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  1. External environmental factors shaping spatiotemporal patterns of bark beetle outbreaks in Central Mexico

    Article • Environmental Research Communications, October 2025, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  2. Long-Term Trajectory Analysis of Avocado Orchards in the Avocado Belt, Mexico

    Article • Land, September 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  3. Evaluación del uso de imágenes radar y multiespectrales con técnicas de aprendizaje profundo para monitorear la deforestación y la degradación forestal en bosques tropicales

    Article • Revista Cartográfica, August 2025, Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  4. Mapping bioclimatic units of Oaxaca in Mexico: A systematic assessment

    Article • Journal of Mountain Science, June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  5. Building a Methodological Reference Framework for Quantifying Tropical Deforestation with Remote Sensing

    Article • Sustainability, February 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  6. Mapping spatiotemporal patterns of avocado expansion and land-use intensity in central Mexico and their effects on landscape connectivity

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, November 2024, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  7. A coupled cartographic approach between bioclimatology and vegetation formations of Mexico

    Article • Vegetation Classification and Survey, July 2024, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  8. Everything's not lost: Caatinga areas under chronic disturbances still have well-preserved plant communities

    Article • Journal of Arid Environments, June 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  9. Estimación de la distribución espacial de los bosques perturbados en Chiapas, México, usando datos satelitales e información auxiliar

    Article • Botanical Sciences, May 2024, Botanical Scicences, Sociedad Botanica de Mexico, AC

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  10. Land Cover Patterns of Urban Lots and Their Contribution to Ecological Functions

    Article • Sustainability, April 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  11. Comparación entre siete capas climáticas digitales para identificar áreas con alta precipitación anual en México (al menos 1,500 mm en promedio)

    Article • Investigaciones Geográficas Boletín del Instituto de Geografía, April 2024, Revista Investigaciones Geograficas, Boletin

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  12. Clasificación de uso y cobertura del suelo a través de algoritmos de aprendizaje automático: revisión bibliográfica

    Article • Revista de Teledetección, July 2023, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  13. Deforestation detection using a spatio-temporal deep learning approach with synthetic aperture radar and multispectral images

    Article • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, May 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  14. Landsat data respond to variations in the structure of Caatinga plant communities along a successional gradient

    Article • Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, January 2023, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  15. Cómo usar Google Earth Engine y no fallar en el intento

    Article • Revista Cartográfica, December 2022, Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  16. Identifying Coffee Agroforestry System Types Using Multitemporal Sentinel-2 Data and Auxiliary Information

    Article • Remote Sensing, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  17. Comparing the structural uncertainty and uncertainty management in four common Land Use Cover Change (LUCC) model software packages

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, July 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  18. Spatial patterns and determinants of avocado frontier dynamics in Mexico

    Article • Regional Environmental Change, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  19. Spatiotemporal patterns of the COVID-19 epidemic in Mexico at the municipality level

    Article • PeerJ, December 2021, PeerJ

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  20. Mapping the spatial distribution of stand age and aboveground biomass from Landsat time series analyses of forest cover loss in tropical dry forests

    Article • Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, December 2021, Wiley

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  21. Species distribution modeling as an approach to studying the processes of landscape domestication in central southern Mexico

    Article • Landscape Ecology, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  22. Using satellite estimates of aboveground biomass to assess carbon stocks in a mixed-management, semi-deciduous tropical forest in the Yucatan Peninsula

    Article • Geocarto International, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  23. Land Use Land Cover Classification with U-Net: Advantages of Combining Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Imagery

    Article • Remote Sensing, September 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  24. Merged phytosociological and geographical approach for multiple scale vegetation mapping as a baseline for public environmental policy in Mexico

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, July 2021, Wiley

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas, Faustino López Barrera

  25. Integrating farmers’ decisions on the assessment of forest regeneration drivers in a rural landscape of Southeastern Brazil

    Article • Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, July 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  26. Assessing Landsat Images Availability and Its Effects on Phenological Metrics

    Article • Forests, May 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  27. Spatio-temporal dataset of COVID-19 outbreak in Mexico

