Link to Dr. Moskal's research lab - Remote Sensing & Geospatial Analysis Laboratory

Current and Past Research Projects

• Spatial Analysis of Recreational Impacts in Mount Rainier National Park
• Mapping Footprints of Urban Natural Resources Stewardship
• Terrestrial LiDAR for above ground biomass estimation
• Aerial full waveform LiDAR for urban forest above ground biomass and species identification
• Spatiotemporal hetrogeneity of Wetlands
• Development of a LiDAR-driven forest inventory protocol
• Leaf Area Index (LAI) from aerial & terrestrial LiDAR
• Estimating forest susceptibility to Pine Bark Beetle in Eastern WA
• Forest fire modeling variable estimation with LiDAR
• Invasive species mapping with hyperspectral & hyperspatial remote sensing
• Biomass estimation from remote sensing for bioenergy
• Classification & prediction of impervious surfaces
• Eastern cedar encroachment in the Ozarks
• Urban expansion & forest fragmentation in the Ozarks
• Missouri State University Virtual Arboretum
• Forest Cover Change Visualization Project
• Interactive Cave Animation, Visualization and Exploration (iCAVE)
• Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Forest Inventory of Historical Trees
• James River Basin Partnership Forest Cover Change Mapping Project
• Pipestone National Park GIS mapping of park infrastructure
• Geostatistical analysis of avian & vegetation community data in the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Course-based Projects

• Landscape Modeling and Geovisualization
• Digital Photogrammetry & GIS

Funding Sources & Support

NSF, NASA, USDA Forest Service and the PNW Research Station, National Park Service, The Nature Conservancy, Department of Natural Resources, Missouri Department of Conservation, James River Basin Partnership, Ozarks Environmental Water Resources Institute (OEWRI), Ministry of Natural Resources, Canadian Forest Service, Canadian National Science & Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the International Development Research Center (IDRC), RadarSAT International, PCI Geomatics Group, Visual Learning Systems, Itres Ltd., TerraMetric, TerraPoint, Leica, Aero-Metric & Western Air Maps.