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Past Graduates  Past Team Members

  • Matthew Hansen Matthew Hansen Professor, Director GLAD

    Prof. Matthew Hansen is a remote sensing scientist with a research specialization in large area land cover and land use change mapping.

  • Peter Potapov Peter Potapov Research Professor

    My primary research interest is assessing and monitoring forest extent, structure, and composition on national to global extent using open satellite data archives.


  • Xiao-Peng Song Xiao-Peng Song Assistant Professor

    Xiaopeng’s research focuses on characterizing land cover and land use change such as deforestation, cropland expansion and urbanization and investigating the causes and consequences of LCLUC using an interdisciplinary approach.

  • Alexandra (Sasha) Tyukavina Associate Research Professor, Past Graduate

    Alexandra’s research interests include satellite-based mapping of forest cover change and its drivers, and methods of sample-based accuracy assessment and area estimation.

  • Ahmad Khan Ahmad Khan Assistant Research Professor, Past Graduate

    Dr. Khan has over 35 year experience as Remote Sensing Scientist, Conservation Biologist, Development practitioner, Wildlife Biologist, and Wetlands Conservationist.

  • Anna Komarova Assistant Research Professor

    Anna is focused on remote sensing for vegetation dynamics mapping and understanding the large-scale drivers of vegetation change to support biodiversity conservation.

  • André Lima André Lima Assistant Research Professor

    In a comprehensive way, I am interested in researching the drivers of LULC in Amazon Basin as well as their relations of cause and effect in this process.

  • Amy Hudson Pickens Amy Hudson Pickens Assistant Research Professor, Past Graduate

    Amy is interested in tracking global land cover and land use change, particularly in near-real time applications.

  • Zhen Song Assistant Research Professor

    My primary interest is to investigate large scale land cover change and its impact on climate.

  • Svetlana Turubanova Svetlana Turubanova Assistant Research Scientist

    Her research interests include boreal forest ecology, forest fire, and biodiversity.

  • Diana Parker Post-Doctoral Associate, Past Graduate

    Diana is interested in using remote sensing and qualitative research methods to understand land use change and deforestation drivers in Southeast Asia.

  • Andrés Hernández Serna Principal Faculty Specialist

    Andrés is interested in using Deep learning and Lidar data for ecological, soundscape, biodiversity and land cover/land use change monitoring applications.

  • Bernard Adusei Bernard Adusei Senior Faculty Specialist

    Use multisource satellite remotely sensed imagery for land-use and land-cover characterization especially field crops (soybean, corn, and wheat) at national scale.

  • Patrick Lola Amani Patrick Lola Amani Senior Faculty Specialist

    His work focuses on studying the human settlement characterization and population distribution, providing technical support to OSFAC on FACET methodology for forest cover monitoring.

  • Antoine Baggett Faculty Specialist

    Antoine is interested in using remote sensing to track changes in land use, especially changes in urban development.

  • Yuhao He Faculty Specialist

    Yuhao is a Faculty Specialist supporting and managing the websites of the Global Land Analysis and Discovery lab.

  • Eddy Bongwele Is'akaala Faculty Specialist

    Eddy Bongwele is remote sensing specialist with focus on integrating time-series multi-spectral Landsat and Lidar data for mapping forest structure (tree height and cover) and disturbances in Central Africa.

  • Theodore Kerr Faculty Specialist

    Researcher seeking to apply Remote Sensing and GIS to analyze global land cover change.

  • Heritier Kondjo Koy Faculty Specialist

    Heritier Koy is interested in quantifying forest extent and disturbances, and mapping settlements in the Congo Basin using remote sensing.

  • Chin-yun (Grace) Kuei Faculty Specialist

    Grace is a Faculty Specialist managing the pre and post award activities of the Global Land Analysis and Discovery lab.

  • André Kumakwese Mazinga Faculty Specialist

    André's work focuses on mapping the cropland in the Central African savannas, and on monitoring the forest resources of the Congo Basin using time-series multi-spectral Landsat data.

  • Tatiana Nana Faculty Specialist

    I'm interested in using multi-sensor satellite imagery to analyze land use and land cover in the Congo Basin.

  • Carolina Ortiz-Dominguez Faculty Specialist

    Carolina is interested in mapping and quantifying primary forest loss and LULC in South America using remote sensing techniques.

  • Andrew Poulson Faculty Specialist

    Andrew is interested in how remote sensing data can be used to analyze how wildlife is affected by deforestation.

  • Rahayu Adzhar Graduate Student

    Rahayu is interested in understanding how tropical savanna ecosystems are changing, and how we can better monitor them.

  • Elda Yitbarek Bezuayene Graduate Student

    Elda is interested in drought monitoring and land management, particularly in East Africa.

  • Zhuoning Gu Graduate Student

    Zhuoning is interested in using multi-sensor satellite imagery to monitor agricultural dynamics.

  • Atreyi Guin Graduate Student

    Interested in wetland mapping using remote sensing techniques, data visualization and interactive storytelling using maps.

  • Haijun Li Graduate Student

    Haijun is interested in large-scale land cover and land use change mapping, especially in agriculture using remote sensing and high-performance computing.

  • Xinyuan Li Graduate Student

    I am interested in using remote sensing to study the land cover/land use change, especially those in forest cover and crop canopy

  • Zhen Liu Graduate Student

    Zhen’s interests are landcover mapping, accuracy assessment, deep learning, and machine learning.

  • Yue Ma Graduate Student

    Yue is interested in using deep learning models and remote sensing data to detect energy land use land cover change.

  • Aleksandra Mikus Graduate Student

    I am interested in land cover change in the northern latitudes, especially Siberia.

  • Shi Jun Wee Graduate Student

    Shi Jun is interested in investigating land-cover and land-use change dynamics, specifically pertaining to commodity crops in Southeast Asia, using multi-sensor Earth Observation data.



Resources

CARPE

INFOCONGO

Global Forest Watch

Intact Forest Landscapes

GEOGLAM

Land and Carbon Lab

 

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