Leif Olmanson

Leif Olmanson is a Researcher at the University of Minnesota with over 20 years experience developing remote sensing applications to create temporally and spatially rigorous datasets of water and land resources for large area ecosystem characterization. He is particularly interested in developing field validated image processing methods implemented in automated geospatial analysis systems such as Google’s Earth Engine and Minnesota Supercomputing Institutes super computers to gain a better understanding of the natural environment. He currently leads a team of researchers and computer scientists to build a near real-time water quality monitoring system for Minnesota’s >10,000 lakes using satellite imagery to providing critical water quality information for lake management.