Robert Douglas Ramsey is a professor at Utah State University and serves as the Director of the Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratory in the Department of Wildland Resources, Quinney College of Natural Resources. He received his B.S. in Range Resource Management and M.S. in Rangeland Ecology from Brigham Young University, and obtained his Ph.D. in Geography with an emphasis in Remote Sensing from the University of Utah. Across his 40-year career, he has used a variety of satellite and airborne instruments to map land cover and assess landscape conditions. His fields of interest include remote sensing, landscape ecology, spatiotemporal analysis, landscape monitoring, semi-arid landscapes, and rangeland ecology. He has conducted research in the Western U.S., Mexico, Egypt, Iceland, India, Namibia, Uzbekistan, and China, in semi-arid, forested, agricultural, and urbanized landscapes. His teaching focuses on the applications of remote sensing to natural ecosystems, and his research addresses the monitoring of landscapes to detect changes and trends in land conditions.