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Matthew Hansen
Director GLAD
Prof. Matthew Hansen is a remote sensing scientist with a research specialization in large area land cover and land use change mapping.
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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.
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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.
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Xiao-Peng Song
Assistant Research 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.
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Zhen Song
Assistant Research Professor
My primary interest is to investigate large scale land cover change and its impact on climate.
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Alexandra (Sasha) Tyukavina
Assistant Research Professor, Past Graduate
Alexandra’s research interests include satellite-based forest cover, disturbance history and intactness mapping, and methods of forest carbon loss quantification.
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Svetlana Turubanova
Assistant Research Scientist
Her research interests include boreal forest ecology, forest fire, and biodiversity.
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Ahmad Khan
Post-Doctoral Associate, Past Graduate
Mr. Khan has working experience of more than 25 years as Conservation Biologist, Development practitioner, Wildlife Biologist, and Wetlands Conservationist.
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Yolande Munzimi
Post-Doctoral Associate, Past Graduate
Yolande is interested in large scale hydrological modeling of the Congo Basin using remote sensed data.
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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.
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Amy Hudson Pickens
Post-Doctoral Associate, Past Graduate
Amy is interested in water dynamics over time and scripting to automate image processing. She is currently working on GLAD's global water analysis.
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Viviana Zalles
Post-Doctoral Associate, Past Graduate
She is interested in using remote sensing to research large scale land cover change and its drivers, particularly in the context of tropical deforestation.
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Andrés Hernández Serna
Senior Faculty Specialist
Andrés is interested in using Deep learning and Lidar data for ecological, soundscape, biodiversity and land cover/land use change monitoring applications.
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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.
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Bernard Adusei
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.
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Antoine Baggett
Faculty Specialist
Antoine is interested in using remote sensing to track changes in land use, especially changes in urban development.
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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.
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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..
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Jeff Pickering
Faculty Specialist
Jeff is primarily interested in the issues faced by climate change practically and philosophically and the use of geospatial and remote sensing technologies to inform better agriculture and forest management policies.
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Andrew Poulson
Faculty Specialist
Andrew is interested in how remote sensing data can be used to analyze how wildlife is affected by deforestation.
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Sam Jantz
Graduate Student
PhD student I am particularly interested in utilizing remotely sensed data and geo-spatial modeling to support conversation projects.
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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
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Zhen Liu
Graduate Student
Zhen’s interests are landcover mapping, accuracy assessment, deep learning, and machine learning.
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Aleksandra Mikus
Graduate Student
I am interested in land cover change in the northern latitudes, especially Siberia.
