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Our Team

An interdisciplinary team spanning ecology, computer science, and remote sensing — collaborating across institutions worldwide.

Principal Investigators

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David Coomes

Professor of Forest Ecology

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge. Leads the overall research programme on habitat mapping and the Centre for Landscape Regeneration.

Research Team

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James Ball

EPIC Postdoc

Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge. Leads the Trentino species mapping and Latin America vegetation mapping projects. Develops the core classification pipeline.

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Jana Wicklein

Researcher

Fondazione Edmund Mach / University of Trento, Italy. Contributes to the Trentino forest species classification and label validation work.

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Zhengpeng Feng

Researcher

Department of Computer Science and Technology, Cambridge. Contributes computational methods and machine learning expertise to the species mapping pipeline.

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Jovana Knezevic

4C PhD Student

Department of Computer Science, Cambridge. Working on retrospective change detection, landcover separability analysis, and the embeddings vs ecoregions project.

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Amandine Debus

CLR Postdoc

Centre for Landscape Regeneration. Leads Tessera-based land mapping in the UK and EU, including Cumbria and Cairngorms projects. Background in AI and remote sensing.

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Barbara Neto-Bradley

CLR Postdoc

Centre for Landscape Regeneration. Works with stakeholders in Cumbria and the Cairngorms to acquire label datasets and build collaboration with conservation partners.

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Felipe Begliomini

4C PhD Student

Working on restoration monitoring in the Atlantic forests of Brazil, contributing to the Latin American component of the research programme.

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Lucy Watson

Coordinator

Coordinates the Global Plot Alliance, making contacts worldwide and securing access to vegetation datasets for ground-truthing global habitat maps.

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Jess Williams

CLR Coordinator

Centre for Landscape Regeneration coordinator. Manages stakeholder relationships and coordinates delivery of papers and products across the UK projects.

Key Collaborators

Clement Atzberger

CYCLOPS MRV. Remote sensing expertise for the Trentino project.

Michele Dalponte

Fondazione Edmund Mach. Forest remote sensing and species classification.

Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert

University of Cambridge. SynTreeSys consortium lead for Latin America.

Toby Pennington

University of Exeter. Neotropical phylogenetics and biogeography.

Karl Dexter

University of Edinburgh. Tropical forest ecology and habitat mapping.

Evie Huhtala

CLR PhD student. Evaluating effectiveness of landscape restoration programmes.

Partner Institutions & Networks

University of Cambridge

Plant Sciences & Computer Science

Fondazione Edmund Mach

San Michele all’Adige, Italy

SynTreeSys

Neotropical forest plot network

SPlot

3.3M vegetation plots globally

NERC CLR

Centre for Landscape Regeneration

UNEP-WCMC

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

BIEN

Botanical Information & Ecology Network

UK-CEH

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology