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Pickens, A.H., Hansen, M.C., Song, Z., Poulson, A., Komarova, A., Baggett, A., Kerr, T., Mikus, A., Ortiz Dominguez, C., Tyukavina, A. & Lima, A. (2025) Rapid monitoring of global land change. Nature Communications, 16, 8948
Tyukavina, A., Stehman, S. V., Pickens, A. H., Potapov, P., & Hansen, M. C. (2025) Practical global sampling methods for estimating area and map accuracy of land cover and change. Remote Sensing of Environment, 324, 114714.
Potapov, P., Tyukavina, A., Turubanova, S., Hansen, M. C., Giglio, L., Hernandez-Serna, A., Lima, A., Harris, N. & Stolle, F. (2025) Unprecedentedly high global forest disturbance due to fire in 2023 and 2024. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(30), e2505418122.
Li, H., Song, X.-P., Adusei, B., Pickering, J., Lima, A., Poulson, A., Baggett, A., Potapov, P., Khan, A., Zalles, V., Hernandez-Serna, A., Jantz, S. M., Pickens, A. H., Ortiz-Dominguez, C., Li, X., Kerr, T., Song, Z., Turubanova, S., Bongwele, E., Kondjo, H. K., Komarova, A., Stehman, S. V., and Hansen, M. C. (2025, preprint, in review) An Accurate 10 m Annual Crop Map Product of Maize and Soybean Across the United States, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss.
Khan, A., Potapov, P., Hansen, M. C., Pickens, A. H., Tyukavina, A., Serna, A. H., Uddin, K., and Ahmad, J. (2024) Perennial snow and ice cover change from 2001 to 2021 in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region derived from the Landsat analysis-ready data. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, v. 34, 101192.
MacCarthy. J., Tyukavina, A., Weisse, M. J., Harris, N., Glen, E. (2024) Extreme wildfires in Canada and their contribution to global loss in tree cover and carbon emissions in 2023. Science behind the news (short communication). Global Change Biology
Hunka, N., Duncanson, L., Armston, J., Dubayah, R., Healey, S. P., Santoro, M., May, P., Araza, A., Bourgoin, C., Montesano, P. M., Neigh, C. S. R., Grantham, H., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina, A., Richter, J., Harris, N., Urbazaev, M., Pascual, A., Suarez, D.R., Herold, M., Poulter, B., Wilson, S. N., Grassi, Federici, S., Sanz, M. J., Melo, J. (2024) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Tier 1 forest biomass estimates from Earth Observation. Scientific Data, vol. 11, n. 1127.
Radeloff, V. C., Roy, D. P., Wulder, M. A., Anderson, M., Cook, B., Crawford, C. J., ... Hansen, M. C.... & Zhu, Z. (2024). Need and vision for global medium-resolution Landsat and Sentinel-2 data products. Remote Sensing of Environment, 300, 113918.
Masud, S. and Khan, A. 2024. Policy implementation barriers in climate change adaptation: The case of Pakistan. Environmental Policy and Governance. 34:1
Parker, D., Tosiani, A., Yazid, M., Sari, I. L., Kartika, T., Kustiyo, Firmansyah, R., Said, Z., Wijaya, A., Potapov, Tyukavina, A., Stehman, S.V., Zalles, V., Pickens, A., Pickering, J., Turubanova, S., Hansen, M. C. (2024) Land in limbo: Nearly one third of Indonesia’s cleared old-growth forests left idle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(28), e2318029121.
Uddin, K., Atal, S. B., Maharjan, S., Bajracharya, B., Yousafi, W., Mayer, T., ...Potapov., P.,... & Shakya, B. (2024). Bridging the national data gap with Google Earth Engine and Landsat imagery by developing annual land cover for Afghanistan. Data in Brief, 54, 110316.
Traldi, R., Silva, J. A., Potapov, P., Tyukavina, A., Epprecht, M., Gore, M. L., & Phompila, C. (2023). Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR. World Development, 170, 106312.
Lin, F., Li, X., Jia, N., Feng, F., Huang, H., Huang, J., ... & Song, X. P. (2023). The impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on global food security. Global Food Security, 36, 100661.
Turubanova, S., Potapov, P., Hansen, M. C., Li, X., Tyukavina, A., Pickens, A. H., Hernandez-Serna, ... & Stolle, F. (2023). Tree canopy extent and height change in Europe, 2001–2021, quantified using Landsat data archive. Remote Sensing of Environment, 298, 113797.
Xin, Y., Sun, L., & Hansen, M. C. (2023). Land‐cover and land‐use change trajectory hopping facilitates estate‐crop expansion into protected forests in Indonesia. Conservation Letters, e12957.
Sanderson, E. W., Miquelle, D. G., Fisher, K., Harihar, A., Clark, C., Moy, J., Potapov, P. ... & Wood, K. (2023). Range-wide trends in tiger conservation landscapes, 2001-2020. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 4, 1191280.
Song, X. P. (2023). The future of global land change monitoring. International Journal of Digital Earth, 16(1), 2279-2300.
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.
Potapov, P., Hansen, M. C., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina, A., Zalles, V., Song, X. P., & Khan, A. (2023). Reply to: Measuring the world’s cropland area. Nature Food, 4(1), 33-34.
Liang, M., González-Roglich, M., Roehrdanz, P., Tabor, K., Zvoleff, A., Leitold, V., ... Hansen, M. C. & Duncanson, L. (2023). Assessing protected area’s carbon stocks and ecological structure at regional-scale using GEDI lidar. Global Environmental Change, 78, 102621.
