MontanaView

Supporting Remote Sensing for Montana

MontanaView is a consortiumof universities, non-profit organizations, and government agencies working within Montana to advance the use of remotely sensed data for the benefit of Montana's citizens. MontanaView is a member of the AmericaView nationwide remote sensing consortium.

Goals

• To advance remote sensing through education and outreach in the public and private sectors.
• To advance remote sensing and sustainable technology transfer through research.

Announcements

• UAS Story Map: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/efc33add7bf34b3d85e9f23896cd2b15

• Manuals for remote sensing image analysis:

  • Python
  • R
• Congratulations to Rick Lawrence - among the recipients of the first AmericaView Lifetime Achievement Award!
  • Link to news article: https://www.montana.edu/news/19577/msu-professor-receives-lifetime-achievement-award-for-work-in-remote-sensing
• Congratulations to the 2021 MontanaView Fellowship Awardees! See below for links to final reports and press releases:
  • Montana State University:
    • Erik Killian, Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology (Advisor Jennifer Lachowiec), Using remote sensing to improve large scale barley emergence measurement, Link to MSU news article: https://www.montana.edu/news/20799/msu-doctoral-student-receives-remote-sensing-fellowship
    • Sasha Loewen, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Science (Advisor Bruce Maxwell), Data intensive adaptive management in organic agriculture, Link to MSU news article: https://www.montana.edu/news/20874/msu-doctoral-student-receives-remote-sensing-fellowship-for-organic-farming-research
  • University of Montana (Faculty mentor Anna Klene):
    • Brenna Hatch, Using UAV imagery to monitor endangered Asian elephants and their habitat in the Khaling Duar Forest Reserve
    • Shira Ellenson, Arctic greening: 25 years of tundra biomass change from in-situ and remotely sensed observations
  • Montana Tech (Faculty mentor Xiaobing Zhou):
    • Ninad Bhagwat, Estimating the snowmelt derived runoff in upper Missouri River basin with snowmelt runoff modeling
    • Quinn Powell, A miniaturized radar sensor and GPS system integrated to an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
  • Montana State University Billings (Faculty mentor Joe Hoover):
    • Chris Fryett, Changes in landscape and environmental testing at the Billings regional landfill
  • University of Montana Western (Faculty mentor Arica Crootof):
    • Margaret Anderson, Lateral channel migration on beaver dominated streams: California Creek, southwest Montana, USA
  • Salish Kootenai College
    • Rachel Tom
    • Jeniffer LaCounte