Potapov, Peter V.

Bio

My primary research interest is assessing and monitoring forest extent, structure, and composition on national to global extent using open satellite data archives. I received my M.S. degree in botany in 2000 from Moscow State University (Russia), and Ph.D. degree in ecology and natural resources in 2005 from the Russian Academy of Science. I started my career as remote sensing data analyst in 1998 working for Greenpeace (Russian office). From 2004 to 2006, I was the head of the Greenpeace GIS lab, where we developed a number of methods for forest change and degradation monitoring. One of our products, the global Intact Forest Landscapes (IFL) map, has been widely used in regional and global forest monitoring projects, nature conservation campaigns and scientific research. The historic and updated IFL data are freely available online from our website www.intactforests.org. I moved to South Dakota State University in 2006, where I worked with Dr. Matthew Hansen on global forest monitoring project. The main data we employed before year 2008 was MODIS imagery products. Our MODIS-based forest cover change products for 2000-2005 are available online (http://glad.geog.umd.edu/projects/gfm/) and were used for a number of applications, including carbon accounting and protected areas assessment. Since the opening of the Landsat archive in 2008, my work is focused on Landsat data mass-processing and integration with MODIS and high spatial resolution data. Our research team moved to the University of Maryland in 2011. During recent years, my research has focused on establishing a global operational Landsat-based forest monitoring algorithm that enables rapid quantitative estimation of forest cover change and forest degradation. A number of products that are based on the methodology developed by our team have been published recently, including global forest change assessment (http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest), and regional forest dynamics products for Eastern Europe (http://glad.geog.umd.edu/europe/), Central Africa (http://congo.iluci.org/carpemapper/), and Indonesia (http://glad.geog.umd.edu/indonesia/data2014/

For a more in depth look at our research lab's projects, research focus, and publications, visit the Global Land Analysis and Discovery lab here. 

