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Center for Remote Sensing

Center for Remote Sensing

CRS Affiliate Members

CRS affiliate faculty members have expertise in remote sensing, GIS, and AI-enhanced geospatial technologies. Our affiliates include faculty from various disciplines working at the cutting edge of remote sensing, machine learning, geospatial AI, data science, precision agriculture, and hydrology. Members use remote sensing to solve problems in agriculture, irrigation, and natural resources.

Are you a UF member interested in remote sensing research? Become an Affiliate member and join our CRS community! Together, we can harness the power of interdisciplinary remote sensing research to tackle complex state, national, and global challenges in agriculture and natural resources management.  

Membership Benefits

  • Networking Opportunities: We facilitate connections with faculty, practitioners, and students, encouraging collaborations.
  • Interdisciplinary Research Teams: We create interdisciplinary teams that work together on research, extension, and education initiatives using satellite data and GIS.
  • Proposal Development Support: We assist with the development of remote sensing-based research proposals.
  • Funding Opportunities: We help identify funding opportunities and provide members access to a personalized search carefully curated for remote sensing research.
  • Offset Publication costs: We assist with research-related costs* (contingent to an acknowledgment to CRS: “I agree to acknowledge CRS as one of the institutional affiliations if I receive an award.”)
  • Seed Funding: We provide small grants to kick-start pilot projects.
  • Visibility and Impact: We showcase members' research and achievements on our website, amplifying their visibility and impact on our website.
  • Access to Data, Field Observations Reports, and Computational Resources: Members have access to data and geospatial tools for extracting, processing, visualizing, and analyzing satellite data.