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Sample of Professional Papers by

Dr. Paul Rigterink

Potomac Technical Advisors

9208 Orchard Brook Dr

Potomac, MD 20854

Tel. (301) 279-7468

Development Papers

"Discovering High Value Food Commodities for BOP Farmers Living in Tropical and Arid Lands", Link to High Value Food Paper , Link to Butterfly Supplies , Link to Websites for Fruit Projects

"The Legacy of Johnny Appleseed Needs to Come to Africa" Link to Johnny Appleseed Paper

 "The Mas Dinero Project for Improving the Lives of Poor People in Cordoba Colombia" Link to Mas Dinero Paper , Link to Mas Dinero Espanol, Link to Trip Report , Link to Tropical Fruit Pictures, Link to Semillas

“Reengineering Bangladesh’s Fruit and Nut Industry to Create a Huge Competitive Advantage for Low- and Middle- Income People of Bangladesh on the World Market”, submitted to Harvard University Center for International Development as entry for 2007 Quadir Prize, Link to Quadir Paper .

  “Micro-Enterprises and Food Security”, Food and Water Security: An Integrated Strategy for Food Security in the Developing Countries, edited by Prof. U. Aswathanarayana, Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK/Balkema, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2008, pp. 199-208.

 “A Revolutionary Approach to Reducing Poverty and Increasing the Agricultural Productivity of Subsistence Farmers”, Conference on Product and Market Development for Subsistence Marketplaces: Consumption and Entrepreneurship Beyond Literacy and Resource Barriers, Chicago, Ill, August 2-4, 2006. Link to Poverty Paper

  “A Plan for Improving Food Security in Afghanistan”, submitted to the Afghan Project, Freemont, California in 2003. Link to Afghanistan Paper

  “Improvement of Food Security in the Newly Independent States” with D. F. Colaizzi, D. Morris‑Jones, Y. D. Shmilovich, and R. J. Rigterink, submitted to US Government and non-Government Organizations and Moscow State University, 2001.  Link to Russia Paper

  “Accepting the Challenge: How USDA and Moscow State University Can Work Together to Demonstrate that US Companies in Russia are Practicing Responsible Forestry” submitted to USDA and Moscow State University, 2001. Link to Forestry Paper

  “Doubling the Income of Africa’s Poorest Farmers” with M. D. Rogers, submitted to US Government and non-Government Organizations, 2000. Link to Poultry Paper

 “A ’Win-Win’ Proposal for USAID and Egyptian Bedouin Women in Development”, submitted to USAID and Arab Republic of Egypt, 24 June 1999.

  “Earning Money in Eritrea Growing Desert Melons”, submitted to Eritrea University personnel, 1997 Link to Melons Paper

  “Accepting the Challenge - How the State Department and NASA GSFC Can Help People Earn a Living and Obtain Water in Morocco’s Arid Lands” with Zakaria M. Oweiss and Ibrahim M. Oweiss, MARISY 95, Rabat, Morocco, October 18, 1995. Link to Morocco Paper 

  “Can India Develop an $8 Billion per Year Tropical Fruit and Nut Tree Industry?  Here's  How it is Being Done”, submitted to Indian Department of Agriculture, 1993. Link to India Paper

 "Integration of Food Processing Techniques into India's  Development Plans", submitted to Indian Department of Agriculture, October 1992.

 "Can Energy Companies and Third World Farmers Make Money Together While Compensating for Excess Carbon Dioxide Emissions?", International Conference on the "New World Order": A Challenge to International Leadership, Association for the Advancement of Policy, Research and Development in the Third World, November 1992, p. 1. Link to CO2 Paper

  "Two Experiments in Land Use for Third World Farmers", submitted to U.S. Department of Agriculture, July 1990.

  "Tropical Fruit Trees and Rural Land Use Patterns", Land Use Policy , Butterworth Scientific, Ltd., Surrey, England, July 1989, pp. 194-196.

  "Needs of a Subsistence Farmer in the Sahel", submitted to Live Aid, December 1985.

  "Detecting Desert Locust Breeding Grounds in the Sahel with Satellite Data", 18th Annual Electronics and Aerospace Systems Conference "EASCON 85", Washington, D.C., October 28-30, 1985, pp. 141-143.

Environmental Papers

“An Evaluation of the Coast Guard’s AIREYE Oil Spill Emergency Response Remote Sensing Systems Ability to Meet Rigorous Modern Disaster Management Requirements”, with Michael D. Rogers, Conference on GIS and Applications of Remote Sensing to Disaster Management, Greenbelt, MD, January 13-15, 1997.

 "Scientific visualization of Chesapeake Bay water quality data using a geographic information system "movie"", SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace and Remote Sensing, Technical Conference 1943, State-of-the-Art Mapping, April 15, 1993.

