Eddie Bright
Phone: (865) 574-5430
Fax: (865) 241-6261
Email: brightea@ornl.gov
Education
MS, Geography, University of Tennessee (1982).
BA, Geography, University of Tennessee, magna cum laude (1980).
Research Experience and Interests
Eddie is a Remote Sensing and GIS Specialist, with 27 years of experience in computational analysis, application programming, imagery analysis, data visualization, spatial modeling, and Geographic Information Systems. Eddie is the Project Leader and co-developer of ORNL's LandScan Population Distribution Program. LandScan, a high-resolution global population distribution database, is the standard database used by the Department of Defense for estimating population at risk. In addition, he is the co-developer of LandScan USA, a very high-resolution population database for the U.S. including diurnal and demographic variations.
Previously Eddie served as the principal contributor to the development and implementation of NOAA's Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP). He has developed a number of projects emphasizing the fusion of disparate geospatial datasets.
