Mary O’Neill, Instructor
Manager, Office of Remote Sensing
EngineeringResource Center
Box2220, Harding Hall
1208 9th Street
South DakotaState University
Brookings, SD 57007

605-688-5597
605-688-5880 (fax)
mary.oneill@sdstate.edu

Education:     M.S. South Dakota State University, 1994 - geography

                      B.S. South Dakota State University, 1972 - mathematics

                      43 hours of additional undergraduate- and graduate-level coursework in engineering, statistics, sociology and computer science

                      Audited computer science, microbiology and French courses
                      Software short courses:  PC ARC/INFO, ArcCAD, ArcView, Spatial Analyst,

                        ArcIMS, Avenue programming language and ERDAS IMAGINE

          Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Authorized Training Program for

                        K-12 Education, June 21-25, 1999

Present Positions:

Manager, Office of Remote Sensing                                 Adjunct Instructor (Remote Sensing)

Engineering Resource Center, SDSU                               Geography Department, SDSU

Previous Positions:

June 2, 1993 to August 12, 1993                                     Computer Science Department

Senior Scientist (Visiting)                                                  BASIC and FORTRAN Programming

Hughes STX                                                                     Spring Semester: 1982, 1983 and 1987

EROS Data Center                                                           Fall Semester: 1981 and 1982

Sioux Falls, SD 57198                                                    Mathematics Department

                                                                                       Basic Algebra

June 5, 1972 to October 31, 1989                                       Spring Semester:  2005                      

Various technical and management positions                   Engineering Technology and Management Dept.

Engineering and Environmental Research                            Engineering Design Graphics I

    Center and Remote Sensing Institute                              Fall Semester 2005

South Dakota State University                                            Spring Semester 2006

Brookings, SD 57007

Present/Recent Projects (Selected):

·      Principal investigator of a USGS-funded AmericaView project entitled “Building Partnerships and Infrastructure in South Dakota to Facilitate the Availability, Timely Distribution and Utilization of Remote Sensing and Associated Geospatial Data and Technology.”  September 1, 2002 – Present.

·      Principal Investigator of Main Street Sioux Falls Geographic Information System Development and Maintenance project, January 1, 2007 – Present.

·      Coordinator of South Dakota’s Education Public Access Resource Center (EdPARC), a subgroup of the Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium (UMAC).  1998 – Present.

·      Planned and team-taught several one- or two-week geospatial technology workshops for K-12 educators at various locations in SD including SDSU and the USGS National center for EROS near Sioux Falls. 1999 – Present.

·      Co-investigator of three geospatial technology projects for Science Applications International Corporation (contractor at National Center for EROS):  Digitization of Historic Pollution Sources, Digitizing Las Vegas Transportation Features, and Analog to Digital Conversion of Spatial Data.  April 2005 – September 2006.

·      Co-coordinator of “SDSU and Industry Working Together” symposium series sponsored by the SDSU University/Industry Technology Service. 1992 – 2003.

·      Principal investigator for the South Dakota Army National Guard Integrated Training and Management Geographic Information System (GIS) project which involved the development of GIS and remote sensing datasets for approximately 35 Army National Guard training sites and 40 facilities. 1998-2000.

·      Member of a five-person SDSU fact-finding team that traveled to Poland to discuss collaborative project possibilities.  Activities during the 18 days in Poland included visits to universities and institutes in Lublin and Pulawy, meetings with scientists and planners, and presentations to university students and professionals. May 1998.

·      Member of the “Wildlife Rangeland and Monitoring by Remote Sensing of the Negev Desert” project team. Provided two weeks of image processing services on the Sde Boker campus of Ben Gurion University in Israel.  Funding for the project was provided by the International Arid Lands Consortium. June 1997.

International Workshop Participation:

·      July 16-25, 1985:  "Application of Remote Sensing in Agricultural Research" workshop, Dhaka,   Bangladesh

·      March 11-15, 1985:  U.S.-India Symposium-Workshop on Remote Sensing, Ahmedabad, India

·      July 13-August 1, 1983:  Remote Sensing Workshop, Dakar, Senegal.

·      March 31-April 10, 1980:  Remote Sensing Workshop, Dakar, Senegal.

·      October 1-11, 1979:  Remote Sensing Workshop, Khartoum, Sudan.

·      April 30-May 4, 1978:  Remote Sensing Workshop, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Selected Publications and Presentations:

Thanapura, P., D. Helder, S. Burckhard, E. Warmath, M. O’Neill, D.H. Galster, 2007. Mapping urban land cover using QuickBird NDVI image and GIS spatial modeling for runoff coefficient determination, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 73 (1):57-65.

O’ Neill, M, K. Dalsted, P. Thanapura, D. Clay, C. Reese, S. Shin, J. Lee, J. Kim, and H. Jeon. 2005. SDView: Remote Sensing Partnerships, Infrastructure, and Data for South Dakota, Proceedings of the ASPRS 2005 Fall Convention – Pecora 16 Symposium, 23-27 October, Sioux Falls, South Dakota (American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing), unpaginated CD-ROM.

O’Neill, M. and V. Shelhamer. 2005.  GIS Instruction:  A Case Study in Precision Agriculture.  Presented at the 2005 ESRI Education Users Conference, 23-26 July 2005, San Diego, CA.

O’Neill, M., C. Soeffing and R. Woodburn. 2003.  K-12 Geospatial Education in South Dakota:  Past, Present and Future.  Presented at the 2003 ESRI Education Users Conference, 6-9 July 2003, San Diego, CA.

Chang, J., D. Clay, K. Dalsted, S. Clay and M. O’Neill. 2003.  Use of Spectral Radiance at Multiple Sampling Dates to Estimate Corn (Zea mays) Yield Using Principal Component Analysis.  Agronomy Journal.

Thanapura, P., S.A. Clay, D.E. Clay, C. Cole, K. Dalsted and M. O’Neill. 2000.  Integrating Remote Sensing (Aerial Images), Geographic Information System (GIS), and Global Positioning System (GPS) Data:  The Case of Mapping Weeds in a Moody County (South Dakota) Field.

O’Neill, M.E. and H. Copeland. 1999.  Prairie to Mountain Explorer:  GIS and Remote Sensing Datasets for the Classroom.  Presented at the National Association of Research in Science Teaching Annual Meeting, 28-31 March 1999, Boston, MA.

O'Neill, M.E., K.J. Dalsted and R. Rykhus. 1995. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Economic Development at the Tribal Planning Level.

DeVries, M.E. and K.J. Dalsted.  1993.  Use of GIS to Enhance the Analysis of SLAR Data. 

DeVries, M.E. and M.L. Anthony. 1993.  Agman - An Agricultural Database Manager.  Software documentation prepared with funding from the US Agency for International Development, Project #698-0466.