Mark Friedl

Chairman, Department of Geography and Environment

Professor, Department of Geography and Environment

PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1993

Research interests: My research interests focus on the use of remote sensing for applications in land surface climatology. Such application include the modeling and analysis of surface radiation and energy balance, and the development of surface parameterization schemes within climate models. I also conduct research in quantitative methods and geographic information systems for the analysis of geophysical and natural systems.

Office: Stone Science (STO) 457C

Phone: 617-353-5745

Fax: 617-353-8399

E-mail: friedl@crsa.bu.edu

Address: Department of Geography
675 Commonwealth Avenue, 4th Floor
Boston, MA 02215, USA

 

Current Research

Modeling Fluxes of Radiation and Heat Over Heterogeneous Land Surfaces: Parameterization of Spatial Heterogeneity in Vegetation for Studies of Land Surface-Atmosphere Interaction. Mark Friedl, Principal Investigator; $170,000 for period 09/01/98-/08/31/01. NASA/NSF-/DOE/USDA/NOAA Joint Program On Terrestrial Ecology and Global Change (TECO).

A Simple Model for Land Surface Parameterization and Modeling. Mark Friedl, Principal Investigator; $80,693 for period 15/06/98-31/12/99. National Science Foundation: Hydrologic Sciences.

Geometric-Optical Modeling of Directional Thermal Radiance for Improvement of Land Surface Temperature Retrievals from MODIS, ASTER and Landsat-7 Instruments. Xiaowen Li, Principal Investigator, M.A. Friedl and A.H. Strahler, Co-Investigators, $300,236 for period 05/01/98-04/30/01. National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Terrestrial Ecology Program.

Algorithm Development for NPOESS. Crystal Schaaf, Principal Investigator; M. Friedl, J. Key, A. Strahler and C. Woodcock Co-Principal Investigators. $606,450 for period 9/22/97 to 1/30/00; subcontract from Atmospheric and Environment Research, Inc., Cambridge, MA.

Machine Learning to Improve Land Cover Classifications from Multisensor and Multitemporal Data. Mark Friedl Principal Investigator; $84,433 for period 05/01/98-04/30/01. National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Terrestrial Ecology Program (In collaboration with Ruth DeFries (UMD) and Carla Brodley (Purdue); $473,695 project total).

Center for Excellence in Remote Sensing at Boston University. Curtis Woodcock, Principal Investigator; F. El-Baz, C. Cleveland, M. Friedl, S. Gopal, R. Kaufmann, J. Key, D. Dye, R. Myneni, G. Salvucci, and A. Strahler, Co-Investigators. $444,310 for period 01/01/98-12/31/99. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Quantification of Uncertainty in Spatial Data for Ecological Applications. C. Hunsaker, Principal Investigator; C. Ehlschlaeger, T. Case, M. Friedl, M. Goodchild, and P. Stine, Co-Investigators; $127,450 for period 01/06/96-31/05/99; National Science Foundation (through the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis).

Courses Taught

GE 101 Natural Environments: The Atmosphere
GE 104 Natural Environments:The Physical Landscape
GE 503 Micrometeorology: Energy and Mass Transfer at the Earth's Surface
GE 565 Environmental Analysis and Modeling using GIS

Selected Publications

•Friedl, M.A. and F.W. Davis. 1994: Sources of variation in radiometric surface temperature over a tallgrass prairie, Remote Sensing of Environment, 48(1): 1-17.
•McGwire, K.C., Friedl, M.A. and J.E. Estes 1993: Spatial structure, sampling design, and scale in remotely sensed imagery of a savanna woodland, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 14 (11): 2137-2164.
•Davis, F.W., Schimel, D.S., Friedl, M.A., Michaelsen, J.C., Kittel, T.G.F., Dubayah, R. and J. Dozier. 1992: Correspondence of surface climate variables and digital terrain data over a tall grass prairie, Journal of Geophysical Research, 97(D17): 19,009-19,021