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Geographic distribution of principal investigator institutions
red_icon Current year count : 7
yellow_icon Started 1 year ago : 14
blue_icon Started 2 year ago:8
green_icon Started 3 year ago : 24
Principal Investigator Projects Start Date End Date View Project
Jonathan Wang Multiscale Monitoring of Drought-Induced Forest Mortality by Detecting Spatial Anomalies in Land Surface Temperature and Infrared Reflectance 01/01/2024 12/31/2027 Details..
Nimrod Carmon Pre- and Post- Wildfire Analysis in Mediterranean Forests Using Combined SWIRTIR Orbital Remote Sensing 01/01/2024 12/31/2027 Details..
Michael Keller Tropical Forest Degradation and Regeneration in the Brazilian Amazon: Thermal Remote Sensing Integrated into a Multi-Source Land Imaging Approach 01/01/2024 12/31/2027 Details..
Sergii Skakun Detecting and Mapping War-Induced Damage to Agricultural Fields in Ukraine Using Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Data 01/01/2024 12/31/2027 Details..
Michael Wimberly Multi-Source, Multi-Resolution Imaging of Urban Land Cover to Improve Predictions of Human Heat Exposures 01/01/2024 12/31/2027 Details..
Glynn Hulley Quantifying Connections Between Urban LCLUC and Emerging Extreme Heat in Rapidly Growing Indian Cities 01/01/2024 12/31/2027 Details..
Karen Seto Urbanization and Fire Risk at the Global Wildland-Urban Interface: A MultiSensor Study of Past and Future Trends 01/01/2024 12/31/2027 Details..
Saurav Kumar Exploring the Nexus between LCLUC, Socio-Economic Factors, and Water for a Vulnerable Arid US-Mexico Transboundary Region 08/01/2023 07/31/2026 Details..
Peilei Fan Decoding Land Transitions Across the Urban-Rural Continuums (URC): A Synthesis Study of Patterns, Drivers, and Socio-Environmental Impacts in Southeast Asia 07/31/2023 07/30/2026 Details..
Son Nghiem Synthesis Study of Land Cover, Land Use, and Demographic Change Under Multi-Dimensional Developments and Climate Pressures in Southeast Asia 05/24/2023 05/23/2026 Details..
Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr Irrigation as climate-change adaptation in the Cerrado biome of Brazil evaluated with new quantitative methods, socio-economic analysis, and scenario models 05/15/2023 05/14/2026 Details..
Elizabeth A. Hunter The Interplay between Land User Decisions and Landcover Change in Coastal Ecosystems and Working Lands Under Sea Level Rise in the Mid- Atlantic U.S. 05/10/2023 05/09/2026 Details..
Grant Connette Can Improved Stakeholder Representation Prevent Human-Caused Mangrove Loss in the Mesoamerican Reef Ecoregion? 04/01/2023 03/31/2026 Details..
Modulation of Climate Risks by Intensification of Urban and Agricultural Land Uses in the Arabian Peninsula 03/01/2023 02/28/2025 Details..
Disentangling Land-Use Change in Central Africa to Understand the Role of Local and Indigenous Communities in Forest Restoration and Conservation 02/01/2023 01/31/2026 Details..
Land-cover and Land-use Change at the Frontier: Socioeconomic and Environmental Factors Influencing Land-Use Transitions in the Cerrado Biome 02/01/2023 01/31/2026 Details..
Geoffrey Henebry Institutional Forcings on Agricultural Landscapes in Post-Socialist Europe: Diachronic Hotspot Analysis of CAP Influences on Agricultural Land Use in Romania 2002-2024 01/25/2023 01/24/2026 Details..
Jamon Van Den Hoek Multi-sensor Mapping of Refugee Agricultural LCLUC Hotspots in Uganda 01/23/2023 01/22/2026 Details..
David Skole South Asian Smallholder Forests and Other Tree-Based Systems: Synthesizing LCLUC Data and Approaches to Foster a Natural Climate Solution that Improves Livelihoods 01/01/2023 12/30/2026 Details..
Lin Yan Drivers and constraints of land cover land use change in Asian aquaculture hotspots 01/01/2023 12/31/2025 Details..
Xiao-Peng Song Energy LCLUC hotspot: Characterizing the dynamics of energy land use and assessing environmental impacts in the Permian Basin 01/01/2023 12/31/2025 Details..
Qiongyu Huang Untangling the Interactions Between Rural Outmigration, Grassland Degradation, and Sustainable Land Use in Mongolia 03/01/2022 03/01/2025 Details..
McKenzie F. Johnson Land Cover Land Use Change, Conflict, and Peacebuilding in Colombia 02/01/2022 01/31/2025 Details..
Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen A multi-faceted, pan-Mediterranean assessment of urban land change for the evaluation of interconnected climate risks 01/03/2022 01/02/2025 Details..
Nina Brooks A Remote Sensing Analysis of Heat Stress, LCLUC, and Women’s Health in Sub-Saharan Africa 01/01/2022 01/01/2025 Details..
Sean Woznicki Water Scarcity in the Serbian Danube: Agricultural Land Use Change and Irrigation 01/01/2022 12/31/2024 Details..
