Publications

2017

Che, X., Feng, M., Sexton, J. O., Channan, S., Yang, Y., & Sun, Q. (2017). Assessment of MODIS BRDF/Albedo Model Parameters (MCD43A1 Collection 6) for Directional Reflectance Retrieval. Remote Sensing, 9(11), 1123.
Nagol, J.R., Sexton, J.O., Anand, A., Sahajpal, R. and Edwards, T.C., 2017. Isolating type-specific phenologies through spectral unmixing of satellite time series. International Journal of Digital Earth, pp.1-13.
Ironside, K.E., Mattson, D.J., Choate, D., Stoner, D., Arundel, T., Hansen, J., Theimer, T., Holton, B., Jansen, B., Sexton, J.O. and Longshore, K., 2017. Variable terrestrial GPS telemetry detection rates: Addressing the probability of successful acquisitions. Wildlife Society Bulletin.
Brinck, K., Fischer, R., Groeneveld, J., Lehmann, S., De Paula, M.D., Pütz, S., Sexton, J.O., Song, D. and Huth, A., 2017. High resolution analysis of tropical forest fragmentation and its impact on the global carbon cycle. Nature Communications, 8, p.14855.
Che, X., Yang, Y., Feng, M., Xiao, T., Huang, S., Xiang, Y., & Chen, Z. (2017). Mapping extent dynamics of small lakes using downscaling MODIS surface reflectance. Remote Sensing, 9(1), 82.

2016

Montesano, P. M., Neigh, C. S., Sexton, J., Feng, M., Channan, S., Ranson, K. J., & Townshend, J. R. (2016). Calibration and Validation of Landsat Tree Cover in the Taigaˆ’ Tundra Ecotone. Remote Sensing, 8(7), 551.
Feng, M., Sexton, J.O., Huang, C., Anand, A., Channan, S., Song, X.P., Song, D.X., Kim, D.H., Noojipady, P. and Townshend, J.R., 2016. Earth science data records of global forest cover and change: Assessment of accuracy in 1990, 2000, and 2005 epochs. Remote Sensing of Environment, 184, pp.73-85.
Stoner, D.C., Sexton, J.O., Nagol, J., Bernales, H.H. and Edwards Jr, T.C., 2016. Ungulate Reproductive Parameters Track Satellite Observations of Plant Phenology across Latitude and Climatological Regimes. PloS one, 11(2), p.e0148780.
Song X-P., Sexton J. O., Huang C., Channan S., Townshend J. R. Characterizing the magnitude, timing and duration of urban growth from time series of Landsat-based estimates of impervious cover.Remote Sensing of Environment. 2016;175:1-13. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2015.12.027.