Li, X.-Y., Li, X., Fan, Z., Mi, L., Kandakji, T., Song, Z., Li, D. & Song, X.-P. (2022) Civil War hinders crop production and threatens food security in Syria. Nature Food, 3, 38–46
Martin, M., Valeria, O., Potapov, P., & Paillet, Y. (2022). Forests of high naturalness as references for management and conservation: Potential and pitfalls. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 5, 1004087.
Pendrill, F., Gardner, T. A., Meyfroidt, P., Persson, U. M., Adams, J., Azevedo, T., ... Hansen, M.C., Tyukavina, A., ..., West, C. (2022). Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation. Science, 377(6611), eabm9267.
da Silva, V. C. S., Vieira, I. C. G., Galbraith, D., Potapov, P., de Medeiros Rivero, S. L., de Lima, A. M. M., ... & Adami, M. (2022). Marked non-compliance with deforestation embargoes in the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Research Letters, 17(5), 054033.
Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Hansen, M.C., Tyukavina, A., Zalles, V., Khan, A., Song, X-P, Pickens, A., Shen, Q., Cortez, J. (2022) Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century. Nature Food, 3, 19-28
Tyukavina, A., Potapov, P., Hansen, M.C., Pickens, A., Stehman, S., Turubanova, S., Parker, D., Zalles, V., Lima, A., Kommareddy, I., Song, X-P, Wang, L. and Harris, N. (2022) Global trends of forest loss due to fire, 2001-2019. Frontiers in Remote Sensing
Lin, C., Zhong, L., Song, X.-P., Dong, J., Lobell, D.B. & Jin, Z. (2022) Early- and in-season crop type mapping without current-year ground truth: Generating labels from historical information via a topology-based approach. Remote Sensing of Environment, 274, 112994
Xin, Y., Sun, L., & Hansen, M. C. (2022). Oil palm reconciliation in Indonesia: Balancing rising demand and environmental conservation towards 2050. Journal of Cleaner Production, 380, 135087.
Nackoney, J., Demol, M., Akpona, H. A., Bauters, M., Boeckx, P., Dupain, J., ... Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S. ... & Vanlauwe, B. (2022). Coupled forest zoning and agricultural intervention yields conflicting outcomes for tropical forest conservation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Environmental Research Letters, 17(6), 064002.
Dubayah, R., Armston, J., Healey, S. P., Bruening, J. M., Patterson, P. L., Kellner, J. R., ... Hansen, M., ..., Luthcke, S. (2022). GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space. Environmental Research Letters, 17(9), 095001.
Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Pickens, A., Tyukavina, A., Hernandez Serna, A., Zalles, V., Turubanova, S., Kommareddy, I., Stehman, S.V., Song, X-P (2022) Global land use extent and dispersion within natural land cover using Landsat data. Environmental Research Letters
Potapov, P., Hansen, M.C., Pickens, A., Hernandez-Serna, A., Tyukavina, A., Turubanova, S., Zalles, V., Li, X., Khan, A., Stolle, F., Harris, N., Song, X-P, Baggett, A., Kommareddy, I., Kommareddy, A. (2022) The global 2000-2020 land cover and land use change dataset derived from the Landsat archive: first results. Frontiers in Remote Sensing
Wang, X., Feng, L., Qi, W., Cai, X., Zheng, Y., Gibson, L., Tang, J., Song, X.-P., Liu, J., Zheng, C. & Bryan, B. (2022) Continuous Loss of Global Lake Ice Across Two Centuries Revealed by Satellite Observations and Numerical Modeling. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(12), e2022GL099022
Feng, Y., Zeng, Z., Searchinger, T., Ziegler, A., Wu, J., Wang, D., ... , Song, X.-P., ..., Zheng, C. (2022) Doubling of annual forest carbon loss over the tropics during the early twenty-first century. Nature Sustainability, 5, 444–451
Wulder, M. A., Roy, D. P., Radeloff, V. C., Loveland, T. R., Anderson, M. C., Johnson, D. M., ... Hansen, M.C., ..., Cook, B. D. (2022). Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts. Remote Sensing of Environment, 280, 113195.
Pickens, A.H., Hansen, M.C., Stehman, S.V., Tyukavina, A., Potapov, P., Zalles, V., Higgins, J. (2022) Global seasonal dynamics of inland water and ice. Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 272, 112963
Song, X. P., Li, H., Potapov, P., & Hansen, M. C. (2022). Annual 30 m soybean yield mapping in Brazil using long-term satellite observations, climate data and machine learning. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 326, 109186.
Aljaddani, A.H., Song, X.-P. & Zhu, Z. (2022) Characterizing the patterns and trends of urban growth in Saudi Arabia’s 13 capital cities using Landsat time series. Remote Sensing, 14(10), 2382
Moffette, F., Alix-Garcia, J., Shea, K., Pickens, A. (2021) The impact of near-real-time deforestation alerts across the tropics. Nature Climate Change
Zalles, V., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Parker, D., Stehman, S.V., Pickens A.H., Leal Parente, L., Ferreira, L.G., Song, X.-P., Hernandez-Serna, A., Kommareddy, I. (2021) Rapid expansion of human impact on natural land in South America since 1985. Science Advances, 7(14)
Pickering, J., Tyukavina, A., Khan, A., Potapov, P., Adusei, B., Hansen, M.C., Lima, A. (2021) Using multi-resolution satellite data to quantify land dynamics: applications of PlanetScope imagery for cropland and tree-cover loss area estimation. Remote Sensing, 13(11), 2191.
Uddin, K., Matin, M. A., Khanal, N., Maharjan, S., Bajracharya, B., Tenneson, K., ... Potapov., P., ..., & Markert, A. (2021). Regional land cover monitoring system for Hindu Kush Himalaya. Earth Observation Science and Applications for Risk Reduction and Enhanced Resilience in Hindu Kush Himalaya Region: A Decade of Experience from SERVIR, 103-125.
