Dana L. Peterson

Research Assistant

Contact Information Phone: 785-864-1510 Fax: 785-864-1534 E-mail: dpete@ku.edu Office: 122 Higuchi Hall

Dana Peterson is a Research Assistant at the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS) Program and is working on the Kansas GAP Analysis Project and a project that is examining the interaction between land cover/ land use and climatological variability. Prior to joining the KARS staff, Dana worked on the REMAP project as a graduate research assistant. Dana finished her master's degree in geography at the University of Kansas in 1999. She received her bachelor's degree from the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Kansas in 1996. Her research interests include biogeography, grassland ecology, and applications in remote sensing.

Professional Papers and Reports

Peterson, D.L., S.L. Egbert, K.P. Price, E.A. Martinko. 2004. Identifying historical and recent land-cover changes in Kansas using post-classification change detection techniques, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences, 107(3/4): 105-118. (PDF)

Peterson, D.L, J.L. Whistler, and B.N. Mercier. 2004. The Kansas Satellite Image Database 2002-2003: Final Report. Kansas Biological Survey, Report #121. Lawrence Kansas. (PDF)

Peterson, D. L., K. P. Price, and E. A. Martinko. 2002. Discriminating
between native warm season and non-native cool season grasslands in northeastern Kansas. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 23(23): 5015-5030. (PDF)

Peterson, D. L., K. P. Price, and E. A. Martinko. 2002 Investigating grazing
intensity and range condition gradients in grasslands using multitemporal Landsat Thematic Mapper data. GeoCarto International, 17(4): 13-24. (PDF)

Menard, S., K. Kindscher, and D. Peterson. 2002. Using Ecological Systems as Land Cover Map Units for the GAP Analysis Program in Kansas: Summary Report to USGS-BRD Gap Analysis Program. NatureServe, Minneapolis, MN and Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS. Unpublished report. 63 pp. (PDF)

Proceedings and Other Publications

Peterson, D.L., M. E. Jakubauskas, K. Kindscher, D. Debinski. 2001.
Hyperspectral remote sensing of nonforested montane vegetation communities.
Third International Conference on Geospatial Information in Agriculture and
Forestry, 5-7 November, Denver, Colorado. (PDF)

Peterson, D.L., S.L. Egbert, C.L. Lauver, A.M. Stewart, E.A. Martinko, K.P.
Price, S. Park, and J.F. Cully. 2001. Identifying and understanding land use/land
cover changes in Kansas. In: ASPRS Technical Papers, 2001 Annual
Conference, ASPRS, 23-27 April, St. Louis, MO. (PDF)