Matthew Hansen

Matthew Hansen

Co Director GLAD, Professor

Email: 
mhansen@umd.edu

Prof. Matthew Hansen is a remote sensing scientist with a research specialization in large area land cover and land use change mapping. His research is focused on developing improved algorithms, data inputs and thematic outputs which enable the mapping of land cover change at regional, continental and global scales. Such maps enable better informed approaches to natural resource management, including deforestation and biodiversity monitoring and can also be used by other scientists as inputs to carbon, climate and hydrological modeling studies. Prof. Hansen's work as an Associate Team Member of NASA's MODIS Land Science Team included the algorithmic development and product delivery of the MODIS Vegetation Continuous Field land cover layers. His current research includes taking the global processing model for MODIS and applying it to the Landsat archive. Exhausting mining of the Landsat archive has been used to map forest disturbance in the Congo Basin, Indonesia, European Russia, Mexico, Quebec and the United States. The methods developed in these efforts will be used to test global-scale disturbance mapping with Landsat data. Other current research efforts focus on improving global cropland monitoring capabilities, for example global soybean cultivated area estimation using MODIS, Landsat and RapidEye data sets.


Projects: Principal Investigator

Publications:


Presentations:

  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Talero, A., Krylov, A., and Tyukavina, A., Updates on global forest monitoring, Google booth, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 15-19, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Talero, A., Krylov, A., and Tyukavina, A., Monitoring forest cover loss with Landsat data, Technologies and innovations to better understand changes in land use, Global Landscapes Forum, Lima, Peru, Dec. 6-7, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Stehman, S., Tyukavina, A., Krylov, A., Forest Disturbance Mapping with Landsat:  The Potential for Assessing Tropical Forest Protected Areas, NASA Hyperwall at the World Parks Congress, Sydney, Australia, Nov. 12-19, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Stehman, S., Tyukavina, A., Krylov, A., Global tree cover loss, Global Forest Watch Annual Partnerships Meeting, Washington, D.C., Sep. 29-30, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina, A., Stehman, S., Egorov, A., Krylov, A., and Noel, J., USA, DRC, Peru and Pan-Tropical forest loss area estimation, SilvaCarbon/GFOI Workshop on Accuracy Assessment and Area Estimation, Bogota, Colombia, Sep. 22-23, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina, A., Amani, P., Krylov, A., and Talero, Y.,Sharing our experience and capabilities in large area forest extent and change monitoring, Global Observations of Forests Initiative Summit, Armenia, Colombia, Sep. 17-19, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Stehman, S., Tyukavina, A., University of Maryland forest mapping update, Guyana REDD+ Meeting, Georgetown, Guyana, Sep. 7-9, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P. King, L., Adusei, B., Mapping crop type at national scales, visit by Brazilian National Supply Company (CONAB), College Park , MD, July 14-16, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Moore, R., Hancher, M., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina, A., Thau, D., Stehman, S., Goetz, S., Loveland, T., Kommareddy, A., Egorov, A., Chini, L., Justice, C. and Townshend, J., Monitoring global forest change at local scales using earth observation data, WWF Science for Nature seminar series, Washington, D.C., June 19, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Stehman, S., Tyukavina, A., Mane, L., Altstatt, A., Nackoney, J., Amani, P., Munzimi, Y., and Molinario, G., Deforestation in the Congo Basin: How Will it Affect the Development of the Region?, World Bank Africa REDD+ Seminar Series, Washington, D.C., with connections to Kinshasa, DRC, Brazzaville, RoC, and Yaounde, Cameroon, June 18, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Dempewolf, J., Mapping with Landsat data, STARS kick-off meeting, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, June 10-11, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina, A., Stehman, S., Global forest monitoring using Landsat data, World Bank Learning Seminar - Forest Carbon Finance:  Global Forest Watch - See what is happening in forests worldwide, Washington, D.C., May 22, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Google Earth Engine, Forest Cover Change case, Annual LP DAAC UWG Technical Exchange, Sioux Falls, SD, April 22-23, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Moore, R., Hancher, M., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina, A., Thau, D., Stehman, S., Goetz, S., Loveland, T., Kommareddy, A., Egorov, A., Chini, L., Justice, C. and Townshend, J., Global land monitoring using Landsat data, presentation to Data Science MD, Columbia, MD, April 10, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Moore, R., Hancher, M., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina, A., Thau, D., Stehman, S., Goetz, S., Loveland, T., Kommareddy, A., Egorov, A., Chini, L., Justice, C. and Townshend, J., Global land monitoring using Landsat data, Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy seminar series, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, April 7, 2014.   
