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Delaware View is a member of the AmericaView Consortium, a nationally coordinated network of academic, agency, non-profit, and industry partners and cooperators that share the vision of promoting and supporting the use of remote sensing data and technology within the State of Delaware. As of August 12, 2015, AmericaView approved the affiliate application of the DelawareView consortium which is currently grouped by the University of Delaware (UD), Delaware State University (DSU), Delaware Geological Survey (DGS) and Delaware Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Center (DEMAC).  Since the DEView was officially approved, we had the first DEView meeting at the Delaware Environmental Analysis Center (DEMAC) in October 5, 2015 and the principal investigator, Byungyun Yang, attended the AmericaView technical meeting held at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux, Falls, South Dakota, in October to connect the newly formed DelawareView consortium with other remote sensing and GIS groups throughout the nation. Right pictures shows the current members: Christina (left), John, Tracy, Byungyun, and Mathew (right). During the meeting, we discussed about future activities such as inviting new members, developing a DelawareView website, and initiating Earth Observation Day.

Tracy DeLiberty

Tracy DeLiberty

Graduate GIS Certificate Director and Associate Professor

My research interests are in the areas of physical and hydroclimatology, GIS and remote sensing focusing on land surface interactions with climate (and vice versa) by investigating regional to global observations and remotely sensed datasets.  I rely heavily on using GIS and image processing systems for visualization of the geographic data and for mapping and spatial analysis.  Geographic areas I have investigated include the Southern Great Plains with my dissertation soil moisture work, the Amazon Basin and more recently the polar oceans examining sea ice thickness. .

Byungyun Yang

Byungyun Yang

Principal Investigator and Assistant Professor

My main specialties are GIScience including GIS modeling, Web GIS (i.e., Internet GIS), Computer Cartography, GIS spatial statistics, Geovisualization, Satellite Image Analysis, Geographic Object Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA), and LiDAR analysis (Geospatial Technologies). In particular, these scientific approaches not only are applied for protecting natural resources such as forests, wetlands and especially barrier islands in coastal areas, but also are used to sustainably manage tourism resources. My most recent research interests involves developing dynamic Web GIS applications, visualizing 3D Landscape of a flooding scenario in a barrier island on the east coast, and formulating ontology-driven geodatase design for balancing development and preservation in coastal regions.

Hacene Boukari

Hacene Boukari

Associate Professor

Soft Matter and Transport Phenomena in Complex Systems; Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena; Scattering; Fluorescence; Imaging.

John Callahan

John Callahan

Associate Scientist

John’s current research centers around the Delaware region focusing on natural hazards, particularly coastal inundation/storm surge, sea-level rise, severe weather, climate change, stream flow/inland hydrology, and droughts. Projects of particular interest are analysis of observational tide data in the Delaware Bay and Inland Bays, analysis of drought indicators for Delaware’s three counties, and the development of the Delaware Coastal Monitoring System. John is also actively involved with numerous State of Delaware agencies and groups related to environmental monitoring and analysis. Another area of John’s activities at DGS is the development and maintenance of the DGS web sites and public data distribution mechanisms, such as web mapping services, metadata and data downloads, the Delaware Geologic Information Resource (DGIR), and the Delaware Water Conditions Report..

Christina Callahan

Christina Callahan

Lead Scientist

Christina Callahan is the primary consultant and lead developer for the Delaware Environmental Monitoring & Analysis Center (DEMAC) and has extensive knowledge on the appropriate uses of environmental data and often collaborates with multiple agencies to build value-added applications that utilize multiple environmental monitoring platforms and data types. Mrs. Callahan has over 10 years of web design and development as well as 15 years of spatial data mapping skills..