Song, X.-P., Huang, W., Hansen, M.C., & Potapov, P. (2021). An evaluation of Landsat, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1 and MODIS data for crop type mapping. Science of Remote Sensing, 3, 100018
Khan, A., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Adusei, B., Stehman, S.V., Steininger, M.K. (2021) An operational automated mapping algorithm for in-season estimation of wheat area for Punjab, Pakistan. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 42(10), 3833-3849.
Fitzgerald, M., Nackoney, J., Potapov, P., & Turubanova, S. (2021). Agriculture is the primary driver of tree cover loss across the Forestière region of the Republic of Guinea, Africa. Environmental Research Communications, 3(12), 121004.
ForestPlots.net, Blundo, C., Carilla, J., Grau, J., ... Steininger, M. (2021) Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots. Biological Conservation, 108849
Reiche, J., Mullissa, A., Slagter, B., Gou, Y., Tsendbazar, N. E., Odongo-Braun, C., ... & Herold, M. (2021). Forest disturbance alerts for the Congo Basin using Sentinel-1. Environmental Research Letters, 16(2), 024005.
Cropper, M., Cui, R., Guttikunda, S., Hultman, N., Jawahar, P., Park, Y., Yao, X., & Song, X.-P. (2021). The mortality impacts of current and planned coal-fired power plants in India. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(5), e2017936118
Saatchi, S., Longo, M., Xu, L., Yang, Y., Abe, H., Andre, M., ... Hansen, M., ..., & Elmore, A. C. (2021). Detecting vulnerability of humid tropical forests to multiple stressors. One Earth, 4(7), 988-1003.
Harris, N.L., Gibbs, D.A., Baccini, A., Birdsey, R.A., de Bruin, S., Farina, M., Fatoyinbo, L., Hansen, M.C., Herold, M., Houghton, R.A., Potapov, P.V., Requena Suarez, D., Roman-Cuesta, R.M., Saatchi, S.S., Slay, C.M., Turubanova, S.A., Tyukavina, A. (2021) Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes. Nature Climate Change
Song, X.-P., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Adusei, B., Pickering, J., Adami, M., Lima, A., Zalles, V., Stehman, S.V., Di Bella, C.M., Cecilia, C.M., Copati, E.J., Fernandes, L.B., Hernandez-Serna, A., Jantz, S.M., Pickens, A.H., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina A. (2021). Massive soybean expansion in South America since 2000 and implications for conservation. Nature Sustainability, 4, 784–792
Palahí, M., Valbuena, R., Senf, C., Acil, N., Pugh, T. A., Sadler, J., ... Potapov, P., ..., Nabuurs, G. J. (2021). Concerns about reported harvests in European forests. Nature, 592(7856), E15-E17.
Rodrigues-Eklund, G., Hansen, M.C., Tyukavina, A., Stehman, S.V., 3, Hubacek, K., Baiocchi, G. (2021) Sample-Based Estimation of Tree Cover Change in Haiti Using Aerial Photography: Substantial Increase in Tree Cover between 2002 and 2010. Forests, 12(9), 1243
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.
Huang, N., Wang, L., Song, X.-P., Black, A.T., Jassal, R.S., Myneni, R.B., Wu, C., Wang, L., Song, W., Ji, D., Yu S., & Niu, Z. (2020). Spatial and temporal variations in global soil respiration and their relationships with climate and land cover. Science Advances, 6, eabb8508
Hou, X., Feng, L., Tang, J., Song, X.-P., Liu, J., Zhang, Y., Wang, J., Xu, Y., Dai, Y., Zheng, Y., Zheng, C., & Bryan, B.A. (2020). Anthropogenic transformation of Yangtze Plain freshwater lakes in the past half century. Remote Sensing of Environment, 248, 111998
Hansen, A. J., Burns, P., Ervin, J., Goetz, S. J., Hansen, M., Venter, O., ... & Armenteras, D. (2020). A policy-driven framework for conserving the best of Earth’s remaining moist tropical forests. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4(10), 1377-1384.
Saah, D., Tenneson, K., Poortinga, A., Nguyen, Q., Chishtie, F., San Aung, K., ..., Potapov, P.V., ... Ganz, D. (2020). Primitives as building blocks for constructing land cover maps. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 85, 101979.
Potapov, P., Hansen, M.C., Kommareddy, I., Kommareddy, A., Turubanova, S., Pickens, A., Adusei, B., Tyukavina, A., Ying, Q. (2020) Landsat Analysis Ready Data for Global Land Cover and Land Cover Change Mapping. Remote Sensing, 12(3), 426.
Tong, X., Brandt, M., Yue, Y., Ciais, P., Jepsen, M.R., Penuelas, ..., Song, X.-P., ..., Fensholt, R. (2020). Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration. Nature Communications, 11, 129
Galiatsatos, N., Donoghue, D.N., Watt, P., Bholanath, P., Pickering, J., Hansen, M.C., Mahmood, A.R. (2020) An Assessment of Global Forest Change Datasets for National Forest Monitoring and Reporting. Remote Sensing, 12(11), 1790.
Hakimdavar, R., Hubbard, A., Policelli, F., Pickens, A., Hansen, M., Fatoyinbo, T., Lagomasino, D., Pahlevan, N., Unninayar, S., Kavvada, A., Carroll, M., Smith, B., Hurwitz, M., Wood, D., Schollaert Uz, S. (2020) Monitoring Water-Related Ecosystems with Earth Observation Data in Support of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 Reporting. Remote Sensing, 12(10), 1634.
