Blaine Fisher

Research

Reading terrain, coast to canopy.

Geospatial science where the scale changes but the question stays grounded — from a vanishing river delta to Classic Maya defensive landscapes, all built on remote sensing, GIS, and spatial analysis.

2024 — 2029 · National Academies01

MissDelta — Mississippi River Delta Transition Initiative

A $22M, five-year consortium of 14 institutions studying the Birdsfoot Delta, funded by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Dr. Fisher leads remote sensing and geospatial science — capturing how the coast is changing and what can be done about it.

  • LiDAR
  • Multispectral
  • Thermal
  • Photogrammetry
  • GIS

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LSU · Ph.D. dissertation, 202402

Dos Aguadas, Guatemala

Strategic Fortifications and Warfare: Analyzing Defensive Earthworks at Dos Aguadas, Guatemala through LiDAR and GIS — a study of Classic Maya defensive strategy in the Petén, reconstructed from the landscape itself.

  • LiDAR
  • GIS
  • Least-cost path
  • Line of sight
  • Volumetric labor
  • Population estimation

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Methods & tools03

The geospatial stack

  • ArcGIS Pro, ArcPy & QGIS
  • LiDAR, multispectral, thermal & photogrammetric sensing
  • Least-cost path & line-of-sight analysis
  • Population estimation & volumetric labor analysis

Research collaboration or geospatial work?

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