    Article • Data in Brief, April 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  28. Stage 1 registered report: spatiotemporal patterns of the COVID-19 epidemic in Mexico at the municipality level

    Article • PeerJ, February 2021, PeerJ

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  29. Potential expansion of Hass avocado cultivation under climate change scenarios threatens Mexican mountain ecosystems

    Article • Crop & Pasture Science, January 2021, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  30. Análise da disponibilidade de imagens Landsat e Sentinel para o Brasil

    Article • Geografia Ensino & Pesquisa, December 2020, Universidad Federal de Santa Maria

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  31. An integrative analysis of threats affecting protected areas in a biodiversity stronghold in Southeast Mexico

    Article • Global Ecology and Conservation, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  32. Patrones espaciotemporales de las observaciones de Sentinel-2 a nivel de imagen y píxel sobre el territorio mexicano entre 2015 y 2019

    Article • Revista de Teledetección, November 2020, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  33. Simulation of Land Use/Cover Change in the Kingdom of Calakmul During the Late Classic Period (AD 600–900)

    Article • Environmental Archaeology, August 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  34. Degradación ambiental por procesos de cambios de uso y cubierta del suelo desde una perspectiva espacial en el estado de Guanajuato, México

    Article • Investigaciones Geográficas Boletín del Instituto de Geografía, August 2020, Revista Investigaciones Geograficas, Boletin

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  35. Improving aboveground biomass maps of tropical dry forests by integrating LiDAR, ALOS PALSAR, climate and field data

    Article • Carbon Balance and Management, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  36. Análisis del proceso de deforestación en el estado de Michoacán: de lo espacial a lo social

    Article • Revista Cartográfica, June 2020, Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  37. Análisis del proceso de deforestación en el estado de Michoacán: de lo espacial a lo social

    Article • Revista Cartográfica, June 2020, Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  38. Patrones espaciales asociados a la infestación comunitaria por vectores de la enfermedad de Chagas

    Article • Revista Cartográfica, May 2020, Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  39. Patrones espaciales asociados a la infestación comunitaria por vectores de la enfermedad de Chagas

    Article • Revista Cartográfica, May 2020, Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  40. Google Earth Engine (GEE): una poderosa herramienta que vincula el potencial de los datos masivos y la eficacia del procesamiento en la nube

    Article • Investigaciones Geográficas Boletín del Instituto de Geografía, March 2020, Revista Investigaciones Geograficas, Boletin

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  41. Advances in hyperspectral sensing in agriculture: a review

    Article • Revista Ciência Agronômica, January 2020, GN1 Genesis Network

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  42. Thematic accuracy of hotspots and wildfires in Michoacán, Mexico

    Article • REVISTA CHAPINGO SERIE CIENCIAS FORESTALES Y DEL AMBIENTE, December 2019, Universidad Autonoma Chapingo

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  43. Variables Selection for Aboveground Biomass Estimations Using Satellite Data: A Comparison between Relative Importance Approach and Stepwise Akaike’s Information Criterion

    Article • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, May 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  44. An expert knowledge approach for mapping vegetation cover based upon free access cartographic data: the Tehuacan-Cuicatlan Valley, Central Mexico

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  45. Analysis of High Temporal Resolution Land Use/Land Cover Trajectories

    Article • Land, February 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  46. Comparison of techniques for missing lines reconstruction of RapidEye imagery

    Article • Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, January 2019, SPIE

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  47. Dimensión espacial de las decisiones sobre manejo de tierras. Un modelo de análisis

    Article • región y sociedad, January 2019, Region y Sociedad, Revista de el Colegio de Sonora

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  48. Cloud geoprocessing of Sentinel-2 imagery provides an high-resolution map of protected agriculture

    Article • European Journal of Remote Sensing, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  49. Modeling anthropic factors as drivers of wildfire occurrence at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere

    Article • Madera y Bosques, December 2018, Instituto de Ecologia, A.C.

