Biography

Faculty Profile

Dr. Tyukavina is a member of the GLAD team. 

Dr. Tyukavina is part of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV) - Land Product Validation (LPV) subgroup working on quantitative validation of higher-level global land products. 

As the LPV Land Cover Co-Lead, Dr. Tyukavina is currently working on updating the guidelines for the validation of large-scale (global to national) land cover and change maps and is co-organizing a workshop on agricultural land product (EAV) generation, validation and use, to develop a community consensus protocols for Cropland and Crop Type validation.

Collaborators
Sophie Bontemps -Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Carlos Souza Jr. - Imazon , Belém, Brazil
Pierre Defourny - Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium
Research Areas
Alexandra Tyukavina
atyukav@umd.edu