Matthew Hansen

Professor
Department: 
Department of Geographical Sciences
Institution: 
University of Maryland, College Park
Email: 
mhansen@umd.edu
Address: 4321 Hartwick Rd Suite 400 College Park MD United States 20740

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
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 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
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
Collaborator 01/01/2012 to 01/01/2015 Synthesis of Studies on Institutional Change and LCLUC Effects on Carbon, Biodiversity, and Agriculture After the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Principal Investigator 06/01/2008 to 05/31/2010 Producing Composite Imagery and Forest Cover and Change Characterizations for the Humid Tropics - A Contribution to the MDGLS Activity
Principal Investigator 01/01/2005 to 01/01/2008 Establishing a Global Forest Monitoring Capability Using Multi-Resolution and Multi-Temporal Remotely Sensed Data Sets
Principal Investigator 01/01/2001 to 01/01/2004 Land Use Change Around Protected Areas in LCLUC Sites: Synthesis of Rates, Consequences for Biodiversity, and Monitoring Strategies

Products

Product Title
Global Forest Change

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