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Jon Dewitz

Jon Dewitz is a Physical Scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center and is the USGS Program Coordinator and Integration lead for the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LANDFIRE) project. 

Jon has worked at EROS since 2000, with his first 8 years as a contractor.  Jon spent the majority of his career creating Land Cover products.  He led the modernization of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) through virtualization, scripting, and machine learning for the 2001 to 2021 production runs including prototyping and designing the NLCD processing systems for those years.  Jon played a large part in all NLCD accuracy assessment strategies and data collection, as well as leading Impervious surface and Forest Canopy product creation.  Jon has also conducted field work across Alaska and the conterminous United States and has trained and led field work teams for both. 

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