Dr. Jonathan Resop has been a lecturer in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland since 2013, teaching full time in the MS GIS program. He teaches courses in spatial modeling, Python programming, lidar remote sensing, as well as the Capstone course. Jonathan earned his Ph.D. at Virginia Tech in Biological Systems Engineering. During his time at Virginia Tech, he worked on projects related to spatial modeling and remote sensing, in particular, problems involving agricultural and ecological systems. His dissertation applied terrestrial lidar to ecological applications such as monitoring streambank retreat and stream restoration design. After completing his Ph.D. he worked as a post-doc for the USDA-ARS in the Crop Systems and Global Change Lab in Beltsville (now the Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory) simulating the potential production capacity of crops for regional food systems using a geospatial crop model. He is collaborating with the StREAM Lab at Virginia Tech to study the application of drone laser scanning for quantifying physical properties of riverscapes. Jonathan received his undergraduate degrees at the University of Maryland, College Park in Biological Resources Engineering and Computer Science.

Publications

• Resop, J. P., C. Hendrix, T. Wynn-Thompson, and W. C. Hession. April 2024. "Channel Morphology Change after Restoration: Drone Laser Scanning versus Traditional Surveying Techniques." Hydrology. 11(4): 54. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology11040054
• Resop, J. P. and J. S. Cundiff. September 2023. "Optimization of Herbaceous Feedstock Delivery to a Network of Supply Depots for a Biorefinery in the Piedmont, USA." Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biorefining. 17(6): 1528-1540. https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.2537
• Resop, J. P., J. S. Cundiff, and R. D. Grisso. June 2022. "Central Control for Optimized Herbaceous Feedstock Delivery to a Biorefinery from Satellite Storage Locations." AgriEngineering. 4(2): 544-565. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriengineering4020037
• Resop, J. P. and J. S. Cundiff. September 2021. "Assessment of Herbaceous Feedstock Supply for Locating Biorefineries in the Piedmont, USA." Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biorefining. 16(1): 43-53. https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.2297
• Resop, J. P., L. Lehmann, and W. C. Hession. September 2021. "Quantifying the Spatial Variability of Annual and Seasonal Changes in Riverscape Vegetation Using Drone Laser Scanning." Drones. 5(3): 91. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones5030091
• Resop, J. P., L. Lehmann, and W. C. Hession. April 2019. "Drone Laser Scanning for Modeling Riverscape Topography and Vegetation: Comparison with Traditional Aerial Lidar." Drones. 3(2): 35. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones3020035
• Resop, J. P., D. H. Fleisher, D. J. Timlin, D. Mutiibwa, and V. R. Reddy. December 2016. "Climate, Water Management, and Land Use: Estimating Potential Potato and Corn Production in the U.S. Northeastern Seaboard Region." Transactions of the ASABE. 59(6):1539-1553. https://doi.org/10.13031/trans.59.11748
• Resop, J. P., W. C. Hession, and T. Wynn-Thompson. July 2014. "Quantifying the Parameter Uncertainty in the Cross-sectional Dimensions for a Stream Restoration Design of a Gravel-bed Stream." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 69(4):306-315. https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.69.4.306
• Resop, J. P., D. H. Fleisher, D. J. Timlin, and V. R. Reddy. January 2014. "Biophysical Constraints to Potential Production Capacity of Potato across the U.S. Eastern Seaboard Region." Agronomy Journal. 106(1):43-56. https://doi.org/10.2134/agronj2013.0277
• Resop, J. P., D. H. Fleisher, Q. Wang, D. J. Timlin, and V. R. Reddy. November 2012. "Combining Explanatory Crop Models with Geospatial Data for Regional Analyses of Crop Yield using Field-scale Modeling Units." Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 89(1):51-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2012.08.001
• Resop, J. P., J. L. Kozarek, and W. C. Hession. April 2012. "Terrestrial Laser Scanning for Delineating In-stream Boulders and Quantifying Habitat Complexity Measures." Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 78(4):363-371. https://doi.org/10.14358/pers.78.4.363
• Resop, J. P., J. S. Cundiff, and C. D. Heatwole. February 2011. "Spatial Analysis to Site Satellite Storage Locations for Herbaceous Biomass in the Piedmont of the Southeast." Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 27(1):25-32. https://doi.org/10.13031/2013.36221
• Resop, J. P. and W. C. Hession. October 2010. "Terrestrial Laser Scanning for Monitoring Streambank Retreat: Comparison with Traditional Surveying Techniques." Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 136(10):794-798. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0000233

Data

• Hession, W. C., L. Lehmann, T. Pingel, J. Czuba, E. Prior, N. Christensen, Y. Kobayashi, and J. P. Resop. 2023. Virginia Tech StREAM Lab Winter 2021 Drone Lidar Survey. OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G9348HK3