Lei Wang

Visiting scientist

Email:

irsawang@umd.edu

My interest is to distinguish different factors that caused forest loss at global scale, such as fire, clear cutting, disease, storms and others. Meanwhile, I have interest in mapping global urbanization progress.

Publications:

Li, H., Song, X. P., Hansen, M. C., Becker-Reshef, I., Adusei, B., Pickering, J., Wang, L., Wang, L., Lin, Z., Zalles, V., Potapov, P., Stehman, S.V., & Justice, C. (2023). Development of a 10-m resolution maize and soybean map over China: Matching satellite-based crop classification with sample-based area estimation. Remote Sensing of Environment, 294, 113623.
Hansen, M.C., Wang, L., Song, X.P., Tyukavina, A., Turubanova, S., Potapov, P.V., Stehman, S.V. (2020) The fate of tropical forest fragments. Science Advances, 6(11), eaax8574.
Ying, Q., Hansen, M.C., Sun, L., Wang, L., Steininger, M. (2019) Satellite-detected gain in built-up area as a leading economic indicator. Environmental Research Letters, 12, 114015.
Ying, Q., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Tyukavina, A., Wang, L., Stehman, S.V., Moore, R., Hancher, M. (2017) Global bare ground gain from 2000 to 2012 using Landsat imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 194, 161-176.

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