Publications

Forkel, M., Wessollek, C., Huijnen, V., Andela, N., de Laat, A., Kinalczyk, D., Marrs, C., van Wees, D., Bastos, A., Ciais, P., Fawcett, D., … Plummer, S. (2025). Burning of woody debris dominates fire emissions in the Amazon and Cerrado. Nature Geoscience, 18(2), 140–147. Link

Wang, H., Ciais, P., Sitch, S., Green, J. K., Tao, S., Fu, Z., Albergel, C., Bastos, A., Wang, M., Fawcett, D., … Wigneron, J.-P. (2024). Anthropogenic disturbance exacerbates resilience loss in the Amazon rainforests. Global Change Biology, 30(1), e17006. Link

Rosan, T. M., Sitch, S., O’Sullivan, M., Basso, L. S., Wilson, C., Silva, C., Gloor, E., Fawcett, D., … Aragão, L. E. O. C. (2024). Synthesis of the land carbon fluxes of the Amazon region between 2010 and 2020. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 46. Link

Fawcett, D., Sitch, S., Ciais, P., Wigneron, J. P., Silva-Junior, C. H. L., Heinrich, V., et al. (2023). Declining Amazon biomass due to deforestation and subsequent degradation losses exceeding gains. Global Change Biology, 29(4), 1106–1118. Link

Li, C., Kambombe, O., Chimimba, E. G., Fawcett, D., Brown, L. A., Yu, L., Gadedjisso-Tossou, A., & Dash, J. (2023). Limited environmental and yield benefits of intercropping practices in smallholder fields: Evidence from multi-source data. Field Crops Research, 299, 108974. Link

Li, C., Yu, L., Oloo, F., Chimimba, E. G., Kambombe, O., Asamoah, M., Opoku, P. D., Ogweno, V. W., Fawcett, D., Hong, J., Deng, X., Gong, P., & Wright, J. (2023). Slum and urban deprivation in compacted and peri-urban neighborhoods in sub-Saharan Africa. Sustainable Cities and Society, 99, 104863. Link

Slade, G., Fawcett, D., Cunliffe, A. M., Brazier, R. E., Nyaupane, K., Mauritz, M., et al. (2023). Optical reflectance across spatial scales—An intercomparison of transect-based hyperspectral, drone, and satellite reflectance data for dry season rangeland. Drone Systems and Applications, 11, 1–20. Link

Heinrich, V. H. A., Vancutsem, C., Dalagnol, R., Rosan, T. M., Fawcett, D., Silva-Junior, C. H. L., et al. (2023). The carbon sink of secondary and degraded humid tropical forests. Nature, 615(7952), 436–442. Link

Bastos, A., Ciais, P., Sitch, S., Aragão, L. E. O. C., Chevallier, F., Fawcett, D., et al. (2022). On the use of Earth Observation to support estimates of national greenhouse gas emissions and sinks for the Global stocktake process: Lessons learned from ESA-CCI RECCAP2. Carbon Balance and Management, 17(1), 15. Link

Hegglin, M. I., Bastos, A., Bovensmann, H., Buchwitz, M., Fawcett, D., Ghent, et al. (2022). Space-based Earth observation in support of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement. Front. Environ. Sci., 10. Link

Fawcett D, Cunliffe A M, Sitch S, O’Sullivan M, Anderson K, Brazier R E, et al. (2022). Assessing Model Predictions of Carbon Dynamics in Global Drylands. Front. Environ. Sci. 10. Link

Duffy JP, Anderson K, Fawcett D, Curtis RJ, Maclean IMD (2021). Drones provide spatial and volumetric data to deliver new insights into microclimate modelling. Landscape Ecology, 36(3), 685-702.  Link.

Fawcett D, Bennie J, Anderson K (2021). Monitoring spring phenology of individual tree crowns using drone-acquired NDVI data. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 7(2), 227-244. Link 

Fawcett D (2021). Vegetation structure and function measurement and modelling using drone based sensing techniques. Link.

Fawcett D, Panigada C, Tagliabue G, Boschetti M, Celesti M, Evdokimov A, Biriukova K, et al. (2020). Multi-Scale Evaluation of Drone-Based Multispectral Surface Reflectance and Vegetation Indices in Operational Conditions. Remote Sensing, 12(3), 514-514. Link.

Anderson K, Fawcett D, Cugulliere A, Benford S, Jones D, Leng R (2020). Vegetation expansion in the subnival Hindu Kush Himalaya. Global Change Biology, 26(3), 1608-1625. Link.

Fawcett D, Anderson K (2019). Investigating impacts of calibration methodology and irradiance variations on lightweight drone-based sensor derived surface reflectance products. Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XXI. 9th – 12th Sep 2019. Link.

Fawcett D, Blanco-Sacristán J, Benaud P (2019). Two decades of digital photogrammetry: Revisiting Chandler’s 1999 paper on “Effective application of automated digital photogrammetry for geomorphological research” – a synthesis. Progress in Physical Geography, 43(2), 299-312. Link.

Fawcett D, Benjamin A, Hill T, Khoon L, Bennie JJ, Anderson K (2019). Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) derived structure-from-motion photogrammetry point clouds for oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) canopy segmentation and height estimation. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 40(19) Link.

Fawcett D, Verhoef W, Schläpfer D, Schneider FD, Schaepman ME, Damm A (2018). Advancing retrievals of surface reflectance and vegetation indices over forest ecosystems by combining imaging spectroscopy, digital object models, and 3D canopy modelling. Remote Sensing of Environment, 204, 583-595. Link.