Mark
J. Carlotto is an image scientist
with 30 years of experience in satellite remote sensing
and digital image processing. From 1972 to 1981,
he studied optics, signal and image
processing at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania where he received
B.S.,
M.S.,
and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1977,
1979,
and 1981. Dr. Carlotto has held several positions
in academia and industry. From 1981 to 1993, he was a
senior member of the technical staff at the Analytic Sciences
Corporation. During the period from 1981 to 1983,
he was also an Assistant Adjunct
Professor in the College of Engineering at Boston University.
Currently, he is a senior staff
scientist with General Dynamics. Dr. Carlotto
has published a number of technical
and scientific papers in the areas of image processing,
pattern recognition,
remote sensing,
geographic information systems,
artificial intelligence applications,
and optical computing.
Dr.
Carlotto has also studied a variety of anomalous phenomena.
His first book, The Martian Enigmas
(North Atlantic Books, 1996), describes in detail his
analysis of imagery of the Face and other unusual objects
on the surface of Mars imaged by a Viking Orbiter spacecraft
in 1976. He was also a major contributor to
The Case for the Face
(Adventures Unlimited Press, 1998) which contained a collection
of papers related to the search for life on Mars. He edited
and published New Frontiers in
Science, an on-line peer-reviewed journal devoted
to the study of anomalous phenomena. His latest book,
The Cydonia Controversy
(LuLu, 2008) discusses the history, science, and implications
of the potential discovery of archaeological ruins in
the Cydonia of Mars.
His
work has been reported in New
Scientist, Omni,
and Newsweek, and
has appeared in several television programs including
Carl Sagan's Cosmos
series, Sci Fi Channel's Inside
Space, Sightings,
and History's Mysteries - Life
on Mars episode.
Dr.
Carlotto has authored/co-authored the following peer-reviewed
papers related to Mars and anomalous phenomena:
• Mark J. Carlotto, "Detecting
Patterns of a Technological Intelligence in Remotely-Sensed
Imagery", Journal
of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol.
60, pp 28-39, 2007.
• Mark Carlotto, "Enigmatic
Landforms in Cydonia: Geospatial Anisotropies, Bilateral
Symmetries, and Their Correlations", Sixth
International Conference on Mars, Pasadena,
CA, July 20-25, 2003.
• Mark. J. Carlotto, Horace W. Crater, James L. Erjavec,
and Stanley
V. McDaniel, "Response
to Geomorphology of Selected Massifs On the Plains of
Cydonia, Mars by David Pieri", Journal
of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 13, No. 3,
1999.
• Mark J. Carlotto, "Evidence
in Support of the Hypothesis that Certain Objects on Mars
are Artificial in Origin", Journal
of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 11, No. 2,
1997.
• Mark J. Carlotto, "Digital
video analysis of anomalous space objects",
Journal of Scientific Exploration,
Vol. 9. No. 1, July 1995.
• Mark J. Carlotto, "Digital
image analysis of possible extraterrestrial artifacts
on Mars", Digital
Signal Processing, April 1993. (Invited Paper)
• Mark J. Carlotto and Michael C. Stein, "A
method for searching for artificial objects on planetary
surfaces", Journal
of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol.
43, pp 209-216, 1990.
• Mark J. Carlotto, "Digital
imagery analysis of unusual Martian surface features",
Applied Optics, Vol.
27, No. 10, May 15, 1988.
His
website is at: http://www.carlotto.us/
Source:
http://spsr.utsi.edu/members/markjcarlotto.html
