Recent papers


T. F. Stepinski, M. P. Mendenhall, and B. D. Bue (2007) Machine Cataloging of Impact Craters on Mars. submitted to Icarus.

S. Ghosh, T. F. Stepinski, and R. Vilalta (2007) A Framework for Automatic Annotation of Planetary Surfaces with Geomorphic Labels, submitted to Machine Learning Journal.

T. F. Stepinski, S. Ghosh, and R. Vilalta (2007) Machine Learning for Automatic Mapping of Planetary Surfaces. To appear in proceedings of Nineteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, July 24-26, 2007, Vancouver,
British Columbia. preprint

T. F. Stepinski and E. R. Urbach (2007) Mapping craters depths in Terra Cimmeria, Mars: Implications for spatial distribution of ground ice. 7th International Conference on Mars, July 9-13, Pasadena, California.  paper

B. W. Luo, T. F. Stepinski,and R. Y. Qi (2007) Drainage Density and Controlling Factors in Cascade Range, Oregon, USA. To appear in proceedings of Geoinformatics 2007, May 26-28, 2007, Nanjing, China. preprint

B. I. Molloy and T.F. Stepinski (2007) Automated Mapping of Valley Networks on Mars. Computers and Geoscience, 33, p728-738. paper    preprint

B. D. Bue and T.F. Stepinski (2007) Machine Detection of Martian Impact Craters from Digital Topography Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 45(1), p.265-274.  paper    preprint

R, Vilalta, T.F. Stepinski, and M. Achari (2007) An Efficient Approach to External Cluster Assessment with an Application to Martian Topography. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 14(1), p.1-23.  paper    preprint

T. F. Stepinski, S. Ghosh, and R. Vilalta (2006) Automatic Recognition of Landorms on Mars Using Terrain Segmentation and Classification. In Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 4265, p 255-266.  paper    preprint

W. Luo and T. F. Stepinski (2006) Topographically Derived Maps of Valley Networks and Drainage Density in the Mare Tyrrhenum quadrangle on Mars. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L18202.  paper    preprint

B. D. Bue and T.F. Stepinski (2006) Automated Classification of Landforms on Mars. Computers and Geoscience, 32, p.604-614.  paper    preprint

T.F. Stepinski and A.P. Stepinski (2005) Morphology of Drainage Basins as an Indicator of Climate on Early Mars. J. Geophys. Res., 110, E12S12.  paper    preprint

T.F. Stepinski and R. Vilalta (2005) Digital Topography Models for Martian Surfaces. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2(3), p.260-264.  paper    preprint

K. Kornet, P. Bodenheimer, M. Rozyczka, T.F. Stepinski (2005) Formation of giant planets in disks with different metallicities. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 430, 1133. paper    preprint

R. Vilalta, T. F. Stepinski, M. Achari, and F. Ocegueda-Hernandez (2004) A Quantification of Cluster Novelty with an Application to Martian Topography. In Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 3202, p 434-445.  paper    preprint

M. Rozyczka, K. Kornet, P. Bodenheimer, T.F. Stepinski (2004) Global evolution of solids in protoplanetary disk: A simple model. Rev. Mexicana de Atronom. Astrofisica, 22, 91.  paper    preprint

T. F. Stepinski and S. Coradetti (2004) Comparing morphologies of drainage basins on Mars and Earth using integralgeometry and neural maps. Geophysical Research Letters, 31(15), L15604.  paper    preprint

T. F. Stepinski and M. L. Collier (2004) Extraction of Martian Valley Networks from Digital Topography. J. Geophys. Res., 109, E11005.  paper    preprint

K. Kornet, M. Rozyczka, T.F. Stepinski (2004) An Alternative look at the Snowline in Protoplanetary Disks. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 417, 151.  paper    preprint

T. F. Stepinski, M. L. Collier, P. J. McGovern, S. M. Clifford (2004) Martian Geomorphology from Fractal Analysis of Drainage Networks. J. Geophys. Res., 109, E02995.  paper    preprint

T. F. Stepinski, M. M. Marinova, P. J. McGovern, S. M. Clifford (2002) Fractal Analysis of Drainage Basins on Mars. Geophysical Research Letters, 29(8), 30-1.  paper    preprint

M. A. McGrath, E. Nolan, D. C. Black, G. Gatewood, K. Noll, A. Schultz, S. Lubow, I. Han, T. F. Stepinski, T. Targett (2002) An upper limit to the mass of the radial velocity companion to rho Cancri. Astrophysical Journal, 564, L27.  paper    preprint

Recent LPSC publications

T. F. Stepinski, W. Luo, and Y. Qi (2007) Precision Mapping of Valley Networks in Margaritifer Sinus, Mars. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVIII, Abstract # 1205.  pdf

Ghosh, S., T. F. Stepinski, and R. Vilalta (2007) Automatic Mapping of Martian Landforms Using Segmentation-based Classification . In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVIII, Abstract # 1200.  pdf

T. F. Stepinski, M. P. Mendenhall, and B. D. Bue (2007) Robust Automated Identification of Martian Impact Craters. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVIII, Abstract # 1202.  pdf

H. Gregoire-Mazzocco, T. F. Stepinski, P.J. McGovern, S. Lanzoni, A.Frascati, and A. Rinaldo (2006) Martian Meanders: Wavelength-Width Scaling and Flow Duration. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVII, Abstract # 1185. pdf

T. F. Stepinski, M. Carriere, and I. Molloy (2006) Properties of Martian Highlands Drainage from THEMIS Images and MOLA Topography. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVII, Abstract # 1118. pdf

I. Molloy and T.F. Stepinski (2006) Automated Mapping of Valley Networks on Mars. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVII, Abstract # 1743. pdf 

B. D. Bue and T.F. Stepinski (2006) Machine Detection of Martian Craters from Digital Topography. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVII, Abstract # 1178. pdf

T. F. Stepinski and A. P. Stepinski (2005) Inferring EarlyMars Climate from Comparison of Drainage Basins’ Morphologies on Mars and Earth. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVI, Abstract # 1392. pdf

B. D. Bue and T. F. Stepinski (2005) Automated Classification of Landforms in Terra Cimmeria, Mars. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVI, Abstract # 1195.  pdf

R. Vilalta and T. F. Stepinski (2004) Thematic Maps of Martian Topography Generated by a Clustering Algorithm. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV, Abstract # 1169.  pdf

T. F. Stepinski and S. Coradetti (2004) Systematic Differences in Topography of Martian and Terrestrial Drainage Basins. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV, Abstract # 1166. pdf

T. F. Stepinski and M. L. Collier (2004) Computational Analysis of Drainage Basins on Mars: Appraising the Drainage Density. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV, Abstract # 1168. pdf

T. F. Stepinski, R. Vilalta, M. Achari, P. J. McGovern (2003) Algorithmic Classification of Drainage Networks on Mars and its Relation to Martian Geological Units. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIV, Abstract # 1653.  pdf

M. L. Collier, T. F. Stepinski, P. J. McGovern, S. M. Clifford (2003) Martian Geomorphology from Fractal Analysis of Drainage Networks. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIV, Abstract # 1642. pdf

T. F. Stepinski and W. J. O’Hara IV (2003) Vertical Analysis of Martian Drainage Basins. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIV, Abstract # 1659. pdf