Steven A. Sader

        Professor of Forest Resources
        Director, Maine Image Analysis Laboratory (MIAL)
        Cooperating Professor of Wildlife Ecology
        Graduate Coordinator, Department of Forest Management
 

Address:

        Department of Forest Management, University of Maine
        260 Nutting Hall, Orono, Maine  04469
        Phone:  (207) 581-2845    Fax:  (207) 581-2875
        e-mail:  sader@umenfa.maine.edu
Dr. Steven Sader

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Degrees:

        1973    No. Arizona University, B.S. in Forest Management
        1976    Mississippi State University, M.S. in Forest Management
        1981    University of Idaho, Ph.D. in Forest Resources
 

Primary research area:

        Remote sensing of forest environments

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Current and recent research:

US Forest Service, Development of a statewide forest cover and change detection map for Maine

New England Forestry Foundation, Monitoring working forest conservation easements in northern New England

NASA, Multisensor research in Maine forests

NASA, Monitoring tropical forest conversion patterns in Central America
 

Examples of Recent Publications:


Sader, S.A., M. Hoppus, J. Metzler, and S. Jin. 2005. Perspectives of Maine forest cover change from Landsat imagery and forest inventory analysis (FIA). Journal of Forestry 103(6): 299-303.

Williams, K., S.A. Sader, C. Pryor, and F. Reed. 2005. Application of geospatial technology to monitor forest legacy conservation easements. Journal of Forestry 103 (8) (in press).

Jin, S., and S.A. Sader. 2005.  MODIS time-series imagery for forest disturbance detection and quantification of patch size effects. Remote Sensing of Environment 99(4): 462-470.

Jin, S., and S.A. Sader. 2005. Comparison of time-series tasseled cap wetness and the normalized difference moisture index in detecting forest disturbances. Remote Sensing of Environment 94(3): 364-372.

Metzler, J.W. and S.A.Sader. 2005a. Model development and comparison to predict softwood and hardwood percent cover using high and medium spatial resolution imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing 26(17): 3749- 3761

Metzler, J. and S.A. Sader. 2005b. Agreement assessment between regression- derived forest cover maps and forest industry type maps. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 71(11): 1303-1309.

Sader S.A., R.R. Chowdury, L. Schneider, and B.L. Turner.  2004.  Forest change and human driving forces in Central America.  Chapter 4, pp. 57-76 in: G.Guttman, A. Janetos and D. Skole (Eds.),  Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands.
 

Courses Taught:

        FTY 206 -- Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
        FTY 345 -- Remote Sensing Special Problems
        FTY 526 -- Image Processing for Natural Resource Monitoring
        FTY 609 -- Remote Sensing Special Problems
        INT 525 -- Tropical Deforestation Seminar (with W. Glanz - Zoology)
        INT 527 --  Integration of Remote Sensing and GIS in Natural Resourcs (with Cyndy Loftin-Wildlife Ecology )

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