As Associate Director of Geovisualization, Helena provides strategic leadership for the center’s research agenda, especially work that uses Tangible Landscape. Helena develops geospatial analytics to investigate coastal evolution, soil erosion control, natural hazards, and sustainable land management. Tangible geospatial modeling environments, dynamic simulations of landscape processes, and analyses of LiDAR time series data are some of the research frontiers she is advancing. Her interests also include Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) remote sensing and open source software development. Helena is a member of the OSGeo Foundation and the Open Source GRASS GIS Project Steering Committee, and is co-author of the first book on Open Source GRASS GIS.

Roles

• Fellows
• Instructors
• Leadership

Publications

• Downscaling of real-time coastal flooding predictions for decision support (2021)
• Space-time analytics of human physiology for urban planning (2021)
• Aboveground carbon loss associated with the spread of ghost forests as sea levels rise (2020)
• Geospatial simulation steering for adaptive management (2020)
• High Resolution Viewscape Modeling Evaluated Through Immersive Virtual Environments (2020)
• Highlighting recent trends in open source geospatial science and software (2020)
• Measures of Canopy Structure from Low-Cost UAS for Monitoring Crop Nutrient Status (2020)
• Modeling restorative potential of urban environments by coupling viewscape analysis of lidar data with experiments in immersive virtual environments (2020)
• More is Not Better: The Emotional Dynamics of an Excellent Experience (2020)
• Open Geospatial Software and Data: A Review of the Current State and A Perspective into the Future (2020)

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