About Me

I am a Master’s candidate studying the use of remote sensing for natural resource applications, from invasive species management to landscape change - incorporating image segmentation, classification, and machine learning. As a Graduate Research Assistant at the Polar Geospatial Center, I work both independently and collaboratively to perform geospatial analyses, create static and dynamic map products, automate workflows, and develop custom GIS solutions.

I am well-versed in the use of both proprietary and open-source tools to accomplish a range of GIS tasks. Building solutions to complex problems, whether by bringing together a number of existing tools to create something new, or starting from scratch, is what I am passionate about.

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Selected Projects

Planet - Satellite Imagery Searching to Archiving Pipeline

Complete pipeline for the selection, ordering, downloading, and archiving of Planet satellite imagery for the purpose of stereoscopic digital elevation model creation. Candidate imagery footprints are located using Planet’s Data API based on location, date of collection, and acquisition metadata. Footprints are stored and analyzed using PostgreSQL/PostGIS. Suitable imagery is ordered using Planet’s Orders API via Amazon AWS. Ordered imagery is downloaded from AWS to a local file server, where it is ingested, indexed in a PostGIS table and archived. Imagery can then be retrieved from it’s archived location using a command line tool.
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Imagery Selection for Coastline Mapping

An imagery selection workflow for Polar coastline mapping incorporating sample daily sea ice maps to determine the suitability of satellite imagery for use with a coastline mapping algorithm.
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Polar Geospatial Center - Visualizations

Visualizations made for the Polar Geospatial Center.

BWCAW Permit Map (in progress)

A Leaflet web map displaying the locations of Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness entry points, campsites, and portages. Development is in progress, with the goal of added real-time permit availability for each entry point. Permit availability web-scrapping from recreation.gov is functional, but needs to be connected to the web map.
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DEM Processing Tools

Tools for working with DEMs and creating derivatives.
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Object-Based-Images-Analysis: Phragmites-Australis

ArcGIS Online Story Map detailing a project using UAS imagery to map the invasive wetland species phragmites-australis, using an object-based-image-analysis workflow.

Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters

Maps created in support of the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters.

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