Chima Okpa

Faculty Specialist

Email:

cokpa@umd.edu

Chima is a Faculty Specialist currently using remote sensing data and GIS for land cover characterization of the US in conjunction with FAO global land cover initiative.

Chima received his BS degree in Geographic Information Systems at the University of Maryland, College Park. He intends to continue his education through the MPS GIS program at the University of Maryland.

Publications:

Zalles, V., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Stehman, S.V., Tyukavina, A., Pickens, A., Song, X.P., Adusei, B., Okpa, C., Aguilar, R. and John, N. (2019) Near doubling of Brazil’s intensive row crop area since 2000. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (2) 428-435.
Tyukavina, A., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Parker, D., Okpa, C., Stehman, S.V., Kommareddy, I., Turubanova, S. (2018) Congo Basin forest loss dominated by increasing smallholder clearing. Science advances 4 (11), eaat2993.
Tyukavina, A., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Stehman, S.V., Smith-Rodriguez, K., Okpa, C., Aguilar, R. (2017) Types and rates of forest disturbance in Brazilian Legal Amazon, 2000–2013. Science Advances, vol. 3, no. 4

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Chima Okpa

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