Mark
Friedl
Department
of Geography and Environment, Boston University Tel: (617)
353-5745;
Fax: (617)
353-8399 Baccini,
A, M.A. Friedl, C.E. Woodcock and R. Warbington 2004. Forest biomass estimation over regional
scales using multisource data, Geophysical Research Letters,
Vol. 31,
L10501, doi:10.1029/2004GL019782. Zhang,
X., M.A. Friedl, C.B. Schaaf
and A.H. Strahler 2004. Climate Controls on vegetation phenological
patterns in
northern mid- and high latitudes inferred from MODIS data, Global
Change
Biology, Vol 10, pp. 1133-1145, 2004. Lotsch,
A, M.A. Friedl, and J. Pinzon, 2003.
Spatio-Temporal Deconvolution of NDVI Image sequences using
independent
component analysis, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote
Sensing, Vol.
41. No. 12, pp. 2938-2942. Schneider,
A., Friedl, M.A., McIver, D.K. and C.E. Woodcock 2003. Mapping
urban
areas by fusing multiple sources of coarse resolution remotely
sensed data, Photogrammetric
Engineering and Remote Sensing, Vol 69, no. 12, pp 1377-1386. Lotsch,
A., Friedl, M.A., Anderson,
B.T. and C.J. Tucker 2003. Coupled vegetation-precipitation variability
observed from satellite and climate records, Geophysical Research
Letters, 30(14),
1774, doi: 10.1029/2003GL017506 Yang,
R. and M.A. Friedl 2003. Modeling the effects of 3-D
vegetation
structure on surface radiation and energy balance in boreal forests, Journal
of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres, 108 (D16), 8615, doi:
10.1029/2002JD003109. I
teach courses in physical geography, land surface climatology and
micrometeorology, and statistical methods for environmental
science. My courses emphasize quantitative methods using
biophysical models and statistical techniques. Courses in
physical geography, land surface climatology, and micrometerology focus
on processes controlling energy and mass exchange between soils,
vegetation, and the atmosphere. Courses in statistical methods
cover topics related to analysis and empirical modeling of geophysical
and biophysical variables.
Contact Information
675 Commonwealth
Ave, Boston, MA 02215
Email: friedl@bu.edu;
Image credit: Reto Stöckli NASA/GSFC
I am trained as a physical geographer and my research examines
biophysical patterns and processes at the Earth's surface. I am
particularly interested in how land surface properties affect surface
climate, and how land surface biophysics influence the Earth's weather
and climate system. These topics are interdisciplinary in
nature and involve processes that are relevant to biophysical ecology,
micrometeorology, biogeography, and climate. To study these
topics, my research relies heavily on remote sensing, biophysical
models of land-atmosphere energy exchange, and statistical
methods. Current ongoing research projects are focused on (1)
developing methods to monitor and map global land cover and
vegetation phenology using the data from NASA's MODerate Resolution Imaging
Spectoradiometer (MODIS), and (2) using data from MODIS to improve
numerical weather forecasts provided by the National Centers for Environmental
Prediction. I also have ongoing interests in the application
of statistical methods and data mining to geophysical data
sets. At BU I work closely with Guido Salvucci, Nathan
Phillips, Bruce Anderson, Curtis Woodcock, Crystal Schaaf and Alan
Strahler. I currently serve as a subject matter editor for Ecological Applications, which
is a journal of the Ecological Society
of America, I am also a NASA science team member for MODIS,
and I chair the Oak Ridge National Lab
Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics User
Working Group
Selected Recent
Publications
Zhang,
X., M.A.
Friedl, C.B. Schaaf,
A.H. Strahler and A. Schneider, 2004. The footprint of urban climates
on
vegetation phenology. Geophysical
Research Letters, Vol. 31,
L12209, doi:10.1029/2004GL020137.
Teaching
Interests