Adjunct Faculty: Jeffrey Morisette

Jeffrey T. Morisette completed his Masters degree in Statistics from Oakland University, Rochester MI, and a PhD from North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC, where he focused on geostatistics, accuracy assessment, and satellite based changed detection, funded through a NASA Earth System Science Graduate fellowship. He also attended the International Space University's Summer Program in Vienna (Austria), 1996. His current research is on the application of multi-resolution and time series satellite imagery to the validation of global land products and ecological studies. Specific research includes coordinating the MODIS land team validation activities and leading the science component of the “Invasive Species Forecast System” through NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Part of the validation work has been the initiating and continued management of the EOS Land Validation Core Site infrastructure. He is currently serving as Chair of Oak Ridge National Lab’s Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAACO) “Users Working Group” and also serves as chair for the “Land Product Validation Subgroup” of the Committee on Earth Observing Satellite Working Group on Calibration and Validation; which organizes and coordinates international land product validation activities and on which he was previously deputy chair and helped initiate.

MODIS land validation: http://landval.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODIS/

CEOS Land Product Validation subgroup: http://landval.gsfc.nasa.gov/LPVS/

Example Publications:

Morisette, J.T., J. L. Privette, A. Strahler, P. Mayaux, C. O. Justice, “An approach for the Validation of Global Land Cover Products through the Committee on Earth Observing Satellites”, in Remote Sensing and GIS Accuracy Assessment Lunetta, R.S., and J.G. Lyon (Editors), 2004, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. 304 pp.

Morisette, J. T., J.L. Privette, and C.O. Justice, 2002. A framework for the validation of MODIS land products, Remote Sensing of Environment, 83 (1-2) 77-96. (TC=14).