Dubayah, R., Blair, J. B., Goetz, S., Fatoyinbo, L., Hansen, M., Healey, S., ... & Silva, C. (2020). The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation: High-resolution laser ranging of the Earth’s forests and topography. Science of Remote Sensing, 1, 100002.
Uvsh, D., Gehlbach, S., Potapov, P. V., Munteanu, C., Bragina, E. V., & Radeloff, V. C. (2020). Correlates of forest-cover change in European Russia, 1989–2012. Land Use Policy, 96, 104648.
Molinario, G., Hansen, M., Potapov, P., Tyukavina, A., Stehman, S. (2020) Contextualizing Landscape-Scale Forest Cover Loss in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between 2000 and 2015. Land, 9(1), 23.
Neugarten, R.A., Moull, K., Acero Martinez, N., ... Steininger, M., ... Turner, W. (2020) Trends in protected area representation of biodiversity and ecosystem services in five tropical countries. Ecosystem Services, 42, 101078.
Eigenbrod, F., Beckmann, M., Dunnett, S., Graham, L., Holland, R.A., Meyfroidt, P., Seppelt, R., Song, X.-P., Spake, R., Václavík, T., & Verburg, P.H. (2020). Identifying agricultural frontiers for modelling global cropland expansion. One Earth, 3, 504-514
Pickens, A.H., Hansen, M.C., Hancher, M., Stehman, S.V., Tyukavina, A., Potapov, P., Marroquin, B., Sherani, Z. (2020) Mapping and sampling to characterize global inland water dynamics from 1999 to 2018 with full Landsat time-series. Remote Sensing of Environment, 243, 111792.
Potapov, P., Li, X., Hernandez-Serna, A., Tyukavina, A., Hansen, M., Kommareddy, A., Pickens, A., Turubanova, A., Tang, H., Silva, C.E., Armston, J., Dubayah, R., Blair, J.B., Hofton, M. (2020) Mapping global forest canopy height through integration of GEDI and Landsat data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112165.
Galiatsatos, N., Donoghue, D. N., Watt, P., Bholanath, P., Pickering, J., Hansen, M. C., & Mahmood, A. R. (2020). An assessment of global forest change datasets for national forest monitoring and reporting. Remote Sensing, 12(11), 1790.
Fa, J. E., Watson, J. E., Leiper, I., Potapov, P., Evans, T. D., Burgess, N. D., ... & Garnett, S. T. (2020). Importance of Indigenous Peoples’ lands for the conservation of Intact Forest Landscapes. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 18(3), 135-140.
Cooper, M.W., Brown, M.E., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Pflug, G., McCallum, I., Fritz, S., Silva, J., Zvoleff, A. (2019) Mapping the effects of drought on child stunting. PNAS 116(35) 17219-17224.
Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., and Tyukavina, A. (2019) Comment on “Tropical forests are a net carbon source based on aboveground measurements of gain and loss”. Science, 363, 6423, eeaar3629.
Krylov, A., Steininger, M.K., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Stehman, S.V., Gost, A., Noel, J., Talero Ramirez, Y., Tyukavina, A., Di Bella, C.M., Ellis, E.A., Ellis, P. (2019) Contrasting tree-cover loss and subsequent land cover in two neotropical forest regions: sample-based assessment of the Mexican Yucatán and Argentine Chaco. Journal of Land Use Science.
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.
Munzimi, Y.A., Hansen, M.C., Kwabena A.O. (2019) Estimating daily streamflow in the Congo Basin using satellite-derived data and a semi-distributed hydrological model. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 64(12), pp. 1472-1487
Tang, H., Song, X.-P., Zhao, F.A., Strahler, A.H., Schaaf, C.L., Goetz, S., Huang, C., Hansen, M., & Dubayah, R. (2019). Definition and measurement of tree cover: A comparative analysis of field-, lidar- and Landsat-based tree cover estimations in the Sierra national forests, USA. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 268, 258-268
Pickering, J., Stehman, S.V., Tyukavina, A., Potapov, P., Watt, P., Jantz, S.M., Bholanath, P., Hansen, M.C. (2019) Quantifying the trade-off between cost and precision in estimating area of forest loss and degradation using probability sampling in Guyana. Remote Sensing of Environment 221, 122-135.
Potapov, P., Tyukavina, A., Turubanova, S., Talero, Y., Hernandez-Serna, A., Hansen, M.C., Saah, D., Tenneson, K., Poortinga A., Aekakkararungroj, A., Chishtie, F., Towashiraporn P., Bhandari, B., Aung, K.S., Nguyen, Q.H. (2019) Annual continuous fields of woody vegetation structure in the Lower Mekong region from 2000‐2017 Landsat time-series. Remote Sensing of Environment 232, 111278
Saah, D., Tenneson, K., Matin, ... Potapov, P., Tyukavina, A., ...& Chishtie, F. (2019) Land Cover Mapping in Data Scarce Environments: Challenges and Opportunities. Frontiers in Environmental Science
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.
Poorter, L., Rozendaal, D.M.A., ..., Steininger, M.K., ... & Westboy, M. (2019) Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3, 928–934.
Turubanova, S., Potapov, P., Tyukavina, A., and Hansen, M. (2018) Ongoing primary forest loss in Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia. Environmental Research Letters
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.
Jantz, S.M., Pintea, L., Nackoney, J., Hansen, M.C. (2018) Global forest maps in support of conservation monitoring. In: Satellite Remote Sensing for Conservation Action - Case Studies from Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems (A. Leidner & G. Buchanan, Eds.). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
Khan, A., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Adusei, B., Pickens, A., Krylov, A., Stehman, S. (2018) Evaluating Landsat and RapidEye Data for Winter Wheat Mapping and Area Estimation in Punjab, Pakistan. Remote Sensing, 10(4), 489.
