Research

This page contains a set of links for remote-sensing related research, with a particular focus on activities in Michigan.

Michigan Technological University / Michigan Tech Research Institute

• Great Lakes Productivity Estimates from SeaWIFS and MODIS Satellite Observations
• Multi-temporal and Multi-platform Agricultural Land Cover Classification in Southeastern Michigan
• Improving the Prediction of Wildfire Potential in Boreal Alaska with Satellite Imaging Radar
• Development of decision products for spatial quantification of carbon emissions from wildfires for North America
• Mapping and Monitoring Coastal Land Cover / Land Use, Wetlands and Invasive Species
• Transportation Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS (overview poster)
  • National Consortium for Remote Sensing in Transportation Streamlining Environmental and Planning Processes (USDOT RITA program)
  • CRESTA: Consortium on Remote Sensing of Freight Flows in Congested Border Crossings and Work Zones (USDOT RITA program)

Michigan Technological University / Michigan Tech Remote Sensing Institute (RSI)

• Great Lakes ecosystem
• atmospheric chemistry
• applications in forestry, geology, geophysics, electrical engineering, biomedical imaging
• hyperspectral remote sensing
• signal processing
• image analysis
• astronomy, astrophysics, radio astronomy
• optical instrument design and fabrication
• satellite limnology
• volcanology

University of Michigan / Environmental Spatial Analysis Laboratory

• Land Use and Vulnerability to Flooding at Poyang Lake, Jiangxi Province, China (2005-2008)
• Program in Human and Environmental Systems Interactions (2005-2008)
• Predicting Black Bear Habitat in Michigan's Lower Peninsula (2006-2007)
• Spatial Neighborhood Analyses in Support of Understanding Health Risks (2003-2009)
• Project SLUCE: Spatial Land Use Change and Ecological Effects at the Rural-Urban Interface: Agent-Based Modeling and Evaluation of Alternative Policies and Interventions (2001-2007)
• Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Upper Midwest (on-going)

• Research on Process and Pattern at Alpine Treeline
• Modeling Siberian Boreal Forest Land-Cover Land-Use Change and Carbon under Changing Economic Paradigms
• Landscape Change in the Upper Midwest
• Aspen Ecosystem Dynamics
• Influence of Humans, Climate, and Fire on Forest Ecosystems and Carbon Dynamics in Indonesian Borneo

Michigan Department of Information Technology / Center for Geographic Information*

• Geographic Framework Program
• MI Global Positioning System CORS Network
• Remonumentation Initiative
• Source Water Assessment Program