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Dr. Valeriy Kovalskyy
Postdoctoral Fellow
605-688-5834
Valeriy.Kovalskyy@sdstate.edu

Education
PhD (2011),
Geographic Science and Engineering, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, Thesis title: Development and validation of the Event Driven Phenology Model
MSc (2004), Environmental Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA.
BA (2001), Geography, Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Ukraine.
Current Position
Post-doctoral Research Associate, GIScCE, South Dakota State University, SD, senior WELD algorithm research, developer and programmer.
Publications

Roy, D.P., Qin, Y., Kovalskyy, V. , Vermote, E.F., Ju, J., Egorov, A., Hansen, M.C., Kommareddy, I., Yan, L., 2012. Conterminous United Stated states demonstration and characterization of MODIS-based Landsat ETM+ atmospheric correction. Remote Sensing of Environment, submitted.
Kovalskyy, V, Henebry, G.M., Roy, D.P., Adusei, B., Hansen, M., Senay, G., Mocko, D.M. 2012. Evaluation of a coupled event driven phenology and evapotranspiration model for croplands in the United States northern Great Plains. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, In Press.
Kovalskyy, V. and Roy D. P., 2013, The global availability of Landsat 5 TM and Landsat 7 ETM+ data land surface observations and implications for global 30m Landsat data product generation. Remote Sensing of Environment, 130, 280–293., (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2012.12.003).

Ju, J., Roy, D.P., Vermote, E., Masek, J., Kovalskyy, V., 2012, Continental-scale validation of MODIS-based and LEDAPS Landsat ETM+ atmospheric correction methods. Remote Sensing of Environment, 122, 175–184.
Kovalskyy, V. and Henebry, G. M., 2012, A new concept for simulation of vegetated land surface dynamics – Part 1: The event driven phenology model, Biogeosciences, 9, 141-159, doi:10.5194/bg-9-141-2012.
Kovalskyy, V. and Henebry, G. M., 2012, Alternative methods to predict actual evapotranspiration illustrate the importance of accounting for phenology – Part 2: The event driven phenology model, Biogeosciences, 9, 161-177, doi:10.5194/bg-9-161-2012.
Kovalskyy, V., Roy, D. P, Zhang, X. Y., Ju, J., 2011, The suitability of multi-temporalWeb-Enabled Landsat Data (WELD) NDVI for phenological monitoring – a comparison with flux tower and MODIS NDVI, Remote Sens. Lett., 3:4, 325–334.
Roy, D. P., Ju, J., Kline, K., Scaramuzza, P. L., Kovalskyy, V., Hansen, M., Loveland, T. R., Vermote, E., and Zhang, C.: Web-enabled Landsat Data (WELD): Landsat ETM+ composited mosaics of the conterminous United States, 2010, Remote Sensing of Environment, 114, 35-49, 10.1016/j.rse.2009.08.011.
Kovalskyy, V., and Henebry, G. M., 2009, Recent trends in land surface phenologies within the Don and Dnieper River basins from the perspective of MODIS collection 4 products, in: Regional Aspects of Climate-Terrestrial-Hydrologic Interactions in Non-boreal Eastern Europe, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series, Springer Netherlands, 183-189.
Kovalskyy, V., and Henebry, G. M., 2009, Change and persistence in land surface phenologies of the Don and Dnieper river basins, Environ. Res. Lett., 4, 045018, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045018.