Recent Publications

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Blackburn, R.C., Allington, G., Bayarkhangai, A., Motzer, N., Ulambayar, T. and Huang, Q., 2026. Moving on Up: A Two-Step Scaling Approach for Grassland Vegetation Structure. Science of Remote Sensing, 13, p.100419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2026.100419
Long, J., Liu, T., Woznicki, S.A., Marković, M., Marko, O. and Sears, M., 2026. From time-series generation and model selection to transfer learning: A review and comparative analysis of pixel-wise approaches for large-scale crop mapping. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 246, p.111646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2026.111646
Valentini, E., S. Sapio, S. V. Nghiem, S. H. Kim, S. Liburdi, and A. Taramelli (2026). Synthesis study of evapotranspiration evolution in the Mekong Delta induced by land use and land cover changes in the decades of 1990–2020. Environmental Research Letters, 21(1), 014027. Focus on Land Use Cover Changes and Synthesis in South and South East Asia. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae301c
Podkowa, A., Nghiem, S.V., Kugler, Z. and Brakenridge, G.R., 2026. SMAP Satellite Microwave Radiometry to Monitor River Flow and Lake Level in the Lower Mekong Basin. Earth and Space Science, 13, p.e2025EA004436. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EA004436
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.
Bilintoh, T.M., Pontius Jr, R.G., Oliveira, G.L.T. and Shimbo, J., 2025. A GIS Method to Analyze Trajectories of Gross Changes Through Multiple Temporal Resolutions With an Application to Brazilian Soybean Cultivation. Transactions in GIS, 29(8). https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.70169
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
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.
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
Pontius Jr, R.G. and Galvão da Fonseca, A.V., 2025. A GIS Method to Summarize Changes Among Classes During a Time Series With an Application to Land Cover in Western Bahia, Brazil. Transactions in GIS. , Vol 29 , Issue 7, https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.70136
Kondo, M., Patra, P.K., Canadell, J.G., Ciais, P., Houghton, R.A., Ito, A., Deshmukh, C.S., Kumagai, T., Luo, X., Mishra, U., Jain, A.K., Li, W., Koren, G., Sitch, S., Poulter, B., Tian, H., Bastos, A., Lauerwald, R., Rosentreter, J.A., Chandra, N., Saeki, T., Saunois, M., Luijkx, I.T., Maki, T., Nakamura, T., Hirabayashi, K., Hirano, T. and Saigusa, N., 2025. The Greenhouse Gas Budget of Southeast Asia for 2000–2019 and Pathways Toward Climate Neutrality. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 39, p.e2024GB008256. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008256
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.
Matos, Ana Paula, Maria Hunter, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, Luis Rodrigo Baumann, Leandro Leal Parente, Laerte Guimarães Ferreira. 2025. Accounting for alternation in temporal quality analysis in MapBiomas Brazil. International Journal of Digital Earth 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2025.2528604
Cheng, Y., Zhao, L., Chakraborty, T.C., et al. (2025). U-Surf: a global 1 km spatially continuous urban surface property dataset for kilometer-scale urban-resolving Earth system modeling. Earth System Science Data, 17, 2147-2174.
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
Jain, AK, Seshadri, S., Anand, J., Chandra, N., Patra, PK, Canadell, JG, et al. (2025). South Asia's ecosystems are a net carbon sink, but the region is a major net GHG source to the atmosphere. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 39, e2024GB008261. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008261
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
Honnef, Tanner, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. 2025. Best Practices for Applying and Interpreting the Total Operating Characteristic. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 14(4), 134. https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/14/4/134
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.
Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Thomas Francis, Marco Millones. 2025. A call to interpret disagreement components during classification assessment. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 39(7), 1373-1390. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2025.2469830.
Blackburn, R.C., Allington, G., Motzer, N., Munson, S.M. and Huang, Q., 2025. UAV-Derived Models of Vegetation Characteristics Do Not Transfer to Extreme Drought and Wet Conditions Across a Northern Arizona Landscape. Landscape Ecology, 40, p.59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-025-02064-6
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