Ahmad Khan Assistant Research Professor akhan234@umd.edu With Ph.D. in Geography, MS in Conservation biology and Sustainable Development, and B.Sc in Forestry Science Dr. Khan has over 35 year experience as Remote Sensing Scientist, Conservation Biologist, Development practitioner, Wildlife Biologist, and Wetlands Conservationist in Pakistan and Afganistan. Projects: CO Investigator Supporting Operational Regional Land Cover Monitoring at High Spatial and Temporal Resolution for the Hindu-Kush-Himalayan Region Projects: Researcher Global Land Cover and Land Use Monitoring in Support of Environmental Sustainability Evaluating Landsat And Rapid Eye Data for Winter Wheat Mapping And Area Estimation, Soy Yield Field To National Implementing the Global Land Cover Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) System for monitoring forest and trees outside forests in Bangladesh Agricultural Information Systems Project Building Provincial Capacity for Crop Estimation and Forecasting in Pakistan Publications: Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Hansen, M.C., Tyukavina, A., Zalles, V., Khan, A., Song, X-P, Pickens, A., Shen, Q., Cortez, J. (2022) Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century. Nature Food, 3, 19-28 Potapov, P., Hansen, M.C., Pickens, A., Hernandez-Serna, A., Tyukavina, A., Turubanova, S., Zalles, V., Li, X., Khan, A., Stolle, F., Harris, N., Song, X-P, Baggett, A., Kommareddy, I., Kommareddy, A. (2022) The global 2000-2020 land cover and land use change dataset derived from the Landsat archive: first results. Frontiers in Remote Sensing Khan, A., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Adusei, B., Stehman, S.V., Steininger, M.K. (2021) An operational automated mapping algorithm for in-season estimation of wheat area for Punjab, Pakistan. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 42(10), 3833-3849. Pagination « First page Prev Previous page 1 2 3 … Next Next page » Last page Presentations A number of presentations delivered at national and international events.Khan, A. 2022. Urban and agricultural land covers nexus in Punjab, Pakistan: a development or a food security risk – An assessment using medium resolution Landsat dataset 1989 – 2015. 3rd International Conference Climate Smart Agriculture: The Way towards Ecosystem Restoration. March 15-16, 2022. Department of Agronomy, MNS-University of Agriculture, Multan-Pakistan.Hansen, M.C. Song, X. Potapov, P. V., Zalles, V., Khan, A., Adusei, B. 2018. Advances in the global crop type mapping and challenges. 2018 ASA and CSSA meeting; November 04 – 07, Baltimore, MD.Khan, A., 2020. Remote Sensing applications in natural resources management. Virtual seminar at Syed Babur Ali School of Science and Engineering (SBASSE), LUMS, Lahore; June 23, 2020.Khan, A., 2020. Land use change, big data and machine learning. Presentation in training on earth observation applications in agriculture and forestry at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore; September 8, 2020.Khan, A., 2007. Mainstreaming wetlands conservation in Pakistan: strategy of Pakistan Wetlands Programme. International Conference on Mainstreaming Conservation: China, June 2007.Khan, A., 2009. Wetlands Biodiversity of Pakistan: Conservation, Impact and Challenges; SWS Annual Meeting: June 21-26, 2009 at UW Madison, WI.Khan, A. 2011. Energy and food security with sustainable development in the context of Green Economy. Presentation to LEAD Pakistan’s cohort 16. July 22, 2011.Khan, A. 2009. Techniques applied in Wetlands Biodiversity Assessment. International symposium on Modern Techniques for the analysis of Ecological Data, Sept 2-30, 2009 at PMNH.Khan, A.. 2011. Environmental Education: needs and definition: presented at Seminar at Khairpur University, Sindh on May 22, 2011.