Philip Dennison

Philip Dennison is a Professor at the School of Environment, Society & Sustainability, University of Utah, with a career spanning two decades in Geography. He holds degrees from Penn State University (BS) and University of California Santa Barbara (MA, PhD).

• Research focus on remote sensing, ecological modeling, and wildfire management
• Teaching includes courses like Intro to Remote Sensing and thesis supervision

His work bridges geoinformatics and atmospheric sciences, addressing challenges in non-photosynthetic vegetation monitoring, firefighter safety zone design, and global greenhouse gas quantification. Recent studies explore airborne and spaceborne lidar for biomass estimation in piñon-juniper woodlands and crowdsourced GPS data for pedestrian mobility modeling.

Collaborative efforts include NASA's EMIT mission for methane attribution and FIREX-AQ thunderstorm measurements. His machine learning frameworks (random forests, XGBoost) enhance visibility mapping and wildfire risk prediction.