Janet Franklin (born July 8, 1959 in Frankfurt, Germany[1]) is an American geographer, botanist, and landscape ecologist.
She is currently a Distinguished Professor of Biogeography in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at the University of California Riverside.
[4][5] Franklin received her start in remote sensing as a doctoral candidate when she was recruited by a professor on the basis of her ability to distinguish different species of pine tree from aerial photographs.
Her 1995 paper, Predictive vegetation mapping: geographic modeling of biospatial patterns in relation to environmental gradients, is considered a foundational work of modern, remote sensing-based landscape ecology.
[2] Franklin's work focuses on the use of remote sensing techniques to model and understand vegetated landscapes.