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  50. Holocene precipitation changes in the Maya forest, Yucatán peninsula, Mexico

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  51. Assessing forest cover change in Mexico from annual MODIS VCF data (2000–2010)

    Article • International Journal of Remote Sensing, June 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  52. High overlap between traditional ecological knowledge and forest conservation found in the Bolivian Amazon

    Article • AMBIO, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  53. Susceptibility to gravitational processes due to land cover change in the Río Chiquito-Barranca del Muerto subbasin (Pico De Orizaba Volcano, México)

    Article • Journal of Mountain Science, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  54. Cellular Automata in CA_MARKOV

    Article • October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  55. Cellular Automaton

    Article • October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  56. Fuzzy Coincidence

    Article • October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  57. Geomatic Approaches for Modeling Land Change Scenarios. An Introduction

    Article • October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  58. LUCC Modeling Approaches to Calibration

    Article • October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  59. Markov Chain

    Article • October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  60. Multilayer Perceptron (MLP)

    Article • October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  61. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Analysis

    Article • October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  62. Techniques for the Validation of LUCC Modeling Outputs

    Article • October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  63. The Simulation Stage in LUCC Modeling

    Article • October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  64. Weights of Evidence

    Article • October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  65. Evaluación de las tasas de deforestación en Michoacán a escala detallada mediante un método híbrido de clasificación de imágenes de percepción remota

    Article • Madera y Bosques, September 2017, Instituto de Ecologia, A.C.

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  66. Land use/land cover change detection combining automatic processing and visual interpretation

    Article • European Journal of Remote Sensing, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  67. Application of Sentinel-2 data to forest monitoring

    Article • Investigaciones Geográficas Boletín del Instituto de Geografía, November 2016, Revista Investigaciones Geograficas, Boletin

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  68. Análisis jerárquico de la intensidad de cambio de cobertura/uso de suelo y deforestación (2000-2008) en la Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra de Manantlán, México

    Article • Investigaciones Geográficas Boletín del Instituto de Geografía, August 2016, Revista Investigaciones Geograficas, Boletin

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  69. Spatiotemporal modeling of fuelwood environmental impacts: Towards improved accounting for non-renewable biomass

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, August 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  70. Comment on Gebhardt et al. MAD-MEX: Automatic Wall-to-Wall Land Cover Monitoring for the Mexican REDD-MRV Program Using All Landsat Data. Remote Sens. 2014, 6, 3923–3943

    Article • Remote Sensing, June 2016, MDPI AG

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  71. EVALUATION OF ANNUAL MODIS PTC DATA FOR DEFORESTATION AND FOREST DEGRADATION ANALYSIS

    Article • June 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  72. Identifying Local Deforestation Patterns Using Geographically Weighted Regression Models

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  73. Validation of MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields for monitoring deforestation and forest degradation: two cases in Mexico

    Article • Geocarto International, December 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  74. Análisis y modelación de los procesos de deforestación: un caso de estudio en la cuenca del río Coyuquilla, Guerrero, México

    Article • Investigaciones Geográficas Boletín del Instituto de Geografía, December 2015, Revista Investigaciones Geograficas, Boletin

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  75. Modeling Historical Land Cover and Land Use: A Review fromContemporary Modeling

    Article • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, September 2015, MDPI AG

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  76. CALIBRATING CELLULAR AUTOMATA OF LAND USE/COVER CHANGE MODELS USING A GENETIC ALGORITHM

    Article • August 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  77. ASSESSING MODIFIABLE AREAL UNIT PROBLEM IN THE ANALYSIS OF DEFORESTATION DRIVERS USING REMOTE SENSING AND CENSUS DATA

    Article • August 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  78. CHANGE DETECTION AND LAND USE / LAND COVER DATABASE UPDATING USING IMAGE SEGMENTATION, GIS ANALYSIS AND VISUAL INTERPRETATION

    Article • August 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  79. Comparison of simulation models in terms of quantity and allocation of land change

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, July 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  80. Benchmarking of LUCC modelling tools by various validation techniques and error analysis

    Article • Cybergeo, December 2014, OpenEdition

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  81. National level biomass database comparison for Mexico in relation to vegetation degradation stages

    Article • November 2014, SPIE

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  82. Deforestation and land tenure in Mexico: A response to Bonilla-Moheno et al.