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Moore, R., Hancher, M., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina, A., Thau, D., Stehman, S., Goetz, S., Loveland, T., Kommareddy, A., Egorov, A., Chini, L., Justice, C. and Townshend, J., Global land monitoring using Landsat data, AniMove 2014 training course, Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation,  Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, VA, April 1, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Stehman, S., Tyukavina, A., Mane, L., Altstatt, A., Nackoney, J., Amani, P., Munzimi, Y., and Molinario, G., Justice, C., Tucker, J., Forest extent and change, International conference on land use change and forest biomass in Central Africa, Libreville, Gabon, March 21-22, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina, A., Stehman, S., Using remote sensing to monitor global forests, presentation at the University of Marien Ngouabi, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, Mar. 16, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina, A., Stehman, S., Global forest monitoring using Landsat data, Meeting on the need and potential of global maps to guide national results-based forest monitoring, Norwegian Space Center, Oslo, Norway, March 3-4, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Becker-Reshef, I., Justice, C., Dempewolf, J., Potapov, P., and Adusei, B., Agricultural monitoring using MODIS, Landsat and RapidEye data sets, presentation to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Springfield, VA, March 4, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Project overview, thematic definitions and prioritization, MEaSUREs Vegetation Continuous Field Modeling Working Group, College Park, Maryland, Feb. 25, 2014.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Margono, B., Turubanova, S., Stolle, F., Moore, R., Hancher, M., Tyukavina, A., and Stehman, S., Global forest cover loss and Indonesia primary forest cover loss, 2nd Roundtable Discussion on Deforestation Calculation: Linking Science and Policy: Current Science Community Results on Deforestation Estimates and its Contribution to Enhance the Robustness of National Forest Governance, Jakarta, Indonesia, Feb. 7, 2014
  • Hansen, M.C., Justice, C., Tucker, J., Mane, L., Altstatt, A., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Stehman, S., Nackoney, J., Tyukavina, A., Amani, P., Munzimi, Y., and Molinario, G., NASA/UMd/OSFAC consortium, CARPE Partners Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE) Partners Meeting, Washington, D.C., Jan. 27-28.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Moore, R., Hancher, M., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina, A., Thau, D., Stehman, S., Goetz, S., Loveland, T., Kommareddy, A., Egorov, A., Chini, L., Justice, C. and Townshend, J., Observing the forest and the trees:  the first high resolution map of global forest change, User needs and future system solutions for low-cost high-resolution (1-5m) optical satellite data for global forest monitoring maps, Norwegian Space Center, Oslo, Norway, January 16-17.
  • Hansen, M.C., Earth observation data and derived products as a set of facts, presentation to the Planet Labs Impact Advisory Working Group, San Francisco, CA , January 13-14.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina, A., Egorov, A., Roy, D., Moore, R., Hancher, M., Thau, D., Ilyushchenko, S., Goetz, S., Baccini, A., Loveland, T., and Giri, C., Towards monitoring of global land dynamics with Landsat data, Michigan Tech University, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 14, 2013.
  • Hansen, M.C., Chair, Roundtable Discussion:  Towards a Robust and Internationally Recognized Deforestation Accounting Methodology, hosted by the President’s Delivery Unit on Development Monitoring and Oversight (UKP4) for Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, February 7-8, 2013.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina, A., Egorov, A., Roy, D., Moore, R., Hancher, M., Thau, D., Ilyushchenko, S., Goetz, S., Baccini, A., Loveland, T., and Giri, C., Towards monitoring of global forest disturbance with Landsat data, Identifying the Top 10 Conservation Challenges that Can Be Answered Through Remote Sensing Technologies,  National Conservation Training Center, Shepardstown, West Virginia, January 7-11, 2013.
  • INCAS (Indonesian National Carbon Accounting Systems) meeting in Jakarta. November 13 – 17, 2012.
  • LUC emission, data and modeling meeting at Exeter. October 17 – 19, 2012.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina, A., Egorov, A., Roy, D., Moore, R., Hancher, M., Thau, D., Ilyushchenko, S., Goetz, S., Baccini, A., Loveland, T., and Giri, C., Towards monitoring of global land dynamics, SBSC Launch symposium “Spatial Biodiversity Science and Conservation at  a Global Scale”, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, October 23-24, 2012.
