Jeff Pickering

Faculty Specialist

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jeffreyp@umd.edu

Jeffrey was working in the private sector as a resource mapping consultant out of his native country, New Zealand since 2008. Working in over 20 countries in technical advisory and capacity building roles on land use, land-use change, and forestry projects has enabled him to work with a range of stakeholders including NGOs, local and central government agencies.

Since joining the University of Maryland - Global Land Analysis & Discovery group in 2015, Jeffrey continues to work on a diverse range of spatial science based projects at the national and continental scales including agricultural crop and forest area and loss estimates. Additionally, Jeffrey leads the acquisition and processing of UAV-based LiDAR data as an FAA licensed 'remote pilot in command'.

Projects: Researcher

Global Forest Watch
Multi-resolution quantification and driver assessment of hot spots of global forest disturbance
Supporting National Forest Monitoring Programs

Publications:

Parker, D., Tosiani, A., Yazid, M., Sari, I. L., Kartika, T., Kustiyo, Firmansyah, R., Said, Z., Wijaya, A., Potapov, Tyukavina, A., Stehman, S.V., Zalles, V., Pickens, A., Pickering, J., Turubanova, S., Hansen, M. C. (2024) Land in limbo: Nearly one third of Indonesia’s cleared old-growth forests left idle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(28), e2318029121.
Li, H., Song, X. P., Hansen, M. C., Becker-Reshef, I., Adusei, B., Pickering, J., Wang, L., Wang, L., Lin, Z., Zalles, V., Potapov, P., Stehman, S.V., & Justice, C. (2023). Development of a 10-m resolution maize and soybean map over China: Matching satellite-based crop classification with sample-based area estimation. Remote Sensing of Environment, 294, 113623.
Song, X.-P., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Adusei, B., Pickering, J., Adami, M., Lima, A., Zalles, V., Stehman, S.V., Di Bella, C.M., Cecilia, C.M., Copati, E.J., Fernandes, L.B., Hernandez-Serna, A., Jantz, S.M., Pickens, A.H., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina A. (2021). Massive soybean expansion in South America since 2000 and implications for conservation. Nature Sustainability, 4, 784–792
Pickering, J., Tyukavina, A., Khan, A., Potapov, P., Adusei, B., Hansen, M.C., Lima, A. (2021) Using multi-resolution satellite data to quantify land dynamics: applications of PlanetScope imagery for cropland and tree-cover loss area estimation. Remote Sensing, 13(11), 2191.
Galiatsatos, N., Donoghue, D.N., Watt, P., Bholanath, P., Pickering, J., Hansen, M.C., Mahmood, A.R. (2020) An Assessment of Global Forest Change Datasets for National Forest Monitoring and Reporting. Remote Sensing, 12(11), 1790.
Galiatsatos, N., Donoghue, D. N., Watt, P., Bholanath, P., Pickering, J., Hansen, M. C., & Mahmood, A. R. (2020). An assessment of global forest change datasets for national forest monitoring and reporting. Remote Sensing, 12(11), 1790.
Pickering, J., Stehman, S.V., Tyukavina, A., Potapov, P., Watt, P., Jantz, S.M., Bholanath, P., Hansen, M.C. (2019) Quantifying the trade-off between cost and precision in estimating area of forest loss and degradation using probability sampling in Guyana. Remote Sensing of Environment 221, 122-135.

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Jeff Pickering

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