August 30, 2018
Prof. Matt Hansen lecture @ GeoHack Week 2019
PFC/RSGAL will be attending the public lecture on September 11 featuring Matt Hansen, author of “High-resolution global maps of 21st-century forest cover change,” University of Maryland professor and co-director for Global Land Analysis and Discovery. You can also find more information about Geohack week at https://geohackweek.github.io Reception for Matt is at 4:30-5PM in the SEFS…
August 23, 2018
Work for Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation Lidar (GEDI)
https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/62730
August 19, 2018
SSAFR 2019
Join the PFC March 2019 at the next SSAFR conference in Puerto Varas, Chile. http://www.ssafr2019.cl/13/default/inicio
August 15, 2018
Lidar Selfie/Groupie
I think my concept of a ‘lidar selfie’ or in this case groupie is taking off! The @ubcMGEM students got an amazing intro to #lidar technology today by taking a lidar selfie with visiting scientist @lmmoskal! #fieldschool2018 https://t.co/7kmVtRtwZM — UBC MGEM (@ubcMGEM) August 15, 2018
August 14, 2018
Aug. 17 – PFC/RSGAL Visiting Student Presentations
Please join the PFC for 2 visiting student presentations summarizing their summer work at PFC/RSGAL: 1. Ivan Barton has spent the summer with the PFC working on forest type detection on Sentinel-2 imagery, he is a PhD Candidate from Sapron University in Hungary. 2. Snahal More is a MSc…
July 13, 2018
Got Lidar? WE DO!!!
Summer update: PFC/RSGAL collection of terrestrial lidar scanners (TLS) is growing, we own three of these and one (SICK lidar) belongs to Dr.Akira Kato(PFC/RSGAL alumni) who is on a year long sabbatical with us from Chiba University. From left to right, Jonathan Batchelor, the lidar wizard and PhD student (yes he can operate all of…
May 30, 2018
RSGAL Group Photo 2018
Droen photos from the 2018 Celebration, NIR False Color composite will be posted soon…
May 24, 2018
May 31st – RSGAL Gavin Forster presenting @ SEFS Capstone Symposium
If you missed Gavin’s presentations at the 21st Annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium, you have one more chance at the SEFS Capstone Symposium. Mapping Landslides on Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest with New LiDAR-based Contour Connection Method Landslides are frequent hazards along the west side of the Cascade Mountains that result in major economic, environmental, and…
May 23, 2018
Congratulations to UW/PFC/RSGAL 2 newly minted MSc — defense videos available here!
May 21st, 2018 Caileigh Shoot successfully defended her MSc work entitled: Classifying FIA Forest Type from a Fusion of Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data In this study we develop a methodology for classifying United States Forest Service (USFS) Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) defined forest type across the Tanana Inventory Unit (TIU) using a fusion of hyperspectral…
May 22, 2018
May 24th RSGAL Dr. Meghan Halabisky’s talk at WAURISA
Semi-automated, remote sensing based approach for updating the National Wetland Inventory in Washington State n Washington State, the existing statewide wetland maps (National Wetland Inventory [NWI] maps) are out of date and inaccurate in many locations. These errors of omission have been recorded to be as high as 50% in some areas, and may be…