  • Hansen, M.C., Carpe and earth observation science, presentation to Jane Goodall and team from the Jane Goodall Institute, College Park, Maryland, October 12, 2012.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Turubanova, S., Egorov, A., and Tyukavina, A., Large area forest monitoring with Landsat, ForestSAT 2012, Corvallis, Oregon, September 11-14, 2012.
  • Hansen, M.C., Mueller, R., Loveland, T., Stehman, S., Becker-Reshef, I., Rudorff, B., Shimabukuro, Y., DiBella, C., and McCarty, J., Integrating MODIS crop characterization capabilities with AWiFS and agricultural survey data in support of USDA NASS DSS and Advancing methods for global crop area estimation, NASA Applied Sciences Program, Water Resources PI Team Meeting, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, September 5-6, 2012.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., and Turubanova, S., Forest Cover Monitoring with Landsat and MODIS Data, Presentation to the Peru Ministry of Environment, Lima, Peru, July 20, 2012.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Turubanova, S., and Tyukavina, S., Sixth GEO-FCT Workshop on Forest  Monitoring, San Jose, Costa Rica, August 20-24, 2012.
  • Hansen, M.C., Justice, C., Becker-Reshef, I., Dempewolf, J., Sullivan, M., Guindin, N., Adusei, B., King, L., Noel, J. and Ernst, C., Monitoring croplands with MODIS and Landsat data, The National Space Agency of Pakistan (SUPARCO), Islamabad, Pakistan, June 22, 2012.
  • Hansen, M.C., CARPE and earth observation science, United States Agency for International Development Geographic Intelligence Center, Washington, DC, May 29, 2012.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., DiMiceli, C., Sohlberg, R., and Carroll, M., MODIS continuous fields for large area monitoring of land cover, MODIS Science Team Meeting, Silver Spring, MD, May 7-8, 2012.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., and Turubanova, S., National-scale monitoring of Indonesia forest cover, Indonesia  One Map Study Visit, USGS Headquarters, Reston, VA, April 24, 2012.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., and Turubanova, S., Methods overview for national-scale monitoring of Indonesia forest cover, Forest mapping and monitoring workshop, Indonesia Space Agency Headquarters, Jakarta, Indonesia, April 16-20, 2012.
  • Hansen, M.C., Global cultivated soybean area estimation using multi-resolution, multi-temporal satellite data sets, Opening of Joint Center on Global Change and Earth System Science between the University of Maryland and Beijing Normal University, College Park, MD, February 28, 2012.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Loveland, T., Giri, C., Roy, D., and Egorov, A., Global land cover monitoring – progress and remaining challenges, International Symposium on Remote Sensing and GIS Methods for Change Detection and Spatio-temporal Modelling, Hong Kong, China, December 14-17, 2011.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Roy, D., Egorov, A., Loveland, T., and Giri, C., Mapping national land cover disturbance for the continental United States, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 5-9, 2011.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Roy, D., Egorov, A., Loveland, T., and Giri, C., Monitoring U.S. land cover change, National Climate Assessment (NCA) Land Use-Land Cover (LULC) National Stakeholder Workshop, Salt Lake City, November 29-December 1, 2011.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Loveland, T., Giri, C., Roy, D., and Egorov, A., Forest cover monitoring with MODIS and Landsat data, Presentation to the Peru Ministry of Environment, Lima, Peru, November 18, 2011.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Loveland, T., and Giri, C., Global land cover mapping, PECORA 18 – Forty Years of Earth Observations…Understanding a Changing World, Herndon, VA, November 14-17, 2011.
  • Hansen,  M.C., Potapov, P.V., Turubanova, S., Arunarwati, B., and Broich, M., MODIS and Landsat regional products – example of Indonesia forest monitoring, Workshop of Land Cover Land Use Change, Southeast Asia, Hanoi, Vietnam, November 5-11, 2011.
  • Hansen, M.C. and Potapov, P.V., Challenges to quantifying degradation using Landsat data, SilvaCarbon Workshop on Forest Degradation and Associated Emissions, Westin Hotel, Washington, D.C.., October 24-26, 2011.
