Earth Observation, Data, and Decisions
Remote sensing systems, of spacecraft and sensors, can be designed for new data needs to enhance resilience of human communities, and existing remote sensing systems can serve data for critical decisions of environmental monitoring, natural hazards, and infrastructure planning. This research develops tools for design of new EO systems, and for quantifying value of remote sensing data for decisions.
Selected Papers:
- A canonical approach for quantifying value of remote sensing: Implications for investments for Monitoring SDGs (2023)
- Earth observation technologies for climate change adaptation and monitoring: future projections from decadal trends (2023)
- Valuing radiometric quality of remote sensing data for decisions (2021)
- Integrating globally dispersed calibration in small satellites mission value (2020)
- Error and uncertainty in earth observation value chains (2020)
- Small spacecraft Earth Observing Missions for Natural Capital Assessment (2019)
Complex Adaptive Systems Analytics
Dynamics, evolution, and emergence in complex adaptive systems needs to be studied with modeling approaches that integrate human, technological, environmental, institutional and knowledge components. This research centers on developing novel modeling methods for guiding system design under uncertainties, optimizing investments in technologies, promoting equity, and informing policies.
Selected papers:
- Evolution of system connectivity to support food production in the Indus Basin in Pakistan (2024)
- Effects of individual strategies for resource access on collaboratively maintained irrigation infrastructure (2023)
- Optimizing Architecture Transitions Using Decision Networks (2020)
- Dynamics of technological change: nuclear energy and electric vehicles in France (2019)
- Matrix methods for spaceflight campaign logistics analysis (2009)
- Modeling methods and conceptual design principles for reconfigurable systems (2008)
Water, Energy, and Food Security
Critical human needs of water, food, and energy security are served by complex, interconnected, dynamic systems operating in a changing environment. This research: 1) explores interactions between technical infrastructure of water, energy, and agriculture, 2) investigates how to plan for new interconnected infrastructures, and 3) formulates methods and metrics to develop technically efficient, cost optimal, and equitable designs under uncertainties.
Selected Papers:
- Evolution of system connectivity to support food production in the Indus Basin in Pakistan (2024)
- Co-designing Indus water-energy-land futures (2019)
- Socio-hydrological assessments of water security in canal irrigation systems: a conjoint quantitative analysis of equity and reliability (2018)
- Leveraging the water-energy-food security nexus with a complex adaptive systems approach (2022)
- The water-energy nexus in Middle East and North Africa (2011)
- Energy use in large-scale irrigated agriculture in the Punjab province of Pakistan (2013)
Natural Resources Policy
Selected publications:
- Building strong institutions for addressing climate change and for the sustainable management of natural resources (2022)
- Sociotechnical systems and sustainability: current and future perspectives for inclusive development (2017)
- Achieving sustainable development goals from a water perspective (2016)
- Bridging decision networks for integrated water and energy planning (2013)