David Kelbe

Student Information

Program of Study
Imaging Science
Graduation Year
2011
Research Experience
DIRS: Target Detection LIAS: The Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO) Project in Kruger National Park, South Africa; using waveform LiDAR to explore the changes in an ecosystem from fine to large scale, across multiple biomes.
High School Attended
Victor
Senior Project Advisor
Jan van Aardt

Research Details

Research Interests
Target detection, Waveform light detection and ranging (LiDAR)

Scholarships/Awards

  • - United Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Doctoral Scholarship (2012)
  • - RIT Bruce R. James Distinguished Public Service Award (2012)
  • - Silvilaser Science Committee Student Paper (honorable mention) (2012)
  • NSF - NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2012)
  • Silvilaser Science Committee - Silvilaser 2012 Annual Conference - student paper (honorable mention) (2012)
  • RIT - Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar Award (2010)
  • RIT College of Science - John Wiley Jones Scholarship (2010)
  • - RIT CIS Jerry Hughes Memorial Scholarship (2009)
  • Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science - Jerry Hughes Scholarship (2009)
  • Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science - Carlson Scholarship (2008)

Publications

REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

    Kelbe, D.; Romanczyk, P.A.; van Aardt, J.A.; Cawse-Nicholson, K.A.; Krause, K., Automatic extraction of tree stem models from single terrestrial lidar scans in structurally heterogeneous forest environments, Silvilaser Annual Conference Proceedings, Silvilaser, Silvilaser 2012 Annual Conference: First Return, 2012, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 54-61, September (2012)

    Romanczyk, P.A.; Kelbe, D.; van Aardt, J.A.; Cawse-Nicholson, K.A.; McGlinchy, J.; Krause, K., Assessing the impact of broadleaf tree structure on airborne full-waveform small-footprint LiDAR signals, Silvilaser Annual Conference Proceedings, Silvilaser, Silvilaser 2012 Annual Conference: First Return, 2012, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 271-492, September (2012)


CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

    Cawse-Nicholson, K.A.; van Aardt, J.A.; Romanczyk, P.A.; Kelbe, D.; Krause, K.; Kampe, T., A study of energy attenuation due to forest canopy in small-footprint waveform lidar signals, ASPRS, Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA, March (2013)

    Cawse-Nicholson, K.A.; van Aardt, J.A.; Kelbe, D.; Romanczyk, P.A.; Kampe, T.; Krause, K., On the scalability of spectral leaf area index metrics, ASPRS, Annual conference, Baltimore, MD, USA, March (2013)


SENIOR RESEARCH PROJECTS

    Kelbe, D., Lidar Processing for Above Ground Biomass Estimation in Savanna Ecosystems, RIT, COS, Imaging Science, Rochester, NY, USA, May (2010)


CONFERENCE PRESENTATION (NO PROCEEDINGS)

    van Aardt, J.A.; Wu, J.; McGlinchy, J.; Sarrazin, D.; Kelbe, D.; Erasmus, B.F.; Mathieu, R.; Wessels, K.; Asner, G.P.; Knapp, D.; Kennedy-Bowdoin, T., Towards a Species-specific Description of Detailed Savanna Woody structure at Various Scales Using Imaging Spectroscopy and Waveform Lidar Sensing. , ISRSE, 34th International Symposium for Remote Sensing of the Environment, April 10-15, 2011, Sydney, NSW, Australia, April (2011)