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Publications - Polar Landscape & Remote Sensing

Publications - Polar Landscape & Remote Sensing

Recent publications on this area of research are listed here.

You can also browse listings of all recent publications by members of the Institute and within each person's biography page.

Journal articles

2023

  • Büntgen, U. and Rees, G., 2023. Global change research needs international collaboration. The Science of The Total Environment, vol. 902, p.166054-. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166054.
  • Lintott, B. and Rees, G., 2023. Arctic Heritage at Risk: Insights into How Remote Sensing, Robotics and Simulation Can Improve Risk Analysis and Enhance Safety. Remote Sensing, vol. 15, issue 3, p.675-. doi:10.3390/rs15030675.
  • Rees, G., 2023. Lake Ladoga. The coastal history of the greatest lake in Europe. Maria Lähteenmäki and Isaac Land, editors. Helsinki: Finnish Literary Society, SKS. 2023. 233 p, paperback, epub and pdf. ISBN 978-951-858-628-2 (print). €45. Also available as a free open-access download (https://doi.org/10.21435/sfh.27). Polar Record, vol. 59, p.e30-. doi:10.1017/s0032247423000207.
  • Rees, G., Büntgen, U. and Stenseth, N.C., 2023. Arctic science: resume collaborations with Russian scholars. Nature, vol. 613, issue 7943, p.243-243. doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00008-1.

2022

  • , 2022. Boreal forest on the move. Nature, doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02008-z.
  • Golubeva, E.I., Rees, W.G., Zimin, M.V., Kovalchuk, M.L. and Timokhina, Y.L., 2022. DYNAMICS of FLORISTIC COMPOSITION and BOUNDARIES of the ALTITUDE ZONES within MOUNTAIN MASSIFS of the KOLA PENINSULA under the ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Seriya Geografiya, vol. 5, issue 1, p.58-68.
  • Rees, W.G., Tutubalina, O.V., Medvedev, A., Marshall, G.J., Golubeva, E.I., Telnova, N., Zimin, M., Mikhaylykova, P., Terskaia, A., Sklyar, E. and Tomaney, J.A., 2022. Three decades of remote sensing subarctic vegetation in northern Russia: A case study in science diplomacy. Polar Record, vol. 58, p.e37-. doi:10.1017/s0032247422000304.
  • Sklyar, E. and Rees, G., 2022. Assessing Changes in Boreal Vegetation of Kola Peninsula via Large-Scale Land Cover Classification between 1985 and 2021. Remote Sensing, vol. 14, issue 21, p.5616-. doi:10.3390/rs14215616.

2021

  • Guo, W. and Rees, G., 2021. Correlation between the dynamics and spatial configuration of the circumarctic latitudinal forest-tundra ecotone. International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 42, issue 4, p.1250-1274. doi:10.1080/01431161.2020.1826062.
  • Rees, G., Gerrish, L., Fox, A. and Barnes, R., 2021. Finding Antarctica’s Pole of Inaccessibility. Polar Record, vol. 57, p.e40-. doi:10.1017/s0032247421000620.
  • Rees, W., Zaika, Y., Pavlenko, V., Cooper, L. and Yoshihiro, I., accepted 2021. ISIRA: International Science Initiative in the Russian Arctic. Arctic Herald.
  • Rees, W.G., Tomaney, J., Tutubalina, O., Zharko, V. and Bartalev, S., 2021. Estimation of Boreal Forest Growing Stock Volume in Russia from Sentinel-2 MSI and Land Cover Classification. Remote Sensing, vol. 13, issue 21, p.4483-. doi:10.3390/rs13214483.
  • Shabanov, N.V., Marshall, G.J., Rees, W.G., Bartalev, S.A., Tutubalina, O.V. and Golubeva, E.I., 2021. Climate-driven phenological changes in the Russian Arctic derived from MODIS LAI time series 2000–2019. Environmental Research Letters, vol. 16, issue 8, p.084009-. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac0be2.
  • Vale, A.B., Arnold, N.S., Rees, W.G. and Lea, J.M., 2021. Remote Detection of Surge-Related Glacier Terminus Change across High Mountain Asia. Remote Sensing, vol. 13, issue 7, p.1309-. doi:10.3390/rs13071309.
  • Vikulina, M.A., Vashchalova, T.V., Tutubalina, O.V., Rees, W.G. and Zaika, Y.V., 2021. Moscow University’s field station in the Khibiny Mountains, Russian Arctic: A 70-year history to the present day. Polar Record, vol. 57, p.e10-. doi:10.1017/s0032247421000012.