  • Hansen, M.C., Wetland mapping in Indonesia – examples of potential data inputs, Indonesia One Map Initiative Team Meeting, United States Forest Service International Programs Office, Washington, D.C. October 12, 2011.
  • Hansen, M.C., Global crop type assessment – soybean area estimation, Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Science Joint Workshop, Land Cover and Land Use Change program side session, Alexandria, VA, October 3-7, 2011.
  • Hansen, M.C., Advancing methods for global crop area estimation, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Engineering, Beijing, China and Harbin, China, September 26-30, 2011.
  • Hansen, M.C., Global land cover data sets, Characterizing and Validating Global Agricultural Landcover, IIASA Conference Center, Laxenburg, Austria, June 13-15, 2011
  • Hansen, M.C., The Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, Presentation to visiting Department of Interior dignitaries, SDSU, Brookings, SD, May 23, 2011
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Stehman, S., Egorov, A., Broich, M., Turubanova, S., Adusei, B., Arunarwati, B., Roy, D., Lindquist, E., and Goetz, S., Towards global land cover change monitoring, MODLAND Science Team Meeting, Adelphi, MD, May 18-20, 2011.
  • Hansen, M.C., Global land cover monitoring using remotely sensed data sets, Series of presentation to faculty, staff and students at the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (INPT), Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique (ENSAT), Toulouse, France, May 3-13, 2011.
  • Hansen, M.C., The Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, Presentation to the South Dakota State University Board of Trustees, SDSU Union, Brookings, SD, April 29, 2011
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Egorov, A., Broich, M., Turubanova, S., Adusei, B., Arunarwati, B., Roy, D., and Ju, J., Forest cover mapping, SilvaCarbon Workshop on Estimating Forest Carbon Stocks, International Programs Office of the U.S. Forest Service, Washington, DC, April 18-19, 2011.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Egorov, A., Broich, M., Turubanova, S., Adusei, B., Arunarwati, B., Roy, D., and Ju, J., Towards global monitoring of forest cover, 34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, Sydney, Australia, April 10-15, 2011.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Egorov, A., Broich, M., Turubanova, S., Adusei, B., Arunarwati, B., Roy, D., and Ju, J., National-scale mapping of land cover and change with Landsat data, NASA LCLUC program meeting, Adelphi, MD, March 28-30, 2011.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Broich, M., Turubanova, S., Adusei, B., and Arunarwati, B., National scale disturbance mapping in support of REDD monitoring systems, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 13-17, 2010.
  • Hansen, M.C., Google Earth Engine, UNFCCC Conference of the Parties 16 side-event sponsored by Google, (presented on Landsat data policy and cloud computing, with Mexico example), Cancun, Mexico, December 2, 2010.
  • Hansen, M.C., Towards 30m global land cover, EROS visit by Matt Larsen (Associate Director, USGS) and Anne Castle (DOI Assistant Secretary for Water and Science), November 3-4, 2010.
  • Hansen, M.C., Fundamentals of remote sensing and forest cover and change mapping,  Technical Training and Planning Workshop – Quantifying Forest Degradation and Associated Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Republic of Congo, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, October 12-18, 2010.
  • Hansen, M.C., Mane, L., and Souza, C., Présentation des méthodologies de mesure et de suivi des changements de la couverture forestière et de la dégradation, Technical Training and Planning Workshop – Quantifying Forest Degradation and Associated Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Republic of Congo, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, October 12-18, 2010
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P. Broich, M., Stehman, S., Turubanova, S., Adusei, B., Arunarwati, B., Roy, D., and Lindquist, E., Global land cover monitoring using remotely sensed data sets, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Department of Geography and Earth Sciences seminar, Charlotte, NC, September 24, 2010.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Broich, M., and Arunarwati, B., Monitoring Indonesia forest cover and change, U.S. Forest Service meeting on REDD Monitoring, Reporting and Verification in Indonesia, Boise, ID, September 14, 2010, (via teleconference)..  
  • Hansen, M.C., The Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, SDSU campus visit by Senator Tim Johnson and USGS Director Marcia McNutt, September 1, 2010
  • Hansen, M.C., Towards 30m global land cover, EROS visit by the Office of Management and Budget, August 17-18, 2010.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Stehman, S.V., and Broich, M., MODIS VCF and change:  Global disturbance monitoring, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society2010 annual meeting, Honolulu, HI, July 25-30, 2010.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Stehman, S.V., Broich, M., and Arunarwati, B., Forest mapping and monitoring with Landsat data, REDD MRV Workshop, Ford Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia, July 20, 2010.
