Leif Olmanson

Background

About Leif Olmanson

Leif Olmanson is a Research Scientist at the University of Minnesota with over 25 years of experience developing remote sensing applications to create temporally and spatially rigorous datasets of water and land resources for large area ecosystem characterization. He is particularly interested in developing field-validated image processing methods implemented in automated geospatial analysis systems such as Google’s Earth Engine and Minnesota Supercomputing Institutes supercomputers to gain a better understanding of the natural environment. He lead a team of researchers and computer scientists that built an automated system to derive water quality information for Minnesota’s lakes using satellite imagery that has the capability for near real-time water quality monitoring to provide critical water quality information for lake management. We are currently focusing outside of Minnesota with a current focus on Michigan lakes and beyond. The Minnesota LakeBrowser https://lakes.rs.umn.edu/ was recently updated with 2017 through 2021 monthly (May-Oct) chlorophyll, clarity, CDOM pixel, and lake level data. Check out your favorite lakes!