Atsushi Tomita
Remote Sensing Scientist
Atsushi Tomita is a Remote Sensing Scientist at Land IQ, LLC. Dr. Tomita has seven years of experience in Remote Sensing as it relates to agriculture and forestry. In his Ph.D. dissertation, Land change history of oil palm plantations in northern Bengkulu Province, Sumatra Island, reconstructed from Landsat satellite archives, he developed a robust system for detecting land cover change which combined several remotely sensed data such as Landsat time series, multi-temporal Google Earth images, and ALOS-2/PALSAR-2. His current interests include utilizing all available remotely sensed data to establish robust land monitoring systems. Dr. Tomita holds a Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences from City University of New York and a M.A. in Science and Environmental Reporting from New York University.