Satellite images provide a wonderful record of the last fifty years of global change. We have pioneered new methods to map wildlife habitat and proxies for biodiversity and habitat, as well as agricultural abandonment and other types of land use change for large areas. We analyze MODIS/VIIRS data across the globe, Landsat and Sentinel-2 across continents, and high-resolution CORONA spy satellite imagery across countries.
What are the underlying drivers of land degradation in the Caucasus Mountains? Katarzyna Ewa Lewinska hopes to sort out part of this complex problem through remote sensing-based analysis.
What happens to croplands/forests during political instability? Johanna Buchner’s work in the Caucasus shows that change is dependent on local conditions, and not similar across broad scales.
Hawks are colonizing and persisting in Chicago. Sofia Kozidis is studying the pattern of hawk occupancy in many other urban areas.
Laura Farwell is using image texture measures as powerful predictors of regional and global biodiversity patterns.
Elena Razenkova found that remote measures of productivity like DHI can help explain moose abundance over the last 3 decades.
He Yin wants to increase precision in quantifying land abandonment across a diversity of biomes and complex crop systems.