Song, X.P., Hansen, M.C., Stehman, S.V., Potapov, P.V., Tyukavina, A., Vermote, E.F., Townshend J.R. (2018) Global land change from 1982 to 2016. Nature 560, 639–643.
Terada, S., Nackoney, J., Sakamaki, T., Mulavwa, M.N., Yumoto, T., Furuichi, T. (2018) Comparative use of inundated habitats by great apes in the Congo Basin: A case study of swamp forest use by bonobos at Wamba, Democratic Republic of the Congo. In: Primates in Flooded Habitats: Ecology and Conservation (A.A. Barnett, I. Matsuda and K. Nowak, Eds.). Cambridge University Press.
Egorov, A.V., Roy, D.P., Zhang, H.K., Hansen, M.C., Kommareddy, A. (2018) Demonstration of Percent Tree Cover Mapping Using Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) and Sensitivity with Respect to Landsat ARD Processing Level. Remote Sensing, 10(2), 209.
Curtis, P.B., Slay, C.M., Harris, N.L., Tyukavina, A., Hansen, M.C. (2018) Classifying drivers of global forest loss. Science 361 (6407), 1108-1111.
Fuller, T.L., Narins, T.P., Nackoney, J., Bonebrake, T.C., Clee, P.S., Morgan, K., Tróchez, A., Meñe, D.B., Bongwele, E., Njabo, K.Y., Anthony, N.M., Gonder, M.K., Kahn, M., Allen, W.R., Smith, T.B. (2018) Assessing the impact of China’s timber industry on Congo Basin land use change. Area.
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.
Nackoney, J., Hickey, J., Williams, D., Facheux, C., Furuichi, T., Dupain., J. (2017) Geospatial information informs bonobo conservation efforts. In: Bonobos: Unique in Mind, Brain and Behavior (B. Hare and S. Yamamoto, Eds.). Oxford University Press
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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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Song, X.P., Potapov, P.V., Krylov, A., King, L., Di Bella, C.M., Hudson, A., Khan, A., Adusei, B., Stehman, S.V., Hansen, M.C. (2017) National-scale soybean mapping and area estimation in the United States using medium resolution satellite imagery and field survey. Remote Sensing of Environment, 190, 383-395.
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Khan, A., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Stehman, S.V., Chatta, A.A. (2016) Landsat-based wheat mapping in the heterogeneous cropping system of Punjab, Pakistan. International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 37, Issue 6, pp. 1391-1410.
Tulbure, M.G., Broich, M., Stehman, S.V., Kommareddy, A. (2016) Surface water extent dynamics from three decades of seasonally continuous Landsat time series at subcontinental scale in a semi-arid region. Remote Sensing of Environment, 178, 142-157
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Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Goetz, S.J.,Turubanova, S., Tyukavina, A., Krylov, A., Kommareddy, A., Egorov, A. (2016) Mapping tree height distributions in Sub-Saharan Africa using Landsat 7 and 8 data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 185, 221-232.
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Potapov, P. V., Turubanova, S. A., Tyukavina, A., Krylov, A. M., McCarty, J. L., Radeloff, V. C., & Hansen, M. C. (2015). Eastern Europe's forest cover dynamics from 1985 to 2012 quantified from the full Landsat archive. Remote Sensing of Environment, 159, 28-43.
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Munzimi, Y. A., Hansen, M. C., Adusei, B., & Senay, G. B. (2015) Characterizing Congo Basin rainfall and climate using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite data and limited rain gauge ground observations. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 54(3), 541-555
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Nackoney, J., G. Molinario, P. Potapov, S. Turubanova, M.C. Hansen, T. Furuichi (2014) Impacts of civil conflict on primary forest habitat in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1990-2010. Biological Conservation 170: 321-328.
Molinario, G., Davies, D. K., Schroeder, W. & Justice, C. O. (2014) Characterizing the spatio-temporal fire regime in Ethiopia using the MODIS-active fire product: a replicable methodology for country-level fire reporting. African Geographical Review 33(2), 99-123.
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Hansen M.C., Egorov A., Potapov P. V., Stehman S. V., Tyukavina A., Turubanova S. A., Roy D. P., Goetz S. J., Loveland T. R., Ju J., Kommareddy A., Forsythe C., Bents T. (2014) Monitoring conterminous United States (CONUS) land cover change with Web-Enabled Landsat Data (WELD), Remote Sensing of Environment, 140, 466-484.
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Krylov, A., McCarty, J., Potapov, P.V., Loboda, T., Tyukavina, A., Turubanova, S., and Hansen, M.C. (2014) Remote Sensing estimates of stand-replacement firest in Russia, 2002-2011 Environmental Research Letters, 9(10), 105007.
Margono, B.A., Potapov, P.V., Turubanova, S., Stolle, F. and Hansen M.C. (2014) Primary forest cover loss in Indonesia, 2000 to 2012, Nature Climate Change.
Margono, B.A., Bwangoy, J-R B., Potapov, P.V. & Hansen, M.C. (2014) Mapping wetlands in Indonesia using Landsat and PALSAR data-sets and derived topographical indices, Geo-spatial Information Science, 17:1, 60-71.
Song, X.P., Huang, C., Sexton, J.O., Channan, S. & Townshend, J.R. (2014) Annual Detection of Forest Cover Loss Using Time Series Satellite Measurements of Percent Tree Cover. Remote Sensing, 6(9), 8878-8903
Dempewolf, J., Adusei, B., Becker-Reshef, I., Hansen, M., Potapov, P., Khan, A., Barker, B. (2014) Wheat Yield Forecasting for Punjab Province from Vegetation Index Time Series and Historic Crop Statistics. Remote Sensing 2014, 6(10), 9653-9675.