2015

Liu, F.J., Huang, C., Pang, Y., Li, M., Song, D.X., Song, X.P., Channan, S., Sexton, J.O., Jiang, D., Zhang, P. and Guo, Y., 2015. Assessment of the three factors affecting Myanmar's forest cover change using Landsat and MODIS vegetation continuous fields data. International Journal of Digital Earth, pp.1-24.
Sexton, J.O., Noojipady, P., Song, X.P., Feng, M., Song, D.X., Kim, D.H., Anand, A., Huang, C., Channan, S., Pimm, S.L. and Townshend, J.R., 2015. Conservation policy and the measurement of forests. Nature Climate Change.
Rastogi, A., Hickey, G. M., Anand, A., Badola, R., & Hussain, S. A. (2015). Wildlife-tourism, local communities and tiger conservation: A village-level study in Corbett Tiger Reserve, India. Forest Policy and Economics.
Channan, S., Feng, M., Kim, D. H., Sexton, J. O., Song, X. P., Song, D. X., Noojipady, P, Collins. K., Anand, A., Townshend, J. R. (2015). The GLS+: An Enhancement of the Global Land Survey Datasets. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 81(7), 521-525.
Jenkins, C. N., Van Houtan, K. S., Pimm, S. L., & Sexton, J. O. (2015). US protected lands mismatch biodiversity priorities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(16), 5081-5086.
Haddad, N.M., L.A. Brudvig, J. Clobert, K.F. Davies, A. Gonzalez, R.D. Holt, T.E. Lovejoy, J.O. Sexton, M.P. Austin, C.D. Collins, W.M. Cook, E.I. Damschen, R.M. Ewers, B.L. Foster, C. Jenkins, A. King, W.F. Laurance, D.J. Levey, C.R. Margules, B.A. Melbourne, A.O. Nicholls, J.L. Orrock, D.-X. Song, J.R. Townshend. (2015). Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth's ecosystems. Science Advances
Song, X. P., Huang, C., Saatchi, S. S., Hansen, M. C., & Townshend, J. R. (2015). Annual Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in the Amazon Basin between 2000 and 2010.PLOS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126754
Feng, M., Sexton, J. O., Channan, S., & Townshend, J. R. (2015). A global, high-resolution (30-m) inland water body dataset for 2000: first results of a topographic–spectral classification algorithm. International Journal of Digital Earth, (ahead-of-print), 1-21.
Kim, D. H., Sexton, J. O., & Townshend, J. R. (2015). Accelerated deforestation in the humid tropics from the 1990s to the 2000s. Geophysical Research Letters.
Zhu, Y., Pan, P., Fang, S., Da Xu, L., Song, J., Zhang, J., & Feng, M. (2015). The development and application of e-Geoscience in China. Information Systems Frontiers, 1-15.
Che, X., Feng, M., Jiang, H., Song, J., & Jia, B. (2015). Downscaling MODIS Surface Reflectance to Improve Water Body Extraction. Advances in Meteorology.
Sexton, J. O., Noojipady, P., Anand, A., Song, X. P., McMahon, S., Huang, C., Feng, M., Channan, S., & Townshend, J. R. (2015). A model for the propagation of uncertainty from continuous estimates of tree cover to categorical forest cover and change. Remote Sensing of Environment, 156, 418-425.

2014

Nagol, J. R., Sexton, J. O., Kim, D. H., Anand, A., Morton, D., Vermote, E., & Townshend, J. R. (2014). Bidirectional effects in Landsat reflectance estimates: Is there a problem to solve? ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
Song, D., C. Huang, J.O. Sexton, S. Channan, M. Feng, and J.R. Townshend. 2014. Use of Landsat and Corona data for mapping forest cover change from the mid-1960s to 2000s: Case studies from the Eastern United States and Central Brazil. ISPRS J. of Photogrammetry and Remote Sens. DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.09.005
Kim, D.-H., J.O. Sexton, P. Noojipady, C. Huang, A. Anand, S. Channan, M. Feng, and J.R. Townshend. 2014. Global, Landsat-based forest-cover change from 1990 to 2000. Remote Sens. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.08.017
Song, X.-P., C. Huang, J.O. Sexton, S. Channan, and J.R. Townshend. 2014. Annual Detection of Forest Cover Loss Using Time Series Satellite Measurements of Percent Tree Cover. Remote Sens. DOI: 10.3390/rs6098878
Song, D.-X., C., Huang, P., Noojipady, S., Channan, J.R., Townshend, 2014. Comparison of remote sensing based forest area and change estimation with national forestry inventory between 2000 and 2005 in China. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE International , 4268-4271, DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947432
Bai, Y., M. Feng, H. Jiang, J. Wang, Y. Zhu, and Y. Liu. 2014. Assessing Consistency of Five Global Land Cover Data Sets in China. Remote Sens. DOI: 10.3390/rs6098739
Nagol, J., E.F. Vermote, S.D. Prince. 2014. Impact of Satellite Orbital Drift on Longterm AVHRR NDVI Time Series. Remote Sens.
Chen, D., T. Loboda, S. Channan, A. Hoffman-Hall. 2014. Long-Term Record of Sampled Disturbances in Northern Eurasian Boreal Forest from Pre-2000 Landsat Data. Remote Sens. 6(7), 6020-6038; doi:10.3390/rs6076020
Jiang, H., M. Feng, Y. Zhu, N. Lu, J. Huang, T. Xiao. 2014. An Automated Method for Extracting Rivers and Lakes from Landsat Imagery. Remote Sens. 6(6), 5067-5089; doi:10.3390/rs6065067
Pimm, S. L., C.N. Jenkins, R. Abell, T.M. Brooks, J.L. Gittleman, L.N. Joppa, J.O. Sexton. 2014. The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection. Science, 344(6187), 1246752.
Morton, D.C., J. Nagol, C.C. Carabajal, J. Rosette, M. Palace, B.D. Cook, E.F. Vermote, D.J. Harding, P.R.J. North. 2014. Amazon forests maintain consistent canopy structure and greeness during the dry season. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature13006
Song, X.-P., C. Huang, M. Feng, J.O. Sexton, S. Channan, J.R. Townshend. 2014. Integrating global land cover products for improved forest cover characterization: an application in North America. International Journal of Digital Earth. DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2013.856959

