Mr. Chong is a Senior Remote Sensing Developer for Formation Environmental, LLC, and has over 17 years of experience in applying geospatial and remote sensing technology in forestry, ecological, environmental, and agricultural industries. He has extensive experience in processing publicly available Earth-observing satellite imagery such as MODIS, Landsat, and Sentinels, as well as other commercial imagery from GeoEye, SPOT, RapidEye, Pleiades, WorldView, Planet, and UAV LiDAR. As an FAA-certified and VAPOR 55 manufacturer-certified pilot, he led flight missions to acquire RGB (red, green, blue), multispectral, and LiDAR data throughout the state of California. Mr. Chong works with a multi-disciplinary team to apply unique remote sensing skills and tools specific to characterizing terminal playa lakes (e.g., Owens Lake, Salton Sea, Maricunga/South America). Other projects that he has worked on including surface wetness analysis, quantifying vegetation cover, historical dune mapping, estimating evapotranspiration using SEBS/METRIC, underwater soil type mapping using acoustic technology, Owens Lake site compliance monitoring, Salton Sea shoreline monitoring, PCB sediment mapping, snow mapping, multi-temporal vegetative/land feature monitoring, in-season LAI and percent nitrogen modeling for rice, quantifying forest change and crop mapping (grape, walnut, corn, soybean, wheat, sugarcane, palm oil, rice, almond and etc). He is skilled in big-data handling, management, and machine learning analysis across diverse industries. He also has experience with web-mapping applications, particularly with the Esri ArcGIS suite and other software and programming tools including R Statistics, Python, ENVI, ERDAS, Linux Bash Shell Scripting, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Structured Query Language (SQL), Interactive Data Language (IDL), MATLAB, ACORN, GRASS, GDAL, Terrasolid , POSTGRE Database, eCognition, Fragstats, Phenosat and TIMESAT.https://www.skymata.com/blog