Area of Interest

Multi-angular remote sensing; Development of SAR applications; Hyperspectral and High Resolution Remote Sensing; Investigation into scale, resolution & data fusion issues for remote sensing applications; Coastal and Wetland monitoring and management; Forest and Fire applications.

Education

· Ph.D., Remote Sensing, 2001, Northern Territory University, NT, Australia. Thesis Title: "Image processing of multi-frequency polarimetric AirSAR data to characterise the vegetation communities of the tropical savannas in northern Australia"
· Graduate Diploma in Science, 1996, Northern Territory University, NT, Australia. PAWA Award Prize for Excellence - Third Year Remote Sensing
· Bachelor of Education, 1992, Edith Cowan University, WA, Australia
· Bachelor of Arts in Secondary Education (Mathematics, Computer Studies), 1991 Edith Cowan University, WA, Australia

Professional Experience

· 11\2003 – present Post Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Geography, University of Toronto Global mapping of vegetation clumping index using multi-angular satellite data.

· 3\2000 – 3\2003 Research Associate, NTU, Darwin, Australia Employed to conduct research under a government funded project: "Integration of Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Data at Multiple Scales for Monitoring Environmental Indicators". (NTU, UQ, DLPE and JPL/NASA).

· 3\1998 – 7\1999 Part Time Lecturer, NTU, Darwin, NT Lecturing in Remote Sensing and supervision of tutorials, Providing support for undergraduate and postgraduate research projects in Remote Sensing.

· 3\1997 – 3\2000 P/T Research Associate, NTU, Darwin, NT Carrying out and documenting research in collaboration with other staff and in collaboration with external research bodies. Preparation of research funding proposals; Tutoring and occasional presentation of lectures for Remote Sensing units.

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles (to be published)

Menges, C. H., Bartolo, R. E., Bell, D., and Hill, G. J. E., (submitted), The Effect of Savanna Fires on SAR Backscatter in Northern Australia, International Journal of Remote Sensing.

Menges, C. H., Bartolo, R.,Phinn, S. R., and Hill, G. J. E., (to be submitted), A Spatial Statistic to Optimise the Size and Location of Field Sampling Sites: 1. Outline and Analysis of Sensitivity to Test Patterns. Remote Sensing of Environment.

Bartolo, R., Menges, C. H., Phinn, S. R., and Hill, G. J. E., (to be submitted), A Spatial Statistic to Optimise the Size and Location of Field Sampling Sites: 2. Sensitivity to Wavelength, Polarisation and Spatial Resolution, Remote Sensing of Environment.

Refereed Journal Articles

Menges, C.H., Hill, G.J.E., Ahmad, W., and Van Zyl, J. J, (2001), Incidence Angle Correction of AirSAR Data to Facilitate Land Cover Classification, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 67, 4, 479-489.

Menges, C.H., Hill, G.J.E., and Ahmad, W. (2001), Use of Airborne Video Data for the Characterisation of Tropical Savannas in Northern Australia: The Optimal Spatial Resolution for Remote Sensing Applications, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 22, 5, 727-740.

Menges, C.H., Van Zyl, J. J., Ahmad, W., and Hill, G.J.E., (2001), A Procedure for the Correction of the Effect of Variation in Local Incidence Angle on AIRSAR Data, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 22, 5, 829-841.

Bell, D., Menges, C.H. and Bartolo, R. E. (2001), Assessing the Extent of Saltwater Intrusion in a Tropical Coastal Environment Using Radar and Optical remote Sensing, Geocarto, 16, 3, 45-52.

Bell, D., Menges, C.H., Ahmad, W., and vanZyl, J.J., (2001), The Application of Dielectric Retrieval Algorithms for Mapping Soil Salinity in a Tropical Coastal Environment Using Airborne Polarimetric SAR, Remote Sensing of Environment, 75, 3, 375-384.

Phinn, S.R., Menges, C.H., Hill, G.J.E. and Stanford, M., (2000), Optimising Remotely Sensed Solutions for Monitoring, Modelling and Managing Coastal Environments, Remote Sensing of Environment, 73, 117-132.

Menges C.H., Hill G.J.E., and Ahmad W., (1998), Landsat TM Data and Potential Feeding Grounds for Threatened Marine Turtle Species in Northern Australia, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 19, 6, 1207-1221.

