Gary Borstad

Biography

Several themes run through his career: 1) Development of new remote sensing methods and instruments, especially hyperspectral sensing; and of water colour including chlorophyll fluorescence; 2) Application across many disciplines - including oceanography/limnology, oil spills, fisheries, forestry, geology, agriculture, military/security and 3) Application of long time series for change detection, including climate change. He helped develop the Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI) in the late 1980s and his company has flown one ever since. In the late 1990s they redeveloped the SWIR Full Spectrum Imager for commercial hyperspectral mineral exploration. Their current hyperspectral activity involves state-of-the-art satellite and airborne sensors. Recent work focuses on seasonal, inter-annual and long term change - as it relates to industrial disturbance and reclamation, and to climate. He also is interested in acoustic remote sensing of wind, bubbles, fish and zooplankton from underwater instruments that ASL manufactures. In 2015 Gary is mostly retired, having transferred his management responsibilities to Dr. Kaan Ersahin. Gary provides high level advice and strategic assistance at corporate, division and project levels, and assists where his long experience in the field of remote sensing is an asset. He is available for short-term training assignments.

Research Interest

Remote sensing, especially hyper spectral and multi- temporal, Oceanography, Biology