It was the third summer internship of the graduate student Natlee M. Hernandez-Guevara with the U.S. Geological Survey, but this year 2010 was as SCEP (Student Career Experience Program). As in previous summers, she was part of the Eastern Geographic Science Center, working under the supervision of Dr. John W. Jones, a geographer of the agency. This summer she used Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems tools to classified fires on the Florida’s Everglades. The classifications were based on feature extractions, variables of importance, and decision trees. This tool will help to improve the existing fire database, with precise boundaries, edges and location of the fires. All this work was presented by Natlee on the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (GEER) 2010 bi-annual conference.
