{"id":3245,"date":"2021-06-07T09:39:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T13:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/remotesensing\/?page_id=3245"},"modified":"2025-05-27T09:55:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T13:55:38","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/remotesensing\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Foci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research in the Center for Remote Sensing focuses on three core domains of the Earth system: <em>terrestrial systems, marine systems, and the atmosphere<\/em>.\u00a0 We use data and imagery from multiple sources to characterize and model the properties and dynamics of each domain, at spatial scales that range from individual field plots to the entire planet.<\/p>\n<h4>Terrestrial Remote Sensing<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/profiles\/mark-friedl\/\"><\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/profiles\/mark-friedl\/\">Mark Friedl<\/a> \u2013 <em>land surface climatology, global land cover dynamics, land surface phenology<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/profiles\/ranga-myneni\/\">Ranga Myneni<\/a> \u2013 v<em>egetation remote sensing and climate-vegetation interactions<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/profiles\/valerie-pasquarella\/\">Valerie Pasquarella<\/a> \u2013 <em>remote sensing and ecology, mapping and monitoring of landscape dynamics<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/profiles\/curtis-e-woodcock\/\">Curtis Woodcock<\/a> \u2013 <em>remote sensing of land cover and land cover change, terrestrial carbon dynamics<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/profiles\/paulo-arevalo\/\">Paulo Arevalo<\/a> &#8211; <em>remote sensing of land cover, land use change, fire disturbance, and forest carbon emissions.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Marine and Atmospheric Remote Sensing<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/profiles\/cedric-g-fichot\/\">C\u00e9dric Fichot<\/a> \u2013 <em>marine optics,\u00a0 coastal and estuarine biogeochemistry, photochemistry, water quality<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/develop.larc.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/profiles\/jeffrey-geddes\/\">Jeffrey Geddes<\/a> \u2013 <em>remote sensing<\/em> of <em>atmospheric chemistry, air quality<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, please follow the links to pages describing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/remotesensing\/research\/\"><strong><em>research<\/em><\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/remotesensing\/academics\/\"><strong><em>academic<\/em><\/strong><\/a> programs in the center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research in the Center for Remote Sensing focuses on three core domains of the Earth system: terrestrial systems, marine systems, and the atmosphere.\u00a0 We use data and imagery from multiple sources to characterize and model the properties and dynamics of each domain, at spatial scales that range from individual field plots to the entire planet. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15163,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/remotesensing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/remotesensing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/remotesensing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/remotesensing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/remotesensing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/remotesensing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3684,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/remotesensing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3245\/revisions\/3684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/remotesensing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}