Adam Mathews

Adam Mathews is an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Tourism at Western Michigan University specializing in geographic information science. Although Dr. Mathews is a broadly-trained geographer with a wide variety of interests, he specifically focuses on unmanned aerial system (UAS)-based low-altitude remote sensing to model and examine environmental problems. Previous work utilized UAS remote sensing in vineyards to characterize grapevine canopy in three-dimensions and relate UAS-Structure from Motion (SfM) data products to crop performance. Other projects include GIS-based modeling of tornado siren sound propagation, lidar-based remote sensing of urban structures for population estimation, conceptual work on the use of UAS technology in geography and geographic information science, curricular research on a comprehensive GPS lesson, GIS modeling of the effect of atmospheric warming on wine grape phenology in Australia wine regions, and more.

His research has been funded by the:

• AGU Centennial Grant Program
• Michigan Space Grant Consortium
• Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department
• NASA EPSCoR/Oklahoma Space Grant Consortium
• Australian Federal Government

Articles based on research projects have been published in:

• Applied Geography
• Cartography and Geographic Information Science
• Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
• Geographical Review
• GeoJournal
• Journal of Cultural Geography
• Journal of Wine Research
• International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
• International Journal of Biometeorology
• International Journal of Remote Sensing
• Remote Sensing

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