    Article • Land Use Policy, July 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  83. Validation of MODIS vegetation continuous fields in two areas in Mexico

    Article • June 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  84. Inductive pattern-based land use/cover change models: A comparison of four software packages

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  85. Interest in intermediate soft-classified maps in land change model validation: suitability versus transition potential

    Article • International Journal of Geographical Information Science, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  86. A Suite of Tools for ROC Analysis of Spatial Models

    Article • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, September 2013, MDPI AG

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  87. Evaluating drivers of land-use change and transition potential models in a complex landscape in Southern Mexico

    Article • International Journal of Geographical Information Science, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  88. Land change modelling: moving beyond projections

    Article • International Journal of Geographical Information Science, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  89. Land tenure and forest cover change. The case of southwestern Beni, Bolivian Amazon, 1986–2009

    Article • Applied Geography, September 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  90. Enhanced land use/cover classification of heterogeneous tropical landscapes using support vector machines and textural homogeneity

    Article • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, August 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  91. Estimating the spatial distribution of woody biomass suitable for charcoal making from remote sensing and geostatistics in central Mexico

    Article • Energy for Sustainable Development, April 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  92. Assessing simulated land use/cover maps using similarity and fragmentation indices

    Article • Ecological Complexity, September 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  93. Comparing two approaches to land use/cover change modeling and their implications for the assessment of biodiversity loss in a deciduous tropical forest

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, March 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  94. Land cover mapping applications with MODIS: a literature review

    Article • International Journal of Digital Earth, January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  95. Optimal region growing segmentation and its effect on classification accuracy

    Article • International Journal of Remote Sensing, July 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  96. Mapping land cover changes in Mexico, 1976-2000 and applications for guiding environmental management policy

    Article • Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, July 2010, Wiley

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  97. Accuracy assessment of the Mexican National Forest Inventory map: A study in four ecogeographical areas

    Article • Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, July 2010, Wiley

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  98. Trends of tropical deforestation in Southeast Mexico

    Article • Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, July 2010, Wiley

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  99. Sensitivity of landscape pattern metrics to classification approaches

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, March 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  100. The improvement of an object-oriented classification using multi-temporal MODIS EVI satellite data

    Article • International Journal of Digital Earth, July 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  101. Object-based image analysis for coal fire-related land cover mapping in coal mining areas

    Article • Geocarto International, February 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  102. The application of artificial neural networks to the analysis of remotely sensed data

    Article • International Journal of Remote Sensing, February 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  103. Land use / Land cover change dynamics in the Mexican highlands: current situation and long term scenarios

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  104. Comparison of pixel‐based and object‐oriented image classification approaches—a case study in a coal fire area, Wuda, Inner Mongolia, China

    Article • International Journal of Remote Sensing, September 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  105. Change Estimates by Map Comparison: A Method to Reduce Erroneous Changes Due to Positional Error

    Article • Transactions in GIS, October 2005, Wiley

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  106. Assessing protected area effectiveness using surrounding (buffer) areas environmentally similar to the target area

    Article • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, June 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  107. Assessing land use/cover changes: a nationwide multidate spatial database for Mexico

    Article • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, October 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  108. Modelling deforestation using GIS and artificial neural networks

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, May 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  109. Mapping land use/cover in a tropical coastal area using satellite sensor data, GIS and artificial neural networks

    Article • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, February 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  110. Land use-cover change processes in highly biodiverse areas: the case of Oaxaca, Mexico

    Article • Global Environmental Change, October 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  111. Modalités de la déforestation dans le sud-ouest de l'État du Campeche, Mexique

    Article • Canadian Journal of Forest Research, January 2001, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  112. Une revue des méthodes et des techniques de télédétection du changement

    Article • Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, August 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas

  113. Land use scenarios: a communication tool with local communities

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Francois Mas