David is a remote sensing scientist with a strong background in coastal hydrogeology. His research interests cover a wide range of topics including land-water-atmosphere interactions and coastal hydrogeology. More specifically, his interests combine land use change, energy balance and water quality monitoring, and water-carbon cycle science in transitional environments at the land-sea interface. He has engaged in interdisciplinary collaborations with different agencies at the local, state, and federal levels, as well as with researchers from a variety of backgrounds.
Beyond being one of the most carbon dense ecosystems due to their high carbon sequestration rates, mangrove forests and other blue carbon wetlands are economically and biologically important from local to global scales. Sea-level rise and seawater intrusion pose high-risks of change to mangrove forests and coastal marshes, which can result in extraordinary changes to inundation and salinity that impact both above and below ground carbon cycling. The main goal of this project will consist of developing a new analytical framework from the fusion of multiple readily available ground, airborne, and spaceborne remote sensing datasets to quantify and predict rapid changes or collapse of the blue carbon landscapes. Combining these datasets will enable us to estimate forest and ecosystem changes, identify areas vulnerable to collapse, and model changes to regional carbon and water cycling to inform current restoration and research efforts in the Everglades.
Our goals are to develop the methodlogies for, and produce the initial remote sensing products necessary to implement a MRV (monitoring, reporting, and verification) system in Coastal Blue Carbon ecosystems in collaboration with local in country and international partners. We plan to estimate forest change, structure, and biomass of mangrove forests to improve carbon management, monitoring, carbon cycle science, and to inform REDD+ and carbon emission mitigation projects in Tanzania, Mozambique, and Gabon.
Lagomasino, D., T. Fatoyinbo, S. Lee, et al. E. Feliciano, C. Trettin, and M. Simard. 2016. "A Comparison of Mangrove Canopy Height Using Multiple Independent Measurements from Land, Air, and Space." Remote Sensing, 8 (4): 327 [10.3390/rs8040327]
Lee, S.-K., L. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, D. Lagomasino, et al. B. Osmanoglu, M. Simard, C. Trettin, M. Rahman, and I. Ahmed. 2015. "Large-scale mangrove canopy height map generation from TanDEM-X data by means of Pol-InSAR techniques." 2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), [10.1109/igarss.2015.7326420]
Lagomasino, D., T. Fatoyinbo, S.-K. Lee, and M. Simard. 2015. "High-resolution forest canopy height estimation in an African blue carbon ecosystem." Remote Sens Ecol Conserv, 1 (1): 51-60 [10.1002/rse2.3]
Campbell, P. K., E. M. Middleton, K. J. Thome, et al. F. Kokaly, K. F. Huemmrich, D. Lagomasino, K. Novick, and N. Brunsell. 2013. "EO-1 Hyperion Reflectance Time Series at Calibration and Validation Sites: Stability and Sensitivity to Seasonal Dynamics." IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Observations Remote Sensing, 6 (2): 276-290 [10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2246139]
Water-vegetation-atmosphere interactions in coastal carbonate estuaries
4 / 2014Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
Linking Hydrology, Geology, and Ecology at the Coastal Boundary
3 / 3 / 2016NASA GSFC Hydrospheric Sciences Branch Terrestrial Water Cycle Seminar
David is a remote sensing scientist with a strong background in coastal hydrogeology. His research interests cover a wide range of topics including land-water-atmosphere interactions and coastal hydrogeology. More specifically, his interests combine land use change, energy balance and water quality monitoring, and water-carbon cycle science in transitional environments at the land-sea interface. He has engaged in interdisciplinary collaborations with different agencies at the local, state, and federal levels, as well as with researchers from a variety of backgrounds.
Lagomasino, D., T. Fatoyinbo, S. Lee, et al. E. Feliciano, C. Trettin, and M. Simard. 2016. "A Comparison of Mangrove Canopy Height Using Multiple Independent Measurements from Land, Air, and Space." Remote Sensing 8 (4): 327 [10.3390/rs8040327]
Lee, S.-K., L. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, D. Lagomasino, et al. B. Osmanoglu, M. Simard, C. Trettin, M. Rahman, and I. Ahmed. 2015. "Large-scale mangrove canopy height map generation from TanDEM-X data by means of Pol-InSAR techniques." 2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) [10.1109/igarss.2015.7326420]
Lagomasino, D., T. Fatoyinbo, S.-K. Lee, and M. Simard. 2015. "High-resolution forest canopy height estimation in an African blue carbon ecosystem." Remote Sens Ecol Conserv 1 (1): 51-60 [10.1002/rse2.3]
Campbell, P. K., E. M. Middleton, K. J. Thome, et al. F. Kokaly, K. F. Huemmrich, D. Lagomasino, K. Novick, and N. Brunsell. 2013. "EO-1 Hyperion Reflectance Time Series at Calibration and Validation Sites: Stability and Sensitivity to Seasonal Dynamics." IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Observations Remote Sensing 6 (2): 276-290 [10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2246139]