Recent Publications

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Beall, J.M., A.A. Dayer, A.W. Murphy, and E.A. Hunter (in revision). Psychological factors and social discourse about saltwater impacts predict coastal farm and forest landowners’ strategies to address sea-level rise. Journal of Environmental Management.
Smith, M.D., A.A. Dayer, J.M. Beall, and E.A. Hunter (in revision) Coastal Farmers’ Perceptions of Marsh Migration and Emerging Vulnerabilities due to Sea Level Rise. Rural Sociology.
E. Valentini, S. Sapio, S. V. Nghiem, S. H. Kim, S. Liburdi, and A. Taramelli, Synthesis study of evapotranspiration evolution in the Mekong Delta induced by land use and land cover changes in the decades of 1990-2020, Focus on Land Use Cover Changes and Synthesis in South and South East Asia, Environmental Research Letters, 2025.
Podkowa, A., Nghiem, S. V., Kugler, Z., and Brakenridge, G. R. 2025. SMAP Satellite Microwave Radiometry to Monitor River Flow and Lake Level in the Lower Mekong Basin. Earth and Space Science.
K. D. Ngo, S. V. Nghiem, A. M. Lechner, and T. T. Vu, Satellite Observations of Land Cover and Land Use in the Bạc Liêu Province, Vietnam. Book chapter in Remote Sensing of Land-Use/Cover Changes in South/Southeast Asia, Eds. K. Vadrevu, C. Justice, and G. Gutman, CRC Taylor and Francis, Vol. 1, 1 st Ed., 2025.
Biswas, S., Dutko, K., and Ordway, E. M. 2025. Increasing Forest Disturbance in the Congo Basin Is Driven by an Emerging Frontier in Cameroon. In Earth’s Future. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF005613
Jamal, Y., Murdock, C. C., Baharia, R. K., Sharma, R., Vaishnav, K., Desai, V., Kohli, V., Mohanty, A. K., Pascual, M., and Sharma, S. 2025. Spatiotemporal Patterns of Urban Heat in Indoor and Outdoor Microclimates. In Environmental Research Letters. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ae09bc
Teyton, A., Bailey, J., Luo, E., Ajaj, R., Raymond, C., Tuholske, C., and Benmarhnia, T. 2025. Overheated and Understudied: A Scoping Review of Heat-Related Health Impacts in the Arabian Peninsula. In GeoHealth. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GH001277
H. D. Nguyen, Q.-H. Truong, T. H. T. Nguyen, P. L. Vu, L. T. Pham, N. T. Bui, D. K. Dang, T. G. Nguyen, T. P. Van, Q.-H. Nguyen, Q.-T. Bui, M. C. Ha, T. V. Hoang, A.-I. Petrisor, and S. V. Nghiem, Spatial Extrapolation in Soil Salinity and Future Land Cover using Hybrid Machine Learning and Land Change Modeler: Case Study in the Mekong Delta and the Red River Delta, accepted for publication, Environmental Research Letters, 20, 114007, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ae0a6d, Oct. 2025.
E. Valentini, S. V. Nghiem, P. T. M. Thy, S. Sapio, M. Bresciani, C. Giardino, M. Boschetti, F. Nutini, A. Pellegrino, C. L. Trung, and A. Taramelli, Multisensor mapping of land use/land cover pattern in mangrove ecosystems: a case study in Cần Giờ Biosphere Reserve, Vietnam, accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 18, 20776-
20789, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3584799, Aug. 2025.
Skakun, S. 2025. The Impact of Map Accuracy on Area Estimation with Remotely Sensed Data within the Stratified Random Sampling Design. In Remote Sensing of Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.114805
Fleischman, F., Ramprasad, V., Choksi, P. 2025. Remote Measures and Remote Policies: A Critique of Remote Sensing in Indian Forests and Environmental Policy with Suggestions for Moving Forward. In Remote Sensing of Land Cover and Land Use Changes in South and Southeast Asia, Vadrevu, K.P., Justice, C., Gutman, G. (eds). CRC Press, 696 pp. ISBN 9781032499611
DeFries, R., Agarwala, M., Baquie, S. et al. 2025. Forest Transitions in Dry Tropical Forests of Central India: Insights from Satellite Data and Socioeconomic Surveys. In Remote Sensing of Land Cover and Land Use Changes in South and Southeast Asia, Vadrevu, K.P., Justice, C., Gutman, G. (eds). CRC Press, 696 pp. ISBN 9781032499611
Skole,D.L., Samek, J., Mehra, S. et al. 2025. Monitoring the Extent of Trees Outside of Forests in South Asia: Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation, In Remote Sensing of Land Cover and Land Use Changes in South and Southeast Asia, Vadrevu, K.P., Justice, C., Gutman, G. (eds). CRC Press, 696 pp. ISBN 9781032499611
Choksi, P., Lalai, D., Menon, A., Joglekar, A., Roy, A., Ramprasad, V., Thapa, M.S., Gudasalamani, R., Dhyani, S., Bunyan, M., Shastri, S., Plieninger, T., Adhikari, B., Fischer, H., Lahiri, S., Djenontin, I.N.S., Elias, F., Kocher, M., Cuadra, J.O., Fleischman, F. 2025. How do trees outside forests contribute to human wellbeing? A systematic review from South Asia. Environmental Research Letters, 119750, pp. 1-19.
