Moskal, Ludmila

Dr. L. Monika Moskal is an Assistant Professor of Remote Sensing at the University of Washington (UW), College of the Environment, School of Forest Resources (SFR), where she directs the Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory(RSGAL) founded by her in 2003. She is one of the core faculty in the UW Precision Forestry Cooperative and is affiliated with the UW BioEnergy IGERT. She is also the Faculty Advisor for the UW-Geospatial Technology Club & Puget Sound American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Student Chapter, the President of the ASPRS Puget Sound Region and past President ('05-'06) of ASPRS - Central Region (Vice-President '04).

Dr. Moskal's and her RSGAL's research goal is to understand multiscale and multidimensional dynamics of landscape change through the application of remote sensing, GIS and geospatial tools. The lab develops tools necessary to analyze hyper-resolution remotely sensed data by exploiting spatial, temporal and spectral capabilities of the data. RSGAL work focuses on the application of high spatial resolution remote sensing (LiDAR, imagery) to investigate vegetation structure, specifically the utilization of leaf area index in heterogeneous canopies. Other RSGAL research themes involve multi resolution and multi sensor data fusion, spatiotemporal object-based image analysis and geovisualization techniques to communicate research results. Our research has been applied to the following themes: ecosystem services and function, bioenergy/biomass, forest inventories, forest health, change analysis, biodiversity, habitat mapping, spatiotemporal wetland assessment, geostatistical analysis of prairie vegetation communities, urban growth and forest fragmentation.

She received her BS in Environmental Studies (1996) from the University of Waterloo (1996), her MS in Remote Sensing and GIS from the University of Calgary (2000) and her PhD in Remote Sensing and GIS from the University of Kansas (2005) where her research focused on spatiotemporal modeling of post-disturbance forest regeneration in the Yellowstone region.