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Ian McCallum is affiliated with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with substantial contributions across related subfields including ecology, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, and environmental engineering.

Their recent published papers cover a range of topics within environmental and resource management sciences. Notable works include "A global-scale data set of mining areas" (2020) published in Scientific Data, "An update on global mining land use" (2022) in Scientific Data, "A map of the extent and year of detection of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand" (2021) in Scientific Data, "Global forest management data for 2015 at a 100 m resolution" (2022) also in Scientific Data, and "Estimating global economic well-being with unlit settlements" (2022) published in Nature Communications.

Their published work reflects key topics such as species distribution and climate change, remote sensing in agriculture, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, oil palm production and sustainability, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, agricultural and environmental management, and ecological and vegetation dynamics studies.

Frequent coauthors include Linda See, Steffen Fritz, Mary Anne Kennan, Bhuva Narayan, and Edward Luca. This team collaboration indicates an active engagement in multidisciplinary research relevant to both applied systems analysis and environmental data science.

Their articles have been published in several recurrent venues. These include the Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, Scientific Data, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis), and Environmental Science & Policy.

Across their body of work, Ian McCallum's contributions highlight various geospatial data efforts, environmental monitoring, and data-driven ecological analyses. Their research contributes to understanding global land use impacts, economic well-being assessments, and remote sensing applications relevant to environmental management and conservation policy.

Best Publications

  • Global land-use implications of first and second generation biofuel targets

    Petr Havlík;Uwe A. Schneider;Erwin Schmid;Hannes Böttcher

  • Mapping global cropland and field size

    Steffen Fritz;Linda See;Ian McCallum;Liangzhi You

  • Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

    Steffen Fritz;Linda See;Tyler Carlson;Mordechai (Muki) Haklay

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO2 fertilization of global plant biomass

    César Terrer;César Terrer;César Terrer;Robert B. Jackson;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan

  • A Global Forest Growing Stock, Biomass and Carbon Map Based on FAO Statistics

    Georg E. Kindermann;Ian McCallum;Steffen Fritz;Michael Obersteiner

  • Geo-Wiki.Org: The Use of Crowdsourcing to Improve Global Land Cover

    Steffen Fritz;Ian McCallum;Christian Schill;Christoph Perger

  • Geo-Wiki: An online platform for improving global land cover

    Steffen Fritz;Ian McCallum;Christian Schill;Christoph Perger

  • Shifting patterns of oil palm driven deforestation in Indonesia and implications for zero-deforestation commitments

    K.G. Austin;A. Mosnier;J. Pirker;I. McCallum

  • A comparison of global agricultural monitoring systems and current gaps

    Steffen Fritz;Linda See;Juan Carlos Laso Bayas;François Waldner;François Waldner

  • Global mycorrhizal plant distribution linked to terrestrial carbon stocks

    Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia;Peter M. van Bodegom;César Terrer;César Terrer;Maarten Van t. Zelfde

  • Retrieval of growing stock volume in boreal forest using hyper-temporal series of Envisat ASAR ScanSAR backscatter measurements

    Maurizio Santoro;Christian Beer;Oliver Cartus;Christiane Schmullius

  • A spatial comparison of four satellite derived 1 km global land cover datasets

    Ian McCallum;Michael Obersteiner;Sten Nilsson;Anatoly Shvidenko

  • Highlighting continued uncertainty in global land cover maps for the user community

    Steffen Fritz;Linda See;Ian McCallum;Christian Schill;Christian Schill

  • A global-scale data set of mining areas.

    Victor Wegner Maus;Victor Wegner Maus;Stefan Giljum;Jakob Gutschlhofer;DIeison M. da Silva

  • Land management: data availability and process understanding for global change studies.

    Karl-Heinz Erb;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Patrick Meyfroidt;Julia Pongratz

  • Estimating the global distribution of field size using crowdsourcing.

    Myroslava Lesiv;Juan Carlos Laso Bayas;Linda See;Martina Duerauer

  • A global dataset of crowdsourced land cover and land use reference data

    Steffen Fritz;Linda See;Christoph Perger;Ian McCallum

  • Marginal Agricultural Land Low-Input Systems for Biomass Production

    Moritz Von Cossel;Iris Lewandowski;Berien Elbersen;Igor Staritsky

  • Predicting the deforestation-trend under different carbon-prices

    Georg E Kindermann;Michael Obersteiner;Michael Obersteiner;Ewald Rametsteiner;Ian McCallum

  • Optimal location of lignocellulosic ethanol refineries with polygeneration in Sweden.

    Sylvain Leduc;Sylvain Leduc;F. Starfelt;E. Dotzauer;G. Kindermann

  • Comparing the quality of crowdsourced data contributed by expert and non-experts.

    Linda See;Alexis John Comber;Carl Salk;Carl Salk;Steffen Fritz

  • Optimizing biodiesel production in India

    Sylvain Leduc;Sylvain Leduc;Karthikeyan Natarajan;Erik Dotzauer;Ian McCallum

  • An assessment of monitoring requirements and costs of 'Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation'

    Hannes Böttcher;Katja Eisbrenner;Steffen Fritz;Georg Kindermann

Frequent Co-Authors

Steffen Fritz
Steffen Fritz International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Linda See
Linda See International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Michael Obersteiner
Michael Obersteiner University of Oxford
Anatoly Shvidenko
Anatoly Shvidenko International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Florian Kraxner
Florian Kraxner International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Dmitry Schepaschenko
Dmitry Schepaschenko International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Sten Nilsson
Sten Nilsson International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Sylvain Leduc
Sylvain Leduc Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Petr Havlik
Petr Havlik International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Marijn van der Velde
Marijn van der Velde European Commission Joint Research Centre

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