| Peter
Ersts |
Peter Ersts is a Project Specialist at the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. In addition to providing spatial datasets for the Center's projects, he has assisted in designing and facilitating workshops on techniques for applying remote sensing and GIS to biodiversity conservation both in Bolivia and Vietnam, and is actively planning additional workshops in South America, Africa and Indochina. Peter previously worked for the NASA Landsat Humid Tropical Inventory Project where he analyzed Landsat data to determine rates of deforestation in the Pan-Amazon Basin and Central Africa. He earned his degree in computer science, with a specialization in image processing and a concentration in geography, from the University of Maryland. Peter has studied French and such programming languages as C/C++, Java, Pascal, Assembly, FORTRAN, LISP, TCL, ML, SPIM, SQL, ARC/INFOAML, and Avenue. He has international field experience in Bolivia, Vietnam, The Bahamas, and most recently, Madagascar. |
