Publications

In the works

• Schwehr, "segy-py: Reading seismic data with Python"
• Schwehr, Driscoll, Lee, Tauxe, "Detecting Compaction Disequilibrium with Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility"

• [PDF] Schwehr, Derbes, Edwards, Nguyen, Zbinden, "Designing visualization software for ships and robotic vehicles," IS&T/SPIE Paper Number 5669-23, San Jose, CA., 18-Jan-2005.
• [PDF] Schwehr, Johnson, Kilb, Nayak, Nishimura"Visualization tools facilitate geological investigations of Mars exploration rover landing sites," IS&T/SPIE Paper Number 5669-15, San Jose, CA., 17-Jan-2005.

• [PDF] Schwehr, K. and Tauxe, L., "Characterization of soft sediment deformation: Detection of crypto-slumps using magnetic methods," Geology, v. 31, no. 3, p. 203-206, 2003.

• [PDF] Cabrol, N.A., G. Chong-diaz, C.R. Stoker, V.C. Gulick, R. Landheim, P. Lee, T.L. Roush, A.P. Zent, C. Herrera Lameli, A. Jensen iglesia, M. Pereeira Arrerondo, J. M. Dohm, r. keaton, d. Wetter Green, M. H. Sims, K. Schwher, m. G. Bualat, H.J. Thomas, E. Zbinden, D. Christian, L. Pedersen, A. Bettis III, G. Thomas, and B. Witzke, "Nomad Rover Field Experiment, Atacama Desert, Chile: 1. Science results overview," Journal of Geophysical Research, V. 106, No. E4, Pages 7785-7808, April 25, 2001

• [PDF] Laurent A. Nguyen, Maria Bualat, Laurence J. Edwards, Lorenzo Fluekiger, Charles Neveu, Kurt Schwehr, Michael D. Wagner, Eric Zbinden, "Virtual Reality Interfaces for Visualization and Control of Remote Vehicles," ICRA 2000.
• [PDF] Sanjiv Singh, Kurt Schwehr, Reid Simmons, Trey Smith, Anthony Stentz, Vandi Verma, and Alex Yahja "Recent Progress in Local and Global Traversability for Planetary Rovers," ICRA2000.
• [PDF] Eric Zbinden, Laurent Nguyen, Kurt Schwehr, "Viz: An Automated 3D Mapping System for Planetary Exploration," ISPRS II/I Amsterdam, Summer 2000.

• [PDF] Stoker, C.R., E. Zbinden, T. T. Blackmon, B. Kanefsky, J. Hagen, P. Henning, C. Neveu, D. Rasmussen, K. Schwehr and M. Sims, Analyzing Pathfinder Data using Virtual Reality and Super-resolved Imaging, J. Geophys. Res., Planets V104(E4), pp 8889-8906, Apr. 1999.

• [PDF]][LINK] P. Lee, W. A. Cassidy, D. Apostolopoulos, M. Deans, A. Foessel, C. Krause, J, Parra, L. Pedersen, K. Schwehr, R.P. Harvey, and W.L. Whittaker, "Search for Meteorites in the Patriot Hills Area, Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica," Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol. 33, No 4,S, pp A92-3, July 1998.
• [PDF] Nathalie A. Cabrol, G. Chong Diaz, et al., "Atacama I: Science Results of the 1997 Nomad Rover Field Test in the Atacama Desert, Chile", Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXIX, Houston, TX, 1998.
• [PDF] Nathalie A. Cabrol, G. Chong Diaz, George Dunfield, et al., "Atacama II: Nomad Rover Sample 1-250697 and Implications for Fossil Characterization During Mars Exploration," In Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXIX, Houston, TX, 1998.
• [PDF] N. Cabrol, P. Lee, G. Chong Diaz, et al., "Atacama III: Meteorite Search During the Nomad Field Tests: Perspectives on Automated Field Operations by Teleoperated Vehicles in Extreme Environments," In Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXIX, Houston, TX, 1998.
• [PDF] C. Stoker, T. Blackmon, J. Hagen, B. Kanefsky, D. Rasmussen, K. Schwehr, M. Sims, E. Zbinden, "Marsmap: An Interactive Virtual Reality Model of the Pathfinder Landing Site," Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX. 1998.
• [PDF] Zbinden, Stoker, Blackmon, Schwehr, Henning, Neveu, Kanefsky, "Mapping Mars Using Virtual Reality: The Pathfinder Experience," ISPRS WG IV/5, Extraterrestrial Mapping Workshop on "Mapping of Mars," April 1998, London, UK.

• [PDF] David Wettergreen, Maria Bualat, Daniel Christian, Kurt Schwehr, Hans Thomas, Deanne Tucker, Eric Zbinden, "Operating Nomad during the Atacama Desert Trek," In Proc. Field and Service Robotics Conference, Canberra, Australia, December 1997.
• [PDF] Daniel Christian, David Wettergreen, Maria Bualat, Kurt Schwehr, Deanne Tucker, Eric Zbinden, "Field Experiments with the Ames Marsokhod Rover," In Proceedings of the 1997 Field and Service Robotics Conference, Canberra, Australia, December 1997.

