First Name: Tawanda W.Last Name: GaraPublications: YearPublication 2013"Characterization of the top sediment layer in coastal intertidal mudflats from medium-to-coarse resolution satellite imagery and field measurements" in International Journal of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering 2013"Evaluating the applicability of remote sensing techniques in quantifying microphytobenthic biomass in estuarine ecosystems" in Journal of Environmental Science and Water Resources 2014"Effect of water availability, landscape fragmentation and forage abundance on the movement and habitat utilization of elephants" in Theses and Projects 2014"Estimating wood volume from canopy area in deciduous woodlands of Zimbabwe" in Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science 2014"Modelling Spatial Variations in Wood Volume and Forest Carbon Stocks in Dry Forests of Southern Africa Using Remotely Sensed Data" in Theses and Projects 2015"Predicting forest carbon stocks from high resolution satellite data in dry forests of Zimbabwe: exploring the effect of the red-edge band in forest carbon stocks estimation" in Geocarto International 2015"Indigenous forest wood volume estimation in a dry savanna, Zimbabwe : exploring the performance of high-and-medium spatial resolution multispectral sensors" in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 2015"Investigating flash floods potential areas using ASCAT and TRMM satellites in the Western Cape Province, South Africa" in Geocarto International 2017"Leaf spectral proporties track variability in leaf traits across the canopy vertical profile" in EARSeL SIG Imaging Spectroscopy Workshop Poster 2017"Estimating forest carbon stocks in tropical dry forests of Zimbabwe: exploring the performance of high and medium spatial-resolution multispectral sensors" in Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science 2017"Missing in action: Species competition is a neglected predictor variable in species distribution modelling" in PLOS ONE 2017"Understanding the effect of landscape fragmentation and vegetation productivity on elephant habitat utilization in Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya" in African Journal of Ecology 2017"Evaluating performance of aerial survey data in elephant habitat modelling" in African Journal of Ecology 2017"Elephants move faster in small fragments of low productivity in Amboseli ecosystems: Kenya" in Geocarto International 2018"Seasonal Retrieval of leaf traits across canopy using PROSPECT model" in Bavaria_Sumava Forest Data Pool Meeting 2018"Impact of Vertical Canopy Position on Leaf Spectral Properties and Traits across Multiple Species" in Remote Sensing 2018"Estimating forest standing biomass in savanna woodlands as an indicator of forest productivity using the new generation WorldView-2 sensor" in Geocarto International 2018"Impact of Vertical Canopy Position on Leaf Spectral Properties and Traits across Multiple Species" in Remote Sensing 2018"Estimating Tree Crown Area and Aboveground Biomass in Miombo Woodlands From High-Resolution RGB-Only Imagery" in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 2019"Seasonal Modelling Of Leaf Optical Properties And Retrieval Of Leaf Chlorophyll Content Across The Canopy Using PROSPECT" in EARSel SIG Imaging Spectroscopy Workshop Poster 2019"Analysis of Sentinel-2 and RapidEye for Retrieval of Leaf Area Index in a Saltmarsh Using a Radiative Transfer Model" in Remote Sensing 2019"Leaf to canopy upscaling approach affects the estimation of canopy traits" in GIScience & Remote Sensing 2019"Quantitative remote sensing of essential biodiversity variables: understanding the role of canopy vertical heterogeneity" in Dissertations 2020"Quantitative remote sensing of essential biodiversity variables" in DANS Data Station Physical and Technical Sciences 2019"Evaluating the performance of PROSPECT in the retrieval of leaf traits across canopy throughout the growing season" in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 2019"Accurate modelling of canopy traits from seasonal Sentinel-2 imagery based on the vertical distribution of leaf traits" in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2020"African elephant (Loxodonta africana) select less fragmented landscapes to connect core habitats in human-dominated landscapes" in African Journal of Ecology 2020"Statistical and physical models for mapping canopy chlorophyll content from Sentinel-2 Data" in World Biodiversity Forum Poster 2020"Comparing methods for mapping canopy chlorophyll content in a mixed mountain forest using Sentinel-2 data" in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 2020"Dominant wetland vegetation species discrimination and quantification using in situ hyperspectral data" in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 2020"Mapping Canopy Chlorophyll Content in a Temperate Forest Using Airborne Hyperspectral Data" in Remote Sensing 2021"Machine learning methods’ performance in radiative transfer model inversion to retrieve plant traits from Sentinel-2 data of a mixed mountain forest" in International Journal of Digital Earth 2021"Mapping leaf area index in a mixed temperate forest using Fenix airborne hyperspectral data and Gaussian processes regression" in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 2021"Remote sensing of aboveground grass biomass between protected and non-protected areas in savannah rangelands" in African Journal of Ecology 2021"Forest Leaf Mass per Area (LMA) through the Eye of Optical Remote Sensing: A Review and Future Outlook" in Remote Sensing 2021"Modelling flood hazard in dry climates of southern Africa: a case of Beitbridge, Limpopo Basin, Zimbabwe" in Water SA 2021"Understanding the Impact of Vertical Canopy Position on Leaf Spectra and Traits in an Evergreen Broadleaved Forest" in Remote Sensing 2022"Integrating RADAR and optical imagery improve the modelling of carbon stocks in a mopane-dominated African savannah dry forest" in African Journal of Ecology 2022"Determination of foliar traits in an ecologically distinct conifer species in Maine using Sentinel-2 imagery and site variables: Assessing the effect of leaf trait expression and upscaling approach on prediction accuracy" in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2022"Gaussian Processes Regression and PLSR for mapping forest canopy traits from Fenix Airborne Hyperspectral Data" in EARSeL Workshop on Imaging Spectroscopy 2022"Mapping ash species across a mixed forest using hyperspectral imagery" in Remote Sensing Letters 2022"Estimating species-specific leaf area index and basal area using optical and SAR remote sensing data in Acadian mixed spruce-fir forests, USA" in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 2022"Trends in elephant poaching in the Mid-Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe: Lessons learnt and future outlook" in African Journal of Ecology 2023"A Novel Approach to Match Individual Trees between Aerial Photographs and Airborne LiDAR Data" in Remote Sensing 2023"Integrating RADAR and optical imagery improve the modelling of carbon stocks in a mopane-dominated African savannah dry forest" in African Journal of Ecology