GLRC Members in the Michigan Tech Research Institute

  • Senior Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science (SFRES)

Areas of Expertise

  • Remote Sensing
    • Radar
    • Lidar
    • Multispectral
  • Forest and Wetland Ecology of
    • Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands
    • Boreal, Temperate, and Tropical Regions
  • Wildfire
    • Boreal Fuel Moisture and Fire Danger
    • Boreal Wildfire Effects and Carbon Emissions

Research Interests

  • Characterize and Measure Landscape Ecosystems
  • Fusion of SAR and Multispectral Data For Mapping and Monitoring Wetlands and Monitoring Soil Moisture For Fire Danger Prediction in Boreal Regions
  • Senior Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Adjunct Lecturer, Biological Sciences

Areas of Expertise

  • Transportation Applications Including Road and Bridge Condition Assessment
  • Mapping of Changing Ecosystems
  • Agricultural Remote Sensing
  • Geohazard Evaluation
  • Invasive Species Mapping With a Focus on Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
  • Developing Unmanned Aerial System Capabilities
  • 3D Optical, Multispectral, Thermal, and LiDAR Sensing
  • Decision Support System and App Development
  • Integration of Remote Sensing Technologies Into Sponsor Workflows
  • Research Project Management

Research Interests

  • Aquatic and Landscape Ecology
  • Invasive Species Mapping
  • Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Monitoring
  • Applications of Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Assessment of Transportation Infrastructure Condition Using Remote Sensing
  • Automated Road and Bridge Condition Analysis
  • Multispectral Sensing
  • Development and Deployment of Decision Support Systems
  • Land Cover Change Mapping and Monitoring
  • Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Spatial Analysis
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Remote Sensing
  • Python
  • Data Visualization
  • Ecology and Plant Physiology
  • Statistics

Research Interests

  • Computer Vision
  • Geospatial Algorithm Development and Task Automation
  • Landscape Level Wetland and Fire Ecology
  • Time-Series Analysis
  • Efficiency in Transportation Systems
  • Sensor Fusion
  • Swarm Intelligence
  • Broadly Understanding Processes and Patterns From the Cellular Scale to Global Scale
  • Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Physics Based Modeling
  • Electromagnetic Analysis
  • Signal and Image Processing Techniques

Research Interests

  • Applications in Remote Sensing and Imaging Systems