Steven Hancock

Biographic Data

ID7939215
NAMESteven Hancock
GIVEN NAMESSteven
FAMILY NAMEHancock
SIGNATUREHANCOCK S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
ORCID0000-0001-5659-6964
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Limited microclimatic buffering capacity in boreal forests calls for sustainable management strategies

    Open AccessI Starck, Juha Aalto et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Forest canopies regulate the energy exchange between the atmosphere and Earth’s surface, creating microclimates that are often buffered from open-air temperature extremes and are critical for forest species under climate warming. However, the magnitude of this thermal buffering is strongly influenced by forest structure and management, and remains understudied. Using a comprehensive dataset of in-situ microclimate time series and high-resolution …

  • Impact of leaf phenology on estimates of aboveground biomass density in a deciduous broadleaf forest from simulated Gedi lidar

    Open AccessK C Cushman, John Armston et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is a waveform lidar instrument on the International Space Station used to estimate aboveground biomass density (AGBD) in temperate and tropical forests. Algorithms to predict footprint AGBD from GEDI relative height (RH) metrics were developed from simulated waveforms with leaf-on (growing season) conditions. Leaf-off GEDI data with lower canopy cover are expected to have shorter RH metrics, and …

  • Gedi launches a new era of biomass inference from space

    Open AccessRalph Dubayah, John Armston et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Accurate estimation of aboveground forest biomass stocks is required to assess the impacts of land use changes such as deforestation and subsequent regrowth on concentrations of atmospheric CO 2 . The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is a lidar mission launched by NASA to the International Space Station in 2018. GEDI was specifically designed to retrieve vegetation structure within a novel, theoretical sampling design that explicitl…

  • Incorporating canopy structure from simulated Gedi lidar into bird species distribution models

    Open AccessPatrick Burns, M L Clark et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar began data acquisition from the International Space Station in March 2019 and is expected to make over 10 billion measurements of canopy structure and topography over two years. Previously, airborne lidar data with limited spatial coverage have been used to examine relationships between forest canopy structure and faunal diversity, most commonly bird species. GEDI’s latitudinal coverage wil…

  • Towards mapping the diversity of canopy structure from space with Gedi

    Open AccessFabian Schneider, António Ferraz et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Plant biodiversity supports life on Earth and provides a range of important ecosystem services, but is under severe pressure by global change. Structural diversity plays a crucial role for carbon, water and energy cycles and animal habitats. However, it is very difficult to map and monitor over large areas, limiting our ability to assess the status of biodiversity and predict change. NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) provides …

  • Statistical properties of hybrid estimators proposed for Gedi—Nasa’s global ecosystem dynamics investigation

    Open AccessPaul L Patterson, SEAN P HEALEY et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) mission will collect waveform lidar data at a dense sample of ∼25 m footprints along ground tracks paralleling the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS). GEDI’s primary science deliverable will be a 1 km grid of estimated mean aboveground biomass density (Mg ha −1 ), covering the latitudes overflown by ISS (51.6 °S to 51.6 °N). One option for using the sample of waveforms contained wi…

  • Doses of Nearby Nature Simultaneously Associated with Multiple Health Benefits

    Open AccessDaniel T C Cox, Richard A Fuller et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2017

    Exposure to nature provides a wide range of health benefits. A significant proportion of these are delivered close to home, because this offers an immediate and easily accessible opportunity for people to experience nature. However, there is limited information to guide recommendations on its management and appropriate use. We apply a nature dose-response framework to quantify the simultaneous association between exposure to nearby nature and mul…