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The Future of Decent Work: Forecasting Heat Stress and the Intersection of Sustainable Development Challenges in India's Brick Kilns Achieving decent work in a heating climate (2024)
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Boyd, D. S., Jackson, B., Sparks, J. D., Foody, G. M., Girindran, R., Gosling, S., Trodd, Z., Bhriain, L. H., & Rodriguez-Huerta, E. (in press). The Future of Decent Work: Forecasting Heat Stress and the Intersection of Sustainable Development Challenges in India's Brick Kilns Achieving decent work in a heating climate. Sustainable Development,

The impacts of climate change-induced heat stress on workers are most prevalent in sectors with decent work deficits and this requires consideration for sustainable development. This paper focuses on the informal economy of brick kilns in India, a se... Read More about The Future of Decent Work: Forecasting Heat Stress and the Intersection of Sustainable Development Challenges in India's Brick Kilns Achieving decent work in a heating climate.

Exploring Spatial Patterns of Tropical Peatland Subsidence in Selangor, Malaysia Using the APSIS-DInSAR Technique (2024)
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de la Barreda-Bautista, B., Ledger, M. J., Sjögersten, S., Gee, D., Sowter, A., Cole, B., …Boyd, D. S. (2024). Exploring Spatial Patterns of Tropical Peatland Subsidence in Selangor, Malaysia Using the APSIS-DInSAR Technique. Remote Sensing, 16(12), Article 2249. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16122249

Tropical peatlands in Southeast Asia have experienced widespread subsidence due to forest clearance and drainage for agriculture, oil palm and pulp wood production, causing concerns about their function as a long-term carbon store. Peatland drainage... Read More about Exploring Spatial Patterns of Tropical Peatland Subsidence in Selangor, Malaysia Using the APSIS-DInSAR Technique.

Beyond the Walls: Patterns of Child Labour, Forced Labour, and Exploitation in a New Domestic Workers Dataset (2024)
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Trodd, Z., Waite, C., Goulding, J., & Boyd, D. S. (2024). Beyond the Walls: Patterns of Child Labour, Forced Labour, and Exploitation in a New Domestic Workers Dataset. Societies, 14(5), Article 62. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14050062

The new Domestic Workers Dataset is the largest single set of surveys (n = 11,759) of domestic workers to date. Our analysis of this dataset reveals features about the lives and work of this “hard-to-find” population in India—a country estimated to h... Read More about Beyond the Walls: Patterns of Child Labour, Forced Labour, and Exploitation in a New Domestic Workers Dataset.

Unoccupied aerial vehicles as a tool to map lizard operative temperature in tropical environments (2024)
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Higgins, E. A., Boyd, D. S., Brown, T. W., Owen, S. C., van der Heijden, G. M. F., & Algar, A. C. (2024). Unoccupied aerial vehicles as a tool to map lizard operative temperature in tropical environments. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.393

To understand how ectotherms will respond to warming temperatures, we require information on thermal habitat quality at spatial resolutions and extents relevant to the organism. Measuring thermal habitat quality is either limited to small spatial ext... Read More about Unoccupied aerial vehicles as a tool to map lizard operative temperature in tropical environments.

InSAR-measured permafrost degradation of palsa peatlands in northern Sweden (2024)
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Valman, S., Siewert, M. B., Boyd, D., Ledger, M., Gee, D., de la Barreda-Bautista, B., …Sjögersten, S. (2024). InSAR-measured permafrost degradation of palsa peatlands in northern Sweden. Cryosphere, 18(4), 1773-1790. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1773-2024

Climate warming is degrading palsa peatlands across the circumpolar permafrost region. Permafrost degradation may lead to ecosystem collapse and potentially strong climate feedbacks, as this ecosystem is an important carbon store and can transition t... Read More about InSAR-measured permafrost degradation of palsa peatlands in northern Sweden.

An AI approach to operationalise global daily PlanetScope satellite imagery for river water masking (2023)
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Valman, S. J., Boyd, D. S., Carbonneau, P. E., Johnson, M. F., & Dugdale, S. J. (2024). An AI approach to operationalise global daily PlanetScope satellite imagery for river water masking. Remote Sensing of Environment, 301, Article 113932. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113932

Monitoring rivers is vital to manage the invaluable ecosystem services they provide, and also to mitigate the risks they pose to property and life through flooding and drought. Due to the vast extent and dynamic nature of river systems, Earth Observa... Read More about An AI approach to operationalise global daily PlanetScope satellite imagery for river water masking.

