Britt W Smith
Britt Smith is a Geographer with the Western Geographic Science Center and is located in Tucson, AZ.
Britt Smith researches land use and land cover change and is part of the Patterns in the Landscape - Analyses of Cause and Effect (PLACE) team. His focus has traditionally be on agricultural landscapes and is excited to branch into urban and other managed landscapes. His work seeks to inform decision makers, resource managers, and stakeholders by leveraging large datasets with cloud computing techniques
Science and Products
Patterns in the Landscape – Analyses of Cause and Effect
Understanding the rates and causes of land-use/land-cover (LULC) change helps answer questions about what, where, how, and why the Earth’s surface is changing. Land-surface change results from human activities or natural processes like floods, droughts, and wildfires, and many of these change processes are observable in satellite imagery. The growing historical catalog of satellite images allows...
Science and Products
Patterns in the Landscape – Analyses of Cause and Effect
Understanding the rates and causes of land-use/land-cover (LULC) change helps answer questions about what, where, how, and why the Earth’s surface is changing. Land-surface change results from human activities or natural processes like floods, droughts, and wildfires, and many of these change processes are observable in satellite imagery. The growing historical catalog of satellite images allows...