  • Hansen, M., Potapov, P., Broich, M., Turubanova, S., Adusei, B.., Arunarwati, B., and Stehman, S., Global forest change monitoring system using multi-resolution and multi-temporal remotely sensed data, Living Planet Symposium, Bergen, Norway, June 27 – July 2, 2010.
  • Hansen, M., Potapov, P., Broich, M., Turubanova, S., Adusei, B. Arunarwait, B., Lindquist, E., Roy, D., Altstatt, A., Mane, L., Justice, C., and Goetz, S., GEO Forest Carbon Tracking Task and Science Data Summit, Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, MA, May 11-12, 2010.
  • Hansen, M., Potapov, P., Broich, M., Stehman, S., Turubanova, S., Adusei, B., Arunarwati, B., Lindquist, E., and Goetz, S., Producing Composite Imagery and Forest Cover and Change Characterizations, NASA LCLUC program meeting, Bethesda, MD, April 20-22, 2010.
  • Hansen, M.C., Pittman, K., Annual corn and soybean cultivated area estimation for the United States using MODIS data, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 14-18, 2010.
  • Hansen, M. and Potapov, P., MODIS VCF-based forest cover change, in Earth Science Data Records (ESDR) of Global Forest Cover Change – Science Review, NASA MEASURES program science review, College Park, MD, April 10, 2010.
  • Hansen, M., Global environmental change quantified from space, Leadership Brookings Meeting, Brookings, SD, March 11, 2010.
  • Hansen, M., Potapov, P., Broich, M., Lindquist, E., and Adusei, B., Mass Processing Landsat for Monitoring Forest Cover Changes in the Humid Tropical and Boreal Biomes, Landsat Science Team Meeting, Mountain View, CA, January 19-21, 2010.
  • Hansen, M., Pittman, K., Adusei, B., Mueller, R., Johnson, D.,  Feedstock crop type mapping project, North Central Region Sun Grant Annual Meeting, Reno, NV, January 12-13, 2010.
  • Hansen, M., Potapov, P., Stehman, S., Broich, M., Adusei, B., and Lindquist, E., Global Forest Change Monitoring System Using Multi-Resolution and Multi-Temporal Remotely Sensed Data, Norwegian Space Center, Oslo, Norway, January 11-12, 2010, (via teleconference
  • Hansen, M., Methods for mapping cloud and shadow cover in Landsat imagery, Training workshop on Landsat mapping in support of INCAS, Indonesian Space Agency (LAPAN), Jakarta, Indonesia, December 14-17, 2009.
  • Hansen, M., Workshop on multi-temporal, multi-spectral agricultural monitoring methods for crop cover estimation, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Engineering, Chinese Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China, November 22, 2009.
  • Hansen, M., Pittman, K., Adusei, B., Mueller, R., and Johnson, D., Mapping crop type in support of USDA agriculture monitoring, GIScCE, Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence Spring Seminar Series, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, December 7, 2009.
  • Hansen, M., Stehman, S., Potapov, P., Broich, M., Lindquist, E., Adusei, B. and Arunarwati, B., Methods for monitoring large area forest cover change – OSFAC’s implementation in support of CARPE, OSFAC (Observatoire Satellital des Forêts d'Afrique Centrale), Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, October 21, 2009.
  • Hansen, M., Potapov, P., Broich, M., and Lindquist. E., Mass Processing Landsat for Forest Change Estimation, American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Upper Midwest Chapter Meeting, USGS EROS, Garretson, SD, October 5-7, 2009.
  • Hansen, M., Stehman, S., Potapov, P., Broich, M., Lindquist, E., Adusei, B. and Arunarwati, B., Global Forest Cover Monitoring Using Remotely Sensed Data Sets, Ecology & Environmental Biology seminar, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, September 24, 2009.
  • Hansen, M., Potapov, P., Broich, M., Turubanova, S., Adusei, B., and Lindquist, E., Global forest monitoring using Landsat, Landsat User Workshop, USGS EROS, Garretson, SD, September 21, 2009.
  • Hansen, M., Mapping algorithms and themes for forest cover mapping using multi-spectral data sets, Training workshop on MODIS and Landsat mapping in support of INCAS, Indonesian Space Agency (LAPAN), Jakarta, Indonesia, August 18-21, 2009.
