Jim Smith
The Nature Conservancy
Biographical Sketch: Jim is currently the TNC Project Lead for LANDFIRE, residing in Jacksonville, FL. Jim earned a B.S in Timber Management and M.S. Forest Biometrics from the University of Georgia, and a Ph.D. in Forest Biometrics and Remote Sensing from Virginia Tech. Jim spent the next 13 years on the Forestry faculty at Virginia Tech, achieving the rank of Associate Professor, and has also worked in the commercial sector as the Director of Forest Information Systems development for Champion International Paper Company and International Paper Company. Jim has published in such prestigious peer-reviewed journals as Fire Ecology, Forest Science, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Canadian Journal of Forest Research and the Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. Jim has also received many professional awards, including the 2009 John Wesley Powell Award from the United States Geological Survey, Special Achievement in GIS Award from ESRI, John I. Davidson Award for Practical Papers from the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and a University Certificate of Teaching Excellence from Virginia Tech. In 2011, the International Spatial Accuracy Research Association named their early career scientist award the “James L. Smith Medal.”
Papers:
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High Thematic Resolution Land Cover Mapping and Habitat Modeling: National Gap Analysis Program and LANDFIRE