Research

Earth System Change with Remote and Field Data

Top: Imaging spectroscopy of oak trees at Sedgwick Reserve, California. Bottom left: An approaching haboob in Morocco (photo credit: Martina Klose). Bottom right: Measuring mudcracks with an ASD spectrometer while studying the mineralogy of dust in Morocco.

Earth's climate is changing, and remote sensing provides a way to assess how vegetation and Earth's dynamic systems are responding. We are involved with missions and use new technologies for these investigations. Current projects include:

• Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
• FRAGMENT (FRontiers in dust minerAloGical coMposition and its Effects upoN climaTe)
• Seasonal ground-based imaging spectroscopy measurements of vegetation change in California's unique ecosystem