Dr Peter Long

Dr Peter Long

My research is focused on using satellite remote sensing and environmental modeling to address questions related to patterns of biodiversity, ecosystem services and ecosystem function.  I mainly design algorithms to process large volumes of satellite data to reveal environmental phenomena such as land cover change, phenology and resilience. In order to accomplish this I have research skills including databases, high performance scientific computing, R and a variety of GIS and RS software.  In addition, I have been closely involved in the development of web-based tools to expose environmental data to users, and in the dissemination of these tools to a wide range of stakeholders.

Selected Publications​​​​

Google scholar page

Long PR, Nogue S, Benz, D, Willis K (2021) Devising a method to remotely model and map the distribution of natural landscapes in Europe with the greatest recreational amenity value. Frontiers in Biogeography 13(1). https://doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG47737

Harvey WJ, Nogue S, Stansell N, Adolf C, Long PR, Willis K (2020) A palynological perspective on the impacts of European contact: historic deforestation, ranching and agriculture surrounding the Cuchumatanes highlands, Guatemala.  Vegetation History and Archaeobotany https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-020-00790-2

O’Marcaigh F, Raveloson BA, Rakotomanga G, Ratianarivo AN, Baddams J, Rasamison S, Long PR, Martin TE (2020) The avifauna of Ankobohobo wetland, a neglected important bird area in northwestern Madagascar.  Scopus 40: 18-28

Morel, A; Hirons, M; Demissie, S; Gonfa, T; Mehrabi, Z ; Long, PR.; Rifai, S; Woldemariam Gonfa, T; Mason, J; McDermott, C; Boyd, E; Robinson, E; Malhi, Y; Norris, K (2020) The structures underpinning vulnerability and resilience: examining landscape-society interactions in a smallholder coffee agroforestry system.  Environmental Research Letters 14: 075006. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ab2280