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Monitoring today's environmental challenges and learning about environmental change on the landscape level requires massive inter-related databases and cost-effective solutions to data acquisition and interpretation. Research in conservation biology also stresses the importance of environmental heterogeneity and patchiness or fragmentation in the longevity of ecosystems and sustainability of biodiversity. Remote sensing and geographic information systems have been developed over the past several decades to address these applied science needs. DEES faculty use spatial modeling techniques to develop predictive future landscape scenarios for land use and environmental planning in broad ecoregions such as the Mojave Desert, or the spread of Hanta virus through rodent populations in the Great Basin. We employ remote-sensing mixed-model techniques to discriminate archaeological sites, vegetation composition and condition, and disturbance patterns. Our Spatial Analysis facilities have full GIS capabilities. We are developing integrated geological and paleoenvironmental databases for the Great Basin, and are using digital imaging technology to create virtual paleontological and archaeological collections accessible to anyone with a computer.
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Remote Sensing and Landscape Modeling:
Geological Research
Remote Sensing and Landscape Modeling