Jonathan Lamont Batchelor

Remote Sensing Geek that dabbles in fire ecology, wildlife habitat characterizations, and restoration processes.

I am a Postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences.

I specialize in fine-scale remote sensing technologies such as drone-based digital aerial photogrammetry and terrestrial lidar. Trees, drones, and lidar points galore! Using fine-scale remote sensing techniques to quantify processes and change at a local level to then develop models for landscape-level characterization of vegetation structure regarding fire effects and habitat. Most of my work is taking characterizations of forest structure from field-sampled remote sensing techniques and upscaling them to a landscape level using aerial lidar, aerial imagery, and satellite imagery.

Make sure to check out the visualizations tab. I have lots of really cool 2D terrestrial lidar scans up there along with drone digital aerial photogrammetry products and lidar point clouds that you can manipulate through the website interface! I am constantly updating and adding new info and visualizations to this site so check back often!

Most recently I defended my dissertation “Fine-scale remote sensing of forest structure and condition”. Check out the video below: