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Matthew Hansen

Professor
Department
Department of Geographical Sciences
Institution
University of Maryland, College Park
Email
mhansen@umd.edu
Website
http://glad.umd.edu

Address
4321 Hartwick Rd Suite 400, College Park, MD, United States, 20740

Prof. Matthew Hansen is a remote sensing scientist with a research specialization in large area land cover and land use change mapping. His research is focused on developing improved algorithms, data inputs and thematic outputs which enable the mapping of land cover change at regional, continental and global scales. Such maps enable better informed approaches to natural resource management, including deforestation and biodiversity monitoring and can also be used by other scientists as inputs to carbon, climate and hydrological modeling studies. Prof. Hansen's work as an Associate Team Member of NASA's MODIS Land Science Team included the algorithmic development and product delivery of the MODIS Vegetation Continuous Field land cover layers. His current research includes taking the global processing model for MODIS and applying it to the Landsat archive. Exhausting mining of the Landsat archive has been used to map forest disturbance in the Congo Basin, Indonesia, European Russia, Mexico, Quebec and the United States. The methods developed in these efforts will be used to test global-scale disturbance mapping with Landsat data. Other current research efforts focus on improving global cropland monitoring capabilities, for example global soybean cultivated area estimation using MODIS, Landsat and RapidEye data sets.

Meeting Presentations

Type Meeting Date Title
NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation Rockville, MD 04/09/2019 Integrating Landsat 7, 8 and Sentinel 2 Data in Improving Crop Type Identification and Area Estimation
NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation Rockville, MD 04/09/2019 Evaluation of High Resolution Data for LCLUC Science-Potapov
NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation Rockville, MD 04/12/2017 Integrating Landsat 7, 8 and Sentinel 2 data in improving crop type identification and area estimation
NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation Yangon, Burma 01/12/2016 Global Forest Change Products from Remote Sensing Data
Program Presentation Hanoi, Vietnam 11/05/2011 MODIS and Landsat Regional Products-example of Indonesia forest monitoring
Program Presentation Alexandria, Virginia 10/03/2011 Global Crop type Assessment-Soybean Area Estimation
NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation Adelphi, Maryland 03/28/2011 National-scale mapping of land cover and change with Landsat data
NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation Bethesda North Marriott, Bethesda, MD 04/20/2010 Producing Composite Imagery and Forest Cover and Change Characterizations
Poster Presentation Bethesda North Marriott, Bethesda, MD 03/31/2009 Global gross forest cover loss and carbon release 2000-2005
NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation Khon Kaen, Thailand 01/12/2009 Using MODIS and Landsat for monitoring forest cover and change
NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation UMUC Inn and Conference Center, Adelphi, MD 04/28/2008 Mapping the boreal zone - forest cover and forest cover loss 2000 to 2005
Poster Presentation UMUC Inn and Conference Center, Adelphi, MD 04/04/2007 Forest Change Detection in Boreal Regions Using MODIS Data Time Series

Projects

Role Period of performance Project
Co-Investigator 01/01/2021 to 12/31/2024 Multi-resolution quantification and driver assessment of hot spots of global forest disturbance
Co-Investigator 01/01/2020 to 12/31/2023 Shifting Cultivation at a Crossroad: Drivers and Outcomes of Recent Land-Use Changes in Laos PDR
Collaborator 01/01/2021 to 12/31/2023 Soybean Expansion in South America: Quantifying Historical Land-Use Change, Modeling Socioeconomic Drivers and Projecting Future Trajectories
Principal Investigator 05/01/2018 to 05/01/2021 A Cobra in the Forest? Quantifying the Impact of Perverse Incentives from Indonesia's Deforestation Moratorium, 2011 to 2016
Co-Investigator 05/01/2018 to 05/01/2021 Forest Change and Oil Palm Expansion in Southeast Asia: Historical Patterns, Socioeconomic Drivers, and Future Projection
Principal Investigator 07/01/2015 to 12/31/2018 Integrating Landsat 7, 8 and Sentinel 2 Data in Improving Crop Type Identification and Area E stimation
Co-Investigator 01/01/2014 to 03/30/2017 Assessment of North American Industrial Forests: Disturbances, Biomass Extraction, and Growth Vigor
Collaborator 01/01/2013 to 01/01/2016 The Role of Environmental, Socioeconomic, Institutional, and Land-Cover/LandUse Change Factors to Explain the Pattern and Causal Drivers of Anthropogenic Fires in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe
Collaborator 12/15/2012 to 12/14/2015 Food, Price and Conflict: Earth Observations-Based Agricultural Production Forecasting to Assess Potential Impacts on Grain Markets and Civil Unrest.
Principal Investigator 10/15/2011 to 01/27/2015 Advancing methods for global crop area estimation