Lyndon Estes
Associate Professor, Geography
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I am an environmental scientist who investigates the drivers and impacts of agricultural change, with a particular focus on Africa. I conduct my research using new Earth Observation technologies and a range of modeling techniques, and work within inter-disciplinary projects that involve economists, agronomists, human geographers, decision scientists, hydrologists, climatologists, and computer scientists. I hold a BA in English from Georgetown University, an MPhil in Conservation Biology from the University of Cape Town, and a PhD in Environmental Science from the University of Virginia. After receiving my PhD degree in 2008 and before joining Clark, I worked as a research scientist in Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Prior to my academic career, I spent nearly 9 years working in protected area management and environmental consulting in Southern Africa.
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Environmental Science (Ecology), University of Virginia, 2008
- M.Phil. in Conservation Biology, University of Cape Town, 2000
- B.A. in English, Georgetown University, 1993
Affiliated Department(s)
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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Potential impacts of transportation infrastructure improvements to maize and cassava supply chains in Zambia
Published in Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability
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2023
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Vol. 3
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Cropland mapping in tropical smallholder systems with seasonally stratified Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 spectral and textural features
Published in Remote Sensing
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2023
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Vol. 15
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Issue #12
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How much control do smallholder maize farmers have over yield?
Published in Field Crops Research
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2023
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Vol. 301
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A review of technical factors to consider when designing neural networks for semantic segmentation of Earth Observation imagery
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2023
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Vol. arXiv:2308.09221
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Is closing the agricultural yield gap a "risky" endeavor?
Published in Agricultural Systems
April
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2023
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Vol. 208
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itsdm: Isolation forest-based presence-only species distribution modelling and explanation in r
Published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
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2023
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Vol. 14
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Issue #3
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A super-ensemble approach to map land cover types with high resolution over data-sparse African savanna landscapes
Published in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
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2023
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Vol. 116
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Improved fine-scale tropical forest cover mapping using Planet and Sentinel-1 imagery
Published in Journal of Remote Sensing
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2023
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Vol. 3
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2022
TetraTech
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Enabling Crop Analytics at Scale
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2022
Tetra Tech
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Probabilistic tracking of annual cropland changes over large, complex agricultural landscapes using Google Earth Engine
Published in Remote Sensing
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2022
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Vol. 14
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High resolution, annual maps of field boundaries for smallholder-dominated croplands at national scales
Published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
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2022
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Vol. 4
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sUAS Applications in Geography
Chapter: Polar and cryospheric remote sensing using sUASPublished by Springer
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2022
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Enabling Crop Analytics at Scale
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2021
Tetra Tech
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Enabling Crop Analytics at Scale
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2021
Tetra Tech
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Perceived links between climate change and weather forecast accuracy: new barriers to tools for agricultural decision-making
Published in Climatic Change
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2021
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Vol. 168
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Issue #1
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Consequences of underexplored variation in biodiversity indices used for land‐use prioritization
Published in Ecological Applications
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2021
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Vol. 31
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Issue #7
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Smallholder farmers' observations of climate change limit their use of weather forecasts
Published in Climatic Change
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2021
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Consequences of under-explored variation in biodiversity indices used for land-use prioritization
Published in Ecological Applications
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2021
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Vol. accepted
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High resolution, annual maps of the characteristics of smallholder-dominated croplands at national scales
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2021
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Vol. https://doi.org/10.31223/X56C83
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Field-scale soil moisture bridges the spatial-scale gap between drought monitoring and agricultural yields
Published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
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2021
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Understanding social and environmental determinants of piecework labor in smallholder agricultural systems
Published in Applied Geography
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2020
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Vol. 121
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Tropical forest loss enhanced by large-scale land acquisitions
Published in Nature Geoscience
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2020
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Apparatus for radiometric correction and orthorectification of aerial imagery
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2020
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Probabilistic Global Maps of Crop-Specific Areas from 1961 to 2014
Published in Environmental Research Letters
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2019
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Vol. 14
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Integrated Approaches to Understanding and Reducing Drought Impact on Food Security across Scales
Published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
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2019
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Vol. 40
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A High-Frequency Mobile Phone Data Collection Approach for Research in Social-Environmental Systems: Applications in Climate Variability and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
Published in Environmental Modelling & Software
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2019
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Vol. 119
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Awards & Grants
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Unlocking the Power of NISAR for Mapping the Amazon’s Forest-Agriculture Interface
NASA SERVIR
Sep. 1, 2022 - Aug. 31, 2025
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A region-wide, multi-year set of crop field boundary labels for Sub-Saharan Africa
Lacuna Fund
Jul. 1, 2022 - Mar. 31, 2024
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SERVIR: Unlocking the power of active remote sensing for ecosys-tem services modeling in the Amazon’s forest-agriculture interface
NASA
Oct. 1, 2019 - Oct. 2, 2023
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Support for forest mapping in Tanzania and Cambodia.
Terra Carbon
Jun. 1, 2023 - Sep. 1, 2023
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Using transferable deep learning models to improve understanding of agricultural change in the U.S.
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation
Jun. 1, 2023 - Aug. 31, 2023
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Creating next generation field boundary and crop type maps with rigorous, multi-scale groundtruth to provide improved, sustainable extension services for smallholder farmers.
Enabling Crop Analytics at Scale (TetraTech for Gates Foundation)
Jul. 1, 2021 - Jul. 31, 2022
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Continued Development of the Mapping Africa Active Learning Platform
Omidyar Network
Dec. 1, 2019 - Dec. 31, 2021
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Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative Promotional Credits Award
Amazon Web Services
Mar. 25, 2020 - May. 21, 2021
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The Climate-Food-Urbanization Nexus and the Precursors of Instability in Africa
Department of Defense MINERVA Research Initiative
Sep. 1, 2023
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Mapping for Just Cities: Towards a Geospatial Analysis of Race, Place, and Policing
Clark University
Jan. 1, 2022
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Methodologies for just urban futures: using geospatial tools to address police violence
Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series
Apr. 1, 2021
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Enabling long-term climate impact analysis through cross-sensor based remote sensing observation
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation
May. 31, 2021
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Combining spatially-explicit simulation of animal movement and Earth Ob- servation to reconcile agriculture and wildlife conservation
NASA Future Investigator in Earth and Space Sciences
Sep. 1, 2021
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CNH2-L: Feedbacks between Urban Food Security and Rural Agricultural Systems
NSF
Sep. 1, 2019
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Creating open agricultural maps and groundtruth data to better deliver farm extension services
Tetratech for Gates Foundation
Jun. 30, 2020
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George Perkins Marsh Institute Award
Clark University
2021
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