Remote Sensing Scientist

Office: Room 332, Agriculture C
Phone: (307) 766-2794 (desk), or 766-2532 (WyGISC Office)
FAX: (307) 766-2744
Email: eli@uwyo.edu

• MS, Utah State University, Geography with a Specialization of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
• BS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Forestry with a Concentration in Natural Resources and Environmental Science

• The application of Remote Sensing to the science of Landscape Ecology.

• Southwest and Central Wyoming Land Cover, change detection, and snow mapping project
• Shoshone Peatland Inventory with the Wyoming Natural Diversity Database
• Remotely Sensed Detection of Potential Archaeological Sites in Wyoming with the UW Archaeology Department
• Modeling Consumptive Water Use in the Green River Basin, Wyoming Using Remotely Sensed Data and the METRIC Model

• Use of infrared aerial photographs to identify and assess habitats needed by native fish in rivers with the Wyo Coop Fish and Wildlife Research Unit.
• USGS Gap Analysis Effort to Map Land Use and Land Cover for USFS Region 4
• SERDP CS-1098 (Emerging and Contemporary Technologies in Remote Sensing for Ecosystem Assessment and Change Detection on Military Reservations)
• NASA Project ATLANTA (ATlanta Land use ANalysis: Temperature and Air quality)
• Fine Scale Impervious Surfaces and Moderate Scale Land Use/Land Cover Mapping for King County, WA
• Stand-based Forest Stratification and Classification for Boise Building Solution’s Lands in Idaho with Aerial Multi-Spectral Imagery
• City-Wide LiDAR and Aerial Imagery Canopy Analysis for the City of Seattle, WA
• LiDAR Canopy and CITY Green Analysis for the City of Mercer Island, WA
• Remotely Sensed Boundary Initialization of a 3-dimensional Coastal Circulation Model
• Littoral Zone Data Extraction and Calibration Using the U.S. Department of Energy's Multispectral Thermal Imager
• Landcover and Noxious Weed Mapping Using Ikonos and LiDAR for Ft. Lewis, WA.

• Wilhite, J.W., W.A. Hubert, and E.J. Rodemaker. Assessing Changes in Fish Habitats of the Bighorn River, Wyoming. Oral Presentation. American Fisheries Society Regional Meeting Feb 26-28, 2007. Ft. Collins, CO.
• Rodemaker, E.J. and K.L. Driese. Mapping Land Cover Types Using Remote Sensing, GIS, and Aerial Photography for the SW Wyoming, Pinedale and Green River, Wyoming Game and Fish Dept. Regions. Final Report to the Wyoming Game and Fish Dept. WGFD RFP# 0025-M. Dec 31, 2006.
• Gillies R.R., R.M. Gazal, M.A. White, and E.J. Rodemaker. The Urban Heat Island Effect – Implications for Leaf Phenology. Paper Presentation. American Geophysical Union 2006 Fall Meeting, December 11-15, 2006, San Francisco, CA.
• Rodemaker, E.J., J.E. Colwell, and N.E. Roller. Mapping and Characterizing Urban Forest with a Combination of LiDAR and Color Digital Orthophotographs. Paper Presentation. Tenth Biennial USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Conference, April 5-9, 2004, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Roller, N.E, J.E. Colwell, and E.J. Rodemaker. Automated Delineation and Attribution of Forest Stands from High-Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Data. Paper Presentation. Tenth Biennial USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Conference, April 5-9, 2004, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Gillies, R.R., J. Brim Box, J. Symanzik, and E. J. Rodemaker. Effects of Urbanization on the Aquatic Fauna of the Line Creek Watershed, Atlanta – A Satellite Perspective. Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 86 No. 3 Pgs. 411-422, 2003.
• Warner, T.A., K.L. Steinmaus, B.D. Moon, E.J. Rodemaker, C.H. Read, and M. O’Brien. Orchard and vineyard mapping with spatial autocorrelation applied to high resolution imagery. Paper Presentation. The Association of American Geographers 98th Annual Meeting, March 19-23, 2002, Los Angeles, CA.
• Rodemaker, E.J., L.F. Hibler, M.C. Miller, and D.L. Woodruff. Remotely Sensed Boundary Initialization of a 3-dimensional Coastal Circulation Model. FY01 Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program Poster Session, September 19, 2001, USDOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.
• Rodemaker, E.J., J.D. Tagestad, and K.L. Steinmaus. Landcover Mapping Using Ikonos and LIDAR Remotely Sensed Imagery for Ft. Lewis, WA. 2001 Integrated Training Area Management Workshop, August 27-31, Ft. Campbell, KY.
• Tagestad, J.D., E.J. Rodemaker, and K.L. Steinmaus. Noxious Weed Mapping via High Resolution Data Fusion – a Ft. Lewis Case Study. GIS in Action 2001, May 30-June 1, Portland, OR.
• Sajwaj, T., E.J. Rodemaker, R.D. Ramsey, and R.A. Washington-Allen. Conversion and Calibration of Landsat Photographic Products: A Protocol to Derive Robust Digital Copies from Analog Film Data. ASPRS Annual Conference 2001: Gateway to a New Millennium, April 23-27, St. Louis, MO.
• Steinmaus, K.L., D.L. Woodruff, and E.J. Rodemaker. Littoral Warfare Data Extraction Using U.S. Department of Energy’s Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI). NIMA Final Project Report, PNNL-13468, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Marine Sciences Laboratory, March 2001, Sequim, WA.
• Ramsey, R.D., R.A. Washington-Allen, T.G. Van Niel, E.J. Rodemaker, T. Sajwaj, K. Callahan and N.E. West. A Historical Remote Sensing-based Environmental Monitoring Protocol for Military Sites. Paper Presentation. The Association of American Geographers 97th Annual Meeting, February 27 - March 3, 2001, New York, NY.
• Washington-Allen, R.A., R.D. Ramsey, P.T. Tueller, T.D. Frank, T.G. Van Niel, S.A. Tweddale, E.J. Rodemaker, T. Sajwaj, K. Callahan, and N.E. West. A Historical Remote Sensing-Based Environmental Monitoring Protocol for Military Sites. Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) - 2000 Technical Symposium and Workshop, December 2000, Crystal City, VA.
• Washington-Allen, R.A., N.E. West, R.D. Ramsey, T.G. Van Niel, E.J. Rodemaker, N.E. Zimmerman, L.E. McCarthy, C.T. Hunsaker, and R.S. Karalus. A Remote Sensing Approach to Retrospective Ecological Risk Assessment of Landscapes Subject to Commercial Grazing and Military Activities. American Society for Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 1999 Annual Conference, December 6-10, Denver, Colorado.
• Zimmerman, N.E., R. A. Washington-Allen, T. G. Van Niel, R. D. Ramsey, and E.J. Rodemaker. A Spatially-Distributed Empirical Method for Calibrating SAVI (The Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index). Poster Presentation. IALE99, Landscape Ecology: The Science and the Action. International Association for Landscape Ecology 5th World Congress, July 29-August 3, 1999, Snowmass Village, CO, Pg. 173.
• Rodemaker, E.J. Map Products for an Ecological Preserve on the South Shore of the Great Salt Lake. Paper Presentation. ERDAS 1995 User's Group Meeting Proceedings, March 19-22, Atlanta, GA, Pgs. 10-13.