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New Mexico State University

Department of Geography

Dr. Andrea S. Laliberte,

Adjunct Professor

Phone # (575) 646-4144

Office: Wooton Hall 154, Breland Hall 114 (class office hours)

E-mail: alaliber@nmsu.edu

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EDUCATION:

  • Ph.D. Forest Resources, Oregon State University, 2003
  • M.S. Rangeland Resources, Oregon State University, Rangeland Resources, 2000
  • B.S. Natural Resource Science, University College of the Cariboo (now Thomson River University), 1997

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Remote sensing, GIS, use of unmanned aerial vehicles for rangeland monitoring, landscape ecology, rangeland ecology/management/modeling, human impacts on ecological pattern and process

CURRENT AND PAST RESEARCH PROJECTS:

  • Develop workflow for acquisition, processing and analysis of very high-resolution images acquired with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
  • Rangeland remote sensing research with high-resolution satellite imagery and aerial photography for mapping vegetation in arid ecosystems at multiple scales.
  • Remote sensing procedures for scaling rangeland monitoring from plot to landscape level scale.
  • Develop object-oriented, hierarchical image analysis techniques for mapping rangeland vegetation.

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