Ian Mccallum
Research Scholar
Ecosystems Services and Management
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Austria
Biography
Ian McCallum is a researcher in the Ecosystem Services & Management (ESM) Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. He holds a graduate degree in Forest Science from Lakehead University in Canada, where he specialized in the application of geographic information systems and a doctoral degree from the Technical University of Vienna in Austria; applying satellite derived biophysical variables to model vegetation productivity. Prior to joining IIASA, he worked for both forest industry and forest consulting firms in central and western Canada. As a member of the Earth Observation Systems research group within ESM, he has contributed to numerous research projects applying geo-spatial analysis to global environmental problems. Topics range from biomass estimation to carbon accounting and modeling to global land cover validation. He is an active member of the Geo-Wiki team, applying crowd-sourcing tools to improve global environmental datasets. Further research efforts revolve around the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), where he co-leads the GEO Task ID-03 which focuses particularly on Science and Technology within the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). Furthermore he has participated in research aiming to demonstrate the benefits we derive from Earth Observations.
Research Interest
His research is focused on global environmental problems.
Publications
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Fritz S, See L, Perger C, McCallum I, Schill C, Schepaschenko D, Duerauer M, Karner M, et al. (2017). A global dataset of crowdsourced land cover and land use reference data. Scientific Data 4: p. 170075. DOI:10.1038/sdata.2017.75.
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See L, Laso Bayas JC, Schepaschenko D, Perger C, Dresel C, Maus V, Salk C, Weichselgartner J, et al. (2017). LACO-Wiki: A New Online Land Cover Validation Tool Demonstrated Using GlobeLand30 for Kenya. Remote Sensing 9 (7): e754. DOI:10.3390/rs9070754.
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Austin KG, Mosnier A, Pirker J, McCallum I, Fritz S, & Kasibhatla PS (2017). Shifting patterns of oil palm driven deforestation in Indonesia and implications for zero-deforestation commitments. Land Use Policy 69: 41-48. DOI:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.08.036.
