**Dar Roberts**

Dar Roberts received his PhD in Geology from the University of Washington in 1991. Since 1994 he has been a professor in the Department of Geography at UC Santa Barbara. His research focuses on land-use/land-cover change, vegetation spectroscopy, urban remote sensing, all aspects of remote sensing of wildfire, mapping trace gasses such as methane, water vapor and carbon dioxide, drought impacts on vegetation, bathymetry, and sensor fusion using LiDAR, thermal and VSWIR sensors. He is a Fellow of the AGU and AAAS.