  • Hansen, M., Bankanza, B., Munzimi, Y., Broich, M., Lindquist, E., and Potapov, P., Congo Basin forest cover in global and regional contexts, Central Africa Forests and Institutions (CAFI) research project advisory meeting, Ann Arbor, MI, May 7-8, 2009.
  • Hansen, M., Stehman, S., Potapov, P., Broich, M., Lindquist, E., Adusei, B. and Arunarwati, B., Global forest cover loss, 2000 to 2005, Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence Spring Seminar Series, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, April 20, 2009.
  • Hansen, M. and Potapov, P., Global tree cover mapping and Landsat sample block staging, FRA2010 Remote Sensing Survey workshop, Rome, Italy, March 30 – April 3, 2009.
  • Hansen, M., Potapov, P., Stehman, S., and Pittman, K., Global gross forest cover loss and carbon release, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, March 22-29, 2009.
  • Hansen, M., Pittman, K., and Chang, J., Biofuel Feedstock Mapping: Integrating MODIS and AWIFS Data for Operational Crop Type Monitoring, American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 9-13, 2009. (given by Rick Mueller of USDA NASS SARS)
  • Hansen, M.C., Stehman, S.V., Potapov, P.V., Arunarwati, Usman, A.B., Rahman, S.,Sari, R., Napitupulu, D., Lindquist, E., Broich, M., and Bankanza, B., Using MODIS and Landsat to monitor forest cover:  examples in support of Indonesia forest monitoring, Remote Sensing Meeting in Support of the Indonesian National Carbon Accounting System, February 9-11, 2009.
  • Hansen, M.C., Stehman. S.V. and Potapov, P.V., Global forest cover loss, 2000-2005, REDD Capacity Development Workshop on:  Forest Area Change Assesssment:  The Experience of Existing Operational Systems, INPE, San Jose dos Campos, Brazil, February 4-6, 2009.
  • Hansen, M.C., Stehman, S.V., Potapov, P.V., Arunarwati, Usman, A.B., Rahman, S.,Sari, R., Napitupulu, D., Lindquist, E., Broich, M., and Bankanza, B., Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo:  Using MODIS and Landsat to monitor forest cover change, REDD Capacity Development Workshop on:  Forest Area Change Assesssment:  The Experience of Existing Operational Systems, INPE, San Jose dos Campos, Brazil, February 4-6, 2009.
  • Hansen, M. C., Brazil’s Forest Ecosystems in the Context of Global Forest Cover Loss, Symposium on Brazil:  A Rising Power in the New Global Order, South Dakota State University, January 30, 2009.
  • Hansen, M.C., Justice, C.O., Potapov, P.V., Stehman, S.V., Lindquist, E., and Broich, M., Using MODIS and Landsat for monitoring forest cover and change, NASA-LCLUC Science Team Joint Meeting with MAIRS, GOFC-GOLD and SEA START Programs on Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Processes in Monsoon Asia Region, Khon Kaen, Thailand, January 12-17, 2009.
  • Hansen, M.C., Stehman, S.V., Potapov, P.V., Lindquist, E., and Broich, M., Monitoring large area forest cover change using multi-resolution satellite data sets, American Geophysical Union fall meeting, San Francisco, CA. December 15-19, 2008.
  • Hansen, M.C., FAO/FRA 2010 block processing update – proposed approach, FAO FRA 2010 Remote Sensing Survey Project Review Meeting, Ispra, Italy, November 20-21, 2008.
  • Hansen, M.C., Stehman, S. V., and Potapov, P. V., Mapping the Boreal zone – forest cover and forest cover loss 2000 to 2005, 3rd GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Symposium, Jena, Germany, October 12-17, 2008.
  • Hansen, M.C., Accuracy assessment of land cover change products – MODIS/Landsat, 3rd GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Symposium, Jena, Germany, October 12-17, 2008.
  • Hansen, M.C., MODIS/Landsat monitoring, 3rd GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Symposium, Jena, Germany, October 12-17, 2008.
  • Hansen, M.C., Forest monitoring integrating MODIS and Landsat data sets, Forest Resources Information System Workshop, Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, September 11, 2008.
