Our People
Steven Hancock
Reader in 3D environmental data capture
EO Instrumentation and Facilities
Research interests
Remote sensing of forest structure. Especially with spaceborne, airborne and terrestrial lidar. My main projects are the Global Lidar Altimetry Mission concept (a swath-mapping lidar constellation) and the NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility.
Recent publications
Extracting an accurate river network: Stream burning re-revisited. 2024-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114333
Multi-scale lidar measurements suggest miombo woodlands contain substantially more carbon than thought. 2024-07-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01448-x
Spacecraft and optics design considerations for a spaceborne lidar mission with spatially continuous global coverage. 2024-01
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.10.042
Characterizing Fire-Induced Forest Structure and Aboveground Biomass Changes in Boreal Forests Using Multitemporal Lidar and Landsat. 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3400218
Canopy Structure and Air Temperature Inversions Impact Simulation of Sub‐Canopy Longwave Radiation in Snow‐Covered Boreal Forests. 2023-07-27
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037980
Impact of leaf phenology on estimates of aboveground biomass density in a deciduous broadleaf forest from simulated GEDI lidar. 2023-06-01
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acd2ec
Assessing Novel Lidar Modalities for Maximizing Coverage of a Spaceborne System through the Use of Diode Lasers. 2022-05-18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14102426
Radiometric Assessment of ICESat-2 over Vegetated Surfaces. 2022-02-08
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14030787
Requirements for a global lidar system: spaceborne lidar with wall-to-wall coverage. 2021-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211166
Towards mapping the diversity of canopy structure from space with GEDI. 2020-11-01
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9e99
Incorporating canopy structure from simulated GEDI lidar into bird species distribution models. 2020-09-01
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab80ee
The GEDI Simulator: A Large‐Footprint Waveform Lidar Simulator for Calibration and Validation of Spaceborne Missions. 2019-02
