Dr Yunxia Wang, Postdoctoral Researcher: Rubber Plantations
I am a postdoctoral researcher working on remote sensing of rubber plantations and land cover change. This project will produce up-to-date maps of the distribution of rubber plantations and associated land cover change in Southeast Asia. The work is funded by the UKRI GCRF Trade, Development and the Environment Hub.
I obtained my Ph.D. from the University of Leeds. My Ph.D. research focused on the large-scale analysis of secondary forest dynamics in the Amazon and mapping tropical forest disturbances through time-series remote sensing approaches.
Research interests:
- processing and analysing large-scale remote sensing datasets (e.g., Landsat, Sentinel-2) using Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform, Python, R and ArcGIS.
- land use and land cover classification based on earth observation and machine learning
- mapping rubber plantations and associated land cover change
- mapping forest disturbances using time-series satellite images
Contact: ywang@rbge.org.uk