Anushree Badol

Dr. Anushree Badola serves as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension, University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she specializes in hyperspectral remote sensing and machine learning applications for forestry and agriculture. Her groundbreaking research includes developing novel methods to simulate AVIRIS-NG hyperspectral imagery from Sentinel-2 data for improved vegetation and wildfire fuel mapping in boreal Alaska. After earning her Master's in Geoinformatics from the University of Twente and IIRS, ISRO, Dehradun, she completed her PhD at UAF's Geophysical Institute. Her work with the Alaska NSF EPSCoR Fire and Ice project has significantly advanced boreal forest monitoring techniques, achieving improved classification accuracies from 77.8% with Sentinel-2 to 94.4% with AVIRIS-NG data. Her research portfolio includes innovative approaches to tree species mapping in tropical forests, sub-pixel needleleaf cover fraction estimation in boreal forests, and development of spectral reconstruction methods for vegetation mapping. As a skilled programmer in Python and R with expertise in various GIS tools including QGIS, ArcGIS, ENVI, and Erdas Imagine, she continues to advance the field of remote sensing while focusing on improving wildfire fuel mapping technologies for better forest management.