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Overview

Doreen S. Boyd is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science with a significant emphasis on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Engineering. Additional areas of study include Nature and Landscape Conservation and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work spans a variety of topics related to remote sensing and environmental monitoring. Key topics covered in their research include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Fire Effects on Ecosystems
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Recent publications by Doreen S. Boyd demonstrate a focus on remote sensing technologies and forest ecology. Notable papers include:

  • Applications in Remote Sensing to Forest Ecology and Management (2020, One Earth)
  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission (2022, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests (2020, Science)
  • Monitoring high spatiotemporal water dynamics by fusing MODIS, Landsat, water occurrence data and DEM (2021, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Tracking small-scale tropical forest disturbances: Fusing the Landsat and Sentinel-2 data record (2021, Remote Sensing of Environment)

Their frequent coauthors include several researchers with whom they have collaborated multiple times. These include Giles M. Foody, Sofie Sjögersten, Geertje van der Heijden, Chris J. Chandler, and Chloe Brown.

Doreen S. Boyd has published extensively in various scholarly venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
  • One Earth
  • Journal of Ecology

Best Publications

  • Predictive relations of tropical forest biomass from Landsat TM data and their transferability between regions

    Giles M. Foody;Doreen S. Boyd;Mark E.J. Cutler

  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission

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  • Mapping the biomass of Bornean tropical rain forest from remotely sensed data

    Giles M. Foody;Mark E. Cutler;Julia McMorrow;Dieter Pelz

  • Satellite remote sensing of forest resources: three decades of research development

    D. S. Boyd;F. M. Danson

  • Applications in Remote Sensing to Forest Ecology and Management

    Alex M. Lechner;Giles M. Foody;Doreen S. Boyd

  • Training set size requirements for the classification of a specific class

    Giles M. Foody;Ajay Mathur;Carolina Sanchez-Hernandez;Doreen S Boyd

  • Size and frequency of natural forest disturbances and the Amazon forest carbon balance

    Fernando D.B. Espírito-Santo;Fernando D.B. Espírito-Santo;Manuel Gloor;Michael Keller;Michael Keller;Michael Keller;Yadvinder Malhi

  • Estimating tropical forest biomass with a combination of SAR image texture and Landsat TM data: An assessment of predictions between regions

    M. E. J. Cutler;D. S. Boyd;G. M. Foody;Anand Vetrivel

  • Satellite remote sensing to monitor species diversity: potential and pitfalls

    Duccio Rocchini;Doreen S. Boyd;Jean‐Baptiste Féret;Giles M. Foody

  • An overview of recent remote sensing and GIS based research in ecological informatics

    Doreen S. Boyd;Giles M. Foody

  • Evaluation of approaches for forest cover estimation in the Pacific Northwest, USA, using remote sensing

    D.S Boyd;G.M Foody;W.J Ripple

  • One-Class Classification for Mapping a Specific Land-Cover Class: SVDD Classification of Fenland

    C. Sanchez-Hernandez;D.S. Boyd;G.M. Foody

  • Detecting the effects of hydrocarbon pollution in the Amazon forest using hyperspectral satellite images

    Paul Arellano;Paul Arellano;Kevin Tansey;Heiko Balzter;Doreen S. Boyd

  • Identifying species from the air: UAVs and the very high resolution challenge for plant conservation.

    Susana Baena;Justin Moat;Justin Moat;Oliver Whaley;Doreen S. Boyd

  • Assessing the Accuracy of Volunteered Geographic Information arising from Multiple Contributors to an Internet Based Collaborative Project

    Giles M. Foody;L. See;S Fritz;M. Van der Velde

  • The relationship between the biomass of Cameroonian tropical forests and radiation reflected in middle infrared wavelengths (3.0-5.0 mu m)

    D. S. Boyd;G. M. Foody;P. J. Curran

  • Supervised methods of image segmentation accuracy assessment in land cover mapping

    Hugo Costa;Giles M. Foody;Doreen S. Boyd

  • Opinion: To advance sustainable stewardship, we must document not only biodiversity but geodiversity

    Franziska Schrodt;Joseph J. Bailey;W. Daniel Kissling;Kenneth F. Rijsdijk

  • An assessment of radiance in Landsat TM middle and thermal infrared wavebands for the detection of tropical forest regeneration

    D.S. Boyd;G.M. Foody;P.J. Curran;R.M. Lucas

  • Mapping Complex Urban Land Cover from Spaceborne Imagery: The Influence of Spatial Resolution, Spectral Band Set and Classification Approach

    Rahman Momeni;Paul Aplin;Doreen S. Boyd

  • Mapping specific habitats from remotely sensed imagery: Support vector machine and support vector data description based classification of coastal saltmarsh habitats

    Carolina Sanchez-Hernandez;Doreen S. Boyd;Giles M. Foody

Frequent Co-Authors

Giles M. Foody
Giles M. Foody University of Nottingham
Paul J. Curran
Paul J. Curran City, University of London
Xiaodong Li
Xiaodong Li Hunan University
Justin Moat
Justin Moat Royal Botanic Gardens
Jadunandan Dash
Jadunandan Dash University of Southampton
Ross A. Hill
Ross A. Hill Bournemouth University
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Mathias Disney
Mathias Disney University College London
Peter M. Atkinson
Peter M. Atkinson Lancaster University
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds

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