Ahmad, W., Hill, G.J.E., O'Grady, A., and Menges, C.H., (1998), Use of Multispectral Scanner Data for the Identification and Mapping of Tropical Forests of Northern Australia, Asian-Pacific Remote Sensing Journal, 11, 1, 13-22.

Menges C.H., Ahmad W., Khwaja Z.H., and Hill G.J.E., (1996), Merging Minimum Distance to Mean and Maximum Likelihood Algorithms for Classifying Mimosa Pigra in Northern Australia, Asian-Pacific Remote Sensing Journal, 9, 1, 51-59.

Conference Papers

Menges C.H., Bach, C., and Hosking, J., (2001), Land Cover Discrimination In a Wetland Environment Using TopSAR Data, Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Sydney, Australia, July 9-13, CD-Rom #1409.

Menges C.H., Bell, D., and Hill, G. J.E. (2001), Is Double the Resolution Twice as Good?, Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Sydney, Australia, July 9-13, CD-Rom #1945.

Bell, D., Menges, C.H., Bartolo, R., Ahmad, W., and van Zyl, J. J., (2001), A Multistaged Approach to Mapping Soil Salinity in a Tropical Coastal Environment Using Airborne SAR and Landsat TM Data, Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Sydney, Australia, July 9-13, CD-Rom #1309.

Bartolo, R., Bell, D., Menges, C.H., Forner, J., and Hill, G.J.E., (2001), The Fusion of Polarimetric AirSAR Data with Digital Aerial Photography to Improve Aquatic Macrophyte Classification in a Tropical Reservoir, Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Sydney, Australia, July 9-13, CD-Rom #1412

Phinn, S. R. Scarth, P. and Stanford, M., Menges, C.H., and Hill, G.J.E., (2001), Quantitative Monitoring of Environmental Health and Dynamics From the ADAR-1000 Low-Cost Airborne Digital Multi-Spectral Camera, Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Sydney, Australia, July 9-13, CD-Rom #378.

Bell, D., Menges, C.H. and Bartolo, R.E., (2001), Mapping the Extent of Saltwater Intrusion in the Mary River Catchment using SAR and ETM Data Fusion, Proc. 5th North Australian Remote Sensing and GIS Conference, Darwin, Australia, July 3-5, CD-Rom.

Menges, C.H. and Bartolo, R.E., (2001), Integrating Remotely Sensed and Ancillary Data in an Expert Classifier, Proc. 5th North Australian Remote Sensing and GIS Conference, Darwin, Australia, July 3-5, CD-Rom.

McIntyre, D. L., Ahmad, W. and Menges, C.H., (2001), Mapping Mimosa pigra on the Mary River Floodplain using TopSAR and Landsat ETM+ Data, Proc. 5th North Australian Remote Sensing and GIS Conference, Darwin, Australia, July 3-5, CD-Rom.

Bell, D., Menges, C.H., Bartolo, R.E., Ahmad, W., and vanZyl, J.J., (2000), A Preliminary Investigation into the Use of SAR and TM Data Fusion for Mapping Saltwater Intrusion. Proceedings of the 10th Australasian Remote Sensing Photogrammetry Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 21-25 August, 1213.

Menges, C.H., Bell, D., van Zyl, J. J., Ahmad, W., and Hill, G.J.E., (2000), Image Classifcation of AIRSAR Data to Delineate Vegetation Communities in the Tropical Savannas of Northern Australia. Proceedings of the 10th Australasian Remote Sensing Photogrammetry Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 21-25 August, 1286.

Zhang, Y., Whitehead, P., Ahmad, W., and Menges, C.H., (2000), An Operational Approach for Mapping Bushfire History in the Tropical Savannas of Northern Australia, in Proc. The 21st Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Taipei, Taiwan, December 4-8, (Vol I) 609-614.

Bartolo, R.E., Menges, C.H., Bell, D., and Hill, G.J.E., (2000), Wetland mapping in northern Australia using SAR, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 1-3 May, II352-359.

Bartolo, R.E., Bell, D., Pfitzner, K., Menges, C.H., Hill, G.J.E., Ahmad, W., Hosking, J., and Astondoa, E., (2000), Current Research and Future Directions for Coastal Remote Sensing in Northern Australia. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 1-3 May, I450-457.