Degrees

  • Moscow State University, 2000 - MS

  • Russian Academy of Science, 2005 - Ph.D

Research Topics

  • Molinario, G., Hansen, M. C. & Potapov, P. V. Forest cover dynamics of shifting cultivation in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a remote sensing-based assessment for 2000–2010. Environ. Res. Lett. 10, 94009 (2015).
    • Dempewolf, J., Adusei, B., Becker-Reshef, I., Hansen, M., Potapov, P., Khan, A., Barker, B. (2014) Wheat Yield Forecasting for Punjab Province from Vegetation Index Time Series and Historic Crop Statistics. Remote Sensing 2014, 6(10), 9653-9675
      • Tyukavina A., Baccini A., Hansen M.C., Potapov P.V., Stehman S.V., Houghton R.A., Krylov A.M., Turubanova S., Goetz S.J. (2015) Aboveground carbon loss in natural and human-modified tropical forests from 2000 to 2012.
        • Tyukavina, A., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Krylov, A.M., & Goetz, S.J. (2016) Pan‐tropical hinterland forests: mapping minimally disturbed forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25(2), 151-163.
          • Krylov, A., McCarty, J.L., Potapov, P., Loboda, T., Tyukavina, A., Turubanova, S., Hansen, M.C., 2014. Remote sensing estimates of stand-replacing fires in Russia, 2002-2011. Environmental Research Letters, 9:105007.
            • Tyukavina A., Stehman S.V., Potapov P.V., Turubanova S.A., Baccini A., Goetz S.J., Laporte N.T., Houghton R.A., Hansen M.C. (2013) National-scale estimation of gross forest aboveground carbon loss: a case study of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
              • Hansen M.C., Potapov P.V., Moore R., Hancher M., Turubanova S.A., Tyukavina A., Thau D., Stehman S.V., Goetz S.J., Loveland T. R., Kommareddy A., Egorov A., Chini L., Justice C.O., Townshend J.R.G. (2013) High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest
                • Potapov P., M.C. Hansen, and S.V. Stehman. 2010. High-latitude forest cover loss in Northern Eurasia, 2000 to 2005. In: “Eurasian Arctic land cover and land use in a changing climate”, Gutman G., Reissell A., Eds. 37-52
                  • Potapov P., A. Yaroshenko, S. Turubanova, M. Dubinin, L. Laestadius, C. Thies, D. Aksenov, A. Egorov, Y. Yesipova, I. Glushkov, M. Karpachevskiy, A. Kostikova, A. Manisha, E. Tsybikova, and I. Zhuravleva. 2008. Mapping the World’s Intact Forest Landscapes
                    • Potapov P., M.C. Hansen, S.V. Stehman, T.R. Loveland, and K. Pittman. 2008. Combining MODIS and Landsat imagery to estimate and map boreal forest cover loss. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 3708-3719
                      • Li, H., Song, X.-P., Hansen, M.C. et al. (2023). Development of a 10-m resolution maize and soybean map over China: Matching satellite-based crop classification with sample-based area estimation. Remote Sensing of Environment, 294, p.113623.
                      • Song, X.-P., Hansen, M.C., Stehman, S.V., Potapov, P.V., Tyukavina, A., Vermote, E.F., & Townshend, J.R. (2018). Global land change from 1982 to 2016. Nature, 560, 639-643
                      • Hansen, M.C., Wang, L., Song, X.-P., Tyukavina, A., Turubanova, S., Potapov, P.V., & Stehman, S.V. (2020). The fate of tropical forest fragments. Science Advances, 6, eaax8574
                      • 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
                      • Song, X.-P., Huang, W., Hansen, M.C., & Potapov, P. (2021). An evaluation of Landsat, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1 and MODIS data for crop type mapping. Science of Remote Sensing, 3, 100018
                      • Song, X.-P., Li, H., Potapov, P., & Hansen, M.C. (2022). Annual 30 m soybean yield mapping in Brazil using long-term satellite observations, climate data and machine learning. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 326, 109186
                      • 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)
                      • Chen, D., Loboda, T.V., Krylov, A., & Potapov, P.V. (2016). Mapping stand age dynamics of the Siberian larch forests from recent Landsat observations. Remote Sensing of Environment, 187, 320-331.
                      • Nackoney J, Molinario G, Potapov P, Turubanova S, Hansen M C and Furuichi T 2014 Impacts of civil conflict on primary forest habitat in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1990–2010 Biological Conservation 170 321–8
                      • Molinario G, Hansen M C and Potapov P V 2015 Forest cover dynamics of shifting cultivation in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a remote sensing-based assessment for 2000–2010 Environ. Res. Lett. 10 094009
                      • Molinario G, Hansen M C, Potapov P V, Tyukavina A, Stehman S, Barker B and Humber M 2017 Quantification of land cover and land use within the rural complex of the Democratic Republic of Congo Environ. Res. Lett. 12 104001
