Dr. Preston Hartzell joins NCALM and the Geosensing Systems Engineering & Sciences faculty as a Research Assistant Professor. Preston earned his Ph.D. (2016) from University of Houston and his B.S. (2004) from Pennsylvania State University. His doctoral dissertation focused on using terrestrial laser scanning intensity to enhance terrestrial hyperspectral image shadow restoration.
Preston will be working closely with Dr. Craig Glennie and the USACE Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory on related work in instrument and data calibration and multi-instrument integration.