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Overview

Kevin White is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with notable contributions to atmospheric science, global and planetary change, ecology, ecological modeling, and earth-surface processes.

Their work spans several main topics, including:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Aeolian processes and effects

Kevin White has published research in several scientific venues. Frequent publication locations include:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Nature Communications

Some of the recent research papers by Kevin White are:

  • New Inventory of Dust Emission Sources in Central Asia and Northwestern China Derived From MODIS Imagery Using Dust Enhancement Technique, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Intra-annual taxonomic and phenological drivers of spectral variance in grasslands, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Assessment of Changes in Mass Balance of the Tuyuksu Group of Glaciers, Northern Tien Shan, Between 1958 and 2016 Using Ground-Based Observations and Pléiades Satellite Imagery, 2020, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Prediction of Grassland Biodiversity Using Measures of Spectral Variance: A Meta-Analytical Review, 2023, Remote Sensing
  • The Feasibility of Leaf Reflectance-Based Taxonomic Inventories and Diversity Assessments of Species-Rich Grasslands: A Cross-Seasonal Evaluation Using Waveband Selection, 2022, Remote Sensing

Kevin White has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Anne Verhoef
  • Rachael Thornley
  • France Gerard
  • Salvatore Camiolo
  • Maria Shahgedanova

Best Publications

  • Ancient watercourses and biogeography of the Sahara explain the peopling of the desert

    Nick A. Drake;Roger M. Blench;Simon J. Armitage;Charlie S. Bristow

  • Monitoring changing position of coastlines using Thematic Mapper imagery, an example from the Nile Delta

    Kevin White;Hesham M El Asmar

  • Middle Paleolithic assemblages from the Indian subcontinent before and after the Toba super-eruption.

    Michael D. Petraglia;Michael D. Petraglia;Ravi Korisettar;Nicole Boivin;Christopher Clarkson

  • Linear mixture modelling applied to AVHRR data for crop area estimation

    N. A. Quarmby;J. R. G. Townshend;J. J. Settle;K. H. White

  • A record of Holocene climate change from lake geochemical analyses in southeastern Arabia

    Adrian G. Parker;Andrew S. Goudie;Stephen Stokes;Kevin White

  • Holocene vegetation dynamics in the northeastern Rub' al-Khali desert, Arabian Peninsula: a phytolith, pollen and carbon isotope study

    A. G. Parker;L. Eckersley;M. M. Smith;A. S. Goudie

  • Palaeohydrology of the Fazzan Basin and surrounding regions: The last 7 million years

    Nicholas Drake;A S El-Hawat;P Turner;S J Armitage

  • Multiple phases of North African humidity recorded in lacustrine sediments from the Fazzan Basin, Libyan Sahara

    S J Armitage;Nicholas Drake;S Stokes;A El-Hawat

  • Latest Pleistocene and Holocene dune construction at the north-eastern edge of the Rub Al Khali, United Arab Emirates

    Andrew S. Goudie;Alison Colls;Stephen Stokes;Adrian Parker

  • Mapping the iron oxide content of dune sands, Namib Sand Sea, Namibia, using landsat thematic mapper data

    Kevin White;John Walden;Nick Drake;Frank Eckardt

  • The mapping of hydrothermal alteration zones on the island of Lesvos, Greece using an integrated remote sensing dataset

    G. Ferrier;K. White;G. Griffiths;R. Bryant

  • Changes in coastal sediment transport processes due to construction of New Damietta Harbour, Nile Delta, Egypt

    Hesham M El-Asmar;Kevin White

  • Integration of remote sensing and GIS for modelling flash floods in Wadi Hudain catchment, Egypt

    Mohammed El Bastawesy;Kevin White;Ayman Nasr

  • The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2008: The second season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave and its landscape, and further results from the initial (2007) fieldwork

    Graeme Barker;Annita Antoniadou;Simon Armitage;Ian Brooks

  • Estimating surface net solar radiation by use of Landsat-5 TM and digital elevation models

    J. Wang;K. White;Gary John Robinson

  • Generating Viewsheds without Using Sightlines

    Jianjun Wang;Gary J. Robinson;Kevin White

  • The Namib Sand Sea digital database of aeolian dunes and key forcing variables

    Ian Livingstone;Charles Bristow;Robert G. Bryant;Joanna Bullard

  • Constraining the timing of alluvial fan response to late quaternary climatic changes, southern Tunisia

    Kevin White;Nick Drake;Andrew Millington;Stephen Stokes

  • Dust production and the release of iron oxides resulting from the aeolian abrasion of natural dune sands

    Joanna E. Bullard;Kevin White

  • A FAST SOLUTION TO LOCAL VIEWSHED COMPUTATION USING GRID-BASED DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS

    Jianjun Wang;Gary J. Robinson;Kevin White

  • The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2010: the fourth season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave and its landscape, and further results from the 2007–2009 fieldwork

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Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas Drake
Nicholas Drake King's College London
Ian Livingstone
Ian Livingstone University of Northampton
Joanna E. Bullard
Joanna E. Bullard Loughborough University
Adrian G. Parker
Adrian G. Parker Oxford Brookes University
Andrew Goudie
Andrew Goudie University of Oxford
Charlie S. Bristow
Charlie S. Bristow Birkbeck, University of London
Robert G. Bryant
Robert G. Bryant University of Sheffield
Stephen Stokes
Stephen Stokes University of Oxford
Mark D. Bateman
Mark D. Bateman University of Sheffield
Giles F.S. Wiggs
Giles F.S. Wiggs University of Oxford

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