William L. Stefanov

William L. Stefanov (* in Webster , Massachusetts ) is an American geoscientist and specialist author. Stefanov works as a Senior Geoscientist at the Image Science and Analysis Laboratory at NASA Johnson Space Center .

Life

Stefanov studied geosciences at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell , where he received his bachelor's degree, and then from Arizona State University , where he received a Masters of Science degree in physical volcanology and igneous petrology and a Ph.D. graduated with the subjects of geomorphology , infrared remote sensing, laboratory spectroscopy .

His scientific interests and specialties are geology , GIS / remote sensing and hydrology .

William Stefanov trains the astronauts at the International Space Station in geosciences and carries out scientific projects in the field of remote sensing . His research includes the use, evaluation and further development of satellite recordings and especially camera recordings from the ISS in the range of visible light and in the microwave range . The subject areas include urban systems, natural disasters, climatology and ecology . He is also involved in the technical monitoring of the space shuttle in space as a member of the Integrated Analysis Team. It goes z. B. to examine the surface of the shuttle in space for damage.

literature

• William L. Stefanov, Michael S. Ramsey, Philip R. Christensen: Identification of Fugitive Dust Generation, Transport, and Deposition Areas Using Remote Sensing. In: Environmental and Engineering Geoscience. Volume 9, Number 2, 2003, pp. 151-165.
• Elizabeth A. Wentz, William L. Stefanov, Corinna Gries, Diane Hope: Land use and land cover mapping from diverse data sources for an arid urban environments . In: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 2006/30 (3), pages 320-346
• SL Harlan, AJ Brazel et al. a .: Neighborhood microclimates and vulnerability to heat stress. In: Social science & medicine (1982). Volume 63, Number 11, December 2006, ISSN  0277-9536 , pp. 2847-2863, doi : 10.1016 / j.socscimed.2006.07.030 . PMID 16996668 .
• Maik Netzband , William Stefanov, Charles Redman (Eds.): Applied Remote Sensing for Urban Planning, Governance and Sustainability. Springer Science & Business Media, 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-68009-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).
• CA Evans, MJ Wilkinson, WL Stefanov, K. Willis: Training astronauts to observe the Earth from the Space Shuttle and International Space Station . In: WB Garry and JE Bleacher (Eds.): Analogs for Planetary Exploration. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ^ William Stefanov - LTER Directory. (No longer available online.) In: search.lternet.edu. Formerly in the original ; accessed on January 12, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ↑ Earth Observation Photography ( Memento from July 10, 2003 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Satellite image of the week: Night over China's metropolises. In: Spiegel Online . January 1, 2011, accessed January 12, 2015 . Stefanov comments on a night shot ofBeijing,LangfangandTianjin
• William Stefanov at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability
• Stefanov in the LTER Directory Search (English)