Kyle Hartfield

Kyle Hartfield is currently researching the impacts of climate change on cultural resources across the intermountain region of the western United States in coordination with the National Park Service (CREVAT). He has also gathered geospatial data in support of Eastern Mojave Conservation Collaborative and its partners to assess the current and future conditions in the region (State of the Eastern Mojave Desert - 2019). Additionally he is comparing pre- and post-fire LiDAR and multispectral data to assess the impacts of the Big Horn Fire along the Catalina Mountains; as well as mapping extent and type of woody cover using LiDAR, hyperspectral and high spatial resolution image data across the United States (RaBET) and modeling snow water equivalent and other snow related products in central Arizona using a combination of LiDAR, UAV and high spatial resolution image (SnowView). Hartfield is also a maintainer of MODIS and VIIRS vegetation index data used on DroughtView a satellite-based drought monitoring and assessment decision support tool (DroughtView). Additionally, he is an assistant professor at the University of Arizona, teaching: GIST 330: Introduction to Remote Sensing, GIST 483/583: Geographical Applications of Remote Sensing, GIST 417: Geographic Information Systems for Natural and Social Sciences, GIST 498: Senior Capstone, and RNR 422/522: Resource Mapping Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Support)