David P. Gold, Ph.D., (B.S., M.S. geology, University of Natal, South Africa; Ph.D. geology, McGill University, Montreal) has conducted detailed geologic and structural mapping in Canada, Africa, and the United States, and has taught courses in photogeology, remote sensing, and structural geology at Penn State University since 1968.
Gold also served on the MLA-MRS Advisory Group (NASA) on remote sensing and space technology in the 1980s. Gold has written and presented many papers involving the use of remote sensing for natural resources and environmental problems and investigations, with emphasis on lineament and fracture relationships and geologic and structural mapping, and authored chapters on the applications of remote sensing to structural geology in both the Manual of Remote Sensing and Remote Sensing in Geology texts.