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Center for Remote Sensing

Center for Remote Sensing

Faculty Advisory Board

The CRS Faculty Advisory Board consists of faculty members with expertise or interest in remote sensing and GIS. It advises the CRS Director on shaping the research agenda, educational programs, and Extension activities.

Members

Amr Abd-Elrahman

Professor

Geomatics
Expertise: Hyperspectral; multispectral VIS/IR; LiDAR, and geospatial modeling LiDAR; GIS; spatial modeling.

Greg Kiker

Professor & Graduate Coordinator

Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Expertise: Model linkage/integration, ecological and risk modeling, environmental decision analysis, Applied AI and data analytics.
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Jane Southworth

Professor & Chair

Geography
Expertise: Remote sensing of vegetation dynamics; time-series analysis, land use, land cover change and land change modeling.
jsouthwo@ufl.edu

Janise McNair

Professor

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Expertise: Next generation computer networking and communications, sensor networks, ad hoc networks.
mcnair@ece.ufl.edu 
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Md Ali Babar

Associate Professor

Agronomy
Expertise: Crop improvement through plant breeding to increase crop productivity in stressful environments; link genomic data with phenotypic variations for plant genetic improvement
mababar@ufl.edu

Norman Fitz-Coy

Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Expertise: Small satellite systems; guidance, navigation and control.

Norman Leppla

Professor

Entomology and Nematology Department
Expertise: Entomology and Integrated Pest Management (IPM).

Paloma Carton De Grammont

Assistant Director

Water Institute
Expertise: Interdisciplinary Team Facilitation & Stakeholder Engagement

Peter Ifju

Excellence Term Professor

Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Expertise: Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for natural resources and agriculture
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Stephanie Bohlman

Professor

School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Science
Expertise: Remote sensing for forest structure and dynamics, carbon and response to climate change using UAV, hyperspectral, LiDAR

Yiannis Ampatzidis

Associate Professor

Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Expertise: Precision Agriculture and Smart Machines
i.ampatzidis@ufl.edu
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