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Overview

Andrew Nelson is a researcher affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Their work centers on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant focus on remote sensing applications in these fields.

Their research integrates multiple subfields, including global and planetary change, ecology, plant science, environmental engineering, and evolutionary behavior and systematics.

The key topics explored by Andrew Nelson include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Remote Sensing and Land Use
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
  • Smart Agriculture and AI

Their recent publications cover diverse aspects of environmental and agricultural research. Notable papers include:

  • Global maps of travel time to healthcare facilities, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Global mapping of urban-rural catchment areas reveals unequal access to services, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Research priorities for global food security under extreme events, 2022, One Earth
  • Understanding wheat lodging using multi-temporal Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Cropping Patterns of Annual Crops: A Remote Sensing Review, 2022, Remote Sensing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Andrew Nelson include Roshanak Darvishzadeh, Michael Marshall, Sander J. Zwart, Mirco Boschetti, and Alice G. Laborte.

Their work is frequently published in several scientific journals known for environmental and remote sensing research, such as:

  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (7 publications)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (3 publications)
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (3 publications)
  • Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment (3 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • The global burden of pathogens and pests on major food crops.

    Serge Savary;Laetitia Willocquet;Sarah Jane Pethybridge;Paul Esker

  • Hole-filled SRTM for the globe Version 4

    A. Jarvis;H. I. Reuter;A. Nelson;E. Guevara

  • A global map of travel time to cities to assess inequalities in accessibility in 2015.

    D. J. Weiss;A. Nelson;H. S. Gibson;W. Temperley

  • An evaluation of void-filling interpolation methods for SRTM data

    H. I. Reuter;A. Nelson;A. Jarvis

  • Effectiveness of Strict vs. Multiple Use Protected Areas in Reducing Tropical Forest Fires: A Global Analysis Using Matching Methods

    Andrew Nelson;Kenneth M. Chomitz

  • Use of agro-climatic zones to upscale simulated crop yield potential

    Justin van Wart;Lenny G.J. van Bussel;Joost Wolf;Rachel Licker

  • Diversity of Global Rice Markets and the Science Required for Consumer-Targeted Rice Breeding

    Mariafe Calingacion;Alice Laborte;Andrew Nelson;Adoracion Resurreccion

  • Agglomeration Index : Towards a New Measure of Urban Concentration

    Hirotsugu Uchida;Andrew Nelson

  • Practical use of SRTM data in the tropics : Comparisons with digital elevation models generated cartographic data

    Andrew Jarvis;Jorge Enrique Rubiano;Andy Nelson;Andrew Farrow

  • Mapping rice areas of South Asia using MODIS multitemporal data

    Murali Krishna Gumma;Andrew Nelson;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Amrendra N. Singh

  • Comparative Analysis of Normalised Difference Spectral Indices Derived From MODIS for Detecting Surface Water in Flooded Rice Cropping Systems

    Mirco Boschetti;Francesco Nutini;Giacinto Manfron;Pietro Alessandro Brivio

  • Mapping seasonal rice cropland extent and area in the high cropping intensity environment of Bangladesh using MODIS 500 m data for the year 2010

    Murali Krishna Gumma;Murali Krishna Gumma;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Aileen Maunahan;Saidul Islam;Saidul Islam

  • RiceAtlas, a spatial database of global rice calendars and production.

    Alice G. Laborte;Mary Anne Gutierrez;Jane Girly Balanza;Kazuki Saito

  • Soil quality and constraints in global rice production

    S. M. Haefele;A. Nelson;Robert J Hijmans

  • Towards an Operational SAR-Based Rice Monitoring System in Asia: Examples from 13 Demonstration Sites across Asia in the RIICE Project

    Andrew Nelson;Tri Setiyono;Arnel B. Rala;Emma D. Quicho

  • DEM production methods and sources

    A.D. Nelson;H.I. Reuter;P. Gessler

  • A method for monitoring building construction in urban sprawl areas using object-based analysis of Spot 5 images and existing GIS data

    Laurent Durieux;Erwann Lagabrielle;Andrew Nelson

  • Exponential growth, high prevalence of SARS-CoV-2, and vaccine effectiveness associated with the Delta variant.

    Paul Elliott;David Haw;Haowei Wang;Oliver Eales

  • The Distribution of People and the Dimension of Place: Methodologies to Improve the Global Estimation of Urban Extents

    Deborah Balk;Francesca Pozzi;Gregory Yetman;Uwe Deichmann

  • Mapping populations at risk: improving spatial demographic data for infectious disease modeling and metric derivation

    Andrew Tatem;Andrew Tatem;Susana Beatriz Adamo;Nita Bharti;Clara R. Burgert

  • Mapping Irrigated Areas of Ghana Using Fusion of 30 m and 250 m Resolution Remote-Sensing Data

    Muralikrishna Gumma;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Fujii Hideto;Andrew Nelson

  • A suite of global accessibility indicators.

    Andy Nelson;Daniel J. Weiss;Jacob van Etten;Andrea Cattaneo

Frequent Co-Authors

Mirco Boschetti
Mirco Boschetti National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Murali Krishna Gumma
Murali Krishna Gumma International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
Roshanak Darvishzadeh
Roshanak Darvishzadeh University of Twente
Serge Savary
Serge Savary INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Daniel J. Weiss
Daniel J. Weiss Telethon Kids Institute
Paul D. Esker
Paul D. Esker Pennsylvania State University
Prasad S. Thenkabail
Prasad S. Thenkabail United States Geological Survey
Andrew G. Farr
Andrew G. Farr University of Washington
Karen A. Garrett
Karen A. Garrett University of Florida
Sarah J. Pethybridge
Sarah J. Pethybridge Cornell University

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