Viviana Zalles Post-Doctoral Associate vzalles@umd.edu Viviana has a bachelor's degree in Environmental Science and has earned her PhD in Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland. She is interested in using remote sensing to research large scale land cover change and its drivers, particularly in the context of tropical deforestation. Projects: CO Investigator Global Land Cover and Land Use Monitoring in Support of Environmental Sustainability Projects: Graduate Researcher Global Forest Watch Total Carbon Estimation in African Mangroves and Coastal Wetlands in Preparation for REDD and Blue Carbon Credits Projects: Researcher Commodity Crop Mapping and Monitoring in South America Quantifying Spatio-Temporal Trends in the Expansion of South American Agriculture, 1985 to Present Evaluating Landsat And Rapid Eye Data for Winter Wheat Mapping And Area Estimation, Soy Yield Field To National Research on Mapping Forest Cover Change in Three Tropical Countries Publications: Pickens, A.H., Hansen, M.C., Stehman, S.V., Tyukavina, A., Potapov, P., Zalles, V., Higgins, J. (2022) Global seasonal dynamics of inland water and ice. Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 272, 112963 Zalles, V., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Parker, D., Stehman, S.V., Pickens A.H., Leal Parente, L., Ferreira, L.G., Song, X.-P., Hernandez-Serna, A., Kommareddy, I. (2021) Rapid expansion of human impact on natural land in South America since 1985. Science Advances, 7(14) Song, X.-P., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Adusei, B., Pickering, J., Adami, M., Lima, A., Zalles, V., Stehman, S.V., Di Bella, C.M., Cecilia, C.M., Copati, E.J., Fernandes, L.B., Hernandez-Serna, A., Jantz, S.M., Pickens, A.H., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina A. (2021). Massive soybean expansion in South America since 2000 and implications for conservation. Nature Sustainability, 4, 784–792 Pagination « First page Prev Previous page … 2 3 4 Next Next page » Last page