Tyukavina, Alexandra (Sasha)

Degrees

  • in Cartography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia - MS

  • in Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland - College Park - PhD

Areas of Interest

  • Remote sensing
  • Forest cover change
  • Forest loss drivers
  • Sample-based area estimation

Research Topics

  • Land Cover - Land Use Change
  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

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