Kirsten M. de Beurs, Assistant Professor, kdebeurs@vt.edu
Office: 107 Major Williams Hall
Phone: 540-231-1642
At Virginia Tech Since: 2007
Education: Ph.D., University of Nebraska – Lincoln , 2005

CV: Download here.

Research Interests:

• Remote Sensing
• Land Surface Phenology
• Anthropogenic Change Analysis
• Land Cover Land Use Change
• Natural disturbance effects

Classes Recently Taught:

• Fall 2007 – NR 6104: Special Topic in Remote Sensing
• Spring 2008 - GEOG 4984 SS: Remote Sensing and Phenology

Recent Publications:

• White, M.A., de Beurs, K.M., et al. 2009. Intercomparison, interpretation, and assessment of spring phenology in North America estimated from remote sensing for 1982 to 2006. Global Change Biology, submitted (September 2008).
• Townsend, P.A., Helmers, D.P, McNeil, B.E., de Beurs, K.M., Eshleman, K.N., Changes in the extent of surface mining and reclamation in the Central Appalachians: 1976-2006. Remote Sensing of Environment, 113: 62-72, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.08.012.
• de Beurs, K.M., Townsend, P.A., 2008. Estimating the effect of gypsy moth defoliation using MODIS. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112:3983-3990; doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.07.008.
• de Beurs, K.M., Henebry, G.M.,  2008. Spatio-temporal statistical methods for modeling land surface phenology. Phenological Research: Methods for Environmental and Climate Change Analysis, I. L. Hudson and M. R. Keatley, Eds., Springer, submitted (February 2008).
• de Beurs, K.M., Henebry, G.M., 2008. Northern Annular Mode effects on the Land Surface Phenologies of Northern Eurasia. Journal of Climate, 21:4257-4279.
• Brown, M.E., de Beurs, K.M., 2008. Evaluation of Multi-Sensor Semi-Arid Crop Season Parameters Based on NDVI and Rainfall. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112 (5): 2261-2271.
• de Beurs, K.M., Henebry, G.M., 2008. War, drought and phenology: Changes in Land Surface Phenology in Afghanistan since 1982. Journal of Land Use Science, 3(2-3):95-111.
• McNeil, B. E., K. M. de Beurs, K. N. Eshleman, J. R. Foster, and P. A. Townsend, 2007. Maintenance of ecosystem nitrogen limitation by ephemeral forest disturbance: An assessment using MODIS, Hyperion, and Landsat ETM+. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L19406, doi:10.1029/2007GL031387.
• Henebry, G.M., de Beurs, K.M., Gitelson, A.A. 2005. Land surface phenologies of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan between 1982 and 1999. Arid Ecosystems, 11(26-27): 25-32.
• de Beurs, K.M., Henebry, G.M. 2005. Land surface phenology and temperature variation in the IGBP High-Latitude transects.  Global Change Biology, 11: 779–790.
• de Beurs, K.M., Henebry, G.M. 2005. A statistical framework for the analysis of long image time series. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(8): 1551-1573.
• Stein, A., de Beurs, K.M. 2005. Map indices as measures for semantic data quality in segmented Landsat images. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(14): 2937-2951.
• de Beurs, K.M., Henebry, G.M. 2004. Trend analyses of the Pathfinder AVHRR Land (PAL) NDVI data for the deserts of Central and Northern Eurasia. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 1(4): 282-286.
• de Beurs, K.M., Henebry, G.M. 2004. Land surface phenology, climatic variation, and institutional change: analyzing agricultural land cover change in Kazakhstan. Remote Sensing of Environment, 89(4): 497-509.
• Boer, E., de Beurs, K.M., Hartkamp, A.D. 2001. Kriging and thin plate splines for mapping climate variables, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 3(2): 146-15