Zachary Bortolot: Professor, GS
Professor, GS
bortolzj@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Education
- Ph. D. Forestry, Virginia Tech
- M.S. Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia
- B.S. Geological Sciences, Brown University
Courses Taught
- GEOG 210 Physical Geography
- GEOG 216 Earth Observation and GPS
- GEOG 385 Principles of Remote Sensing
- GEOG 406 Forest Inventory – A Geospatial Approach
- GEOG 485 Processing Remotely Sensed Data
Scholarly Interests/Research Topics
- Developing algorithms for processing remotely sensed data
- Humanitarian and environmental remote sensing applications
- Teaching remote sensing to people on the autism spectrum
- Historical aerial imagery
- Computer vision
- Entrepreneurship
Experience
- Co-founded Optisilv, a company that developed software for using aerial imagery to improve forest inventories.
- Assistant Professor of Geography, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY
School of Integrated Sciences
