Matthew Hansen

Professor

Department:

Department of Geographical Sciences

Institution:

University of Maryland, College Park

Email:

[email protected]

Website:

http://glad.umd.edu

Address: 4321 Hartwick Rd Suite 400 College Park MD United States 20740

Prof. Matthew Hansen is a remote sensing scientist with a research specialization in large area land cover and land use change mapping. His research is focused on developing improved algorithms, data inputs and thematic outputs which enable the mapping of land cover change at regional, continental and global scales. Such maps enable better informed approaches to natural resource management, including deforestation and biodiversity monitoring and can also be used by other scientists as inputs to carbon, climate and hydrological modeling studies. Prof. Hansen's work as an Associate Team Member of NASA's MODIS Land Science Team included the algorithmic development and product delivery of the MODIS Vegetation Continuous Field land cover layers. His current research includes taking the global processing model for MODIS and applying it to the Landsat archive. Exhausting mining of the Landsat archive has been used to map forest disturbance in the Congo Basin, Indonesia, European Russia, Mexico, Quebec and the United States. The methods developed in these efforts will be used to test global-scale disturbance mapping with Landsat data. Other current research efforts focus on improving global cropland monitoring capabilities, for example global soybean cultivated area estimation using MODIS, Landsat and RapidEye data sets.

Projects

Role	Period of performance	Project
Co-Investigator	01/01/2020 to 12/31/2024	Shifting Cultivation at a Crossroad: Drivers and Outcomes of Recent Land-Use Changes in Laos PDR
Co-Investigator	01/01/2021 to 12/31/2024	Multi-resolution quantification and driver assessment of hot spots of global forest disturbance
Collaborator	01/01/2021 to 03/11/2024	Soybean Expansion in South America: Quantifying Historical Land-Use Change, Modeling Socioeconomic Drivers and Projecting Future Trajectories
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
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	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

Media Outreach

Title	Date presented
Land in limbo: Nearly one third of Indonesia’s cleared old-growth forests left idle	07/14/2024