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Publications

We are very active in publishing our work.

Selected Studies

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Severe decline in large farmland trees in India over recent decade

Nature Sustainability, 2024

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We tracked 0.6 billion large trees from 2010 to 2022 and found that many disappeared.

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Mapping every adult baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) across the Sahel and relationships to rural livelihoods

Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2024

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We mapped 2.8 million baobab trees across the Sahel.

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Global area boom of greenhouse cultivation revealed by satellites

Nature Food, 2024

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We took stock of global greenhouse cultivation areas using PlanetScope data.

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Trees on smallholder farms and forest restoration are critical for Rwanda to achieve net zero emissions

Communications Earth & Environment, 2024

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Tree-level carbon stock dynamics used for policy recommendations.

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The overlooked contribution of trees outside forests to tree cover and woody biomass across Europe

Science Advances, 2023

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We used PlanetScope to map tree height and biomass at 3 m for all Europe.

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Sub-continental-scale carbon stocks of individual trees in African drylands

 

 

 

Nature, 2023

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15 billion trees and their biomass were mapped.

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Nation-wide mapping of tree-level aboveground carbon stocks in Rwanda

 

 

 

Nature Climate Change, 2023

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Tree-level biomass for all overstory trees in Rwanda.

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Deep learning enables image-based tree counting, crown segmentation, and height prediction at national scale

 

 

 

PNAS Nexus, 2023

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Advanced and open access deep learning framework.

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An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel




Nature, 2020

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First large scale mapping of individual trees. Selected as top 10 finding by Nature in 2020.

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More than one quarter of Africa’s tree cover is found outside areas previously classified as forest

Nature Communications, 2023

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First PlanetScope based tree segmentation map at continental scale.

 

 

 

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Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration

Nature Communications, 2020

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Forestation in China offsets a considerable amount of the CO2 emissions but tree growth is limited by natural factors.

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Increased vegetation growth and carbon stock in China karst via ecological engineering

Nature Sustainability, 2018

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Impressive increase in tree cover in South China Karst since 2000.

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Human population growth offsets climate-driven increase in woody vegetation in sub-Saharan Africa




Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017

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Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Nature Climate Change, 2021

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L-VOD based assessment of biomass losses in the Amazon not limited to forest clear-cuts.

 

 

 

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Satellite passive microwaves reveal recent climate-induced carbon losses in African drylands




Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2018

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First application of low frequency passive microwaves (L-VOD) to map biomass dynamics.

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