DEES faculty include a number of people using remote sensing and GIS to address a wide range of environmental questions and, as a result, work across all divisions at DRI. These questions include changes in vegetation, hydrology, and land use in response to environmental change and land use, detection of potential locations for exploration of geothermal energy, dating of ice cores, and detection of buried improvised explosive devices (IED’s). To conduct this research scientists use a wide range of state-of-the-art techniques including Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), field spectrometers, and satellite images often in combination with advanced 3-D visualization techniques.

DEES research projects related to "Remote Sensing/GIS/Visualization" are listed below.

• Assessing the Envelope of Interannual Variation in Vegetation (Fenstermaker)
• Investigation of the Stratigraphy and Time Scale of the WAIS Divide Ice Core Using Electrical Methods (McGwire)
• Collaborative Research: Establishing the Chronology and Histories of Accumulation and Ice Dynamics for the WAIS Divide Core (McGwire)
• Quantitative Spectral Characterization of Background Spectra using full Spectrum Hyperspectral Image Data (Sabol, Kratt, Minor)
• Characterizing Structural Controls of EGS-Candidate and Conventional Geothermal Reservoirs in the Great Basin (Kratt)
• Alternative Futures at the Range Complex Level: Southwest United States (Mouat)
• Soil Moisture Determination for Ecosystem, Precipitation and Hydrological Modeling (Fenstermaker)
• Updated Estimation of Annual Phreatophytic Evapotranspiration for White River, Spring, and Snake Valleys (Fenstermaker, Jasoni)
• Light Detection and Ranging in the Walker Basin (Minor)
• Characterization of Periphyton and Macronutrients in the South Fork of the Humboldt River and Limnological Assessment of the South Fork Reservoir, NV (McGwire)