J. M. Preston, A. Rosenberger, W. T. Collins; Bottom classification in very shallow water, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'00 Conference, pp. 1563 - 1567, September 2000.
S. F. Bloomer, D. C. Mosher, W. T. Collins, J. M. Preston, A. Rosenberger; Subsurface classification of high-resolution seismic data with multivariate statistical techniques: Case study from the Strait of Georgia, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'00 Conference, pp. 1677 - 1683, September 2000.
Jon M. Preston, William T. Collins, David C. Mosher, Roland H. Poeckert, Ron H. Kuwahara; The strength of correlations between geotechnical variables and acoustic classifications, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'99 Conference, pp. 1123 - 1128, September 1999.
David Hopkin, Jon M. Preston, Sonia Latchman; Effectiveness of a two-part tow for decoupling ship motions, Proceedings of IEEE OCEANS'93 Conference, pp. 359 - 364, October 1993.
Jon M. Preston, Roland Poeckert; Distortion and break-up of sidescan images -- Criteria and reconstruction by geocoding, Proceedings of IEEE OCEANS'93 Conference, pp. 371 - 377, October 1993.
Jon M. Preston; Stability of Towfish used as Sonar Platforms, Proceedings of IEEE OCEANS'92 Conference, pp. 888 - 893, October 1992.
Dr. Jon Preston, Senior Scientist, Quester Tangent Corporation has twelve years experience as a reasearch scientist with the Department of National Defence, Canada. At Defence Research Establishment Pacific, Victoria, BC, he developed mine countermeasures technology, particularly processing of high-frequency imagery, and towfish altitude and position measurement and control. Much of the work done by the DREP mine countermeasures group can be seen in the route survey payload of the 12 Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels recently acquired by the Canadian Navy. Starting about 1996, his research interests broadened to include both acoustic and invasive sensing of sediments and he lead several multi-faceted research cruises focussing on sediments. During his years at DREP he published over 20 internal reports and 10 papers in conference proceedings. He was technical chairman of the IEEE Oceans'93 conference.Dr. Preston's BSc is from Mc Master University, 1970. His PhD work, in the plasma physics group at the University of British Columbia, dealt mostly with sensors, diagnostic equipment, and signal processing. Between graduation from UBC in 1974 and moving to DREP he was responsible for Canada's R&D program in automatic detection of chemical warfare compounds. This work lead to a family of new detectors used in many NATO armies, 25 internal reports, 4 journal papers, and 2 patents.