral exploitation algorithms, improvements in full spectrum scene simulation, methods for evaluating the performance of multi-segmented optical imaging systems, and a rewrite of his text book titled: “Remote Sensing: The Image Chain Approach”.

Please join me in congratulating and thanking Dr. Schott for willing to assume this new role while Dr. Baum is on sabbatical.

Regards,

    SophiA M.

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Sophia A. Maggelakis, Ph.D.

Dean of the College of Science

Professor of Mathematics