The Georgia Forestry Commission wants to know how much tree canopy the state had in 2015, and they are contracting a team from the University of North Georgia's (UNG) Lewis F. Rogers Institute for Environmental & Spatial Analysis (IESA) to conduct the study.
Dr. Allison Bailey, associate professor in IESA, is the principal investigator of the project leading a team of students to quantify the amount of canopy observed in high-resolution satellite photos taken this past year. ...continued ...