Tyukavina A., Stehman S.V., Potapov P.V., Turubanova S.A., Baccini A., Goetz S.J., Laporte N.T., Houghton R.A., Hansen M.C. (2013) National-scale estimation of gross forest aboveground carbon loss: a case study of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Environmental Research Letters, 4, 1-14.
Gaveau, D.L.A., Kshatriya M., Sheil D., Sloan S., Molidena E. Wijaya, A., Wich, S., Ancrenaz, M., Hansen, M., Broich, M., Guariguata, M., Pacheco, P., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., and Meijaard, E. (2013) Reconciling Forest Conservation and Logging in Indonesian Borneo, PLoS ONE 8(8): e69887.
Zhuravleva, I., Turubanova, S., Potapov, P., Hansen, M., Tyukavina, A., Minnemeyer, S., Laporte, N., Goetz, S., Verbelen, F., Thies, C. (2013) Satellite-based primary forest degradation assessment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2000-2010 Environmental Research Letters 8(2).
Bwangoy, J-R.B.B., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Lumbuenamo, R.S. (2013) Identifying nascent wetland forest conversion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wetlands Ecology and Management, 21, 29-43.
Nackoney, J. and D. Williams (2013) A comparison of scenarios for rural development planning and conservation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Biological Conservation, 164: 140-149.
Giree N., Stehman S., Potapov P., Hansen M. (2013) A Sample-Based Forest Monitoring Strategy Using Landsat, AVHRR and MODIS Data to Estimate Gross Forest Cover Loss in Malaysia between 1990 and 2005. Remote Sensing (5) 1842-1855.
Hansen M.C., Potapov P. V., Moore R., Hancher M., Turubanova S. A., Tyukavina A., Thau D., Stehman S.V., Goetz S.J., Loveland T.R., Kommareddy A., Egorov A., Chini L., Justice C.O., Townshend J.R.G. (2013) High-resolution global maps of 21-st-century forest cover change. Science, 342, 850-853.
Broich, M., Hansen, M., Potapov, P., and Wimberly, M. (2013) Patterns of tree-cover loss along the Indonesia-Malaysia border on Borneo, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 34, 5748-5760.
Nackoney, J., D. Rybock, J. Dupain, C. Facheux (2013) Coupling participatory mapping and GIS to inform village-level agricultural zoning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Landscape and Urban Planning, 110:164-174.
Hickey, J., J. Nackoney, N. Nibbelink, et al. (2013) Human Proximity and habitat fragmentation are key drivers of the rangewide bonobo distribution. Biodiversity and Conservation 22(13-14): 3085-3104.
Nackoney, J. and D. Williams (2012) Conservation prioritization and planning with limited wildlife data in a Congo Basin forest landscape: assessing human threats and vulnerability to land use change. Journal of Conservation Planning 8:25-44.
Hansen, M.C., and Loveland, T.R. (2012) A review of large area monitoring of land cover change using Landsat data, Remote Sensing of Environment, 2012, 122, 66-74.
Dieye, A.M., Roy, D.P., Hanan, N.P., Liu, S., Hansen, M., and Toure, A. (2012) Sensitivity analysis of the GEMS soil organic carbon model to land cover land use classification uncertainties under different climate scenarios in Senegal, Biogeosciences, 9, 631-648.
Koh, L.P., Gibbs, H., Potapov, P., Hansen, M., (2012) REDDcalculator.com: A Web-Based Decision-Support Tool for implementing Indonesia's Forest Moratorium. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3(2), 310-316.
Harris, N.L., Brown, S., Hagen, S.C., Saatchi, S.S., Petrova, S., Salas, W., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., and Lotsch, A. (2012) Baseline map of carbon emissions from deforestation in tropical regions, Science, 336, 1573-1576.
Dupain, J., J. Nackoney, J. M. Vargas, P. J. Johnson, M. A. Farfan, M. Bofaso, J. Fa (2012) Bushmeat characteristics vary with catchment conditions in a Congo market. Biological Conservation, 146: 32-40.
Potapov, P.V., Turubanova, S.A., Hansen, M.C., Adusei, B., Broich, M., Altstatt, A., Mane, L., and Justice, C.O., (2012) Quantifying forest cover loss in Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2000-2010, with Landsat ETM+ data, Remote Sensing Environment, 2012, 122, 106-116.
Houghton, R.A., House, J.I., Pongratz, J., van der Werf, G.R., DeFries, R.S., Hansen, M.C., Le Quere, C., and Ramankutty, N. (2012) Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change, Biogeosciences, 9, 5125-5142.
Margono, B.A., Turubanova, S., Zhuravleva, I., Potapov, P., Tyukavina, A., Baccini, A., Goetz, S., and Hansen, M.C. (2012) Mapping and monitoring deforestation and forest degradation in Sumatra (Indonesia) using Landsat time series data sets from 1990 to 2010, Environmental Research Letters, 7.
Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Zhuravleva, I., Hansen, M., Yaroshenko, A., and Manisha, A. (2012) Forest cover change within the Russian European North after the breakdown of the Soviet Union (1990-2005), International Journal of Forestry Research, 2012.
Townshend, J.R., Masek, J.M., Huang, C., Vermote, E., Gao, F., Channan, S., Sexton, J.O., Feng, M., Narasimhan, R., Kim, D., Song, K., Song, D., Song, X.-P., Noojipady, P., Tan, B., Hansen, M.C., Li, M., and Wolfe, R.E. (2012) Global characterization and monitoring of forest cover using Landsat data: opportunities and challenges, International Journal of Digital Earth.
