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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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B. G. Peter

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Assistant Professor of Geosciences

Also affiliated: University of Alabama (2020–2023); Princeton University (2022–2023); University of Cambridge (2022–2023); AstraZeneca (Brazil) (2025); Cambridge University Press (2023); AstraZeneca (Finland) (2025); AstraZeneca (Germany) (2025); Syracuse University (2023); Rice University (2022–2023); Michigan State University (2015–2020)

Faculty Researcher

17 h-index 104 pubs 895 cited

  • Malawi
  • Agriculture
  • Zea mays
  • Fertilizers
  • Climate
  • Animals
  • Humans
  • Malaria
  • Photosynthesis
  • Crops, Agricultural
  • Geographic Mapping
  • Big Data
  • Anopheles
  • Public Health
  • Seasons

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Dr. Brad G. Peter's research focuses on environmental remote sensing and its application to agricultural systems, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. He leads the Environmental GIS & Cartography Lab (EGCL) at the University of Arkansas, where his work involves spatial analytics and digital cartography to transform empirical data into actionable knowledge. His research interests include global agricultural land suitability, scaling climate-smart crop varieties, and the use of satellite and sUAS (small Unmanned Aircraft Systems) for precision agriculture.

His laboratory group comprises geographers, remote sensing scientists, agronomists, and cartographers, who collaborate with experts in fields such as hydrology, entomology, and plant physiology. Dr. Peter's work has produced over 100 publications and he has an h-index of 17 with 895 citations. Recent publications address flood extent monitoring, urban flood susceptibility mapping, and the sensitivity of remote sensing calculations to various data selections. Other work examines urbanization and environmental changes, climate extremes resilience, and the ecological distributions of disease vectors.

Metrics

  • h-index: 17
  • Publications: 104
  • Citations: 895

Selected Publications

  • Flood hazards and socioeconomic vulnerability across Arkansas: A geospatial cyberinfrastructure (2026)
    Progress in Disaster Science 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Crossdating and the challenges in tropical dendrochronology: perspectives from a 10-year effort and seven site collections in eastern Amazonia (2026)
  • Multi-scale spatiotemporal modeling of suspended sediment concentrations across the Upper Mississippi River using AutoML and coupled reflectance and topographic data (2026)
    SSRN Electronic Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Multi-scale spatiotemporal modeling of suspended sediment concentrations across the Upper Mississippi River using AutoML and coupled reflectance and topographic data (2026)
    SSRN Electronic Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • A multi-source remote sensing-based geocommunication tool for global flood monitoring and management (2025)
    International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Integrating Multi-Source Remote Sensing and Numerical Simulation Approaches for Enhanced Flood Hazard Assessment (2025)
    SSRN Electronic Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Network of networks: Time series clustering of AmeriFlux sites (2025)
    Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Evaluating Earth observation products for Catchment-Scale operational flood monitoring and risk management in a sparsely gauged to ungauged river basin in Nigeria (2025)
    International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Pollination services to squash insufficient despite abundant specialist bees (2025)
    Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment DOI OpenAlex
  • Global Flood Monitoring and Management Through Multi-Source Geo-Communication Tool (2025)
    SSRN Electronic Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • An Evaluation of Earth Observation Products for Catchment-Scale Operational Flood Monitoring and Risk Management in Sparsely Gauged to Ungauged River Basin (2024)
    SSRN Electronic Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Perspectives on modifiable spatiotemporal unit problems in remote sensing of agriculture: evaluating rice production in Vietnam and tools for analysis (2024)
    Frontiers in Remote Sensing 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Diet specialization mediates drivers of Cucurbita herbivory in a semi-arid agroecosystem (2024)
    Current Research in Insect Science 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Spatial targeting of irrigation development and water resource management to mitigate vector-borne disease (2024)
    Journal of Environmental Management 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Urban flood susceptibility mapping using frequency ratio and multiple decision tree-based machine learning models (2024)
    Natural Hazards 36 citations DOI OpenAlex

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