Research Foci

Research in the Center for Remote Sensing focuses on three core domains of the Earth system: terrestrial systems, marine systems, and the atmosphere.  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.

Terrestrial Remote Sensing

• Alessandro Baccini – remote sensing of forests; large-scale carbon dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems
• Mark Friedl – land surface climatology, global land cover dynamics, land surface phenology
• Yuri Knyazikhin – passive and active remote sensing of vegetation
• Ranga Myneni – vegetation remote sensing and climate-vegetation interactions
• Valerie Pasquarella – remote sensing and ecology, mapping and monitoring of landscape dynamics
• Curtis Woodcock – remote sensing of land cover and land cover change, terrestrial carbon dynamics

Marine and Atmospheric Remote Sensing

• Cédric Fichot – marine optics,  coastal and estuarine biogeochemistry, photochemistry, water quality
• Jeffrey Geddes – remote sensing of atmospheric chemistry, air quality
  
• Magaly Koch – coastal systems, groundwater resources, and arid land change

For more information, please follow links to pages describing research and academic programs in the center.