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Dr. Victor Rodriguez-Galiano, visiting scientist.
We are happy to welcome Dr. Victor Rodriguez-Galiano from the Department of Physical Geography, Universidad de Sevilla as a visiting scientist to our group during fall, 2019. Victor is a faculty member at the Universidad de Sevilla with extensive experience in remote sensing, land surface phenology, and machine learning. He will be collaborating with the […]
Welcome Kai-Ting!
As we start the new year, we are excited to welcome Kai-Ting Hu, a new Ph.D. student from Taiwan, into the LCSC family! Kai-Ting’s background is in physical geography and forest ecosystem science, and she is planning to work on topics related to forests, disturbance, and climate change for her dissertation research. Welcome Kai-Ting – […]
Summer Meetings and Activities
Summer continues to be a busy time for the LCSC team. Among other activities, PhD Student Minkyu Moon is currently in Korea, where he is giving 7 (!) invited talks in 3 weeks: Two at Seoul National University, with additional talks at Kangwon National University, Yonsei University, Chungnam National University, the National Institute of Forest […]
Jon Wang successfully defends his dissertation!
After six years in the LCSC group at Boston University, Jon defended his dissertation, which is entitled “Interactions Among Land Cover, Disturbance, and Productivity Across Arctic-Boreal Ecosystems of Northwestern North America from Remote Sensing” on May 28. Jon gave a great presentation, followed by a lively question and answer period. Jon is moving to the […]
Jon Wang to present at ABoVE Science Team Meeting
PhD Candidate Jon Wang will present a poster at the ABoVE Science Team Meeting, taking place in La Jolla, CA from May 20th to the 23rd. His poster is titled: “Landsat-based Land Cover Change and its implications for Greening and Aboveground Biomass changes across the ABoVE Core Domain.” The talk will showcase recent work from […]
LCSC presentations at Living Planet Symposium in May 2019
Mark Friedl (PI), Doug Bolton (Postdoc), and LCSC alumnus, Josh Gray, will present their research at the European Space Agency’s Living Planet Symposium in Milan, Italy. All three speakers will present updates from the Multi-Source Land Imaging (MuSLI) project funded by NASA’s Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Program. Mark Friedl Session: Multi-Source Data for Next Generation Land Monitoring […]
Radost Stanimirova and Jordan Graesser will present at Global Land Programme Open Science Meeting
Radost Stanimirova, PhD candidate, and Jordan Graesser, LCSC alum, will present at the upcoming Global Land Programme Open Science Meeting in Bern, Switzerland. On Thursday April 25th, Jordan will give a talk titled “Commodity crops and frontier agricultural dynamics in central South America.” Radost will present a poster on Wednesday April 24th titled “Mapping pasture […]
Minkyu Moon publishes in Remote Sensing of Environment
PhD candidate Minkyu Moon and LCSC PI Mark Friedl just published an article in Remote Sensing of Environment titled: “Long-term continuity in land surface phenology measurements: A comparative assessment of the MODIS land cover dynamics and VIIRS land surface phenology products.” There is a lot of demand for a long-term record in land surface phenology […]
Eli Melaas joined Indigo Ag
Congratulations to Eli Melaas, a longtime LCSC researcher, who joined Indigo Ag as a Remote Sensing Data Scientist. At Indigo Ag, Eli is a part of the GeoInnovation team, creating infrastructure and understanding directed toward creating a living map of the world’s food supply.
LCSC at LCLUC Science Team Meeting in April 2019
Members of LCSC group will travel down to Rockville, Maryland in early April to present project updates at the 2019 NASA Land Cover and Land Use Change (LCLUC) spring science team meeting. Doug Bolton, a post-doctoral research associate, will present results from the Multi-Source Land Imaging (MuSLI) component of the LCLUC Program. His talk is […]