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Kevin Tansey is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant emphasis on the application of remote sensing technologies in agriculture.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Smart Agriculture and AI
  • Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Remote Sensing and Land Use

Tansey's publication record features frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
  • Remote Sensing
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Selected recent papers include:

  • An LSTM neural network for improving wheat yield estimates by integrating remote sensing data and meteorological data in the Guanzhong Plain, PR China (2021), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • A deep learning framework combining CNN and GRU for improving wheat yield estimates using time series remotely sensed multi-variables (2023), Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
  • A deep learning framework under attention mechanism for wheat yield estimation using remotely sensed indices in the Guanzhong Plain, PR China (2021), International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • An IPSO-BP neural network for estimating wheat yield using two remotely sensed variables in the Guanzhong Plain, PR China (2020), Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
  • Burned Area Detection and Mapping: Intercomparison of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Based Algorithms over Tropical Africa (2020), Remote Sensing

The scientist has collaborated extensively with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Pengxin Wang
  • Huiren Tian
  • Shuyu Zhang
  • Dong Han
  • Fengwei Guo

Tansey's research spans several subfields, including ecology, global and planetary change, plant science, environmental engineering, and atmospheric science. This multidisciplinary approach supports investigations into various environmental and agricultural challenges using remote sensing and AI-based technologies.

Best Publications

  • Restoration Ecology of Lowland Tropical Peatlands in Southeast Asia: Current Knowledge and Future Research Directions

    Susan Page;Agata Hosciło;Henk Wösten;Jyrki Jauhiainen

  • A new, global, multi‐annual (2000–2007) burnt area product at 1 km resolution

    Kevin Tansey;Jean-Marie Grégoire;Pierre Defourny;Roland Leigh

  • Vegetation burning in the year 2000: Global burned area estimates from SPOT VEGETATION data

    Kevin Tansey;Jean‐Marie Grégoire;Daniela Stroppiana;Adélia Sousa

  • Ten years of global burned area products from spaceborne remote sensing-A review: Analysis of user needs and recommendations for future developments

    Florent Mouillot;Martin G. Schultz;Chao Yue;Patricia Cadule

  • Generation and analysis of a new global burned area product based on MODIS 250 m reflectance bands and thermal anomalies

    Emilio Chuvieco;Joshua Lizundia-Loiola;Maria Lucrecia Pettinari;Ruben Ramo

  • Comparing the accuracies of remote sensing global burned area products using stratified random sampling and estimation

    Marc Padilla;Marc Padilla;Stephen V. Stehman;Ruben Ramo;Dante Corti

  • The GBA2000 initiative: Developing a global burnt area database from SPOT-VEGETATION imagery

    J.-M. Grégoire;K. Tansey;J. M. N. Silva

  • Landscape transformations in savannas of northern South America: Land use/cover changes since 1987 in the Llanos Orientales of Colombia

    M.H. Romero-Ruiz;S.G.A. Flantua;K. Tansey;J.C. Berrio

  • A new global burned area product for climate assessment of fire impacts

    Emilio Chuvieco;Chao Yue;Angelika Heil;Florent Mouillot

  • 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

  • Effect of repeated fires on land-cover change on peatland in southern Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, from 1973 to 2005

    Agata Hoscilo;Susan E. Page;Kevin J. Tansey;John O. Rieley

  • An LSTM neural network for improving wheat yield estimates by integrating remote sensing data and meteorological data in the Guanzhong Plain, PR China

    Huiren Tian;Pengxin Wang;Kevin Tansey;Jingqi Zhang

  • Large-scale mapping of boreal forest in SIBERIA using ERS tandem coherence and JERS backscatter data

    Wolfgang Wagner;Adrian Luckman;Jan Vietmeier;Kevin Tansey

  • Tropical peatland fires in Southeast Asia

    Susan Page;Agata Hoscilo;Andreas Langner;Kevin Tansey

  • Estimating tree and stand variables in a Corsican Pine woodland from terrestrial laser scanner data

    K. Tansey;N. Selmes;A. Anstee;N. J. Tate

  • Application of airborne LiDAR to mapping seismogenic faults in forested mountainous terrain, southeastern Alps, Slovenia

    Dickson Cunningham;Stephen Grebby;Kevin Tansey;Andrej Gosar;Andrej Gosar

  • Quantifying forest biomass carbon stocks from space

    Pedro Rodríguez-Veiga;James Wheeler;Valentin Louis;Kevin Tansey

  • Variable carbon losses from recurrent fires in drained tropical peatlands

    Kristina Konecny;Uwe Ballhorn;Peter Navratil;Juilson Jubanski

  • Estimating carbon emissions from African wildfires

    Veiko Lehsten;K. Tansey;H. Balzter;K. Thonicke

  • Magnitude, spatial distribution and uncertainty of forest biomass stocks in Mexico

    Pedro Rodríguez-Veiga;Sassan Saatchi;Kevin Tansey;Heiko Balzter

  • Backscatter coefficient as an attribute for the classification of full-waveform airborne laser scanning data in urban areas

    Cici Alexander;Kevin Tansey;Jörg Kaduk;David Holland

Frequent Co-Authors

Heiko Balzter
Heiko Balzter University of Leicester
Susan Page
Susan Page University of Leicester
Jean-Christophe Calvet
Jean-Christophe Calvet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Frédéric Baret
Frédéric Baret INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Emilio Chuvieco
Emilio Chuvieco University of Alcalá
José M. C. Pereira
José M. C. Pereira University of Lisbon
Shaun Quegan
Shaun Quegan University of Sheffield
Renaud Mathieu
Renaud Mathieu International Rice Research Institute
Marie Weiss
Marie Weiss INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Isabel F. Trigo
Isabel F. Trigo Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera

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