Assessment of variability of peat physicochemical properties, subsidence and their interactions within Selangor forests (2023)
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Dhandapani, S., Evers, S., Boyd, D. S., Yesuf, G., Kinneen, L., Haughan, A., & Sjogersten, S. (2023). Assessment of variability of peat physicochemical properties, subsidence and their interactions within Selangor forests. European Journal of Soil Science, 74(6), Article e13431. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13431

Tropical peat swamp forests are carbon-rich ecosystems both above- and belowground, which play a major role in the climate balance of the earth. The majority of the world's tropical peat forest cover is located in Southeast Asia and is increasingly t... Read More about Assessment of variability of peat physicochemical properties, subsidence and their interactions within Selangor forests.

Optical and radar Earth observation data for upscaling methane emissions linked to permafrost degradation in sub-Arctic peatlands in northern Sweden (2023)
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Sjögersten, S., Ledger, M., Siewert, M., de la Barreda-Bautista, B., Sowter, A., Gee, D., Foody, G., & Boyd, D. S. (2023). Optical and radar Earth observation data for upscaling methane emissions linked to permafrost degradation in sub-Arctic peatlands in northern Sweden. Biogeosciences, 20(20), 4221-4239. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-4221-2023

Permafrost thaw in Arctic regions is increasing methane (CH4) emissions into the atmosphere, but quantification of such emissions is difficult given the large and remote areas impacted. Hence, Earth observation (EO) data are critical for assessing pe... Read More about Optical and radar Earth observation data for upscaling methane emissions linked to permafrost degradation in sub-Arctic peatlands in northern Sweden.

Best practice guidelines for citizen science in mental health research: systematic review and evidence synthesis (2023)
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Todowede, . O., Lewandowski, F., Kotera, Y., Ashmore, A., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Boyd, D., …Slade, M. (2023). Best practice guidelines for citizen science in mental health research: systematic review and evidence synthesis. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, Article 1175311. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1175311

Partnering with people most affected by mental health problems can transform mental health outcomes. Citizen science as a research approach enables partnering with the public at a substantial scale, but there is scarce guidance on its use in mental h... Read More about Best practice guidelines for citizen science in mental health research: systematic review and evidence synthesis.

Assessment of differences in peat physico-chemical properties, surface subsidence and GHG emissions between the major land-uses of Selangor peatlands (2023)
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Dhandapani, S., Evers, S., Boyd, D., Evans, C. D., Page, S., Parish, F., & Sjogersten, S. (2023). Assessment of differences in peat physico-chemical properties, surface subsidence and GHG emissions between the major land-uses of Selangor peatlands. CATENA, 230, Article 107255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2023.107255

Tropical peatlands are globally important ecosystems for carbon storage, biodiversity conservation, water storage and regulation, and several other valuable ecosystem services. Despite their importance, peatlands in Southeast Asia have been heavily d... Read More about Assessment of differences in peat physico-chemical properties, surface subsidence and GHG emissions between the major land-uses of Selangor peatlands.

Monitoring holopelagic Sargassum spp. along the Mexican Caribbean coast: understanding and addressing user requirements for satellite remote sensing (2023)
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de la Barreda-Bautista, B., Metcalfe, S. E., Smith, G., Sjögersten, S., Boyd, D. S., Cerdeira-Estrada, S., …Foody, G. (2023). Monitoring holopelagic Sargassum spp. along the Mexican Caribbean coast: understanding and addressing user requirements for satellite remote sensing. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, Article 1166000. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1166000

Massive influxes of holopelagic Sargassum spp. (Sargassum natans and S. fluitans) have been causing major economic, environmental and ecological problems along the Caribbean coast of Mexico. Predicting the arrival of the sargassum as an aid to addres... Read More about Monitoring holopelagic Sargassum spp. along the Mexican Caribbean coast: understanding and addressing user requirements for satellite remote sensing.

Deep Feature and Domain Knowledge Fusion Network for Mapping Surface Water Bodies by Fusing Google Earth RGB and Sentinel-2 images (2023)
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Zhou, P., Li, X., Foody, G. M., Boyd, D. S., Wang, X., Ling, F., …Du, Y. (2023). Deep Feature and Domain Knowledge Fusion Network for Mapping Surface Water Bodies by Fusing Google Earth RGB and Sentinel-2 images. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2023.3234306

Mapping surface water bodies from fine spatial resolution optical remote sensing imagery is essential for the understanding of the global hydrologic cycle. Although satellite data are useful for mapping, the limited spectral information captured by s... Read More about Deep Feature and Domain Knowledge Fusion Network for Mapping Surface Water Bodies by Fusing Google Earth RGB and Sentinel-2 images.

