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.