Bartolo, R.E., Menges, C.H., Hill, G.J.E., and Bell, D., (2000), A Remote Sensing Framework for the Management of Australian Wetlands. The 39th Annual Congress of the Australian Society for Limnology, 7-10th July, Darwin, Australia, p.75.

Bell, D., Menges, C.H., Ahmad, W., and vanZyl, J.J., (2000), Vegetation Correction of AirSAR Data for Mapping Soil Salinity in a tropical coastal environment. The 39th Annual Congress of the Australian Society for Limnology, 7-10th July, Darwin, Australia, p.78.

Menges, C.H. and Ahmad W., (1999), Evaluation of AIRSAR data for the classification of vegetation communities in the tropical savannas of northern Australia, Proc. 4th North Australian Remote Sensing and GIS Conference, Darwin, Australia, 28-30 June, CD-Rom #33.

Ahmad W., Menges, C.H., and Hill, G.J.E, (1999), The application of remotely sensed data for monitoring reef zonation changes in Northern Australia, Proc. 4th North Australian Remote Sensing and GIS Conference, Darwin, Australia, 28-30 June, CD-Rom #41.

Bell, D., Van Zyl, J.J., Menges, C.H., and Ahmad, W., (1999), An evaluation of dielectric retrieval algorithm in the Tropical Savannas, Proc. 4th North Australian Remote Sensing and GIS Conference, Darwin, Australia, 28-30 June, CD-Rom #30.

Menges, C.H ., Van Zyl, J. J., Ahmad, W., and Hill, G.J.E., (1999), Classification of vegetation communities in the tropical savannas of northern Australia using AirSAR data, Pacific Rim AIRSAR Significant Results and Planning Workshop, Maui, Hawaii, 24-26 August.

Menges, C.H., O’Grady, A., and Ahmad, W., (1999), Relationships between biophysical parameters and polarimetric AirSAR data in the tropical savannas of northern Australia, Pacific Rim AIRSAR Significant Results and Planning Workshop, Maui, Hawaii, 24-26 August.

Phinn, S.R., Menges, C.H., Hill, G.J.E., and Stanford, M., (1998), Optimising remotely sensed solutions for monitoring, modelling and managing coastal environments, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, San Diego, October 5-7, pages, I:190-197.

Menges C.H., Crerar, J., Hill G.J.E., and Ahmad W., (1998), A Method for Estimating the Effect of Variation in Local Incidence Angle on AIRSAR Data, Proceedings of the 9th Australasian Remote Sensing Photogrammetry Conference, Sydney Australia, 20-24 July, No 145, CD-Rom.

Ahmad, W., Van Zyl, J.J., Menges, C.H., O'Grady, A., and Hill, G.J.E., (1998), Preliminary results of supervised and unsupervised AIRSAR data classification techniques in the tropical savannas of northern Australia, PACRIM Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR) Workshop, Sydney, 26-28 July.

Devonport, C.C., Hill, G.J.E., Ahmad, W., Menges, C., and Carter, J., (1998), GIS for Marine Turtle Conservation and Management in Northern Australia. Marine Turtle Conservation and Management in Northern Australia, Darwin, 3-4 June, 41-48.

Menges, C.H., Ahmad, W., Khwaja, Z. H., Hill, G.J.E., and Cook, G.D. (1997) The role of remote sensing in monitoring the management of a Mimosa pigra stand in the Northern Territory, Proc. 3rd North Australian Remote Sensing and GIS Workshop, Cairns, 28-30 Apr, V:29-41.

Ahmad, W., Khwaja, Z.H., Menges, C.H., Hill, G.J.E., Williams, R.J., and Cook, G.D. (1997) Airborne Radar as an input to conventional remote sensing in the Kidman Springs area of the Northern Territory, Proc. 3rd North Australian Remote Sensing and GIS Workshop, Cairns, 28-30 Apr, I:25-31.

Hill, G.J.E., Ahmad, W., Menges, C.H., Carter, J., Kent, B., McCarthy, M. and Kelly, G. (1996), Development of self-study CAL materials on remote sensing image processing operations, CAUT Teaching Workshop for Qld and NT, Brisbane, 1-2 February.

Hill, G.J.E., Ahmad, W., Carter, J., Kelly, G., Menges, C.H., Hall, C., Kent, B., McCarthy, M. and Stevanovic, V. (1996), Advanced Image Processing (Computer Aided Learning Package), Darwin, Northern Territory University & University of Queensland.