Alexey N. Shiklomanov Assessing the impact of urban land conversion and regional surface climate and its socio-economic consequence in Western North Africa 01/01/2022 12/31/2024 Details..
Latha Baskaran Analyzing the land-use change impacts of oil and gas exploration related infrastructure changes on Arctic communities 01/01/2022 12/31/2024 Details..
Nimrod Carmon Early Estimation of Fire-Risk in the Eastern Mediterranean and Socioeconomic Informed Communications of Actionable Strategies 01/01/2022 12/31/2024 Details..
Volker Radeloff Agricultural abandonment across the Eurasian steppe: effect on fires, vegetation succession and habitat quality for rare waterfowl species 09/01/2021 08/31/2024 Details..
Carlos Munoz Brenes Impacts of Global Markets and National Policies on Forest Carbon Trajectories and Social Outcomes in the Guiana Shield Ecoregion 06/01/2021 05/31/2024 Details..
Xin Xi Mapping and modeling desertification and its impact on aeolian dust and human health in Central Asia 05/01/2021 04/30/2024 Details..
He Yin The effects of the Syrian civil war on cropland in the eastern Mediterranean region 04/21/2021 04/20/2024 Details..
Marc Simard Global Hotspots of Change in Mangrove Forests 03/10/2021 12/31/2024 Details..
Michael Keller Quantifying agricultural expansion and tropical forest degradation in the Brazilian Arc of Deforestation: A multi-sensor, multi-scale approach 02/08/2021 02/07/2024 Details..
David Roy Where are the missing burned areas? Global hotspots of burned area – a multiresolution analysis 01/01/2021 12/31/2024 Details..
Robert Heilmayr Mapping property values to understand land-use change in South America 01/01/2021 12/31/2024 Details..
Christoph Nolte Comparing the effectiveness of conservation instruments in the Colombian Andes biodiversity hotspot 01/01/2021 12/31/2024 Details..
Aaron Sparks Understanding the socioeconomic drivers of agricultural land abandonment and associated fire risk in Greece 01/01/2021 12/31/2024 Details..
Christopher Neigh The Impact of Investment on Irrigated Rice, Dryland Agriculture and Afforestation in Senegal using SAR and Optical Time-Series Imagery in Data Fusion Approaches 01/01/2021 12/31/2024 Details..
David Skole Hotspot Detection for Monitoring New Trends in Carbon Sequestration in Systems of Trees Outside of Forests 01/01/2021 12/31/2024 Details..
Nicholas Magliocca Making the Hidden Visible: Accelerated Land-Use Change and Degradation Caused by Narco-Trafficking In and Around Central America’s Protected Areas 01/01/2021 12/31/2024 Details..
Yufang Jin Multi-source Wildland Urban Interface Characterization Enhanced with Machine Learning Technique: Dynamics and Hazard Assessment 01/01/2021 12/31/2024 Details..
Volker Radeloff Global Hotspots of the Wildland Urban Interface 01/01/2021 12/31/2024 Details..
Meha Jain Policy, Market, and Climate Change Impacts on Maize Production in Mexico 01/01/2021 12/31/2024 Details..
Nicholas Cuba Evaluating the drivers of international migration from the Northern Triangle of Central America and its implications for land systems in the region 01/01/2021 12/31/2024 Details..
David A. Lutz Rapid Change from Alluvial Mining and Development in Madre de Dios, Peru: A Multi-Sensor Fusion Approach to Quantify Terrestrial and Aquatic Impacts and Test Policy Effectiveness 01/01/2021 12/31/2024 Details..
Jody C. Vogeler The last urban frontier: Assessing drivers of urbanization and tradeoffs among social and ecosystem services associated with LCLUC in Africa 01/01/2021 12/31/2024 Details..
Alexandra Tyukavina Multi-resolution quantification and driver assessment of hot spots of global forest disturbance 01/01/2021 12/31/2024 Details..
Zhenong Jin Evaluating land use change and livelihood responses to large investments for high-value agriculture: managing risks in the era of the Green Morocco Plan 01/01/2021 01/01/2024 Details..
Simon Hook Coordination, Calibration and Algorithm Development of the Thermal Infrared Activities for the ESA Land Surface Temperature Monitoring (LSTM) Mission and NASA Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) Designated Observable 12/02/2020 12/01/2024 Details..
Peilei Fan Divergent Local Responses to Globalization: Urbanization, Land Transition, and Environmental Changes in Southeast Asia 03/23/2020 03/03/2024 Details..
Jiquan Chen Interdependent Dynamics of Food, Energy and Water in Kazakhstan and Mongolia: Connecting LULCC to the Transitional Socioecological Systems 01/12/2020 05/14/2024 Details..
Lin Yan Forced and Truncated Agrarian Transitions in Asia Through the Lens of Field Size Change 01/01/2020 12/31/2024 Details..
David Skole New Transitions in Smallholder Agricultural Systems that Promote Increased Tree Cover Outside of Forests 01/01/2020 06/30/2024 Details..
Mark Cochrane Land-Use Transitions in Indonesian Peatlands 01/01/2020 02/28/2024 Details..