 "New Methods for Detecting and Mapping of Oil Spills in the Gulf of Mexico", ASPRS/ACSM/RT 92 Convention; Mapping and Monitoring Global Change, Vol. 4, Washington, D.C., August 3-8, 1992, pp. 317-321.

 "System Concept Definition for an Oil Spill Emergency Response Computer System", First Thematic Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments,  Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, New Orleans, LA, June 15-17, 1992, pp. 215-222.

 "Economic Benefits to the Shrimping Industry of Using Remote Sensing Data to Monitor Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico", 1989 ASPRS-ACSM Annual Convention; Agenda for the 90's, Vol. 3, April 2-7, 1989, pp. 338-347.

 "Remote Sensing of Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Required for Healthy Oyster Beds, 1987 ASPRS-ACSM Annual Convention; Technology for the Future, Applications for Today, Vol. 1, March 29-April 3, 1987, pp. 18-26.                                  

 "Monitoring the Chesapeake Bay Fish Spawning Grounds with Aerostats and Remote Sensing Equipment", Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Management "Coastal Zone 85", Baltimore, MD, July 30-August 1, 1985, pp. 778-789.

 "An Analysis of the Power Spectra of Total Ozone Data", Monthly Weather Review, 109, No. 4., April 1981, pp. 894-900.

 "Potential Applications of a High Altitude Powered Platform in the Ocean/Coastal Zone Community", with D. Escoe and J. D. Oberholtzer, AIAA Lighter-than-Air Systems Technology Conference, Palo-Alto, California, July 11-13, 1979, pp. 140-145.

 "How Citizens Groups Can Help Determine the Effects of Acid Rain on Rockfish in Chesapeake Bay Tributaries", submitted to EPA, 1989.

 Air Traffic Control Papers

The Use of Collaborative Rerouting Procedures Instead of Miles-in-Trail (MIT) Restrictions for Managing National Airspace System (NAS) Choke Points”, with Ed Ellenberger, 6th Integrated CNS Conference and Workshop, Baltimore, MD, May 1-May 3, 2006.

  “How the System Wide Evaluation and Planning Tool (SWEPT) Can Support Air Traffic Decision-Making in the Eastern United States”, with Ed Ellenberger, 5th Integrated CNS Conference and Workshop, Fairfax, VA, May 2-May 5, 2005.

 “An Integrated Look at R&D Technologies Supporting Improved NAS Capacity and Security”, with Bob Beard, 5th Integrated CNS Conference and Workshop, Fairfax, VA, May 2-May 5, 2005.

 “Establishing NASA Research Leadership in National Air Transportation: Airspace Systems – Five-Year Technology Investment Plan”, Responding to the Call: Aviation Plan for American Leadership, Note: I was the airspace systems sub-sector planning leader, National Institute for Aerospace, April 2005, pp 1-1 to 1-78.

 “Establishing NASA Research Leadership in National Air Transportation: Aviation Security – Five-Year Technology Investment Plan”, Responding to the Call: Aviation Plan for American Leadership, Note: I was the aviation security sub-sector co-planning leader, National Institute for Aerospace, April 2005, pp 2-71 to 2-130.

 “A Method for Determining Future Airport Needs”, Air Traffic Control Association 47th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 3-7, 2002.

 “Use of Multi Center Traffic Management Advisor (McTMA) to Enhance National Airspace System (NAS) Security”, with Hank Sielski, Rodney Helms, Michelle Eshow, and Thomas Davis, 2nd Integrated CNS Conference and Workshop, Vienna, VA, April 29-May 2, 2002.

 Other Papers

"Key Considerations for Emergency Response Computer Systems in the 1990's", with Frank W. Koleszar, International Emergency Management and Engineering Conference TIEMEC '94, Hollywood Florida, April 19, 1994, pp. 327-332.

 "An Integrated International Aerospace Medical Information System", with W. C. Schneider and C. Goodwin, Acta Astronautica, Vol. 23, 1991, pp. 335-341.

 "The Need for A Rigorous Development and Testing Methodology for Medical Software", Proceedings of Symposium on the Engineering of Computer Based Medical Systems, with W. A. Reupke, E. Srinivasan, D. N. Card, IEEE Computer Society, Minneapolis, MN, June 8-10, 1988, pp. 15-20.

 "Image Processing Natural Quality X-Ray Images in a Small Office Environment", Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, with E. Rigterink, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, D.C., November 1984, pp. 858-860.

 "Introduction to Estimation Theory", Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control, with L. Fallon, III, edited by J. Wertz, D. Reidel (Dordrecht, Holland), 1978, pp. 447-459.