Henebry new co-director at SDSU’s Geographic Information Science Center

Geoff Henebry

BROOKINGS – Enter your address into Google Earth and you’ll bring up the most recent satellite image of your neighborhood, and you maybe even see your car sitting in the driveway. Now imagine if you had been able to do that every few months for the past 20 years and recorded the appearance of a field in a neighborhood park or nearby farm. What could that tell you about changes in the growing season or cropping patterns?

Scientists at the Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence at South Dakota State University study long series of satellite images to understand how things grow and change at a range of scales from landscape to region to globe.

Geoff Henebry, the center’s new co-director, aims to advance its research, education, and outreach involving the use of advanced technologies with an eye to improving long-range planning and natural resource management. 



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