Director, Spatial Sciences Center -- Professor of Remote Sensing

Rick L. Lawrence

Current Research

Monitoring agricultural practices affecting soil carbon storage using satellite remote sensing.

Development and implementation of MontanaView program.

Mapping of saltcedar in Montana and analysis of expansion patterns over time.

Mapping distribution of whitebark pine, important to grizzly bear habitat, throughout the Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Mapping Yellowstone thermal features, mapping feature change over time, analyzing change patterns.

Big Sky Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership PHASE II

Mapping Whitebark Pine Distribution

Analysis of Saltcedar Expansion Patterns

State View Program for the State of Montana

Change Detection of Yellowstone Radiative Thermal Flux

AgCam Science Applications Team

Development of moderate resolution agricultural remote sensing applications for crop and range land.

Invasive species mapping with hyperspectral deep time series data

Use of multiple dates of hyperspectral imagery throughout the growing season to map invasive species.