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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
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
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
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
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
Magliocca, N. R., Carter, N. H., Devine, J. A., Nielsen, E. A., & Sesnie, S. E. (2024). Jaguar conservation is caught in the crossfire of America's' War on Drugs'. Biological Conservation, 296, 110687. doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110687
Scott, C. K., Mack, E. A., Chi G., Kelgenbaeva, K., Henebry, G.M. (2024) Remittances and livestock management in agropastoral households in rural Kyrgyzstan: Telecoupled impacts of globalization. Rural Sociology http://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12552
Baird, I. (2024). Going Organic: Challenges for government-supported organic rice promotion and certification nationalism in Thailand. World Development, 173, p. 106-421.
Shah S. & Vogeler, J. (2024) Annual Land Use and Urban Land Cover maps: Ethiopia, Nigeria, and South Africa 2016-2020.ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2367
Baird, I. (2024) Organic rice: different implications from process and product environmental approaches in Laos and Thailand. Agriculture and Human Values, Agriculture and Human Values, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-024-10556-5
Williams, E., Funk, C., Peterson, P., and Tuholske, C. (2024) High Resolution Climate Change Observations and Projections for the Evaluation of Extreme Temperatures, Precipitation, Wet Bulb Globe Temperatures, and Vapor Pressure Deficits. Scientific Data. 11 (1), 261
Murillo-Sandoval, P. J., Sesnie, S. E., Armas, M. E. O., Magliocca, N., Tellman, B., Devine, J. A., Nielsen, E., & McSweeney, K. (2024). Central America’s agro-ecological suitability for cultivating coca, Erythroxylum spp. Environmental Research Letters, 19(10), 104068. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad7276
Nguyen, H.D., Dang D.K. , Nguyen, Q.H, Phan-Van, T., Bui, Q. T.,(2024) Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor, and Son Van Nghiem, Monitoring the effects of climate, land cover and land use changes on multi-hazards in the Gianh River watershed, Vietnam, Environmental Research Letters , 19, 104033, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad7278
Shah Heydari, S., Vogeler, J.C., Cardenas-Ritzert, O., Filippelli, S.K., McHale, M., & Laituri, M. (2024) . Multi-tier land use and land cover mapping framework and its application in urbanization analysis in three African countries. Remote Sensing, 16(14), 2677. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16142677
Qadir, A., Skakun, S., Becker-Reshef, I., Kussul, N., & Shelestov, A. (2024) Estimation of sunflower planted areas in Ukraine during full-scale Russian invasion: Insights from Sentinel-1 SAR data . Science of Remote Sensing, 100139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2024.100139
Yi, R., and Green, W.N. (2024). Intensifying translocal precarity: The impact of COVID-19 on smallholder farmers’ commodity production and social reproduction in Cambodia. Area. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12953