  • Hansen, M.C., Remote sensing and terrestrial monitoring systems, Seminar given to the Catholic University of Louvain Unit of Environmetrics and Geomatics, June 9, 2008, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
  • Hansen, M.C., Mueller, R., Pittman, K., and Chang, J., Mapping feedstocks using remotely sensed datasets, South Dakota and Biofuels 2008 meeting sponsored by South Dakota Agriculture and Energy, North Central Sun Grant Initiative, and the Western Governor’s Association, May 20, 2008, Brookings, SD.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Stehman, S., Pittman, K., Loveland, T., Carroll, M., and DiMiceli, C., Mapping the Boreal zone – forest cover and forest cover loss 2000 to 2005, 2008 NASA Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop, April 28-May 2, 2008, Adelphi, MD.
  • Hansen, M.C., Pittman, K., Chang, J., Carroll, M., and DiMiceli, C., MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields of Crop Type in Support of NASS Annual Crop Indicator Mapping, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April 15-19, 2008.
  • Hansen, M.C. et al., CARPE monitoring of the Congo Basin – results and ideas for REDD monitoring, CBFP-COMIFAC Workshop on REDD, Paris, France, April 10-14, 2008.
  • Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Pittman, K., and Stehman. S., Biome-scale forest cover loss monitoring in support of FRA 2010, 1st Meeting of the FRA 2010 Remote Sensing Task Force, 4-5 March 2008, Rome, Italy.
  • Hansen, M. C., Convergence of evidence for global warming, Focus the Nation on Global Warming, January 30-31, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD.
  • Hansen, M.C., Forest cover monitoring of the Congo Basin, CIFOR Forest Day UNFCCC Side-Event, December 8, 2007, Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.
  • Hermawan, I. and Hansen, M.C., Indonesia forest monitoring, Indonesian Forestry Action for Reducing Emissions Workshop, Ministry of Forestry of Indonesia, December 6-7, 2007, Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.
  • Hansen, M.C., Stehman, S., Potapov, P., Pittman, K., and Loveland, T., Pan-tropical forest clearing, 2000-2005, American Geophysical Union fall meeting, San Francisco, CA. December 10-15, 2007.
  • Loveland, T.R., and Hansen, M.C.,  Trends in mapping, measuring and monitoring land cover change, American Geophysical Union fall meeting, San Francisco, CA. December 10-15, 2007.
  • Hansen, M.C., REDD and FRA 2010 activity, GOFC-GOLD Executive Commitee and LC-IT Planning meeting, October 23-26, 2007, Boston, MA.
  • Hansen, M. C., Monitoring deforestation with remote sensing (can we estimate carbon stocks in a robust, consistent, affordable way at the national level), 2007 Science for Nature Symposium: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation, World Wildlife Fund, October 18-19, 2007, Washington, D. C.
  • Hansen, M. C., Convergence of evidence for global warming, South Dakota Climate Challenge Conference:  Strategies for the Future, September 28-30, South Dakota Wildlife Federation, Sioux Falls, SD.
  • Hansen, M. C., MODIS/Landsat forest cover and change estimation for Indonesia, address delivered to the Minister of Forestry of Indonesia, Malam Sambat Kaban, and his staff, Ministry of Forestry of Indonesia, August 28, 2000, Jakarta, Indonesia.
  • Hansen, M.C., Chang, J. and Pittman, K., Monitoring global and regional croplands using MODIS data, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 17-21, 2007, San Francisco, CA.
  • Hansen, M.C., Establishing a global forest monitoring capability using multi-resolution and multi-temporal remotely sensed data sets, NASA Land Cover and Land Use Change Science Team Meeting, April 4-6, 2007, College Park, MD.
  • Hansen, M.C., The Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, South Dakota State University Research Day, January 25, 2007.
  • Hansen, M.C., MODIS time-series maps of sub-pixel land cover, USFS RSAC Forest Disturbance Mapping Workshop, November 29-30, 2006, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • Hansen, M.C., Monitoring global land cover, Global Vegetation Workshop Break-Out Group on Land Cover and Change Monitoring (session chair), August 8-10, 2006, Missoula, MT.
  • Wardoyo, W., Hansen., M.C., and Arunarwati, B., Forest monitoring system using MODIS: Preliminary study in Indonesia, World Resources Institute Meeting on the Use of a New Remote Sensing Product in Forest Law Enforcement and Governance in Indonesia, August, 3, 2006, Washington, DC.
  • Hansen, M.C., Mapping tropical forest change using remotely sensed data sets, , World Resources Institute Meeting on the Use of a New Remote Sensing Product in Forest Law Enforcement and Governance in Indonesia, August, 3, 2006, Washington, DC.
