Today in Geography - Celebrating the 26th Anniversary of the launch of ArcGIS with Sandhya Sharma

Today we welcome Sandhya Sharma, a dual-major Ph.D. candidate in the ⁠Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences⁠ and the Environmental Science and Policy Program at Michigan State University. She earned her master's degree in forestry from the Forest Research Institute in Dehradun, India, and her bachelor's degree in forestry from Kathmandu Forestry College in Nepal. Her research focuses on forest and disturbance ecology, particularly forest fire dynamics and their assessment using remote sensing. She is studying how plant water stress can predict burn severity in Nepal while developing methods to map forest fires and recurring disturbances, and estimate aboveground biomass loss by integrating remote sensing with field data.

Sandhya discussed the 26th Anniversary of the launch of ArcGIS on December 27, 1999. ArcGIS is a comprehensive geospatial platform for professionals and organizations. It is the leading geographic information system (GIS) technology. Built by Esri, ArcGIS integrates and connects data through the context of geography.

If you would like to learn more about Sandhya’s research, visit the ERSAM Lab website. 

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