Recent papers in journals 


L. Bandeira, Wei Ding, and Tomasz F. Stepinski (2010) Detection of Small Craters in High Resolution Planetary Images Using Shape and Texture Features, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

W. Luo, and T.F. Stepinski (2010) Extracting Streams from DEM using Terrain Openness, submitted to Computers & Geosciences.

J. Lasue, T. F. Stepinski, S.W. Bell (2010) Automated Classification of Interplanetary Dust Particles: JSC Cosmic Dust Catalog Volume 15, Meteoritics and Planetary Science (in print).

T.F. Stepinski, W. Ding, C.F. Eick (2010) Controlling Patterns of Geospatial Phenomena, GeoInformatica.  paper    preprint

S. Ghosh and T.F. Stepinski and R. Vilalta (2010) Automatic Annotation of Planetary Surfaces with Geomorphic Labels, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 48(1), p175-185.  paper    preprint

W. Luo, and T.F. Stepinski, (2009) Computer-Generated Global Map of Valley Networks on Mars, J. Geophys. Res., 114, E11010.   paper    preprint

T.F. Stepinski, and C. Bagaria (2009) Segmentation-Based Unsupervised Terrain Classification for Generation of Physiographic Maps, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters., 6(4), p733-737.  paper    preprint

E. R. Urbach, T. F. Stepinski (2009) Automatic Detection of Sub-Kilometer Craters in High Resolution Planetary Images, Planetary and Space Science, 57(4), p880-887. paper    preprint

W. Ding, T.F. Stepinski, R. Parmar, D. Jiang, C. F. Eick, (2009) Discovery of feature-based hotspots using supervised clustering, Computers and Geosciences 25(7), p1508-1516.  paper    preprint

T. F. Stepinski, M. P. Mendenhall, and B. D. Bue (2009) Machine Cataloging of Impact Craters on Mars. Icarus, 203, p.77-87.  paper    preprint

W. Luo and T.F. Stepinski (2008) Identification of Geologic Contrast from Landscape Dissection Pattern: An Application to the Cascade Range, Oregon, USA.  Geomorphology, 90, p90-98.  paper    preprint

T.F. Stepinski, R. Vilalta, S. Ghosh (2007) Machine Learning Tools for Automatic Mapping of Martian Landforms. IEEE Intelligent Systems Nov 2007. pp. 100-106.  paper  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  

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

Recent papers in conference proceedings and books chapters

W. Ding, T.F. Stepinski, L. Bandeira, R. Vilalta, Y. Wu, Z. Lu, T. Cao (2010) Robust Automatic Detection of Craters in Planetary Images. Submitted to the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2010).

T.F. Stepinski, J. Salazar, W. Ding, D. White (2010) ESTATE: Strategy for Exploring Labeled Spatial Datasets Using Association Analysis. Submitted to Discovery Science  2010.

J. Wang, W. Ding, B. Fradkin, C. H. Pham, P. Sherman, B. D. Tran, D. Wang, Y. Yang and T. F. Stepinski (2010) Effective Classification for Crater Detection: A Case Study on Mars. To appear in proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, Beijing, China, July, 2010.

T.F. Stepinski, J. Salazar, W. Ding (2010) Discovering Spatio-Social Motifs of Electoral Support Using Discriminative Pattern Mining.  In Proceedings of COM.Geo  2010. preprint 

T.F. Stepinski, (2010) Classifying patterns of land cover using mutual information and clustering. In Proceedings of IGARSS 2010. preprint 

T. F. Stepinski and R. Vilalta (2010) Machine Learning Tools for Geomorphic Mapping of Planetary Surfaces. Chapter in a book Machine Learning, Yagang Zhang (Ed.), INTECH, ISBN: 978-953-307-033-9 .  book    chapter

T. F. Stepinski and C. Bagaria (2009) A Two-Stage Classification Approach for Effective Geomorphic Mapping of Planetary Surfaces from DEM Data. In proceedings of Geomorphometry 2009.  paper  

W. Luo, X. Li, T. F. Stepinski, L. Di,  (2009) Web Service for Extracting Terrain Openness.  In proceedings of 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics,  DOI: 0.1109/GEOINFORMATICS   paper    preprint

W. Ding, T.F. Stepinski, J. Salazar (2009) Discovery of Geospatial Discriminating Patterns from Remote Sensing Datasets. In Proceedings of SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Nevada, April 2009  paper  

W. Luo, X. Li, I Molloy, and T.F. Stepinski (2008) Web Service for Extracting Stream Networks from DEM Data. In Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Geoinformatics, June 28-29 Guangzhou, China.    preprint

R. Vilalta and T.F. Stepinski (2008) Pattern Validation in Machine Learning: A Case Study in Planetary Science. In Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining – Second Edition, J. Wang Edt. IGI Global. 

T.F. Stepinski, W. Ding and C.F. Eick (2008) Discovering Controlling Factors of Geospatial Variables, in Proc. of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008), Irvine, CA, USA, November, 2008.  paper    preprint

C.F. Eick, R. Parmar, W. Ding, T.F. Stepinski, J. P. Nicot (2008) Finding Regional Co-Location Patterns for Sets of Continuous Variables, in Proc. of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008), Irvine, CA, USA, November, 2008  paper    preprint

W. Ding, R. Jiamthapthaksin, R.Parmar, D. Jiang, T. F. Stepinski, and C. F. Eick (2008) Towards Regional Knowledge Discovery in Spatial Datasets, in Proc. of the Pacific-Asia Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Osaka, Japan, May, 2008.   preprint

T. F. Stepinski, S. Ghosh, and R. Vilalta (2007) Machine Learning for Automatic Mapping of Planetary Surfaces. 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. In proceedings of Geoinformatics 2007, May 26-28, 2007, Nanjing, China. 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

Recent LPSC publications

T.F. Stepinski (2010) Geographical Distribution of Crater Depths on Mars. In 41th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract#1845  pdf

T.F. Stepinski and W. Luo (2010) Global Pattern of Dissection on Mars and the Northern Ocean Hypothesis. In 41th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract#1350.   pdf

L. Bandeira ,Wei Ding and T. F. Stepinski  (2010) Automatic Detection of Sub-km Craters Using Shape and Texture Information. In 41th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract#1144.  pdf

S. W. Bell, J. Lasue, and T.F. Stepinski (2010). Automated Classification of Stratospheric Dust. In 41th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract#2622   pdf

J. Lasue, and T.F. Stepinski, S. W. Bell, (2010). Automated Classification of Interplanetary Dust Particles. In 41th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract#2045   pdf

T. F. Stepinski and Chaitanya Bagaria (2009) Automatic Mapping of Martian Physiography: Application to Tharsis Region, In 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1118.   pdf

T. F. Stepinski and Erik R. Urbach (2009) The First Automatic Survey of Impact Craters on Mars: Global Maps of Depth/Diameter Ratio,  In 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1117.   pdf

W. Luo and T. F. Stepinski, (2009) Global, Computer-generated Map of Valley Networks on Mars, In 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract#1311.  pdf

E.R. Urbach and T.F. Stepinski (2008) Automatic Detection of Sub-Kilometer craters in High Resolution Images of Mars. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVIX, Abstract # 2184.  pdf

T.F Stepinski and E.R. Urbach (2008) Raster Maps of Craters Depths in Southern Hemisphere of Mars: Potential Proxy for Spatial Distribution of Ground Ice.  In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVIX, Abstract # 1272.   pdf

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