Burgess, R., Hansen, M., Olken, B.A., Potapov, P., Sieber, S. (2012) The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127(4) 1707-1754
Broich, M., Hansen, M., Stolle, F., Potapov, P., Margono, B.A. and Adusei, B. (2011) Remotely sensed forest cover loss shows high spatial and temporal variation across Sumatra and Kalimantan, Indonesia 2000-2008, Environmental Research Letters, 6.
Potapov, P., Hansen, M.C., Gerrand, A.M., Lindquist, E.J., Pittman, K.; Turubanova, S., Løyche Wilkie, M. (2011) The global Landsat imagery database for the FAO FRA remote sensing survey, International Journal of Digital Earth, 4, 2-21.
Potapov, P., Turubanova S., Hansen M.C. (2011) Regional-scale boreal forest cover and change mapping using Landsat data composites for European Russia, Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 548-561
Broich, M., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Adusei, B., Lindquist, E., Stehman, S.V. (2011) Time-series analysis of multi-resolution optical imagery for quantifying forest cover loss in Sumatra and Kalimantan, Indonesia, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 13, 277-291.
Stehman, S.V., Hansen, M.C., Broich, M., and Potapov, P.V. (2011) Adapting a global stratified random sample for regional estimation of forest cover change derived from satellite imagery, Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 650-658.
Qasim M., Hubacek K., Termansen M., Khan A. 2011. Spatial and Temporal dynamics of land use pattern in district Swat, Hindu Kush Himalayan region of Pakistan. Applied Geography, Volume 31, Issue 2: 820-828.
Hansen, M.C., Egorov, A., Roy, D.P., Potapov, P., Ju, J., Turubanova, S., Kommareddy, I., and Loveland, T.R. (2011) Continuous fields of land cover for the conterminous United States using Landsat data: first results from the Web-Enabled Landsat Data (WELD) project, Remote Sensing Letters, 2, 279-288.
Fritz, S., You, L., Bun, A., See, L., McCallum, I., Schill, C., Perger, C., Liu, J., Hansen, M., and Obersteiner, M. (2011) Cropland for sub-Saharan Africa: A synergistic approach using five land cover data sets, Geophysical Research Letters, 38.
Scharlemann, J. P.W., Kapos, V., Campbell, A., Lysenko, I., Burgess, N.D., Hansen, M.C., Gibbs, H.K., Dickson, B. and Miles, L. (2010) Securing tropical forest carbon: the contribution of protected areas to REDD, Oryx, 44, 352-357.
Bwangoy, J.-R.B., Hansen, M.C., Roy, D.P., De Grandi, G., and Justice, C.O. (2010) Wetland mapping in the Congo Basin using optical and radar remotely sensed data and derived topographical indices. Remote Sensing of Environment, 114, 73-86.
Hansen, M.C., Stehman, S.V., and Potapov, P.V. (2010) Quantification of global gross forest cover loss, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 8650-8655.
Dubinin M., Potapov P., Luschekina A., Radeloff V.C. (2010) Reconstructing long time series of burned areas in arid grasslands of Southern Russia by satellite remote sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment, 114. 1638-1648.
Pittman, K., Hansen, M.C., Becker-Reshef, I., Potapov, P.V., and Justice, C.O. (2010) Estimating global cropland extent with multi-year MODIS data, Remote Sensing, 2, 1844-1863.
DeFries, R., Rudel, T., Uriarte, M., and Hansen, M. (2010) Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the 21st century, Nature Geoscience, 3, 178-181.
Potapov, P., Hansen, M. C., Stehman, S. V., Pittman, K. and Turubanova, S. (2009) Gross forest cover loss in temperate forests: biome-wide monitoring results using MODIS and Landsat data, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 3, 1-23.
Roy, D.P., Junchang, J., Kline, K., Scaramuzza, P.L., Kovalskyy, V., Hansen, M., Loveland, T.R., Vermote, E., and Zhang, C. (2009) Web-enabled Landsat data (WELD): Landsat ETM+ composited mosaics of the conterminous United States, Remote Sensing of Environment, 114, 35-49.
Maeda, E.E., Formaggio, A.R., Shimabukuro, Y.E., Balue Arcoverde, G.F., and Hansen, M.C. (2009) Predicting forest fire in the Brazilian Amazon using MODIS imagery and artificial neural networks, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 11, 265-272.
Wulder, M.A., White, J.C., Gillis, M.D., Walsworth, N., Hansen, M.C, Potapov, P. (2009) Multi-scale satellite and spatial information and analysis framework in support of a large-area forest monitoring and inventory update, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.
Broich, M., Stehman, S.V., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., and Shimabukuro, Y.E. (2009) A comparison of sampling designs for estimating deforestation from Landsat imagery: A case study of the Brazilian Legal Amazon, Remote Sensing of Environment, 113, 2448-2454.
Bankanza, J-R.B., Hansen, M.C., Roy, D.P., DeGrandi, G., and Justice, C.O. (2009) Wetland mapping in the Congo Basin using optical and radar remotely sensed data and derived topographical indices, Remote Sensing of Environment, 114, 73-86.
Hansen, M.C., Stehman, S.V., Potapov, P.V., Arunarwati, B., Stolle, F., and Pittman, K. (2009) Quantifying changes in the rates of forest clearing in Indonesia from 1990 to 2005 using remotely sensed data sets, Environmental Research Letters, 4(3)
Potapov P., Hansen M. C., Stehman S. V., Loveland T. R., Pittman K. (2008) Combining MODIS and Landsat imagery to estimate and map boreal forest cover loss, Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 3708-3719.
Steininger, M.K., Hansen, M., Townshend, J.R.G., Tucker, C.J., Skole, D., and DeFries, R. (2008) Convincing evidence of tropical forest decline, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 34.
