Dr. Petya Krasteva Entcheva Campbell
Professor · Non-Tenure Track
Department of Geography & Environmental Systems Office of Professional Programs
About
Dr. Campbell is an experienced scientist, forest engineer and ecologist by training.Her research focus is on Remote Sensing for Natural Resources, specifically spectral analyses for assessment of vegetation condition, ecosystem monitoring and forest damage detection using reflectance and fluorescence measurements.
She has conducted numerous field campaigns, in US and abroad, collecting: vegetation traits, spectral and biophysical data for the analysis of satellite and airborne acquisitions.
Dr. Campbell is teaching undergraduate and graduate course on remote sensing for environmental applications. She has mentored undergraduate and graduate students and served on graduate student committees.
Research interests
Dr. Campbell’s research focus is on spectral analysis for the assessment of vegetation function and damage detection.Dr. Campbell has experience collecting and analyzing vegetation reflectance and fluorescence measurements, ecosystem gas exchange parameters, as well as measuring other associated biophysical characteristics. She works with spectroscopy data collected in the laboratory, on the field, from aircraft, and from satellite for a variety of vegetation canopies (forests and crops, C3 and C4 vegetation).
Teaching interests
Dr. Campbell has the ability to teach courses in the following disciplines:• Remote Sensing for natural resources management
• Ecosystem Health, Monitoring and Management -- Plant Physiological Ecology
• Forest Sylviculture; Forest Stand Dynamics
• Geographic Information Systems for Environmental Monitoring and Natural Resources Management.
At UMBC she has thought GES 481 undergraduate and GES 681 graduate class, Class title: Remote sensing for environmental applications
Education
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Ph D, Forest Analysis/Remote Sensing
— University of New Hampshire (2000) REMOTE SENSING OF FOREST DAMAGE USING HYPERSPECTRAL METHODS IN THE KRUSNE HORY, CZECH REPUBLIC
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MS, Forest Sylviculture & Ecology
— University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1994) Characterized the growth patterns of suppressed white pine in the development of Northern Hardwood forests, Quabbin Water Reservoir, MA.
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BS, Forest Engineering
— University of Forest Engineering, Sofia, Bulgaria (1988) Vegetative reproduction of Metasequoia gliptostroboides, application of bio-stimulators and the method in vitro