Landscape-scale drivers of liana load across a Southeast Asian forest canopy differ to the Neotropics (2022)
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Waite, C. E., van der Heijden, G. M., Field, R., Burslem, D. F., Dalling, J. W., Nilus, R., …Boyd, D. S. (2023). Landscape-scale drivers of liana load across a Southeast Asian forest canopy differ to the Neotropics. Journal of Ecology, 111(1), 77-89. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14015

Lianas (woody vines) are a key component of tropical forests, known to reduce forest carbon storage and sequestration and to be increasing in abundance. Analysing how and why lianas are distributed in forest canopies at landscape scales will help us... Read More about Landscape-scale drivers of liana load across a Southeast Asian forest canopy differ to the Neotropics.

Landscape Analysis of Cobalt Mining Activities from 2009 to 2021 Using Very High Resolution Satellite Data (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2022)
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Brown, C., Boyd, D. S., & Kara, S. (2022). Landscape Analysis of Cobalt Mining Activities from 2009 to 2021 Using Very High Resolution Satellite Data (Democratic Republic of the Congo). Sustainability, 14(15), Article 9545. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14159545

The cobalt mining sector is well positioned to be a key contributor in determining the success of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Despite the important contribution to the DRC’s... Read More about Landscape Analysis of Cobalt Mining Activities from 2009 to 2021 Using Very High Resolution Satellite Data (Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Citizen science for Earth Observation (Citzens4EO): understanding current use in the UK (2022)
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Boyd, D. S., Foody, G. M., Brown, C., Mazumdar, S., Marshall, H., & Wardlaw, J. (2022). Citizen science for Earth Observation (Citzens4EO): understanding current use in the UK. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 43(8), 2965-2985. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2022.2076574

The role of Earth observation (EO) data in addressing societal problems from environmental through to humanitarian should not be understated. Recent innovation in EO means provision of analysis ready data and data cubes, which allows for rapid use of... Read More about Citizen science for Earth Observation (Citzens4EO): understanding current use in the UK.

Towards a Monitoring Approach for Understanding Permafrost Degradation and Linked Subsidence in Arctic Peatlands (2022)
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de la Barreda-Bautista, B., Boyd, D. S., Ledger, M., Siewert, M. B., Chandler, C., Bradley, A. V., …Sjögersten, S. (2022). Towards a Monitoring Approach for Understanding Permafrost Degradation and Linked Subsidence in Arctic Peatlands. Remote Sensing, 14(3), Article 444. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14030444

Permafrost thaw resulting from climate warming is threatening to release carbon from high latitude peatlands. The aim of this research was to determine subsidence rates linked to permafrost thaw in sub-Arctic peatlands in Sweden using historical orth... Read More about Towards a Monitoring Approach for Understanding Permafrost Degradation and Linked Subsidence in Arctic Peatlands.

Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission (2022)
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Duncanson, L., Kellner, J. R., Armston, J., Dubayah, R., Minor, D. M., Hancock, S., …Zgraggen, C. (2022). Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission. Remote Sensing of Environment, 270, Article 112845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112845

NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is collecting spaceborne full waveform lidar data with a primary science goal of producing accurate estimates of forest aboveground biomass density (AGBD). This paper presents the development of t... Read More about Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission.

Monitoring high spatiotemporal water dynamics by fusing MODIS, Landsat, water occurrence data and DEM (2021)
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Li, X., Ling, F., Foody, G. M., Boyd, D. S., Jiang, L., Zhang, Y., …Du, Y. (2021). Monitoring high spatiotemporal water dynamics by fusing MODIS, Landsat, water occurrence data and DEM. Remote Sensing of Environment, 265, Article 112680. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112680

Monitoring the spatiotemporal dynamics of surface water from remote sensing imagery is essential for understanding water's impact on the global ecosystem and climate change. There is often a tradeoff between the spatial and temporal resolutions of im... Read More about Monitoring high spatiotemporal water dynamics by fusing MODIS, Landsat, water occurrence data and DEM.