• [PDF][DOC] C. R. Stoker, D. Barch, J. Farmer, M. Flagg, T. Healy, T. Tengdin, H. Thomas, K. Schwer and D. Stakes, "Exploration Of Mono Lake With An ROV: a prototype experiment for the MAPS AUV program," IEEE Symposium on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology, June 3-6, Monterrey, CA, 1996.

Posters

• [PDF] Kurt Schwehr, Neal Driscoll, Lisa Tauxe,Homa Lee, Joseph Rosenbaum, "The Whole AMS Matrix: Using the Owens Lake and Gaviota Slide cores to explore classification of ellipsoid shapes," Fall AGU, San Francisco, CA. Dec 2004.
• [TXT] Ben Constant, Alex James, Evan Morikawa, Debi Kilb, Atul Nayak, Kurt Schwehr, John Marquis, Mark Benthien, Duncan Agnew, Pat Abbot, Graham Kent, Deborah Kane, "Seismic-Sites: a Web-based Field Guide to the Faults of Southern California," Southern California Earthquake Center Anual Meeting, http://www.scec.org/meetings/2004am, Palm Springs, CA, 2004.

• [No copy avail][LINK] Kurt Schwehr, Neal Driscoll, Homa Lee, Lisa Tauxe, "Exploration of the Humboldt Slide using Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility Comparison with the Gaviota Slide", AGU, San Francisco, CA. Abstract #8437, Dec 2003
• [Not curr avail] Kurt Schwehr, Neal Driscoll, Lisa Tauxe, "Continued Exploration of the Humboldt Slide using Anisotropy of Magnetic Sysceptibility," Schwehr, Driscoll, Tauxe, Oceans 2003, San Diego, Abstract #999, Sept 2003.
• [Not curr avail][TXT] Kurt Schwehr, Neal Driscoll, Lisa Tauxe, "Deciphering the origin of the Humboldt Slide using Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility," Schwehr, Driscoll, Tauxe, EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, EAE03-A-12756, April 2003

Reports, Notes, and Unpublished

• [HTML] Kurt Schwehr, "Introduction to Scientific Programming," 2004. NOTE: This document is in progress but it just starting to be useful. I would like to write a book on this topic for 1st year graduate students in Geology and Geophysics.

• [HTML] Kurt Schwehr, "SIO Visualization Class," Lectures 1-4, SIO Visualization Center/CalIT2, SIO, 2003.
• [TXT] Kurt Schwehr, "Revision Control using CVS (Concurrent Version System),", Geodynamics Group, SIO, 2003.

• Nguyen LA, Bualat M, Edwards LJ, Flueckiger L, Neveu C, Schwehr K, Wagner MD, Zbinden E, "Virtual reality interfaces for visualization and control of remote vehicles ", Autonomous Robots 11(1):59-68, 2001.

• [PDF] Schwehr, Kurt, "Martian Igneous Processes based on Mars Pathfinder Lander and Sojourner Rover", Paper for Igneous Petrology, 2000

• [TXT] Schwehr, Kurt, "Stereo Processing for the Mars Polar Lander, MVACS Image Pipeline / James Pipeline," Unpublished report, 1999

• [TXT] Schwehr and Nguyen, "Viz Technical Notes:Design and Implementation of the Viz Architecture", 1998.

• [PDF] [HTML] Kurt Schwehr and Daniel Delgado, "GRASS Usage for Virtual Planetary Exploration," Manual for the VPE Lab at Nasa Ames Research Center, 1994.

• [HTML] Elizabeth L. Miller, Phillip B. Gans, and the Stanford Geological Survey, "Geologic Map of Wheeler Peak and Minerva Canyon 7.5' Quadrangles, White Pine County, Nevada," Unpublished USGS Open File Report, somewhere in the USGS CR, 1993. Draft available via web. Members of the Stanford Geological Survey in 1993 included Jeffrey M. Amato, Kai S. Anderson, Jack W. Daniels, Pilar E. Garcia, Andrew D. Hansen, Brian Landau, Ezra M. Mauer, Natalie A. McCullough, Kurt D. Schwehr and Benjamin E. Surpless.
• [HTML] Stanford Internation Mars Mission with Professor Bruce Lusignan, 1993.

• [TXT] Kurt Schwehr, "Planet Search 1991, Using a Robotic Photometric Telescope to Search for Extrasolar Planets,", NASA Ames Contractor Report, 1991.
• [TXT] Linda Garcia and Kurt Schwehr, "Conversion of Sugar Cane to Ethanol for the Philippines," Report to the Sierra Club Local Chapter, Palo Alto, CA, 1991.

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