Pickens, Amy

Degrees

Mathematics, University of Maryland - BS
Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland - Ph.D.

Areas of Interest

Near-real time monitoring
Global surface water dynamics
Global land cover and land use change

Research Topics

Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Hansen, M.C., Tyukavina, A., Zalles, V., Khan, A., Song, X.-P., Pickens, A., Shen, Q., & Cortez, J. (2021). Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century. Nature Food

Song, X.-P., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Adusei, B., Pickering, J., Adami, M., Lima, A., Zalles, V., Stehman, S.V., (2021). Massive soybean expansion in South America since 2000 and implications for conservation. Nature Sustainability, 4, 784-792

Pickens, A.H., Hansen, M.C., Hancher, M., Stehman, S.V., Tyukavina, A., Potapov, P., Marroquin, B., Sherani, Z., 2020. Mapping and sampling to characterize global inland water dynamics from 1999 to 2018 with full Landsat time-series.

Peter Potapov, Matthew C Hansen, Indrani Kommareddy, Anil Kommareddy, Svetlana Turubanova, Amy Pickens, Bernard Adusei, Alexandra Tyukavina, Qing Ying, 2020. Landsat Analysis Ready Data for Global Land Cover and Land Cover Change Mapping. Remote Sensing

Potapov, P., Siddiqui, B.N., Iqbal, Z., Aziz, T., Zzaman, B., Islam, A., Pickens, A., Talero, Y., Tyukavina, A., Turubanova, S., Hansen, M.C. (2017) Comprehensive monitoring of Bangladesh tree cover inside and outside of forests, 2000–2014. Environmental

Zalles, V., Hansen, M. C., Potapov, P. V., Stehman, S. V., Tyukavina, A., Pickens, A., ... & John, N. (2019). Near doubling of Brazil’s intensive row crop area since 2000. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(2), 428-435.

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Amy Pickens
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