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Heather M. Cheshire
Assistant Professor of Forestry
Coordinator: Master of Natural Resources Program


Responsibilities:

Developing proposals; conducting research in the application of spatial information technologies to natural resource inventory and analysis; preparing articles and reports; teaching classes in aerial photography; digital image processing and GPS; advising undergraduate students; conducting training sessions in digital processing; and participating in program development.

Courses Taught at NCSU
FOR 510: Introduction to the Global Positioning System

FOR 554: Introduction to Spatial Information Systems


Current Projects:
Land use mapping and change detection in coastal North Carolina using Landsat Thematic Mapper Data

Land cover mapping for Ft. Bragg, NC


Education:
Ph.D., May 1995, Forestry, NCSU Concentration in remote sensing and ecology

M.S., December 1982, Forestry, NCSU Concentrations in water resources and terrain analysis

B.S., June 1973, Forestry and Wildlife, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Option in environmental conservation.


Publications:

Khorram, S. and Cheshire, H.M. 1983. The Use of Landsat Digital Data in Water Quality Mapping of the Neuse River Estuary, N.C. Water Resources Research Institute of the University of North Carolina, Report No. 193, 22 p.

Khorram, S. and Cheshire, H.M. 1984. Wildlife Habitat Mapping of Coastal North Carolina Using Remote Sensing Techniques. Final Report to the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, 39 p.

Cheshire, H.M., Khorram., S. and Brockhaus, J.A. 1985. Monitoring Estuarine Water Quality from Landsat TM. Proc. Int’l. Conference on Advanced Technology for Monitoring and Processing Global Environmental Data, Univ. of London, Sept. 9-12, 1985, pp. 227-236.

Cheshire, H.M. and Khorram, S. 1987. Monitoring North Carolina’s Nutrient Sensitive Reservoirs Using Landsat TM Digital Data. Proc. ASPRS/ACSM Annual Convention, Baltimore, MD, Vol. I, pp. 47-56.

Cheshire, H.M., Pelkey, P. and Vose, J. 1988. Multiple Regression Techniques in the Analysis of Landsat TM Data for Water Quality Monitoring. Proc. ACSM-ASPRS Fall Convention, VA. Beach, VA, Sept. 11-16, 1988, pp. 29-38.

Khorram. S., Cheshire, H.M., Gerachi, A.L. and LaRosa, G. 1989. Water Quality Mapping of Augusta Bay, Italy from Landsat TM Data. Proc. of the 1989 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Univ. of British Columbia, July 10-14, 1989, pp. 335-339.

Khorram, S., Cheshire, H.M., Siderelis, K. and Nagy, Z. 1992. Mapping and GIS Development of Land Use and Land Cover Categories for the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, Report No. 91-08, A/P Estuarine Study Office, Raleigh, NC , 55 p.


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