Personnel

James I. Ebert, Ph.D., is a Certified Photogrammetrist of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (No. 534R); Photogrammetrist, Medicolegal Investigation Unit, New York State Police; Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Engineering Division; and serves as a forensic photogrammetric consultant for the US Army’s Central Identification Laboratories. He has more than 25 year’s experience in photointerpretation, Photogrammetry, and mapping techniques. Dr. Ebert has served as a photogrammetric consultant for the US Army Corps of Engineers, the National Park Service, the Department of Justice, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and many Indian tribes. Furthermore, Dr. Ebert is a court-qualified expert consultant in the fields of

• Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Electronic Image Analysis, Digital Image Processing
• Mapping Sciences
• Photography, Aerial Photoanalysis, Photointerpretation, Analysis of Historic Photographs
• Forensic Anthropology, Shoeprint Analysis
• Photointerpretation and mapping of water control and irrigation
• Photointerpretation and mapping of hazardous waste material

He has an extensive background in preparing attorneys and their experts with the technical knowledge necessary to interpret and testify concerning photographic and mapped evidence. Between 1977 and the present, he has worked on more than 500 cases of bite marks, injury patterns, footprints, fingerprints, tires prints, tire defects, product liability photo analysis, arson evidence, bank/convenience store (with camera and ATM film), historical land claims and other litigation-related aerial terrestrial photographs, and other evidential photographs. He has worked on cases from all parts of the United States and Canada, including work on photographic evidence stemming from the New Mexico State Prison riots, the Theodore Bundy case in Florida, the Robert Chambers case in New York City, and the Bob Crane homicide case in Arizona. Dr. Ebert has over 130 scholarly publications including the chapter “Archaeology, Anthropology, and Cultural Resources” in the 2nd edition of the American Society of Photogrammetry’s Manual of Remote Sensing, the chapter “Anthropological, Archaeological, and Cultural Resource Applications” in the 2nd edition of the Handbook of Aerial Photographic Interpretation, and the book Distributional Archaeology. A full resume is available upon request.

Eileen L. Camilli (PhD Univ of NM 1983) co-authored, with Linda S. Cordell, the Southwest Supplement to the National Park Service’s Remote Sensing: A Handbook for Archaeologists and Cultural Resource Managers (Lyons and Avery 1977), in 1983. In the same year she photointerpreted an ecological cover-type map of the San Juan Basin using Landsat and aerial photographic data in another cultural resources remote sensing project for the National Park Service.

Between 1983 and 1988 she served as project director for several large scale archaeological surveys in New Mexico that included a 43,000 acre sample survey for the San Augustine Coal Project in west-central New Mexico, and a 16,000 acre sample survey for the Navajo-Hopi Land Exchange Project near El Paso, Texas, both for the Bureau of Land Management.

Between 1989 and the present, Dr. Camilli directed two National Science Foundation research projects. The first focused on developing an automated in-field artifact coding and mapping program for distributional archaeological survey. Software for hierarchical ceramic and lithic artifact coding classifications was developed and tested. More recently, she directed the development of a pictograph and petroglyph mapping, data management, and analysis system using terrestrial survey and photogrammetry to inventory and manage rock art images and their 3-dimensional spatial attributes at a wide range of scales. Alpha testing of system took place at Petroglyph National Monument, where approximately 200 meters of Rinconada Canyon hosting a sample of the 10,000 plus petroglyphs in the monument was recorded using a reflectorless opto-electronic total station and terrestrial photogrammetry.

Her ongoing work in environmental forensics applies photointerpretation to mapping features of significance at hazardous waste and industrial sites through photointerpretation and digital mapping technologies including GIS, CAD, and GPS.

For more than ten years, Dr. Camilli has used photointerpretation and GIS mapping to find and inventory historically irrigated and cultivated areas with contemporary and historical aerial photos in the Little Colorado River watershed on the Navajo and Hopi Reservations in Arizona and on Pueblo and other reservations in New Mexico in the course of research directed toward water rights adjudication. For the last seven years, she has conducted archaeological survey, photointerpretation, total station and GPS survey to locate and used GIS to analyze pre-Columbian agricultural water use technologies, including extensive gravel-mulched and gridded field systems, in the northern Rio Grande region. More recently she has directed a photointerpretation study to successfully identify previously undetected pre-Columbian gridded agricultural field systems, and is currently involved in excavating a sample of these for the Department of Justice.

Amy J. Hoeptner (MS Anthropology, Univ of CA, Riverside 1996) first combined GIS and archaeology in 1996 to analyze spatial patterning of Mayan sites on the Yucatan Peninsula. Since then she has used an array of mapping techniques and technologies to document and analyze pre-Columbian, historic and modern landscapes for water rights, environmental and grant-based research. She contributes her expertise in field mapping, image processing and GIS programming to these studies by regularly employing total station and GPS-based mapping to create GIS databases and topographic data and to convert photointerpreted data to digital format.

In 2000, she participated in research focusing on evaluating and monitoring prehistoric earthen structures in Ohio funded by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.

Within the framework of Ebert & Associates’ National Science Foundation-funded rock art research she used a Trimble 5600 reflectorless, robotic total station for topography capture of petroglyph surfaces in two scale ranges, that of the glyph/panel, and that of the surrounding landscape. She developed the GIS Data Reduction Sub-System of the rock art recording system used to process the field data and convert them into useful 3-dimensional data sets. This system extracts the visual data and assigns it real-world coordinates, converting a 2-dimensional graphic representation of the rock art into a fully functional 3-dimensional geospatial data set embedded in high-resolution landscape topography.

Using photogrammetry, remote sensing and GIS she regularly obtains, scans and geo-rectifies historical aerial photographs, uses existing high-resolution topographic data obtained from photogrammetric methods, creates hardcopy maps, GIS-based animations and 3-dimensional models, converts hardcopy maps to digital data sets and designs and builds tools using the VBA programming environment.

Sonny Casaus is continuing course work toward a BS (Mechanical Engineering, Univ of NM). Prior to his 4 years with Ebert & Associates Mr. Casaus had over 7 years of experience in performing environmental investigations and site characterizations at federal state, industrial and commercial facilities that included aquifer testing, surface and subsurface soil and water sampling, the utilization of cone push penetrometers, natural gamma ray borehole logging, borehole drilling, installation of various well types and development and implementation of Surfactant Enhanced Aquifer Remediation technology. He was also a Senior AutoCAD Draftsman responsible for civil and electrical drawings.

His recent experience with Ebert & Associates includes extensive application of software for 3-dimensional modeling, animation, drafting and internet website development. Specific 3-D applications include Rhinoceros which provides tools to accurately model designs ready for rendering, animation, drafting, engineering and analysis and AutoCAD. His use of animation packages is diverse including 3D Studio Max, TrueSpace, Bryce, Vista Real/Motion (crash simulation) and Poser.

He is fluent in html programming language and other Web-related software including Macromedia Dreamweaver and ArcIMS. His work with Ebert & Associates has also included ArcIMS applications directed toward integrating local data sources for display, query and analysis in user-friendly web browsers at Sandia National Laboratories.

He is also fluent in Environmental Visualization System (EVS), Desktop Mapping System (DMS), Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere and Fast Movie Processor.