Dr. David Roy
BIOGRAPHY
David Roy is the Director of the Center for Global Change and Earth Observations. He has a Ph.D. from the Department of Geography, Cambridge University U.K. (1994), an M.Sc. degree in Remote Sensing and Image Processing from the Department of Meteorology, University of Edinburgh (1988), and a B.Sc. degree in Geophysics from the Department of Environmental Science, University of Lancaster (1987). In Europe, he held post-doctoral research fellowships at the Natural Environment Research Council Unit for Thematic Information Systems, University of Reading, U.K., and at the Space Applications Institute, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy.
He moved to the U.S. in 1998 to join the Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland (where he remains an Adjunct Professor) and led the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Land Data Operational Product Evaluation group at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center for eight years. He was then a professor (and remains an Adjunct Professor) in the Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence, South Dakota State University for thirteen years.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
David Roy was hired under the MSU Global Impact initiative. His research interests include the development of remote sensing and advanced computational methods to map and characterize the Earth system, and in particular, terrestrial global change. Nowadays, practitioners often refer to this as environmental data science. The long-term research goal is to enable the provision of information and science to monitor and model the Earth system. He is a member of a number of NASA Satellite Science Teams.