                      • Ying, Q., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P. V., Tyukavina, A., Wang, L., Stehman, S. V., Moore, R., Hancher, M., 2017. Global bare ground gain from 2000 to 2012 using Landsat imagery. Remote Sens. Environ. 194, 161–176. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.03.022
                      • 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
                      • Chen, D., Loboda, T.V., Krylov, A., & Potapov, P.V. (2017). Distribution of Estimated Stand Age Across Siberian Larch Forests, 1989-2012. In. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA: ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1364
                      • Chen, D., Loboda, T.V., Krylov, A., & Potapov, P.V. (2016). Mapping stand age dynamics of the Siberian larch forests from recent Landsat observations. Remote Sensing of Environment, 187, 320-331. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.10.033
                      • Molinario, G., Hansen, M. C. & Potapov, P. V. Forest cover dynamics of shifting cultivation in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a remote sensing-based assessment for 2000–2010. Environ. Res. Lett. 10, 94009 (2015).
                      • Dempewolf, J., Adusei, B., Becker-Reshef, I., Hansen, M., Potapov, P., Khan, A., Barker, B. (2014) Wheat Yield Forecasting for Punjab Province from Vegetation Index Time Series and Historic Crop Statistics. Remote Sensing 2014, 6(10), 9653-9675
                      • Tyukavina A., Baccini A., Hansen M.C., Potapov P.V., Stehman S.V., Houghton R.A., Krylov A.M., Turubanova S., Goetz S.J. (2015) Aboveground carbon loss in natural and human-modified tropical forests from 2000 to 2012.
                      • Tyukavina, A., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Krylov, A.M., & Goetz, S.J. (2016) Pan‐tropical hinterland forests: mapping minimally disturbed forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25(2), 151-163.
                        Krylov, A., McCarty, J.L., Potapov, P., Loboda, T., Tyukavina, A., Turubanova, S., Hansen, M.C., 2014. Remote sensing estimates of stand-replacing fires in Russia, 2002-2011. Environmental Research Letters, 9:105007.
                        Tyukavina A., Stehman S.V., Potapov P.V., Turubanova S.A., Baccini A., Goetz S.J., Laporte N.T., Houghton R.A., Hansen M.C. (2013) National-scale estimation of gross forest aboveground carbon loss: a case study of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
                      • Hansen M.C., Potapov P.V., Moore R., Hancher M., Turubanova S.A., Tyukavina A., Thau D., Stehman S.V., Goetz S.J., Loveland T. R., Kommareddy A., Egorov A., Chini L., Justice C.O., Townshend J.R.G. (2013) High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest
                      • Potapov P., M.C. Hansen, and S.V. Stehman. 2010. High-latitude forest cover loss in Northern Eurasia, 2000 to 2005. In: “Eurasian Arctic land cover and land use in a changing climate”, Gutman G., Reissell A., Eds. 37-52
                      • Potapov P., A. Yaroshenko, S. Turubanova, M. Dubinin, L. Laestadius, C. Thies, D. Aksenov, A. Egorov, Y. Yesipova, I. Glushkov, M. Karpachevskiy, A. Kostikova, A. Manisha, E. Tsybikova, and I. Zhuravleva. 2008. Mapping the World’s Intact Forest Landscapes
                      • Potapov P., M.C. Hansen, S.V. Stehman, T.R. Loveland, and K. Pittman. 2008. Combining MODIS and Landsat imagery to estimate and map boreal forest cover loss. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 3708-3719
                      • Potapov P., M.C. Hansen, S.V. Stehman, K. Pittman, and S. Turubanova. 2009. Gross forest cover loss in temperate forests: biome-wide monitoring results using MODIS and Landsat data. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 3, 1-23
                      • Potapov P., Hansen M.C., Gerrand A.M., Lindquist E.J., Pittman K., Turubanova S., Loyche-Wilkie M. (2011) The global Landsat imagery database for the FAO FRA remote sensing survey. International Journal of Digital Earth, 4, 2-21
                      • Potapov P., Turubanova S., Hansen M.C. (2011) Regional-scale boreal forest cover and change mapping using Landsat data composites for European Russia. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 548-561
                      • P. Potapov, S. Turubanova, I. Zhuravleva, M. Hansen, A. Yaroshenko, A. Manisha (2012) Forest cover change within the Russian European North after the breakdown of Soviet Union (1990-2005). International Journal of Forestry Research,
                      • Potapov P.V., Turubanova S.A., Hansen M.C., Adusei B., Broich M., Altstatt A., Mane L., and Justice C.O. (2012) Quantifying forest cover loss in Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2000–2010, with Landsat ETM+ data. Remote Sensing of Environment.
                      • Pittman K., Hansen M.C., Becker-Reshef I., Potapov P.V. and Justice C. O. 2010. Global Cropland Extent with Multi-year MODIS Data. Remote Sensing, 2 (7), 1844-1863.

                       

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