Martha C. Anderson
United States Department of Agriculture, USA

Martha C. Anderson received a B.A. degree in Physics from Carleton College, Northfield, MN, and a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Presently she is a Research Physical Scientist for the USDA Agricultural Research Service in the Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory in Beltsville, MD. Her research interests focus on mapping water and energy land-surface fluxes at field to continental scales using thermal remote sensing, with applications in water management, drought monitoring, and yield estimation. She has served on the Landsat and ECOSTRESS Science Teams.