2020

  • Cubaynes, H.C., Rees, W.G., Jackson, J.A., Moore, M., Sformo, T.L., McLellan, W.A., Niemeyer, M.E., George, J.C., van der Hoop, J., Forcada, J., Trathan, P. and Fretwell, P.T., 2020. Spectral reflectance of whale skin above the sea surface: a proposed measurement protocol. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, vol. 6, issue 3, p.411-423. doi:10.1002/rse2.155.
  • Guo, W., Rees, G. and Hofgaard, A., 2020. Delineation of the forest-tundra ecotone using texture-based classification of satellite imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 41, issue 16, p.6384-6408. doi:10.1080/01431161.2020.1734254.
  • Rees, W.G., Golubeva, E.I., Tutubalina, O.V., Zimin, M.V. and Derkacheva, A.A., 2020. Relation between leaf area index and NDVI for subarctic deciduous vegetation. International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 41, issue 22, p.8573-8589. doi:10.1080/01431161.2020.1782505.
  • Rees, W.G., Hofgaard, A., Boudreau, S., Cairns, D.M., Harper, K., Mamet, S., Mathisen, I., Swirad, Z. and Tutubalina, O., 2020. Is subarctic forest advance able to keep pace with climate change?. Global Change Biology, vol. 26, issue 7, p.3965-3977. doi:10.1111/gcb.15113.

2019

  • Guo, W. and Rees, W.G., 2019. Altitudinal forest-tundra ecotone categorization using texture-based classification. Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 232, p.111312-. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2019.111312.
  • Teleti, P., Rees, W.G., Dowdeswell, J. and Wilkinson, C., 2019. A historical Southern Ocean climate dataset from whaling ships’ logbooks. Geoscience Data Journal, vol. 6, p.30-40. doi:10.17863/CAM.31530.
  • Vignols, R.M., Marshall, G.J., Rees, W.G., Zaika, Y., Phillips, T. and Blinova, I., 2019. Assessing snow cover changes in the Kola Peninsula, Arctic Russia, using a synthesis of MODIS snow products and station observations. vol. 2019, p.1-33. doi:10.5194/tc-2019-9.

Conference proceedings

Other publications

Theses / dissertations

  • Reilly, T.B.T., 2022. TOWARDS POLYCENTRIC REGIONALISM: SINO-RUSSIAN GEO-ECONOMIC RELATIONS AND THE FORMATION OF THE PACIFIC ARCTIC REGION.
  • Reilly, T.B.T., 2021. Towards Polycentric Regionalism: Sino-Russian Geo-Economic Relations and the Formation of the Pacific Arctic Region. doi:10.17863/CAM.84435.
  • Teleti, P., 2020. Reconstruction of the historical climate of the Southern Ocean from whaling ships’ logbooks. doi:10.17863/CAM.55560.

Software

  • Rees, G. and Swirad, Z., 2023. Transverse Mercator coordinate conversions. doi:10.17863/CAM.96761.
  • Rees, W., 2023. Stackfit: Fitting the parameters of a two-stream optical model to reflectance measurements of stacks of plant leaves. doi:10.17863/CAM.96760.
  • Rees, W., 2023. Walking time in rugged terrain. doi:10.17863/CAM.96625.