COMPANY AND GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS and PROJECTS
JOHN O. BENNETT

MMS:

1998
1. "Statistical Model of MMS Offshore Sealed Bid Sales", March.
2. "Finite Difference Solution to the Black/Sholes PDEs", May.

1997
"Mapping the Foot of the Continental Slope with Spline Smoothed Data Using the Second Derivative in the Gradient Direction", Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, OCS Report, MMS 97-0018. Received MMS Innovator Award for this report.

1996
"Mapping the Foot of the Continental Slope with Spline Smoothed Data Using the Second Derivative in the Gradient Direction", oral presentation MMS, Denver.

1995
1. "Techniques for Visualizing Digital Geo-science Data using Color 2-D and 3-D Display Methods with MATLAB for Windows"
2. "Top of the Norphlet MATLAB Displays in the Destin Dome Area"

1994
1. Paper and oral presentation entitled "Mathematical, Statistical, and Numerical Analysis Report of PRASS1 Program MATCH"
2. Report Entitled "Mathematical, Statistical, Equivalence of Risk in PRESTO and PRASS"
3. Paper Entitled "Mathematical, Statistical, and Numerical Analysis Report of PETRIMES Program PSUM"
4. "Normal, Lognormal Statistical Report"
5. "National Assessment Reserves Estimate Growth Factor"
6. "The Normal Density Function and Cumulative Distribution"
7. "Introduction to the Mathematical Probabilistic and Statistical Methods for Determining Oil and Gas Reserves"
8. "Transmission of Digital Maps from Remote Sites Over Phone Lines"

1993
1. Paper and oral presentation entitled "Mathematical, Statistical, and Numerical Analysis Report of PRASS1 Program MPRO"
2. "Mathematical Theory of 15 PRASS Subroutines and Functions"
3. "Option Valuation of the Case of Offshore Petroleum Leases (OVOCOPL) Theory, Program, Description, and Users Guide"
4. "Mathematical, Statistical, and Numerical Analysis Report of PRASS1 Program Match"
5. "Mathematical, Probability, and Statistical Methods for Evaluating Oil and Gas Reserves"

TASC

1989
1. "Unix Tutorial"
2. Several Classified CIA Top Secret Documents.

Mobil

1986
1. "Evaluation of Computer Mapping at Mobil Oil"
2. "Evaluation of Digital Geological and Geophysical Data Bases At Mobil Oil"

Chevron

1982
1. "Digital Peak Identification of New Orleans Chromatographs for Petroleum Source Rock Study"
2. "Format Changes Necessary to Process LaHabra Digitized Chromatographs"
3. "Program Modifications Needed to Process LaHabra Digitized Chromatographs"

1981
1. "Hardware Configuration for Digital Gas Chromatography"
2. "Software Design for Gas Chromatograph Digitizer"
3. "Data Transmission between LaHabra, Houston,
New Orleans for Digital Gas Chromatograph Data"
4. "Interactive Color System for Displaying and Interpreting Digital Gas Chromatographs"
5. "Algorithm 'Ratio' for Peak Identification of Digital Gas Chromatograph"
6. "Evaluation of Dedalus Group Flyover"

1980
1. "Evaluation of Simplan, Seiscom Delta's Directed Plane Wave Program (Chevron wanted to get seismic energy through the chalk in the New Orleans, Louisiana area)"
2. "Evaluation of Company Trace Analysis Program"
3. "Proposed Digital Image Processing System"
4. "Computation of Auto-correlation from Cross-correlation for De-convolution (presented at inter-company geophysical conference)"