2013

Tan, B., J. Masek, R. Wolfe, F. Gao, C. Huang, E. Vermote, J.O. Sexton, G. Ederer. 2013. Improved forest change detection with terrain illumination-corrected images. Remote Sensing of Environment
Sexton, J.O., X.-P. Song, M. Feng, P. Noojipady, A. Anand, C. Huang, D.-H. Kim, K.M. Collins, S. Channan, C. DiMiceli, J.R. Townshend. 2013. Global, 30-m resolution continuous fields of tree cover: Landsat-based rescaling of MODIS continuous fields and lidar-based estimates of error. International Journal of Digital Earth. DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2013.786146
Feng, M., J.O. Sexton, C. Huang, J.G. Masek, E.F. Vermote, F. Gao, R. Narasimhan, S. Channan, R.E. Wolfe, J.R. Townshend. 2013. Global surface reflectance products from Landsat: Assessment using coincident MODIS observations. Remote Sensing of Environment 134:276-293
Meineke, E., R.R. Dunn, J.O. Sexton, S. D. Frank. 2013. Urban warming drives insect pest abundance on street trees. PLoS One 8(3): e59687
Trainor, A.M., J.R. Walters, W.F. Morris, J. Weiss, J.O. Sexton, A. Moody. 2013. Empirical estimation of dispersal resistance surfaces: a case study with red-cockaded woodpeckers. Landscape Ecology 28: 755-767.
Sexton, J.O., X.-P. Song, C. Huang, S. Channan, M.E. Baker, J.R. Townshend. 2013. Urban growth of the Washington, D.C. - Baltimore, MD metropolitan region from 1984 to 2010 by annual estimates of impervious cover. Remote Sensing of Environment 129:42-53.
Sexton, J.O., D.L. Urban, M.J. Donohue, C. Song. 2013. Long-term landcover dynamics by multi-temporal classification across the Landsat-5 record. Remote Sensing of Environment 128: 246-258

2012

Feng, M., C. Huang, J.O. Sexton, S. Channan, R. Narasimhan, J.R. Townshend, 2012. An approach for quickly labeling land cover types for multiple epochs at globally selected locations. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2012, 6203-6206. doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352674
Townshend, J.R., J.G. Masek, C. Huang, E.F. Vermote, F. Gao, S. Channan, J.O. Sexton, M. Feng., R. Narasimhan, D.-H. Kim, K. Song, D. Song, X. Song, P. Noojipady, B. Tan, M.C. Hansen, M. Li, R. Wolfe. 2012. Global characterization and monitoring of forest cover using Landsat data: opportunities and challenges. International Journal of Digital Earth 5:373-397.
Channan, S., Townshend, J., Sexton, J., Huang, C., Feng, M., Masek, J., Vermote, E., Collins, K., Song, X-P., Noojipadi P., Kim, D., Song, D., 2012. Global forest cover change mapping at Landsat Resolution. Global Land Project Newsletter Issue Number 9, ISSN 2316-3747.
Feng, M., Huang, C., Channan, S., Vermote, E.F., Masek, J.G. & Townshend, J.R. 2012. Quality assessment of Landsat surface reflectance products using MODIS data. Computers & Geosciences, 38, 9-22.
Song, XP., Huang, C., Sexton, J.O., Feng, M., Narasimhan, R., Channan, S. ; Townshend, J.R. 2011. An Assessment of global forest cover maps using regional higher-resolution reference datasets. Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARRS 2011), 752 - 855

