Brian Calder

Brian Calder

RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Phone: (603) 862-0526
Office: Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping, Chase Ocean Engineering Lab, Durham, NH 03824
Websites:

brc@ccom.unh.edu

Brian Calder is the Center's Associate Director. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, completing his thesis on Bayesian methods in Sidescan Sonar processing in 1997. Since then he has worked on a number of signal processing problems, including real-time grain size analysis, seismic processing, and wave-field modeling for shallow seismic applications.

His research interests include methods for error modeling, propagation and visualization, and adaptive sonar backscatter modeling. His work has focused on developing methods for textural analysis of seafloor sonar data, as well as exploring innovative approaches to target detection and seafloor property extraction.

Dr. Calder is currently focusing on statistically robust automated data cleaning approaches and tracing uncertainty in hydrographic data.

Courses Taught

  • ESCI 973: Seafloor Characterization
  • ESCI/OE 874: Seabed Mapping
  • OE 999: Doctoral Research

Education

  • Ph.D., Image Analysis, Heriot-Watt University
  • M.S., Electronics Communications Eng, Heriot-Watt University

Selected Publications

  • Nada, T., Kastrisios, C., Calder, B., Ence, C., Greene, C., & Bethell, A. (2024). Towards automating the nautical chart generalization workflow. Geo-spatial Information Science, 1-26. doi:10.1080/10095020.2024.2366873

  • Calder, B. (2023). Design of a Wireless, Inexpensive Ocean of Things System for Volunteer Bathymetry. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 10(11), 9534-9543. doi:10.1109/jiot.2023.3234500

  • Elmore, P., Calder, B., Petry, F., Masetti, G., & Yager, R. (2023). Aggregation Methods Using Bathymetry Sources of Differing Subjective Reliabilities for Navigation Mapping. Marine Geodesy, 46(2), 99-128. doi:10.1080/01490419.2023.2166173

  • Lowell, K., & Calder, B. (2021). Extracting shallow-water bathymetry from lidar point clouds using pulse attribute data: merging density-based and machine learning approaches. MARINE GEODESY, 44(4), 259-286. doi:10.1080/01490419.2021.1925790

  • O'Heran, C., & Calder, B. (2021). Horizontal Calibration of Vessels with UASs. MARINE GEODESY, 44(2), 91-107. doi:10.1080/01490419.2021.1879330

  • Fonseca, L., Brown, C., Calder, B., Mayer, L., & Rzhanov, Y. (2009). Angular range analysis of acoustic themes from Stanton Banks Ireland: A link between visual interpretation and multibeam echosounder angular signatures. APPLIED ACOUSTICS, 70(10), 1298-1304. doi:10.1016/j.apacoust.2008.09.008

  • Gardner, J. V., Calder, B. R., Clarke, J. E. H., Mayer, L. A., Elston, G., & Rzhanov, Y. (2007). Drowned shelf-edge deltas, barrier islands and related features along the outer continental shelf north of the head of De Soto Canyon, NE Gulf of Mexico. GEOMORPHOLOGY, 89(3-4), 370-390. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.01.005

  • Jakobsson, M., Gardner, J. V., Vogt, P. R., Mayer, L. A., Armstrong, A., Backman, J., . . . Kraft, B. (2005). Multibeam bathymetric and sediment profiler evidence for ice grounding on the Chukchi Borderland, Arctic Ocean. QUATERNARY RESEARCH, 63(2), 150-160. doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2004.12.004

  • Gardner, J. V., Dartnell, P., Mayer, L. A., Clarke, J. E. H., Calder, B. R., & Duffy, G. (2005). Shelf-edge deltas and drowned barrier-island complexes on the northwest Florida outer continental shelf. GEOMORPHOLOGY, 64(3-4), 133-166. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2004.06.005

  • Calder, B. R., & Mayer, L. A. (2003). Automatic processing of high-rate, high-density multibeam echosounder data. GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS, 4. doi:10.1029/2002GC000486

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