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Stephen V. Stehman
Professor

322 Bray Hall
1 Forestry Dr.
Syracuse, New York 13210

Phone: (315) 470-6692/470-6536
Email: svstehma@syr.edu

Highest Education

Ph.D., Cornell University (Biometry), 1989.

Areas of Study

Biometry, Environmental sampling.

Courses Taught

• APM 391
• APM 620
• APM 625
• APM 671
• (Full Course Descriptions)

Most Recent Publications

Hansen, M. C., Stehman, S. V., and Potapov, P. V. (2010), Quantification of global gross forest cover loss, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 8650-8655.

Wickham, J. D., Stehman, S. V., Fry, J. A., Smith, J. H., and Homer, C. G. (2010), Thematic accuracy of the NLCD 2001 land cover for the conterminous United States, Remote Sensing of Environment 114, 1286-1296.

Stehman, S. V., and Selkowitz, D. J. (2010), A spatially stratified, multi-stage cluster sampling design for assessing accuracy of the Alaska (USA) National Land-Cover Data (NLCD), International Journal of Remote Sensing, 31, 1877-1896.

Stehman, S. V. (2009), Model-assisted estimation as a unifying framework for estimating the area of land cover and land-cover change from remote sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment 113: 2455-2462.

Stehman, S. V. (2009), Sampling designs for accuracy assessment of land cover, International Journal of Remote Sensing 30: 5243-5272.

Johnson, D. H., Gibbs, J. P., Herzog, M., Lor, S., Niemuth, N. D., Ribic, C. A., Seamans, M., Shaffer, T. L., Shriver, W. G., Stehman, S. V., Thompson, W. L. (2009), A sampling design framework for monitoring secretive marsh birds, Waterbirds 32: 203-215.

Stehman, S. V., Wickham, J. D., Wade, T. G., and Smith, J. H. (2008). Designing a multi-objective, multi-support accuracy assessment of the 2001 National Land Cover Data (NLCD 2001) of the conterminous United States, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 74: 1561-1571.

Stehman, S. V., Sohl, T. L., and Loveland, T. R. (2003), Statistical sampling to characterize land-cover change in the U. S. Geological Survey land-cover trends project, Remote Sensing of Environment 86: 517-529.