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Lindquist, E. J., Hansen, M. C., Roy, D.P., and Justice, C.O. (2008) The suitability of decadal image data sets for mapping tropical forest cover change in the Democratic Republic of Congo: implications for the global land survey, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29, 7269-7275.
Hansen, M. C., Stehman, S. V., Potapov, P. V., Loveland, T. R., Townshend, J. R. G., DeFries, R. S., Arunarwati, B., Stolle, F., Steininger, M., Carroll, M., and DiMiceli, C. (2008) Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified using multi-temporal and multi-resolution remotely sensed data, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 9439-9444.
Hansen, M.C., Shimabukuro, Y., Potapov, P., and Pittman, K. (2008) Comparing annual MODIS and PRODES forest cover change data for advancing monitoring of Brazilian forest cover, Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 3784-3793.
Hansen, M.C., Roy, D., Lindquist, E., Justice, C.O., and Altstatt, A. (2008) A method for integrating MODIS and Landsat data for systematic monitoring of forest cover and change in the Congo Basin, Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 2495-2513.
Achard, F., DeFries, R., Eva, H., Hansen, M., Mayaux, P., Stibig, H-J. (2007) Improved pan-tropical observations and mid-resolution monitoring of deforestation, Environmental Research Letters, 2, 11.
Chang, J., Hansen, M.C., Pittman, K., Dimiceli, C., and Carroll, M. (2007) Corn and soybean mapping in the United States using MODIS time-series data sets, Agronomy Journal, 1654-1664.
Strahler, A. H., L. Boschetti, G. M. Foody, M. A. Friedl, M. C. Hansen, M. Herold, P. Mayaux, J. T. Morisette, S. V. Stehman, and C. E. Woodcock (2006) Global Land Cover Validation: Recommendations for Evaluation and Accuracy Assessment of Global Land Cover Maps, Report of Institute of Environmental Sustainability, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy.
Achard F., D. Mollicone, H.-J. Stibig, D. Aksenov, L. Laestadius, Z. Li, P. Potapov, and A. Yaroshenko. (2006) Areas of rapid forest cover change in boreal Eurasia. Forest Ecology and Management, 237, 322-334.
Jasinski, E., Morton, D., DeFries, R., Shimabukuro, Y., Anderson, L., and Hansen, M. (2005) Physical Landscape Correlates of the Expansion of Mechanized Agriculture in Mato Grosso, Brazil, Earth Interactions, 9, Paper 16, [online journal].
Hansen, M. C., Townshend, J. R. G., DeFries, R. S., and Carroll, M. (2005) Estimation of tree cover using MODIS data at global, continental and regional/local scales, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26, 4359-4380.
DeFries, R., Hansen, A., Newton, A.C., and Hansen, M.C. (2005) Increasing isolation of protected areas in tropical forest over the past twenty years, Ecological Applications, 15, 19-26.
Morton, D.C., DeFries, R.S., Shimabukuro, Y.E., Anderson, L.O., Del Bon Espírito-Santo, F., Hansen, M.C. and Carroll, M. (2005) Rapid Assessment of Annual Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Using MODIS Data, Earth Interactions, 9, Paper 8, [online journal].
Hansen, M. C., and DeFries, R. S. (2004) Detecting long term global forest change using continuous fields of tree cover maps from 8km AVHRR data for the years 1982-1999, Ecosystems, 7, 695-716.
Hansen, M. C., DeFries, R. S., Townshend, J. R. G., Carroll, M., Dimiceli, C., and Sohlberg, R. A. (2003) Global percent tree cover at a spatial resolution of 500 meters: First results of the MODIS vegetation continuous fields algorithm, Earth Interactions, 7, paper no. 10, 15 pp. [online journal]
Morisette , J. T., Nickeson, J. E., Davis, P., Wang, Y., Tian, Y., Woodcock, C. E., Shabanov, N., Hansen, M., Cohen, W. B., Oetter, D. R., and Kennedy, R. E. (2003) High spatial resolution satellite observations for validation of MODIS land products: IKONOS observations acquired under the NASA Scientific Data Purchase. Remote Sensing of Environment, 88, 100-110.
Hansen, M.C., DeFries, R.S., Townshend, J.R.G., Marufu, L. and Sohlberg, R. (2002) Development of a MODIS percent tree cover validation data set for Western Province, Zambia, Remote Sensing of Environment, 83(1&2), 320-335.
DeFries, R. S., Houghton, R. A., Hansen, M. C., Field, C. B., Skole, D., and Townshend, J. (2002) Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation and regrowth based on satellite observations for the 1980s and 1990s, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 99, 14256-14261.
Hansen, M.C., DeFries, R.S., Townshend, J.R.G., Sohlberg, R., Carroll, M. and Dimiceli, C. (2002) Towards an operational MODIS continuous field of percent tree cover algorithm: examples using AVHRR and MODIS data, Remote Sensing of Environment, 83(1&2), 303-319.
Teillet, P.M., El Saleous, N., Hansen, M.C., Eidenshink, J.C., Justice, C.O., and Townshend, J.R.G. (2000) An evaluation of the global 1-km AVHRR land data set, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 1987-2021.
Hansen, M.C., and Reed, B. (2000) A comparison of the IGBP DISCover and University of Maryland 1 km global land cover products, 2000, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 1365-1374.
DeFries, R., Hansen, M., and Townshend, J. (2000) Global continuous fields of vegetation characteristics: A linear mixture model applied to multiyear 8km AVHRR data, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 1389-1414.
Zhan, X., DeFries, R., Townshend, J.R.G., DiMiceli, C., Hansen, M., Huang, C., and Sohlberg, R. (2000) The 250m global land cover change product from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer of NASA’s Earth Observing System, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 1433-1460.
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