Matthew Hethcoat 🇵🇸𓅃

Excited to share our publication in 𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, focused on automated road mapping in tropical forests with satellite imagery and AI. PAPER: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Products for global change science and management applications. Propose 13 essential, 11 desirable, plus aspirational products. #landcover #biodiversity Radeloff et al. Need and vision for global medium-resolution #Landsat and #Sentinel2 data products. 🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.…

📢🛰️🌳Forest degradation & tree cover loss in the tropics can now be seen w/ high resolution & attributions based on #ArtificialIntelligence and Planet @NICFISatData 5m satellite data 🪵🔥🛣️Available for viz at REDD+AI platform: ctrees.org/reddai @CTrees_org @FabienWagner

We are hiring a remote sensing specialist to lead data synthesis, application, and scaling efforts on a prestigious DOE project at ORNL. Please reach out if you are interested in: jobs.ornl.gov/job/Oak-Ridge-…

An exciting update from the #EarthEngine #Python world: version 1.0.0 of 𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚎-𝚊𝚙𝚒 was released a few weeks ago! Big thanks to @kurtschwehr & @_nschmitz_ for all the work to justify the 1st major release! See all the details 🛰️🌎🐍👇 medium.com/google-earth/e…

Time series tree species maps for Canada’s forested ecosystems from 1984 to 2022 at 30 m spatial resolution using #Landsat imagery, topographic and climate data, and cal/val data from Canada’s NFI. 37 species, 39 years, 650 Mha! Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.fore… #opendata & info⬇️📜

WUR press release: wur.nl/en/newsarticle… View map: nrtwur.users.earthengine.app/view/forest-ro… Download: wur.nl/en/research-re… Thanks to everyone involved: Bart Slagter, Kurt Fesenmyer, Ethan Belair, Peter Ellis, Fritz Kleinschroth, Marielos Peña-Claros, Martin Herold, Johannes Reiche

We reveal nearly 50,000 km of roads opened between 2019 and 2023 in the Congo Basin forest, primarily for timber harvesting (selective logging).

Excited to share our publication in 𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, focused on automated road mapping in tropical forests with satellite imagery and AI. PAPER: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨🚨New paper! 🚨🚨@c_bousfield and I looked at a potentially emerging and future threat to global timber production - competition with agriculture as climate changes shifts the suitability of land for food production @NatureClimate 1/n nature.com/articles/s4155…

Sometimes, #Landsat acts as a doorway to the unknown. One scientist, who wondered how many #Wildfires had burned in secret on the #ArcticSlope in #Alaska, hunted through EROS’ archive to find out. Learn more here: ow.ly/Pkqy50SFKqN #TundraFires #LandsatArchive

Our new paper in PNAS @PNASNews dives deep into the #Amazon’s #carbon balance and the surprising impacts of #deforestation, logging, fires, windthrows and other forest disturbances, mapped using repeated airborne #lidar scanning. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

📢🌲Sharing our new paper led by Griffin Carter @gc_sci : "Detection of forest disturbance across California using deep-learning on PlanetScope imagery" 🔍Creek Fire in 2020 w/ CALFIRE map (red) and our 3x3 m detection (yellow) 📎 doi.org/10.3389/frsen.… @UCLAIoES @CTrees_org

Our new paper out today: “Emergency policies are not enough to resolve Amazonia’s fire crises” Remember when the sky in São Paulo got dark in the middle of the afternoon because of dense smoke clouds created by fires in the Amazon in 2019? nature.com/articles/s4324…

Study by ECI researchers shows emergency fire bans are insufficient and urges action ahead of the next burning season in the Amazon @ManuMachado_Eco @Erika_Berenguer @ioliverasmenor ⏬ eci.ox.ac.uk/news/study-sho…

Hot paper🔥 #fire ban implemented during burning seasons in the Brazilian #Amazon helped reduce the number of fires in 2019 but proved ineffective in 2020 and 2021. @ManuMachado_Eco @Erika_Berenguer @pmbrando @AneAlencar3 @ioliverasmenor @JosBarlow 🔗nature.com/articles/s4324…

We are now accepting session proposals for ArcticNet’s 5th International Arctic Change Conference 2024! Join an international network of researchers shaping the future of Arctic research and submit your proposal now! bit.ly/3vAJeAz

It has been a long time coming, but finally here in print. Work bridging my time at University of Freiburg and my new home at U of A. @UofAALES @UniFreiburg Global Change Biology | Environmental Change Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Proud of my graduate student, Kaiwei Luo, because today his first research chapter of his PhD was published in Nature. Drought triggers and sustains overnight fires in North America. nature.com/articles/s4158…

New postdoc opp at Edinburgh working on radar and biomass w Casey Ryan @SvenHancock @NCEOscience eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…