A major component of the remote sensing course Observing Earth From Space is an individual course project. Students are encouraged to select projects that will supplement their existing research. Alternatively projects can be fashioned around topics or regions of the world that the students have a particular knowledge or interest. As such, these projects cover many places, subjects and time spans.
Below is a list of recent projects, by year and general topic, with links to selected abstracts. Full text of these papers can be found at the Yale Center for Earth Observation.
| Forest Issues | |
| Nathan Rutenbeck | Estimating Land Cover Type on Parcels of Conservation Value |
| Jason Lawhon | Mapping Pine Beetle Mortality in Wyoming Mixed Conifer Forest |
| Selin Devranoglu | Remote Sensing of Forest Health: Case of Insect Damage Hatila Valley, Turkey |
| Campbell Moore | Fire and Forest Degradation in Niumi District, The Gambia |
| Landscape Change Detection | |
| Lily Zeng | Land cover change in Xishuangbanna, China |
| Rita Effah | Land use land cover changes in a high forest zone in southwest Ghana |
| Man-Yu Yang | Kingmen Taiwan Post-war land use change |
| Yan He | Landscape Change in Xin Jiang Province, China, 1989-2010 |
| Yao Fu | Visualizing the Aftermath of the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami through Change Detection |
| Amy Higgins | Land Cover Classification & Change Detection in Ladakh, India using ASTER Imagery |
| Jeffrey Chow | Vegetation change in El salvador |
| Epidemiology | |
| Mohammed Salim | Effect of land use on the incidence of Lyme disease on Block Island, Rhode Island |
| Urban Issues | |
| Yang Tian | Radiative forcing at local to national level associated with urbanization in China |
| Nedal Nassar | Estimating Changes in Urban Metal Stocks via Nighttime lights |
| Raul Lamas-Bregante |
Growth of Lima city: Trends and implications |
| Landcover Mapping | |
| Jennifer Miller | Land Cover Classification of Panna Tiger Reserve, India |
| Lauren Brooks | Detection of Mountain Top Removal Sites in Southern West Virginia using Image Enhancement Indices |
| Angela Orthmeyer | Ecosystem Services in the Natchaug Watershed, CT |
| David Ross | Identification of pasture lands in the Sao Felix do Xingu, Brazil |
| Anobha Gurung | Land cover and surface temperature for Kathmandu Valley, Nepal |
| Aitong Li | RS_Final_Presentation: The Case of Mt Everest Natural Reserve, Tibet |
| Kristofer Covey | Predicting optimal backcountry skiing habitat in the dankness of Vermont: A remote sensing and GIS approach |
| Forest Issues | |
| Liz Petruska | Examining Changing Forestry Practices in the Industrial and Non- industrial Forested Landscapes of Maine |
| Erik Hayward | Using Landsat and DEM data to detect landcover change in northwestern Maine |
| Trent Malcolm | Estimating deforestation rates on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia |
| Ken Shono | Deforestation and land use change in northern Thailand between 1985 and 1996 |
| Megan Mattox | An analysis of forest fragmentation on the Thames River watershed |
| Leigh Baker | Vegetative classification of Grand Teton National Park using satellite imagery |
| Urban Issues | |
| Ying Qiu | Application of principle components analysis and entropy to urban sprawl in Beijing, China |
| Sharon Gulick | Urban sprawl in Tucson |
| Michael Ritger | Landcover change analysis of Albuquerque, NM and the New York Philadelphia metro areas |
| Climate | |
| Jessica Barnes | Interannual variability in the agricultural land cover of the Khabour River Basin, 2000-2003 |
| Charlie Liu | Using NDVI to compare changes in deciduous leaf out in the US between 1989 and 1995 |
| Public Health | |
| Heidi Brown | Classification of urban areas to facilitate prediction of mosquito density |
| Laura Krueger | Urban and suburban growth into tick and mosquito areas leading to risk predictions |
| Lee Cohnstaedt | Abiotic factors influencing mosquito distribution and disease risk in Sardinia |
| Annie Gatewood | Characterization of deciduous forest phenology in the northeastern US using MODIS |
| Landscape Change Detection | |
| Kristin Anderson | Marsh subsidence on the Mississippi Delta |
| Robin Barr | Classifying the Forests of Mt Kenya for use in Change Analysis 1986-2000 |
| Christopher Riely | Land use and cover change in and around the Yale Meyer’s forest between 1985 and 2001 |
| Alexandra Ponette | Landuse/Landcover classification of Central Veracruz, Mexico |
| Julie Velásquez Runk | Landcover change in Wounaan Village of Eastern Panama between 1985 and 2003 |
| Nadia Khan | Change analyses east of Aleppo and near Lake Assad, Syria (1984 -1999) |
| Rosemarie Mannik | Studying changing agricultural practices in the Middle East |
| Atmosphere | |
| John Williams | Radiative characteristics of a super typhoon |
| Yanping Li | Studying clouds in the Great Plains using MODIS |
| Katherine Lin | Asian dust storms |
| Brett Galimidi | Using MODIS to differentiate between clouds and particulate matter in the Himalaya |
| Geology | |
| Peter Isaacson | Mineral identification and hydrothermal alteration mapping at Cuprite-Goldfield, Nevada, using Landsat ETM+, ASTER, and AVIRIS data |
| Examining Environmental Events | |
| Nell Larson | Examining the 1998 ice storm damage to the northern Adirondacks |
| Ali Macalady | Europe’s 2003 heat wave from space – a look at changes in vegetation |
| Geri Kantor | Using Landsat imagery to evaluate vegetation cover change in Vietnam following defoliation with Agent Orange |
| Elevation Imapcts on Vegetation | |
| Martha Bell | Land classification and elevation change in the Central Andes |
| Jeremy Goetz | Exploring vegetation changes over topographic gradients in the Congo Basin |
| Ecosystem Mapping | |
| Elena Traister | An investigation into whether alkalinity export varies with land use over time |
| Jonathan Cox | Desert landscape changes in the American Southwest |
| Deborah Fillis | Examining landcover adjacent to salt marsh ecosystems |
| Sparsh Khandeshi | Vegetation variations between alpine meadows |
01 June 2011