Michael Alonzo
Associate Professor
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Alonzo is an Associate Professor and geographer with a decade of experience applying satellite and airborne remote sensing to urban ecosystems, boreal fire effects, and long-term land cover change. He combines hyperspectral imagery and lidar fusion—work conducted in part with NASA’s G-LiHT sensor—to produce high-resolution characterizations of vegetation and post-fire landscapes. At American University he bridges research and teaching, translating complex remote sensing algorithms (including Landsat time series methods) into practical environmental science applications. His background spans academia, federal research, and applied GIS consulting, giving him a rare mix of field, policy-relevant, and technical perspectives. Notably, his work leverages cross-sensor fusion to reveal ecological signals that single-data approaches often miss. Based in Silver Spring, MD, he holds a PhD in Geography from UCSB and a long-standing focus on translating remote sensing advances into actionable environmental insights.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Geneseo CentralB.A., Geography, B.A., Geography at Middlebury CollegeM.A., Geography, M.A., Geography at University of DenverDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geography, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geography at University of California, Santa Barbara
Spanish
Github Skills (15)
las8
lidar7
lidar-data7
algorithm7
als7
python6
r6
point-cloud5
forestry5
visualization3
temperature3
r-package3
image-file3
temporal-data2
segmentation2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
malonzo47/pynita_GUI
Feb 2019 - Jun 2021
pynita_GUI is python GUI based implementation of Noise Insensitive Trajectory Algorithm (NITA)
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 years 4 months
python
Alonzo-Lab/forest-analysis-utilities-R
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
R codes that are general purpose such as segmentation, pixel value extraction, structural-spectral analysis.
Contributions:12 commits, 6 PRs, 15 pushes in 17 days
segmentation
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