All Publications

Zhang, Z., Murray, N. J., Song, X.-P., Bunting, P., Worthington, T. A., Fatoyinbo, L., Mao, D., Jia, M., Arifanti, V. B., Aung, T., Htay, S. S., & Friess, D. A. (2026). Unexpected expansion and regrowth in Earth’s mangrove forests over the past four decades. Science, 392(6802), 1082–1087. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aec9773

Duncanson, L., Montesano, P., Neuenschwander, A. L., Zarringhalam, A., Thomas, N., Minor, D., ... & Dubayah, R. (2025). Global and Boreal Estimates of Woody Aboveground Biomass for 2020: Filling GEDI’s Northern Data Gap with ICESat-2 and Harmonized Landsat Sentinel.

Tyukavina, A., Poulson, A. J., Pickering, J., Adusei, B., Hansen, M. C., Potapov, P., Baggett, A., Ortiz Dominguez, C., Mikus, A., ... Song, X.-P. (2026). Global extent and drivers of tree cover loss quantified with high-resolution satellite data. Science, 392(6802). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adz9042

Iwantoro, A. P., Urrego, D. H., Xie, D., Nicholas, A. P., Hapsari, K. A., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, J. A., Restrepo, J. C., Polanía, J., Aalto, R. E., Gómez Vargas, L. F., & van Maanen, B. (2026). The importance of scale in the future of mangrove blue carbon under sea-level rise. Earth's Future, 14, e2025EF006984. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EF006984

Bruening, J. M., May, P. B., Dubayah, R. O., Wertis, L., Quinn, C., Pederson, N., Armstrong, A. H., & Poulter, B. (2026). Baseline maps of U.S. mature and old-growth forests for conservation and management. Environmental Research: Ecology, 5(1), Article 015010. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-664X/ae5300

Dataset: Mature and old-growth forest probability maps for the conterminous United States (OldGrowth_MatureForest_Maps_US_2498, Version 1) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2498

Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Rosa, M., Teixeira, L., Shimbo, J., Zalles, V., Sims, M. J., Stanimirova, R., Lima, A., Goldman, E., Harris, N., & Stolle, F. (2026). Evaluation of operational satellite-based disturbance detection products in Brazilian primary forests for the years 2023 and 2024. Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 7, Article 1818592. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2026.1818592

Torresani, M., Moudry, V., Hakkenberg, C. R., Goetz, S. J., Coomes, D., Cotrina-Sanchez, A., Armston, J. D., Vogeler, J. C., Roy, D., & Rocchini, D. (2026). The role of GEDI spaceborne lidar in biodiversity analyses: A topical review. Environmental Research Letters, 21(9), Article 093003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae608a

Song, Y., Floriani, L., Duncan, K., & Farrell, S. (2026). Extracting sea ice topographic features from triangulated surface models. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, PP, 1–1. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2026.3690366

Feng, H., Song, Y., & De Floriani, L. (2026). A Parallel Scale-Space Method for Critical Features Tracking on Triangulated Irregular Networks. ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems.

Friedlingstein, P., O'Sullivan, M., Jones, M. W., Andrew, R. M., Bakker, D. C., Hauck, J., ... & Zeng, J. (2025). Global carbon budget 2025. Earth System Science Data Discussions, 2025, 1-139.

Khan, A., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Hansen, M. C., Tyukavina, A., Poulson, A., Hernandez-Serna, A., Song, X.-P., Harris, N., & Stolle, F. (2026). Global annual cropland dynamics 2015–2024. Remote Sensing of Environment, 340, 115438.

Gippet, J. M. W., Carlson, C. J., Klaftenberger, T., Schweizer, M., Eskew, E. A., Gore, M. L., & Bertelsmeier, C. (2026). Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years. Science, 392(6794), 178–182. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adw5518