Dean Kafatos recently published paper in the journal Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing

Schmid College of Science Founding Dean, Menas Kafatos, has also had a paper accepted for publication in the refereed science journal Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. The paper, titled "Evaluation for Damaged Degree of Vegetation by Forest Fire using LiDAR and Digital Aerial Photograph," examines using Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) data combined with photography to evaluate the degree of damage to trees caused by forest fires and the vitality of trees that survive the fire. This new methodology and results combining active and passive remote sensing was applied to the major fires in the Yangyang-Gun region of South Korea, which occurred on April 5, 2005. The paper is co-authored with D-A. Kwak, and W-K. Lee of the Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea; J. Chung, Dept. of Natural Resources Management and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Ct; S-Y. Lee, Professional Graduate School of Disaster Prevention Technology, Kangwon National University, Samcheok, Korea; and H-K. Cho and S-H. Lee, Department of Forest Resource Information, Korea Forest Research Institute, Seoul, Korea.