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Principal Investigator: Matthew Hansen

Co Investigators: Peter Potapov

Sponsor: Wildlife Conservation Society

Time Period: 2018 to 2021

Researchers: Amy Hudson Pickens

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Project Description

The researchers from University of Maryland will assist the biologists from Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in modeling tiger habitat by providing regional land cover and land use change datasets for the South East Asian tiger range.

In addition to providing new land cover and land use layers, UMD team will assisst WCS analysts with model implementation in Google Earth Engine. Amy Pickents of the GLAD team is an expert user, and will provide advice and guidance on best practices in Google Earth Engine