Postdoctoral Position in the Terrestrial Laser Scanning of Forests The Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory (https://naes.unr.edu/gears/) in the department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science at the University of Nevada, Reno, is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Terrestrial Laser Scanning of Forests with an immediate start date. The researcher will be part of a large, collaborative project with researchers from the University of Maryland, College Park, University of Edinburgh, the USDA Forest Service, and NASA JPL. The project's goal is to analyze changes in the structure of forests across the Sierra Nevada Mountains using a variety of remote sensing data and techniques including data derived from terrestrial laser scanning (TLS), airborne LiDAR, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery. TLS, in particular, provides one of the most detailed measures of forest structure and change and can be used as the gold standard for testing larger scale measures and improving our understanding of forest processes. However, in the past, TLS has typically been collected and analyzed over a very limited number of sites. Our project covers nearly 150 individual sites across large climatic, diversity, and disturbance gradients. These measurements and analyses will allow a deeper understanding of fine scale changes in biomass accumulation and loss, particularly as it relates to fuels and fires. The postdoctoral researcher's primary responsibilities will be to develop and implement algorithms and processing chains for extracting various forest metrics from TLS point clouds in a high performance computing (HPC) environment using e.g. QSM and voxel approaches.
Job requirements: a PhD in remote sensing, computer vision, computer science, engineering, physics, or a related geotechnologies field; experience with TLS applications for forestry; Linux operating systems; at least 2 years of programming. To apply: Applicants should send an email to Dr. Jonathan Greenberg (jgreenb...@unr.edu<mailto:jgreenb...@unr.edu>) with the subject line "TLS Postdoc" with a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and contact information for at least three professional references. Applications will be accepted until a suitable candidate is found. Salary will be commensurate with the applicant's qualifications. -- -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Randall Endowed Professor and Associate Professor of Remote Sensing Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory Natural Resources & Environmental Science University of Nevada, Reno 1664 N Virginia St MS/0186 Reno, NV 89557 Phone: 415-763-5476 http://www.unr.edu/nres Gchat: jgrn...@gmail.com<mailto:jgrn...@gmail.com>, Skype: jgrn3007
