Pickens, Amy | GEOG | Geographical Sciences Department

Dr. Amy Pickens is an Assistant Research Professor at the Department of Geographical Sciences.

Areas of Interest

Near-real time monitoring
Global surface water dynamics
Time series data analysis

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Degrees

Degree Type

BS

Degree Details

Mathematics, University of Maryland
Degree Type

Ph.D.

Degree Details

Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland

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.
Khan, A., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Adusei, B., Pickens, A., Krylov, A., Stehman, S.V. Evaluating Landsat and RapidEye Data for Winter Wheat Mapping and Area Estimation in Punjab, Pakistan, Remote Sensing (2018)
Song, X.P., Potapov, P.V., Krylov, A., King, L., Di Bella, C.M., Hudson, A., Khan, A., Adusei, B., Stehman, S.V. and Hansen, M.C., 2017. National-scale soybean mapping and area estimation in the United States using medium resolution satellite imagery and

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