Dr Eli Melaas
Senior Remote Sensing Scientist
Dr Eli Melaas's interests
Forestry
Soil Carbon & Agriculture
Carbon markets
Climate science
Data science
Earth observation
Earth science
Geospatial sciences
GIS
Machine learning
Mathematics
Plant sciences
Remote sensing
Satellite imagery
Other Agricultural Practices
Soil-Related Agricultural Practices
Dr Eli Melaas is a remote sensing scientist whose work looks at detection and monitoring of conventional and regenerative agricultural practices, with particular focus on cover cropping, tillage and irrigation.
Before joining BeZero, he was working as a Senior Remote Sensing Data Scientist at Indigo Ag, with a critical focus on developing algorithms for detecting agricultural practices.
Selected publications
2024, Remote Sensing Algorithms for Mapping Regenerative Agriculture
Education:
Boston University, Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Boston University, Doctoral researcher in Earth & Environmental Science
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Space to farm: remote sensing of agricultural practices
Outlining regenerative agriculture projects and the remote sensing tools used to detect and monitor agricultural practices
No pain, no grain: the future of rice methane
Exploring rice methane projects, and whether new methodologies and improved MRV techniques could lead to their resurgence in the VCM