Petya Encheva Campbell
Research Assistant Professor

Departmental Affiliation:

Geography and Environmental Systems

JCET Research Group:

Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory

GSFC Code:

614.4

Mailing Address:

Hydrological and Biospheric Sciences
Building 33, Room G313
NASA GSFC, Code 614.4
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 614-6784

Fax:

(301) 614-6695

Email:

petya.campbell@nasa.gov

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Biography:

Dr. Petya K. Entcheva Campbell received a BS in Forestry from the Academy of Forest Engineering, Sofia, Bulgaria in 1988, MS in Forest Sylviculture and Ecology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA and a Ph.D. in Forest Analysis/Remote Sensing in 2000 from the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, where her research focus was on the development of remote sensing techniques for forest health assessment. In 2000, Dr. Campbell joined NASA as NRC Associate and worked at Goddard Space Research Center for two years before joining JCET/UMBC where she is currently employed. Her experience and expertise are in remote sensing for natural resources (PhD), with a specific interest in remote sensing, especially spectral analyses and assessments for the development of methods (algorithms, measurement techniques) for vegetation stress assessments and land cover change detection. She started work in this direction as a post-doctoral research associate of Dr. Middleton at NASA/GSFC, and later continued as a Prime Investigator on a small grant for Exploratory Research (funded by the National Science Foundation). At GSFC she participates in NASA's "Light Use Efficiency and Carbon Science" research led by Dr. Middleton and has participated in the development of the satellite hyperspectral mission's Flora/SpectraSat for vegetation assessment led by Drs. Ungar and Asner. Currently, she is part of a research effort to develop spectral bio-indicators of vegetation stress, to facilitate the remote-sensing assessment of vegetation photosynthesis and carbon sequestration. She is also participating in an EO-1 Hyperion data intercalibration and analysis effort, with the goal to compare existing and suggest new land cover products, addressing vegetation type and function. At the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Dr. Campbell has taught the Remote Sensing of Environment undergraduate/graduate classes within the Department of Geography. As the current Technical Secretariat of the Working Group on Calibration and Validation of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS/WGCV), under the chairmanship of Dr. C. Cao (NOAA), she follows with interest the plans for new satellite capabilities of various agencies and would like to contribute to the efforts on data calibration, product development, validation and inter-comparison.