Martha Carol Anderson is research scientist with the United States Department of Agriculture.
[1] Anderson conducted her Ph.D. research in the field of observational astrophysics, focusing on the investigation of supernovae.
[2][3] She then changed her research focus to the interactions between soils, plants, and the atmosphere[4] and how this is detected using remote sensing.
She uses data from satellites to develop models[5][6] that are used to predict droughts and soil moisture stress,[7] and the subsequent impacts on crops.
[9] In 2022, she also received the John Dalton medal from the European Geosciences Union in recognition of her work on "multi-scale thermal remote sensing to evapotranspiration and drought impact assessments.