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Peter Potapov is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a significant focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work covers key topics including Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Forest Management and Policy, Forest Ecology and Management, and Fire Effects on Ecosystems.

Peter Potapov has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Mapping global forest canopy height through integration of GEDI and Landsat data, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century, 2021, Nature Food
  • The Global 2000-2020 Land Cover and Land Use Change Dataset Derived From the Landsat Archive: First Results, 2022, Frontiers in Remote Sensing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Peter Potapov include Delgerjargal Uvsh, Scott Gehlbach, Catalina Munteanu, Eugenia Bragina, and Volker C. Radeloff.

In terms of publication venues, Peter Potapov has contributed to Harvard Dataverse, Remote Sensing of Environment, Environmental Research Letters, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Nature Food.

Best Publications

  • High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

    M.C. Hansen;P.V. Potapov;R. Moore;M. Hancher

  • Natural climate solutions

    Bronson W. Griscom;Bronson W. Griscom;Justin Adams;Peter W. Ellis;Richard A. Houghton

  • An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm

    Eric Dinerstein;David Olson;Anup Joshi;Carly Vynne

  • Global land change from 1982 to 2016.

    Xiao Peng Song;Matthew C. Hansen;Stephen V. Stehman;Peter V. Potapov

  • Mapping global forest canopy height through integration of GEDI and Landsat data

    Peter Potapov;Xinyuan Li;Andres Hernandez-Serna;Alexandra Tyukavina

  • Primary forest cover loss in Indonesia over 2000–2012

    Belinda Arunarwati Margono;Belinda Arunarwati Margono;Peter V. Potapov;Svetlana Turubanova;Fred Stolle

  • The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems

    James E. M. Watson;James E. M. Watson;Tom Evans;Oscar Venter;Brooke Williams;Brooke Williams

  • Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century

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  • Quantification of global gross forest cover loss

    Matthew C. Hansen;Stephen V. Stehman;Peter V. Potapov

  • Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes

    Nancy L. Harris;David A. Gibbs;Alessandro Baccini;Richard A. Birdsey

  • The last frontiers of wilderness: Tracking loss of intact forest landscapes from 2000 to 2013

    Peter Potapov;Matthew C. Hansen;Lars Laestadius;Svetlana Turubanova

  • Baseline Map of Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in Tropical Regions

    Nancy L. Harris;Sandra Brown;Stephen C. Hagen;Sassan S. Saatchi;Sassan S. Saatchi

  • Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified by using multitemporal and multiresolution remotely sensed data

    Matthew C. Hansen;Stephen V. Stehman;Peter V. Potapov;Thomas R. Loveland

  • The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics

    Robin Burgess;Matthew Hansen;Benjamin Olken;Peter Potapov

  • Mapping the World's Intact Forest Landscapes by Remote Sensing

    Peter Potapov;Aleksey Yaroshenko;Svetlana Turubanova;Maxim Dubinin

  • The Global 2000-2020 Land Cover and Land Use Change Dataset Derived From the Landsat Archive: First Results

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  • Mapping and monitoring deforestation and forest degradation in Sumatra (Indonesia) using Landsat time series data sets from 1990 to 2010

    Belinda Arunarwati Margono;Belinda Arunarwati Margono;Svetlana Turubanova;Ilona Zhuravleva;Peter Potapov

  • Quantifying forest cover loss in Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2000–2010, with Landsat ETM + data

    Peter V. Potapov;Svetlana A. Turubanova;Matthew C. Hansen;Bernard Adusei

  • Mapping and sampling to characterize global inland water dynamics from 1999 to 2018 with full Landsat time-series

    Amy H. Pickens;Matthew C. Hansen;Matthew Hancher;Stephen V. Stehman

  • Massive soybean expansion in South America since 2000 and implications for conservation.

    Xiao Peng Song;Xiao Peng Song;Matthew C. Hansen;Peter Potapov;Bernard Adusei

  • Eastern Europe's forest cover dynamics from 1985 to 2012 quantified from the full Landsat archive

    P.V. Potapov;S.A. Turubanova;A. Tyukavina;A.M. Krylov

  • Estimating Global Cropland Extent with Multi-year MODIS Data

    Kyle Pittman;Matthew C. Hansen;Inbal Becker-Reshef;Peter V. Potapov

  • Quantifying changes in the rates of forest clearing in Indonesia from 1990 to 2005 using remotely sensed data sets

    Matthew C Hansen;Stephen V Stehman;Peter V Potapov;Belinda Arunarwati

Frequent Co-Authors

Svetlana Turubanova
Svetlana Turubanova University of Maryland, College Park
Alexandra Tyukavina
Alexandra Tyukavina University of Maryland, College Park
Stephen V. Stehman
Stephen V. Stehman SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Scott J. Goetz
Scott J. Goetz Northern Arizona University
Nancy Lee Harris
Nancy Lee Harris World Resources Institute
Thomas R. Loveland
Thomas R. Loveland United States Geological Survey
Volker C. Radeloff
Volker C. Radeloff University of Wisconsin–Madison
Alexander V. Prishchepov
Alexander V. Prishchepov University of Copenhagen
Alessandro Baccini
Alessandro Baccini Boston University
John R. Townshend
John R. Townshend University of Maryland, College Park

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