Dewberry will explore our effort supporting the NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) in producing high-resolution land cover for eight counties along the Gulf Coast. The C-CAP program is a nationally standardized land cover data set, providing foundational sources used in predictive models, including sea level rise, storm water management, documenting wetland losses and restoration, urban heat islands, and social equality measures, to support decision makers with accurate and repeatable data to assist with management decisions and tracking change over time.

Biography:

John McCombs has been working in the remote sensing field for 30 years, starting in wildlife management and forestry, before working as a contractor at the NOAA Office for Coastal Management for 20 years. He has been with Dewberry since 2024 as a geospatial project manager, helping lead multiple projects with NOAA and North Carolina. He is the current Project Manager for the development of High-Resolution Land Cover for Coastal Alabama and Mississippi.