Remote Sensing Lab at Saint Louis University

The lab focuses on environmental impacts of land cover and land use (LCLU) and climate change, with particular attention to water resources and agriculture. We develop algorithms to characterize the changes to Earth's land cover and integrate remote sensing observations with model-based approaches to understand the impacts of climate and land use changes on the water and energy cycles and ecosystems from local to global scales. The lab is interested in developing new methods that improve the information content of satellite data for improved LCLU mapping. To this end, we use multispectral, hyperspectral, and active microwave (SAR/PolInSAR/InSAR) and field observations to map crops, invasive plants, minerals and InSAR data to monitor land subsidence from anthropogenic activities, which are unified by a central theme: monitoring the impacts of climate and land-use changes on the environment using remote sensing and GIS as the primary tool.