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Yuri Knyazikhin
Yuri Knyazikhin received the B.S. degree in applied mathematics with
honors from Tartu University, Estonia, and the Ph.D. degree in Physics
and Mathematics from the N. I. Muskhelishvilli Institute of Computing
Mathematics, the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia,
in 1978 and 1985, respectively. He is currently a Research Professor in
the Department of Geography at Boston University. His research interests
include remote sensing of vegetation, theory of radiative transfer in
plant canopies, atmospheres and clouds. He is a member of the MISR
and ARM science teams, and is responsible for developing the leaf
area index (LAI) and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active
radiation (FPAR) products.
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