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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.

  • 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.

  • Zhen Song Assistant Research Professor

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

  • Alexandra (Sasha) Tyukavina 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.

  • Svetlana Turubanova Svetlana Turubanova Assistant Research Scientist

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

  • Ahmad Khan 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.

  • Yolande Munzimi Yolande Munzimi Post-Doctoral Associate, Past Graduate

    Yolande is interested in large scale hydrological modeling of the Congo Basin using remote sensed data.

  • 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.

  • Amy Hudson Pickens 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Bernard Adusei 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.

  • Antoine Baggett Faculty Specialist

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

  • 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.

  • 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..

  • Jeff Pickering 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.

  • 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.

  • Sam Jantz Sam Jantz Graduate Student

    PhD student I am particularly interested in utilizing remotely sensed data and geo-spatial modeling to support conversation projects.

  • 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.

  • Aleksandra Mikus Graduate Student

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

  • Andre Oktaviandra Graduate Student

    Andre is interested in the utilization of both open-source passive and active remote sensing, as well as geostatistics application in land use/land cover change mapping of Southeast Asian countries.

  • Carolina Ortiz-Dominguez Graduate Student

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

  • Rohan Purekar Graduate Student

    Graduate student specializing cybersecurity with extensive experience in Application and Network Security.



Resources

CARPE

INFOCONGO

Global Forest Watch

Intact Forest Landscapes

GEOGLAM

Land and Carbon Lab

 

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