Ebrahimi, S. Kumar, S. (2025). What Helps to Detect What? Explainable AI and Multi-Sensor Fusion for Semantic Segmentation of Simultaneous Crop and Land Cover Land Use Delineation. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 18. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3532829
Agarwal, S., Clark, B., Vaddi, U., Goveas, N., Nagendra, H., DeFries, R. 2025. Achieving high-integrity tree-planting projects in the Voluntary Carbon Market. Environmental Research Letters, in press.
Adrah, E., Wong, J. P., & Yin, H. (2025). Integrating GEDI, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-1 imagery for tree crops mapping. Remote Sensing of Environment, 319, 114644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.114644
Ebrahimi, S. and Kumar, S. (2025) ‘Semantic Segmentation for Simultaneous Crop and Land Cover Land Use Classification Using Multi-Temporal Landsat Imagery’, Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, p. 101505. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2025.101505
Henebry, G. M., and M. A. Tomaszewska, (2025) Snow-cover seasonality in Kyrgyzstan: variation and change over 20 years (2001–2021) as observed by the MODIS Terra snow product. Environmental Research Letters 20, 024018. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad9c98
Henebry GM, KM de Beurs. 2025. Remote Sensing of Land Surface Phenology: Progress, Challenges, Prospects. In: (MD Schwartz, ed.) Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science, 3rd edition. pp. 431-459. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75027-4_19
de Beurs KM, E Driscoll, GM Henebry. 2025. Land Surface Phenology in Global Change Studies. In: (MD Schwartz, ed.) Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science, 3rd edition. pp. 505-529. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75027-4_22
Simard, M., Fatoyinbo, L., Thomas, N.M. et al. A New Global Mangrove Height Map with a 12 meter spatial resolution. Sci Data 12, 15 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04213-z
Ngo, K.D., S. V. Nghiem, A. M. Lechner, and T. T. Vu, (2024) Satellite Observations of Land Cover and Land Use in the Bạc Liêu Province, Vietnam. Book chapter in Remote Sensing of Land-Use/Cover Changes in South/Southeast Asia, Eds. K. Vadrevu, C. Justice
Sparks, A.M., S. Manoudakis, A. Konstantinos, M. Sismanis, L. Boschetti, I.Z. Gitas, Chariton Kalaitzidis (2024) Assessing the effects of landcover and land use change on wildfire exposure and risk to communities and olive orchards in Mediterranean landscapes, Science of the Total Environment, 957, 177723. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177723
H. D. Nguyen, D. K. Dang, Q.-H. Nguyen, T. V. Phan, Q.-T. Bui, A.-I. Petrisor, S. V. Nghiem, Monitoring the effects of climate, land cover and land use changes on multi- hazards in the Gianh River watershed, Vietnam, Focus on Land Use Cover Changes and Synthesis in South and South East Asia, Environmental Research Letters, 19(10), 104033, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad7278, Sep. 2024.
Cardenas-Ritzert, O.S., Vogeler, J.C., Shah Heydari, S., Fekety, P.A., Laituri, M. and McHale, M.R., 2024. Effects of Land Use Data Spatial Resolution on SDG Indicator 11.3. 1 (Urban Expansion) Assessments: A Case Study Across Ethiopia. Sustainability, 16(22), p.9698. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16229698
Skole, D. L., Samek, J., Mehra, S., Bajaj, R., Tanmay, T., Suresh, S., Jindal, S., & Ndalowa, D. (2024). Measuring the extent of trees outside of forests: A nature-based solution for net zero emissions in South Asia. Environmental Research Letters, 19(11), 114092. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad845d
Miner, K., Baskaran, L., Gay, B. et al. Frozen no more, a case study of Arctic permafrost impacts of oil and gas withdrawal. Sci Rep 14, 25403 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-76292-2
Raymond, C., Matthews, T., & Tuholske, C. (2024). Evening humid-heat maxima near the southern Persian/Arabian Gulf. Communications Earth & Environment 2024 5:1, 5(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01763-3