Exxon

1979
1. "False Color Display of Seismic Data (10-20 HZ-Blue, 20-90 HZ-Green, and 90-80 HZ-Red)"
2. "Ratioing Multi-tempered Passes of LANDSAT Digital Data for Seasonal Anomalies"
3. "True Color Presentation of LANDSAT Data (no blue band; it had to be created artificially)"
4. "Classification of Final Stacked Seismic Section using 10-20 HZ,20-40 HZ, 40-60 HZ,60-80 HZ Filters for Interpretation"
5. "Classification Methods for Digital LANDSAT Data in Uranium Exploration in the Arizona-Utah Area"
6. "Ratioing Techniques for Digital LANDSAT in Uranium Exploration in Southeast Colorado"
7. "Digital Flicker and Zooming Methods in Displaying Seismic Data as Aids to Interpretation"
8. "Using Digital LANDSAT Data for Coal Exploration"
9. "Correlation of Oil Production with Vegetation in Sumatra"
10. "LANDSAT Ratioing for Hydrocarbon Anomalies in Belize"
11. "LANDSAT Methods to Locate Copper Deposits in Arizona"
12. "Mosaic of Digital LANDSAT Scenes"
13. "Surface Indicators of Hydrocarbons in the Wind River Basin of Wyoming"
14. "Stereo-serial Photo Pairs as an Aid to Improving LANDSAT Resolution"
15. "Data Link Between IBM 370 and Interactive Color Terminal"
16. "Digital Image Processing Methods to Enhance Seismic Amplitude"
17. "Digital LANDSAT Data Anomalies Associated with Oil and Gas Exploration in Australia"

1978
1. "Principle Component Analysis of LANDSAT Ratio Bands"
2. "Principle Component Analysis of Final Stacked Seismic Sections"
3. "Digital Image Processing on Triple-Sect Seismic Data to Detect Bright Spots (Triple-Sect is an Exxon Processing Method)"
4. "Ratioing Filtered Seismic Data to Suppress Draping Associated with Faulting"
5. "Pseudo-color Slicing of Amplitude Equalized Seismic Data for Bright Spot Analysis"
6. "Digital Remote Sensing from Space (a color book presented to the Kleburg's of the King Ranch for a Christmas present)"
7. "False Color Display of LANDSAT Data"

1977
1. "Using Digital LANDSAT Imagery for Oil and Gas Exploration in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico"
2. "Using LANDSAT Data to Locate Thermal Anomalies Indicating the presence of Hydrocarbons: Prudhoe Bay, AL"
3. "Surface Anomalies Obtained from Digital LANDSAT Data in the Area of the Jay Field of Alabama and Florida"
4. "Integrating and Correlating Radiometric and LANDSAT Digital Data in the Jay, Flomation Area of Alabama"
5. "Classification of LANDSAT Digital Data for Geologic Mapping and Structural Interpretation (Africa, North and South America)"
6. "LANDSAT Band Ratioing for Geologic Mapping with LANDSAT"
7. "Guide to Band Ratioing for Geologic Mapping with LANDSAT Digital Data"
8. "Rotation Matrix to Enhance Colors in Digital LANDSAT Data"
9. "Using LANDSAT Bands 4 and 5 to Ratio for Red Beds"
10. "Principle Component Analysis of LANDSAT Digital Data Using Bands 4, 5, 6, and 7"

1976
1. "Systems manual for Use IBM 370 Digital Image Processing System (Vicar, Larsys)"
2. "Systems Manual for Use of Interactive Color Digital Image Processing System"
3. "Users Manual for Exxon's Version of VICAR"
4. "Users Manual for Interactive Color Display Image Processing System"

1975
1. "IBM 370 Software Systems for Digital Remote Sensing at Exxon Production Research Company"
2. "Hardware Configuration for Interactive Color Digital Image Processing System"
3. "Software Design for Interactive Color Digital Image Processing System"
4. "Master Plan for Exxon Digital Image Processing"

1974
1. "Automatic First Break Picking Algorithm for Seismic Data"
2. "Pattern Recognition Methods for Picking First Breaks on Traces in a Common Gather"

Outside Publications and Activities by Year:
JOHN O. BENNETT

2001
"Examples of Mapping the Foot of the Continental Slope Using The Surface of Directed Gradient Algorithm with NOAA’s ETOPO5 Data Base", Advisory board of the Law of the Sea Meeting, October 18-19, Monaco

2000
"Contrast of the Surface of Directed Gradient with the Surface of Maximum Curvature to Compute the Foot of the Continental Slope", New International Hydrographic Bulletin, International Hydrographic Bureau, October.

