Dr. Mark J. Carlotto
markjc@mindspring.com
Mark J. Carlotto is an image scientist with more than 20 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 Veridian Systems (formerly Pacific-Sierra Research Corporation). Dr. Carlotto has published over seventy technical and scientific papers in the areas of image processing, pattern recognition, remote sensing, geographic information systems, artificial intelligence applications, and optical computing.
For more than ten years Dr. Carlotto has studied anomalous phenomena. His 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 concerning the search for life on 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 more recently in History's Mysteries Life on Mars and a special currently in production by the BBC entitled Conspiracies in Science.
He has authored/coauthored the following peer-reviewed papers related to Mars and anomalous phenomena:
- 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.
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