Forest Aboveground Biomass in the Southwestern U.S. From MISR and GEDI: Assessment with Nasa Carbon Monitoring System Data

NASA carbon monitoring map, land cover breakdown in 2021

Forest Aboveground Biomass in the Southwestern U.S. From MISR and GEDI: Assessment with Nasa Carbon Monitoring System Data

New original study published in Remote Sensing of Environment: Forest Aboveground Biomass in the Southwestern U.S. From MISR and GEDI: Assessment with NASA Carbon Monitoring System Data

January 15, 2026

A Deep Learning Approach for Mapping Shrubs, Wet Tundra and Surface Water in Arctic Tundra with Very High Resolution Satellite Imagery

Ph.D. candidate Darko Radakovic, advised by Dr. Mark Chopping successfully defended his doctoral dissertation

November 21, 2025

Manuscript in review

Radakovic, D., Chopping, M., Cook, B., Varde, A.S., and Robila, S. (2026)

November 20, 2025

Dr. Mark Chopping presents the April 15 Sustainability Seminar

Forest Biomass with the NASA, JPL MISR: Validation with NASA Lidar-Derived Estimates

Dr. Mark Chopping presents a Sustainability Seminar Talk

July 30, 2025

False color composite image: RGB = composited NIR, Red, Green Bidirectional Reflectance Factors Black: missing data, non-land areas. View of US

Two Decades of Changes in Forest Biomass in the Contiguous United States from NASA’s Multiangle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer

Spring 2025 Sabbatical Project Progress for Dr. Mark Chopping

July 30, 2025

AGB Change in 2022 over 2000 in Northern California

Research Presented at Multiple NASA Meetings

July 5, 2023

mapping techniques, using the detection approach

Research Presented at 9th ABoVE Science Meeting (ASTM-9)

Held in San Diego, California, January 23-26, 2023

July 3, 2023

drought map and it's impact on wildfires in those areas

Tracking forest biomass and disturbance with NASA’s MISR

Dr. Mark Chopping, Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies, and colleagues have published NASA-funded research to map aboveground biomass and disturbance in southwestern forests using multi-angle imaging.

April 11, 2022