About
In 2003 when I (Prof. Moskal) became faculty I made a deliberate decision that I would not call my lab ‘the Moskal Lab’. I wanted to instill the idea that research and science are a collaboration, not owned by an individual, and so the Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory (RSGAL) name was chosen by my first students at Missouri State University (June 2003 – May 2006). Prof. Moskal and RSGAL joined UW in June of 2006. Today, RSGAL is the research partner of the Precision Forestry Cooperative (PFC) in the College of the Environment, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS) at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, Washington. RSGAL co-PIs is Dr. Meghan Halabisky, the lab also houses students from Dr. Van Kane’s Forest Resilience Lab (FRL) and Dr. Susan Prichard’s Fire Landscapes Adaptive Management & Ecology (FLAME) Lab.
SEFS as viewed by ALS by J. Batchelor, RSGAL PhD Student, March 2019
Our Mission
Provide a diverse and research rich environment plus exceptional resources to understand multiscale dynamics of landscape change. RSGAL research promotes a transdisciplinary approach for sustainable management solutions to pressing environmental issues.
We strive to understand the fine details of spatiotemporal resolution of muti-aspect ecosystem processes & functions, through the application of innovative geospatial techniques and datasets.
| We use hyperspatial (<100cm) data including drone 3D, aerial & satellite imagery & MLS/ALS/TLS LiDAR | We use hypertemporal (>100 temporal observations) data including Landsat | We use hyperspectral (>100 spectral observations) including ground, aerial and space-born spectroscopy |
| We fuse these multiple domains of remote sensing resolution whenever appropriate | ||
The University of Washington acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this land, the land which touches the shared waters of all tribes and bands within the Duwamish, Puyallup, Suquamish, Tulalip and Muckleshoot nations.
