Research

Wildfire management depends on numbers that are expensive to measure: the biomass in a slash pile, the shrub cover across a landscape, the distance an ember travels. These are usually estimated by hand, with wide error bars. My work looks at how much of that gap 3D measurement can close, and how to tell whether it has.

The projects below share a concern with field validation. A point cloud is easy to produce and hard to trust, so most of the effort goes into checking reconstructed geometry against quantities that were measured some other way.