2011

Song, X.P., Huang, C., Sexton, J.O. Feng, M., Narasimhan, R., Channan, S., and Townshend, J.R., 2011. An assessment of global forest cover maps using regional higher-resolution reference data sets. Proceedings Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, (IGARSS) Symposium, 2011 IEEE International, Vancouver, Canada, 24-29 July 2011 pp.752-755. doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049239
Kim, D.H., Narashiman, R., Sexton, J.O., Huang, C. and Townshend, J.R., 2011. Methodology to select phenologically suitable Landsat scenes for forest change detection. Proceedings Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) Symposium, 2011 IEEE International, Vancouver, Canada, 24-29 July 2011 pp.2613-2616, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049738.

2010

Li, M.X., Townshend, J.R., and Wu, B.F., 2010. Contributions to the global earth observation system of systems by China, Journal of Remote Sensing 14 (3): 571-578.
Huang, C., Thomas, N., Goward, S.N., Masek, J.G., Zhu, Z., Townshend, J.R.G., and Vogelmann, J.E., 2010. Automated masking of cloud and cloud shadow for forest change analysis using Landsat images, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 31 (20), 5449-5464, doi:10.1080/01431160903369642

2009

Huang, C., Sunghee, K.S., Song, K., Townshend, J.R.G., Davis, P., Altstatt, A., Rodas, O., Yanosky, A., Clay, R., Tucker, C.J., and Musinsky, J., 2009. Assessment of Paraguay’s Forest Cover Change Using Landsat Observations, Global and Planetary Change, 67, 1-12, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.12.009.

2008

Huang, C., Song, K., Kim, S. Townshend, J.R.G., Davis, P., Masek, J.G., and Goward, S.N., 2008. Use of a dark object concept and support vector machines to automate forest cover change analysis, Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 970-985, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2007.07.023.
Liu, D., Song, K., Townshend, J.R.G. and Gong, P., 2008. Using Local Transition Probability Models in Markov Random Fields for Forest Change Detection, Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 2222-2231, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2007.10.002.

2007

Huang, C., Kim, S., Altstatt, A., Townshend, J.R.G., Davis, P., Kuan, S., Tucker, C.J., Rodas, O., Yanosky, A., Clay, R., Musinsky, J., 2007. Rapid loss of Paraguay’s Atlantic forest between 1970s and 2000 and the status of protected areas, Remote Sensing of Environment, 106, 460–466, 10.1016/j.rse.2006.09.016.

2006

Gilruth, P.T., Kalluri, S., Robinson, J.W., Townshend, J.R., Lindsay, F., Davis, P., and Orr, B.J., 2006. Measuring performance: Moving NASA Earth science products into the mainstream user community, Space Policy, 22, 165-175, 10.1016/j.spacepol.2006.05.007.

2005

Song, K., Huang, C., Townshend, J. and Kim, S., 2005. Improved methods for automating the mapping of deforestation, Proceedings 9th International Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing, Eds Liang, S., Liu, J., Li, X., Liu, R. and Schaepman, M., Beijing, China, 571-573.
Song, K., Townshend, J.R., Kim, S., Davis, P., Clay, R. and Rodas, O., 2005. Improving Automated Detection of Land Cover Change for Large Areas Using Landsat Data, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Images, Eds. R. King and N. Younan, 16-18 May 2005, Biloxi, Mississippi USA.
Zhang, Q., Devers, D., Desch, A., Justice, C.O., and Townshend, J.R., 2005. Mapping Tropical Deforestation in Central Africa, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 101(1-3) 69-83, doi:10.1007/s10661-005-9132-2

2003

Goward, S.N., Davis, P.E., Fleming, D., Miller, L., and Townshend, J.R.G., 2003. Empirical comparison of Landsat 7 and IKONOS multispectral measurements for selected Earth Observation System (EOS) validation sites, Remote Sensing of Environment, 88(1-2), 80-99, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2003.07.009