1999
1. "Contrast of the Surface of Directed Gradient with the Surface of Maximum Curvature to Compute the Foot of the Continental Slope", oral presentation, Advisory Board of the Law of the Sea Meeting , Monaco.
2. "Old U.S. Navy Digital Navigational Data Base Finds New Home in the United Nation’s Law of the Sea" , Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute. Accepted but never published.

1998
"Mapping the Foot of the Continental Slope with Spline Smoothed Data Using the Second Derivative in the Gradient Direction", International Hydrographic Review, Sept, 1998

1996
"Mapping the Foot of the Continental Slope with Spline Smoothed Data Using the Second Derivative in the Gradient Direction", Proceedings of the Geodetic Aspects of the Law of the Sea, July 14, Denpasar, Bali- Indonesia.

1977
"Satellite-Remote Sensor Exploration of a West Texas Test Site" by H. R. Hopkins, R. L. Kite, J. O. Bennett, presented by H. R. Hopkins at W. T. Pecora Symposium on Satellite Imagery, AAPG and GSA, November, 1977.

1976
1. "Color Display of Computer-Printer Digital Images" at ACM Symposium on Machine Processing of Remotely Sensed Data presented NASA/JSC, December 2, Sponsored by Clearlake, Texas Chapter of ACM.
2. "Digital Classification of Ambrosia Lake, New Mexico Area", Third Symposium on Machine Processing of Remotely Sensed Data, Purdue University, June 28 - July 2.

1975
1. Chairman of "Energy Resources Exploration" subgroup of Application Survey Group (a NASA sponsored industry task force to propose LANDSAT-D Thematic Mapper design parameters for NASA and to report industry usage of available LANDSAT data)
2. Chairman and organizer of "Application of Remotely Sensed Digital Imagery to Mineral and Petroleum Exploration" session of the1974 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, (Dec)

1974
1. "Estimation of Multivariate Probability Functions Using B-Splines," NASA Technical Report (NASA-CR-140297). Also, Institute for Computer Services and Applications, Rice University.
2. Presentation to Mathematical Science faculty at Rice University on thesis "Estimation of Multivariate Probability Functions Using B-Splines," May 1974
3."Classification by Means of B-Spline Potential Functions with Application to Remote Sensing" by J. O. Bennett, R. J. P. deFigueiredo, J. R. Thompson. Invited paper presented by J. O. Bennett at Sixth Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Sponsored by IEEE, March 2.
4. Ph.D. Thesis: "Estimation of Multivariate Probability Density Functions Using B-Splines," Rice University.

1972
"Spline Smoothing of Histograms by Linear Programming", Rice University Computer Center, ICSA 275-025-022. Also, NASA Technical Report (NASA-CR-133987).

Papers and books citing Ph.D. thesis entitled: "Estimation of Multivariate Density Functions Using B-Splines."

- "Patterns in Pattern Recognition: 1968-1974" by L. Kanal, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, November 1974, Vol. IT-20, No. 6.

- "Cubic Splines for Image Interpolation and Digital Filtering" by H. Hou and Harry Andrews, IEEE Transactions on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. ASSP-26, No. 6, December 8, 1978.

- "Kernal Density Estimation Revisited" by D. W. Scott, R. A. Topia, and J. R. Thompson, Rice University publication supported by ONR Grant NR042-283 and ERDA Contract E-(40-1)-5046,1978.

- "Density Function Estimation" by R. A. Topia and J. R. Thompson, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979, Baltimore, Maryland.

1974- 1982
National Science Foundation Proposals Reviewed
Invited to review four major proposals for funding submitted to the NSF in the areas of Digital Image Processing and Digital Remote Sensing.