Zachary J. Bortolot
Assistant Professor
Office: HHS 3227
Phone:
540-568-6343
Email:bortolzj@jmu.edu
Education:
- Ph. D., Forestry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- M. Sc., Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia
- Sc. B., Geological Sciences, Brown University
Experience:
Co-founder and co-owner of OptiSilv, LLC., a developer of remote sensing software for forest inventory applications
Research Interests:
- Forest, wildlife, and livestock applications of remote sensing;
- developing object oriented algorithms for processing remotely sensed data;
- urban forests;
- Mongolia
Specializations:
- Computer vision;
- spectroscopic analysis;
- forestry;
- LiDAR;
- high spatial resolution imagery
Publications:
Bortolot, Z. J., 2006. Using tree clusters to derive forest properties from small footprint LiDAR data.Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 72: 1389 - 1397.
Bortolot, Z. J., Wynne, R. H., 2005. Estimating forest biomass in small footprint lidar scenes: An individual tree-based approach that incorporates training data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 59: 342-360.
Bortolot, Z. J., Wynne, R. H., 2003. A method for estimating fresh green leaf nitrogen concentrations from shortwave infrared reflectance spectra measured at the canopy level that requires no in situ nitrogen data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 24: 619-624.