2002

Goward, S., Goetz, A.F.H., Schott, J.R., Thome, K.J., Townshend, J.R., Ustin, S.L., Woodcock, C.E., Koger, T. Pearlman, and Turner R.W. 2002. The Resource21 Science Advisory Board: Recommendations for a Global Observatory to Continue the Landsat Mission Heritage Conference Proceedings Pecora 15/Land Satellite Information IV/ISPRS Commission I/FIEOS 2002
Kearney, M., Rogers, A.S., Townshend, J.R.G., Stevenson, J.C. Stevens, J.L., Rizzo, E., Stutzer, D. and Sundberg, K. 2002 Large scale decline and collapse of coastal marshes in Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay, USA in response to sea level rise and human activities, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, vol. 83, 173, 177-8.
Huang, C., Townshend, J.R.G., Liang, S., Kalluri, S.N.V., and Defries, R.S., 2002. Impact of sensor’s point spread function on land cover characterization, assessment and deconvolution. Remote Sensing of Environment, 80, 203-212, doi:10.1016/S0034-4257(01)00298-X
Gutman, G., Krankina, O., and Townshend, J.R.G. 2002. Remote sensing of forest cover in western Russia and Fennoscandia, The Earth Observer, 13, (5), 23-26.

2001

Kalluri, S, Desch, A., Curry, T., Alstatt, A., Devers., D., Townshend, J., and Tucker, C.J., 2001. Historical satellite data used to map Pan-Amazon forest cover. EOS Transactions American Geophysical Union, 82(18), 201-207, doi:10.1029/01EO00107
Steininger, M.K., Tucker. C.J., Townshend, J.R.G., Killeen, T.R., Desch, A., Bell, V., and Ernst, P. 2001. Tropical Deforestation in the Bolivian Amazon. Environmental Conservation, 28, 127-134.
Townshend, J.R.G., 2001. Landsat imagery in Geography, in Smelser, J. and Blates, P.B. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Pergamon, v. 12, pp. 8255-60.

2000

Townshend, J.R.G., Huang, C., Kalluri, S.N.V., Defries, R.S., Liang, S. and Yang, K., 2000. Beware of Per-Pixel Characterization of Land Cover, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 839-843.
Tucker, C.J., Steininger, M.K., Townshend, J.R.G., Killeen, T.R., and Desch, A., 2000. Tropical deforestation in the Bolivian Amazon. Szu, H.H., Vetterli, M., Campbell, W.J., and Buss, J.R. (eds), Proc. SPIE, Wavelet Applications VII v. 4056, 2-11, doi:10.1117/12.381717
Zhan, X. Jiang, Y., and Townshend, J.R.G., 2000. A simple assessment of the expansion of American urban areas from the 1970s to the 1990s using the North American Landscape Characterization Data Set. Proceedings IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS 2000, Honolulu, Hawaii, 3060-3063, doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2000.860274

1999

Lindsay, F.E., Townshend, J.R.G., Jaja, J., Humphries, J., Plaisant, C., and Shneiderman, B., 1999. Developing the next generation of Earth science data systems: the Global Land Cover Facility. Proceedings IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS 1999, 1, 616-618, doi:10.1109/IGARSS.1999.773583
Townshend, J.R.G. and Maiden, M., 1999. The EOS Federation Concept Proceedings Land Use/Cover Change/Data and Information Systems (LUCC-DIS) Workshop. SEA-START Report No. 3, The Environmental Research Institute, University of Chulalonkorn, Bangkok, Thailand, 13-18 August 1998, 27-31.
Tucker, C. J. and Townshend, J.R.G. 2000. Strategies for tropical forest deforestation assessment using satellite data, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 1461-1472, doi:10.1080/014311600210263
Townshend, J.R.G. 1999. Introduction to Land Cover Classification Approaches and Methods. Proceedings Land Use/Cover Change/Data and Information Systems Workshop (LUCC-DIS), SEA-START Report No. 3 The Environmental Research Institute, University of Chulalonkorn, Bangkok, Thailand, 13-18th August 1998, pp. 17-19.