Dana Peterson
- Associate Researcher Senior, Kansas Applied Remote Sensing
Contact Info
122 Takeru Higuchi Hall, West Campus
Education —
B.S. in Environmental Studies, University of Kansas, 1996
M.A. in Geography, University of Kansas, 1999
Ph.D. in Geography, University of Kansas, 2019
Research —
Dana specializes in land use/land cover mapping of crop types, grassland types, wetlands and woody encroachment using:
- object-based image analysis (OBIA);
- data fusion;
- hierarchical classifications using multi-temporal and multi-resolution data,
- using a variety of remotely-sensed data (MODIS NDVI time-series, Landsat, NAIP aerial imagery, LiDAR –derived products) and other geospatial datasets.