Wildfires in California: Causes and Consequences

Understanding wildfires to assist planning

Reflectance April 2020

Recent Publications and Materials, $1.2 Million to Earth Data Science Corps, Earth Lab by the Numbers, NEON is Seeing th...

Calibrating Low-Cost Air Pollution Sensors Using Machine Learning

Improving low-cost sensors by aligning them with statistics

Sifting through the clouds to analyze the recent Kilauea Eruption

Shannon White’s capstone project was a data-driven analysis of the Kilauea volcanic eruption in Hawaii. The event sent f...

Urban Flood Detection

Katy Sill’s capstone project focused on creating an open source, Python based method for identifying the extent of urban...

Thermal Image Classification for Utility Equipment 

Michael Levis’ capstone project applied a variety of data analysis methods to thermal imagery captured from drones provi...

First Look at the Global Glacier Landscape

Ann Windnagel’s capstone project combined data from different sources to conduct a global assessment of glacial retreat...

Mathematical Modeling of Air Pollution Over the Western US

Some takeaways from using machine learning algorithms and their implementations

Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data: Uber / Lyft

We set out to understand how people around the country felt about ridesharing (specifically, Uber and Lyft) by using a v...