The Center’s Desert Research Station (DRS) is a research and display facility located in the Mojave Desert, near the town of Hinkley, California. The DRS supports interpretive programs about the land uses of this remarkable hinterland of the Los Angeles region.
The DRS is open only during scheduled programs.
DESERT RESEARCH STATION LOCATION
REMOTE SENSING: EXPLORATIONS INTO THE ART OF DETECTION
Part Two: Remote Sensing in the Field
January 18 – February 16, 2025
Open Saturday and Sunday
10 am to 5 pm
Remote Sensing: Explorations Into the Art of Detection explores the art and science of remote sensing in literal and expressive ways, and is in two parts, based out of two locations: one in urban Los Angeles, and the other in the Mojave desert. Part two of the program explores remote sensing phenomenology in the field, through projects based out of the Desert Research Station, including by principal investigators Julia Christensen, Rob Ray, the Space Song Foundation, and Deborah Stratman and Steve Badgett.
Some of the programs and projects based out of the DRS:
MORE CLUI BUS TOURS INTO THE DESERT, 2001
DESERT RESEARCH STATION REPORT, 2018
DESERT RESEARCH STATION REPORT, 2013