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Viviana Zalles

Viviana Zalles

Viviana Zalles

Post Doctoral Associate

Email: 
vzalles@umd.edu

Thesis Title:
30+ years of land cover and land use change in South America

Viviana has a bachelor's degree in Environmental Science and has earned her PhD in Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland. She is interested in using remote sensing to research large scale land cover change and its drivers, particularly in the context of tropical deforestation. 


Projects: CO Investigator
  • Global Land Cover and Land Use Monitoring in Support of Environmental Sustainability
Projects: Graduate Researcher
  • Global Forest Watch
  • Total Carbon Estimation in African Mangroves and Coastal Wetlands in Preparation for REDD and Blue Carbon Credits
Projects: Researcher
  • Commodity Crop Mapping and Monitoring in South America
  • Quantifying Spatio-Temporal Trends in the Expansion of South American Agriculture, 1985 to Present
  • Mapping Crops at 10-m Resolution in the United States
  • Evaluating Landsat And Rapid Eye Data for Winter Wheat Mapping And Area Estimation, Soy Yield Field To National
  • Research on Mapping Forest Cover Change in Three Tropical Countries

Publications:

  • Zalles, V., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Stehman, S.V., Tyukavina, A., Pickens, A., Song, X.P., Adusei, B., Okpa, C., Aguilar, R. and John, N. (2019) Near doubling of Brazil’s intensive row crop area since 2000. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (2) 428-435.

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Resources

CARPE

INFOCONGO

Global Forest Watch

Intact Forest Landscapes

GEOGLAM

Land and Carbon Lab

 

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