Current Projects
Our group is currently working on a number of different project funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the USGS. Current project titles and participants are listed below:
Strengthening GEDI algorithms through improved stratification and quality filtering. James Kellner (Principal Investigator), Mark Friedl and Paulo Arevalo (co-investigators). $112,77 for period 4/1/2024-3/31/20227, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Using High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Commercial Imagery to Map Shrub Cover in the Tundra Biome, Mark Friedl, Principal Investigator, Jonathan Wang and Minkyu Moon, Co-Investigators. $353,116 for period 10/1/2023-931/30/2025, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Coupling remote sensing imagery and numerical models to quantify the resilience of coastal marshes to climate change, Sergio Fagherazzi, principal investigator, Mark Friedl, Cedric Fichot, and Marc Simard, co-investigators. $962,075 for period 1/1/2023-12/31/2025. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Quantifying Disturbance and Global Change Impacts on Multi-decadal Trends in Aboveground Biomass and Land Cover across Arctic-boreal North America, Jonathan A. Wang (Principal Investigator), James T. Randerson, Mark Friedl and Michael Goulden (co-Investigators). National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Long-Term Changes and Variability in Global Ecosystem Phenology From MODIS, Mark Friedl, Principal Investigator, Josh Gray, Co-Investigator, Andrew Richardson, Collaborator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
A Moderate Spatial Resolution Data Record of 21st Century Global Land Cover, Land Use, and Land Cover Change, Mark Friedl, Principal Investigator, Curtis Woodcock, Pontus Olofsson and Tom Loveland, Co-Investigators, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This is a five year project funded by the NASA’s MEaSUREs program.