Dr Yunxia Wang
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Dr Yunxia Wang
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
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Wang, Y., Ziv, G., Adami, M., Almeida, C.A., Antunes, J.F.G., Coutinho, A.C., Esquerdo, G.C.D.M., Gomes, A.R., and Galbraith, D., 2020. Upturn in secondary forest clearing buffering primary forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon. Nature Sustainability, pp. 1-6.
Wang, Y., Ziv, G., Adami, M., Mitchard, E., Batterman, S.A., Buermann, W., Marimon, B.S., Junior, B.H.M., Reis, S.M., Rodrigues, D. and Galbraith, D., 2019. Mapping tropical disturbed forests using multi-decadal 30 m optical satellite imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 221, pp.474-488.
Esquivel-Muelbert, A., Bennett, A.C., Sullivan, M.J., Baker, J.C., Gavish, Y., Johnson, M.O., Wang, Y., Chambers- Ostler, A., Giannichi, M.L., Gomes, L. and Kalamandeen, M., et al. 2019. A Spatial and Temporal Risk Assessment of the Impacts of El Niño on the Tropical Forest Carbon Cycle: Theoretical Framework, Scenarios, and Implications. Atmosphere, 10(10), p.588.
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