Anatoly Gitelson, physicist, remote sensing specialist, and professor at the School of Natural Resources, will give a talk Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 3:30 p.m. in the Hardin Hall Auditorium on “Physically based Models for Remote Estimation of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems Production.” His talk is part of SNR’s 2011 Fall Seminar Series.
Biological processes on land and in the oceans strongly affect the global carbon cycle on all time scales. In both components of the biosphere, oxygenic photosynthesis is responsible for virtually all of the biochemical production of organic matter. Mechanisms of and constraints on photosynthesis on land and in the oceans are similar in many respects. Integrating conceptually similar models of the growth of terrestrial and marine primary producers, Gitelson will present a unified approach to estimation of primary production of organic matter by terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems based on satellite measurements.
Gitelson received a master’s degree and Ph.D. from Taganrog Institute of Radio Technology in Russia in radio physics. His main research interests are radiative transfer in the atmosphere, water, and vegetation, as well as remote sensing of aquatic and terrestrial environments. He is part of the Center for Applied Land Management Information Technology (CALMIT) at the School of Natural Resources. Before joining UNL in 2000, Gitelson headed the Department for Environmental Physics and Energy Research at the J. Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 1997-2000, and in 1998 he received the Israeli State Award for Outstanding Contribution to Israeli Science. Gitelson also held scientific posts in the former USSR.
More details at: http://go.unl.edu/6vz