Resources

Things I've compiled for students or others learning remote sensing, machine learning, etc., plus a few non-technical book recommendations.

Here are some resources I’ve compiled for students or others looking to learn more about remote sensing, machine learning, etc.

Introduction to Earth Observation

Introduction to Machine Learning/Deep Learning

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(Mostly Non-Technical) Book Recommendations I read a lot of books from a wide variety of genres and find huge value in reading books that are not related to my research/expertise. Here are my favorite books from each year (in no order), in hopes that they bring you value and joy as well:

2024

• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher
• Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

2023

• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
• House of Sticks by Ly Tran
• Maame by Jessica George
• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

2022

• In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

2021

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa
• Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Educated by Tara Westover
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama
• A Woman is No Man by Nadia Murad

2020

• The Last Girl by Nadia Murad
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
• Exhalation by Ted Chiang
• The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
• Know My Name by Chanel Miller
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

2019

• The Deepest Well by Nadine Burke-Harris
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Call Me By Your Name by Andre Acimon
• Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
• The Kindness of the Hangman by Henry Oster
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman