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Kenneth McGwire - Associate Professor
Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences
Desert Research Institute
2215 Raggio Parkway Reno, NV 89512
Ken.McGwire@dri.edu
775-673-7324
Research Interests:

Dr. McGwire has extensive experience in mapping, monitoring, and modeling of cultural and environmental systems using remote sensing, geographic information systems, statistical, and modeling techniques. Past research topics have included modeling the potential impacts of climate change on vegetation communities, comparing image data of tropical deforestation to socio-demographic models of colonization, using remote sensing and GIS techniques for habitat analysis, developing original land cover mapping strategies using satellite imagery, characterizing the scale dependence in parameters extracted from satellite imagery, identifying information systems requirements for Earth science research, testing GIS-based approaches to hazardous waste site management, developing artificial intelligence interface capabilities for environmental analysis software, and field testing and evaluating prototype imaging sensors. Dr. McGwire is currently working on grants from NASA, NSF, and NIH to test new hyperspectral satellite imaging systems, to develop internet-accessible databases of three-dimensional representations of fossil specimens, and modeling the spatial dynamics of hantavirus.

Research topics:
Remote Sensing
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