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Welcome!

I am excited to share with you what my students, department, and I are up to in the Department of Geography at Binghamton University (State University of New York). I am a broadly-trained geographer that specializes in geospatial tools and techniques including geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing (including use of unoccupied aircraft systems--UAS and light detection and ranging--lidar), and the global positioning system (GPS).

AGU
Fall Meeting

12.2023
East Lakes AAG
Annual Meeting
10.2023

UPCOMING EVENTS

AAG
Annual Meeting

04.2024

EXAMPLE WORKS

Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are rapidly being adopted by geographers and GIScientists as a flexible and relatively convenient means by which to capture very high spatial and temporal resolution data. My colleague, Amy Frazier, and I composed the new 'UAS' topic in the second iteration of the Geographic Information Science & Technology (GIS&T) Body of Knowledge (BoK). This contribution provides a brief yet comprehensive background into UAS and UAS-collected data and processing methodologies, as well as how this content can be incorporated into the classroom. The BoK entry is freely available online.

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Land use/land cover (and change) remote sensing analyses have long been restricted to two-dimensional datasets and evaluations (e.g., namely, satellite imagery) due to the expense (and therefore lack of coverage) of three-dimensional data such as light detection and ranging (lidar). By comparing spaceborne radar data (QuikSCAT) to airborne lidar over nine U.S. cities, this work confirmed that radar (processed using the Dense Sampling Method) correlates directly with lidar-derived building volume. This is an exciting finding for future LULC analyses in 3D.

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