  • Hansen, M.C., The Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, South Dakota Board of Regents Meeting, June 22, 2006, Brookings, SD.
  • Hansen, M.C., Mapping tropical forest change using remotely sensed data sets, 37th Annual South Dakota State Geography Convention, April 6-7, 2006, Brookings, SD.
  • Hansen, M. C., State of the forest and remote sensing, State of the Forest 2006 Meeting, Congo Basin Forest Partnership, March 15-17, 2006, Kinshasa, Congo.
  • Hansen, M.C., Tropical forest monitoring integrating MODIS percent tree cover maps and Landsat data, GOFC-GOLD Symposium on Forest and Land Cover Observations, March 21-25, 2006, Jena, Germany.
  • Hansen, M. C., Townshend, J. R. G., Loveland, T. R., Pittman, K., and Carroll, M., Multi-Resolution Methods for Mapping Tropical Forest Change, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 5-9, 2005, U.S.A.
  • Townshend, J. R. G., Hansen, M. C., Sohlberg, R. A., DeFries, R. S., and Schleeweis, K., Towards A Community Protocol for Validating Global Climate Data Records Representing Sub-Pixel Land Cover Components and Changes Through Time Using AVHRR, MODIS and VIIRS, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 5-9, 2005, U.S.A.
  • Hansen, M. C., Multi-Resolution, Multi-Temporal Global Forest Monitoring Using MODIS and Landsat Data, Second International Conference “Earth from Space – The Most Effective Solutions”, ScanEx, Inc., Moscow, December 1-2, 2005, Russia.
  • Hansen, M. C., Improving global land cover mapping using remotely sensed data sets, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, November 11, 2005, U.S.A.
  • Hansen, M. C., Monitoring global land cover using sub-pixel cover estimations, Pecora 16, Sioux Falls, October 23-27, 2005, U.S.A.
  • Laestadius, L., Hansen, M. C., and Ranganathan, J., Independent, operational forest monitoring tools that support FLEG & FLEGT, United Nations Forum on Forests, Fifth Session, New York, 16 - 27 May 2005, U.S.A.
  • Hansen, M. C., Global forest change mapping using MODIS data from 2000 to 2004, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, April 5 - 9, 2005, USA.
  • Hansen, M. C., Operational monitoring of Indonesian forest cover using MODIS data, Workshop on Forest Monitoring System Using Remote Sensing Data, Indonesian Ministry of Forestry, Jakarta, March 29, 2005, Indonesia
  • Hansen, M. C., Operational monitoring of global percent tree cover, 3rd Expert Meeting on Harmonizing Forest-related Definitions for Use by Various Stakeholders, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, January 17-19, 2005, Italy
  • Hansen, M. C., Townshend, J. R. G., and DeFries, R. S., Validating global continuous fields of vegetative cover – an update, Committee on Earth Observing Satellites Land Cover Validation Workshop, Boston University, February 2-4, 2004.
  • Hansen, M. C., Tree cover mapping in the Kalahari Transect using multi-resolution data sets, SAFARI 2000 Synthesis Workshop, October 2002, Charlottesville, Virginia.
  • Hansen, M. C., DeFries, R. S., Townshend, J. R. G., and Sohlberg, R. A., Continuous fields of tree cover for the United States using multi-resolution satellite data, 9th Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Conference, April 2002, San Diego, California.
  • Hansen, M. C., Global mapping of forest cover, address to the Service Permanent d'Inventaire et d'Amenagement Forestier, Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, March 2002, Kinshasa, DRC.
  • Hansen, M. C., DeFries, R. S., Zhan, X., Sohlberg, R. A., and Townshend, J. R. G., Continuous fields of vegetation characteristics from MODIS data, American Geophysical Union, December, 2000.
  • Hansen, M. C., Towards operational global forest monitoring using remotely sensed data, Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Division of the Association of American Geographers, October 2000, Washington, D. C.
  • Hansen, M. C. and Townshend, J. R. G., Validating global land cover data sets, 19th ISPRS Congress, July 2000, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Hansen, M. C., and DeFries, R. S., Continuous fields of vegetation properties derived from remotely sensed data, 96th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 2000, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • Hansen, M. C., DeFries, R. S., Townshend, J. G. R. and Sohberg. R. A., 1999, A global land cover classification at a spatial resolution of 1km, 95th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 1999, Honolulu, Hawaii.