Chandi Witharana
Assistant Professor/Natural Resources and Environ

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Scholarly Contributions

140 Scholarly Contributions

70
Journal Articles
53
Poster/Presentations
12
Conference Proceedings
3
Other Scholarly Works
2
Artistic and Professional Performancess
High-resolution Arctic Built Infrastructure and Terrain Analysis Tool (HABITAT)
2025
Chandi Witharana
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Vision Transformers for Pan-Arctic Scale Mapping Applications  
2025
Chandi Witharana
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Map the Gap: Detecting and Characterizing Pan-Arctic Infrastructure with Satellite Imagery and AI
2025
Chandi Witharana
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Arctic Infrastructure Mapping with AI
2025
Elias Manos, Chandi Witharana
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Adapting silviculture to urban-exurban forest socioecological systems
Anita T. Morzillo, Daniel Hale, Steven DiFalco, John C. Volin, Amanda Bunce, Julia Rogers, Robert T. Fahey, Mark Rudnicki, Jason R Parent, Danielle Kloster
Research Type: Conference Proceedings

Developing a new ArcGis tool to quantify building-content vulnerability from storm-surge inundation
Jeffrey P Osleeb, Daniel Civco, Chandi Witharana, Thomas Meyer
Research Type: Conference Proceedings

Operational-Scale GeoAI for Pan-Arctic Permafrost Feature Detection from High-Resolution Satellite Imagery
Mahendra R Udawalpola, Amit Hasan, Chandi Witharana, Anna K Liljedahl
Research Type: Conference Proceedings

Who does what where? Advanced earth observation for humanitarian crisis management
Chandi Witharana
Research Type: Conference Proceedings

Permafrost Discovery Gateway: A web platform to enable discovery and knowledge-generation of permafrost Big Imagery products
Jason M Cervenec, Amber E Budden, Benjamin M Jones, Matthew B Jones, Jennifer Moss, Michael Brubaker, Kenton McHenry, Anna K Liljedahl, Guido Grosse, Luigi Marini
Research Type: Conference Proceedings

Circumpolar observations of thermokarst pool expansion in high-resolution satellite imagery
Tabea Rettelbach, Dylan R Harp, Charles J Abolt, , Collin T Rumpca, Anna Liljedahl, Chandi Witharana, Jean C Wilson, Bob Bolton, Torre Jorgenson
Research Type: Conference Proceedings

Investigating synergies of data fusion and image segmentation in earth observation based rapid mapping workflows
Chandi Witharana
Research Type: Conference Proceedings

Assessing the spatial fidelity of resolution-enhanced imagery using fourier analysis: A proof-of-concept study
Chandi Witharana, Daniel Civco
Research Type: Conference Proceedings

Evaluating remote sensing image fusion algorithms for use in humanitarian crisis management
Daniel Civco, Chandi Witharana
Research Type: Conference Proceedings

Over a billion ice-wedge polygons mapped across the Arctic tundra
Matthew Jones, Amit Hasan, Anna Liljedhal, Kenton McHenry, Chandi Witharana, Mahendra R Udawalpola
Research Type: Journal Article

Roadside vegetation risk modelling using Dashcam video data
Chandi Witharana, Durga Joshi
Research Type: Journal Article

Two-stage Deep Learning Model for Efficient Detection of Arctic Ice-Wedge Polygons in Very High Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery
Chandi Witharana, Amit Hasan, Anna Liljedahl, Mahendra Udawalpola
Research Type: Journal Article

Topography is a more important control than air temperature on circumpolar variability in thermokarst pool expansion
William R Bolton, Adam L Atchley, Chandi Witharana, Torre M Jorgenson, Cathy J Wilson, Charles R Abolt, Julia Boike, Dylan R Harp, Anna Liljedahl, Collin T Rumpca, Guido Grosse, Tabea Rettelbach, , Ingmar Nitze, Katrina Bennett
Research Type: Journal Article

Understanding the effect of spectral variance on deep learning model predictions: A case study on automated ice-wedge polygon extraction from multispectral commercial satellite imagery using Mask R-CNN algorithm
Anna K Liljedahl, Chandi Witharana, Md Abul Ehsan Bhuiyan
Research Type: Journal Article

Permafrost Thaw Drives Surface Water Drainage Across the Pan-Arctic
Chandi Witharana, Jada Cordeiro, Anna Lijedah, Michael M Loranty, Elizabeth E Webb, Jeremy W Lichstein
Research Type: Journal Article

Detection of clouds in medium-resolution satellite imagery using deep convolutional neural nets
Amit Hasan, Chandi Witharana
Research Type: Journal Article