Dana Peterson

Dana Peterson
  • Assistant Research Professor, Kansas Applied Remote Sensing

Contact Info

122 Takeru Higuchi Hall, West Campus
Lawrence

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.

Awards & Honors —

The William T PECORA Award. Department of Interior and NASA. Received: 10-27-2022.