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Overview

Robert E. Kennedy is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant number of publications spanning several subfields such as global and planetary change, environmental engineering, atmospheric science, ecology, and nature and landscape conservation.

The scientist's research topics cover various aspects of environmental processes and applications. Key areas include remote sensing and LiDAR applications, remote sensing in agriculture, forest ecology and management, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, fire effects on ecosystems, urban heat island mitigation, and land use and ecosystem services.

Frequent co-authors in their work include John Kilbride, Paulo J. Murillo-Sandoval, Jamon Van Den Hoek, Eric L. Bullock, and David Wrathall. This collaboration network reflects a multi-disciplinary approach to environmental research involving both ecological and technical expertise.

Their publications appear most often in journals such as Environmental Research Letters, Remote Sensing, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Global Environmental Change, and Scientific Reports.

  • "Demystifying LandTrendr and CCDC temporal segmentation," 2022, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • "The end of gunpoint conservation: forest disturbance after the Colombian peace agreement," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "No peace for the forest: Rapid, widespread land changes in the Andes-Amazon region following the Colombian civil war," 2021, Global Environmental Change
  • "A carbon monitoring system for mapping regional, annual aboveground biomass across the northwestern USA," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "The post-conflict expansion of coca farming and illicit cattle ranching in Colombia," 2023, Scientific Reports

This selection of recent papers demonstrates a focus on land change dynamics and environmental monitoring using advanced remote sensing techniques. Topics often include the intersection of ecology, conservation, and socio-political factors influencing forest landscapes.

Best Publications

  • Landsat-8: Science and Product Vision for Terrestrial Global Change Research

    David P. Roy;M.A. Wulder;Thomas R. Loveland;C.E. Woodcock

  • Detecting trends in forest disturbance and recovery using yearly Landsat time series: 1. LandTrendr — Temporal segmentation algorithms

    Robert E. Kennedy;Zhiqiang Yang;Warren B. Cohen

  • Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications

    Michael A. Wulder;Thomas R. Loveland;David P. Roy;Christopher J. Crawford

  • Relationships between leaf area index and Landsat TM spectral vegetation indices across three temperate zone sites

    David P. Turner;Warren B. Cohen;Robert E. Kennedy;Karin S. Fassnacht

  • Detecting trends in forest disturbance and recovery using yearly Landsat time series: 2. TimeSync — Tools for calibration and validation

    Warren B. Cohen;Zhiqiang Yang;Robert Kennedy

  • Quantification of live aboveground forest biomass dynamics with Landsat time-series and field inventory data: A comparison of empirical modeling approaches

    Scott L. Powell;Warren B. Cohen;Sean P. Healey;Robert E. Kennedy

  • Trajectory-based change detection for automated characterization of forest disturbance dynamics

    Robert E. Kennedy;Warren B. Cohen;Todd A. Schroeder

  • Implementation of the LandTrendr Algorithm on Google Earth Engine

    Robert E Kennedy;Zhiqiang Yang;Noel Gorelick;Justin Braaten

  • Remote sensing change detection tools for natural resource managers: Understanding concepts and tradeoffs in the design of landscape monitoring projects

    Robert E. Kennedy;Philip A. Townsend;John E. Gross;Warren B. Cohen

  • Bringing an ecological view of change to Landsat‐based remote sensing

    Robert E Kennedy;Serge Andréfouët;Warren B Cohen;Cristina Gómez

  • Hyperspectral versus multispectral data for estimating leaf area index in four different biomes

    Kyu-Sung Lee;Warren B Cohen;Robert E Kennedy;Thomas K Maiersperger

  • Land cover mapping in an agricultural setting using multiseasonal Thematic Mapper data

    Doug R Oetter;Warren B Cohen;Mercedes Berterretche;Thomas K Maiersperger

  • Spatial and temporal patterns of forest disturbance and regrowth within the area of the Northwest Forest Plan

    Robert E. Kennedy;Zhiqiang Yang;Warren B. Cohen;Eric Pfaff

  • Using Landsat-derived disturbance history (1972-2010) to predict current forest structure

    Dirk Pflugmacher;Warren B. Cohen;Robert E. Kennedy

  • A LandTrendr multispectral ensemble for forest disturbance detection

    Warren B. Cohen;Zhiqiang Yang;Sean P. Healey;Robert E. Kennedy

  • Mapping forest change using stacked generalization: An ensemble approach

    Sean P. Healey;Warren B. Cohen;Zhiqiang Yang;C. Kenneth Brewer

  • A Landsat time series approach to characterize bark beetle and defoliator impacts on tree mortality and surface fuels in conifer forests

    Garrett W. Meigs;Robert E. Kennedy;Warren B. Cohen

  • Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances

    Nate G. McDowell;Nicholas C. Coops;Pieter S. A. Beck;Jeffrey Q. Chambers

  • Using Landsat-derived disturbance and recovery history and lidar to map forest biomass dynamics

    Dirk Pflugmacher;Warren B. Cohen;Robert E. Kennedy;Zhiqiang Yang

  • How Similar Are Forest Disturbance Maps Derived from Different Landsat Time Series Algorithms

    Warren B. Cohen;Sean P. Healey;Zhiqiang Yang;Stephen V. Stehman

Frequent Co-Authors

Warren B. Cohen
Warren B. Cohen Oregon State University
Zhiqiang Yang
Zhiqiang Yang United States Department of Agriculture
Sean P. Healey
Sean P. Healey US Forest Service
David P. Turner
David P. Turner Oregon State University
Chengquan Huang
Chengquan Huang University of Maryland, College Park
Dirk Pflugmacher
Dirk Pflugmacher Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Jeffrey G. Masek
Jeffrey G. Masek Goddard Space Flight Center
Samuel N. Goward
Samuel N. Goward University of Maryland, College Park
Zhe Zhu
Zhe Zhu University of Connecticut
Curtis E. Woodcock
Curtis E. Woodcock Boston University

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