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Mr. Kyuho Lee

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Kyuho
Research Student (MSc CMU Environmental Science)

Kyuho, gained a B.Sc.(Agr.) in Forestry from Chungnam National University, South Korea, and worked in the Korea National Park Service and Korea Program for International Agriculture (KOPIA) Cambodia Center. In 2019, he won a CMU Presidential Scholarship and enrolled in CMU's MSc Environmental Science Program. He opted to pursue his thesis research project with FORRU-CMU, on automated monitoring of forest restoration; investigating how conventional RGB photography from a drone might be used to assess forest degradation and restoration. The field costs of his research were partially supported by a grant from FORRU-CMU. He successfully defended his thesis in 2021 and is now preparing it for publication.

Key Achievement

  1. Lee, K., 2021. Developing a Forest-Degradation Index for Forest Ecosystem Restoration Using UAV-based RGB Photography. MSc Special Project Thesis
  2. Lee, K., Wangpakapattanawong, P., and Khokthong, W. 2022. Evaluating Forest Cover Changes in Protected Areas Using Geospatial Analysis in Chiang Mai, Thailand. CMU J. Nat. Sci. 21(2): e2022030.

Email: paulestlee@gmail.com