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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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Anil Kommareddy Director of Computing Facilities
Has more than 15 years experience in software development and architect level hardware design and deployment. Has extensive experience in development of various scientific applications in GIS and Engineering.
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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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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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André Lima Post-Doctoral Associate
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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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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Indrani Kommareddy Senior Faculty Specialist
Software engineer specializing in web development with extensive experience in implementing full software life cycle process including requirement analysis, design, prototyping, interface implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance.
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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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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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Emma Minnis Faculty Specialist
Emma is a Faculty Specialist managing the pre and post award activities of the Global Land Analysis and Discovery lab.
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Amy Hudson Pickens Faculty Specialist
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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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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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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Diana Parker Graduate Student
Diana is interested in using remote sensing and qualitative research methods to understand land use change and deforestation drivers in Southeast Asia.