Chris W. Baynard




Salto Kama in Venezuela's Gran Sabana

Research Interests

  1. Mapping and monitoring changes in land use and land cover tied to natural resource use via the application of geospatial technologies such as remote sensing (satellite image analysis), GPS (global positioning system) and GIS (geographic information systems). Analyzing economic and political drivers associated with such changes.
  2. The ecological footprint created by petroscape expansion in eastern Venezuela's heavy oil belt (HOB)-- currently under review.
  3. Logging, agriculture, gold and oil: a review of renewable versus nonrenewable resource extraction.
  4. A GIS analysis of economically recoverable oil from Florida’s onshore deposits.
  5. Modeling land cover changes resulting from increased oil production in South Florida using satellite image analysis.
  6. Detecting changes in illegal crop production in eastern Colombia using satellite image analysis.
  7. Innovation and competitive advantage in the Chilean and Argentinean wine industry.
  8. Ciudad Guayana: land-use and economic development in a frontier growth pole in eastern Venezuela.
  9. Energy and environment.
  10. Environmental management
    Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
    Sustainable development
    Business and the environment.

Electronic Papers/Proceedings:

  1. 2009 Petroleum Users Group Conference Proceedings: The Ecological Footprint of Oil Production and Sustainability. LINK.

  2. Society of Petroleum Engineers Paper: Mapping and Monitoring the Petroscape in Venezuela's Heavy oil belt with Landsat and CBERS satellite images. LINK.

  3. ESRI Southeast Regional User Group Conference (SERUG) Presentation: Venezuela's Heavy Oil Belt: monitoring exploration and production-related land cover changes. LINK