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SUMMARY:EEG and CEO (Centre for Earth Observation) Seminar - Quantifying T
 ropical Forest Degradation with Spaceborne Lidar - Amelia Grace Holcomb \,
  University of Maryland
DTSTART:20260327T130000Z
DTEND:20260327T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nTropical forest degradation is an important cont
 ributor to forest carbon fluxes\, but it is difficult to quantify its effe
 cts using existing remote sensing. As a result\, degradation is difficult 
 to incorporate into national reporting\, with no internationally agreed-up
 on definition or consistent monitoring mechanism. This talk will cover ong
 oing international efforts to define and monitor forest degradation\, high
 lighting mismatches between the policy and remote sensing communities. It 
 will propose a novel method that takes advantage of occasional repeat meas
 urements from a spaceborne lidar sensor (GEDI) to capture the impacts of f
 orest degradation. Finally\, based on this methodology\, it will present r
 esults on the carbon emissions and forest structural changes induced by mu
 ltiple drivers of tropical degradation.\n\n\n*Bio*\n\nAmelia Holcomb is a 
 postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland on NASA's GEDI missi
 on team. Her work focuses on measuring dynamic frontiers of degradation\, 
 deforestation\, and regrowth in dense tropical forests using spaceborne li
 dar and other remote sensing instruments. She is particularly interested i
 n bridging disciplinary divides\, bringing computer science techniques to 
 large-scale remote sensing problems and ensuring that scientific outputs t
 ranslate to policy outcomes. She earned her PhD from the University of Cam
 bridge studying computer science and plant sciences. She also holds a mast
 ers degree from the University of Waterloo and a B.A. in mathematics from 
 Yale University. Prior to her life as a research scientist\, she worked as
  a software engineer at Google.
LOCATION:Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-c
 am-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=ad
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