Publications

Working Papers

Song, L., Estes, A. B. & Estes, L. D. A national, multi-scale assessment of habitat connectivity of African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana). Submitted to Biological Conservation.

Song, L., Estes, A. B. & Estes, L. D. Cropland allocation to minimize agriculture-elephant conflict with consideration of biodiversity and carbon costs. To be submitted to the Journal of Applied Ecology.

Peer-reviewed Publications

Song, L., Estes, A. B., & Estes, L. D. (2023). A super-ensemble approach to map land cover types with high resolution over data-sparse African savanna landscapes. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 116, 103152. [PDF] [CODE] [DATA]

Song, L., & Estes, L. (2023). itsdm: Isolation forest-based presence-only species distribution modelling and explanation in r. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(3), 831-840. [PDF] [CODE] [DATA]

Estes, L., Ye, S., Song, L., Luo, B., Eastman, J. R., Meng, Z., … & Caylor, K. K (2021). High resolution, annual maps of field boundaries for smallholder-dominated croplands at national scales. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 164. [PDF]

Elmes, A., Estes, L., Avery, R., Caylor, K., …, Song, L. … & Lunga, D. (2019). Accounting for training data error in machine learning applied to Earth observations. Remote sensing, 12(6), 1034. [PDF]

Shi, Y., & Song, L. (2015). Spatial Downscaling of Monthly TRMM Precipitation Based on EVI and Other Geospatial Variables Over the Tibetan Plateau From 2001 to 2012. Mountain Research and Development, 35(2), 180-194. [PDF]

Shi, Y., Song, L., Xia, Z., Lin, Y., Myneni, R. B., Choi, S., … & Yang, F. (2015). Mapping Annual Precipitation across Mainland China in the Period 2001-2010 from TRMM3B43 Product Using Spatial Downscaling Approach. Remote Sensing, 7(5), 5849-5878. [PDF]