Compton J. Tucker
(Visiting Scientist)
| Email: | compton.j.tucker@nasa.gov |
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| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 610.9 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE CO |
Positions/Employment
Postdoctoral Fellow
National Academy of Sciences - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
1975 - 1977
Physical Scientist
NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
1977 - Present
Education
1973, M.S., College of Forestry, Colorado State University
1975, Ph.D., College of Forestry, Colorado State University
Brief Bio
Dr. Tucker specializes in studying the earth with satellite data. He was among the first researchers to employ coarse-resolution satellite data to exploit the time domain for studying global photosynthesis on land, determining land cover, monitoring droughts, providing famine early warning, and predicting ecologically-coupled disease outbreaks. He has also used large quantities of Landsat data to study forest condition, deforestation, and forest fragmentation in temperate, subtropical, and tropical forests; and to study glacier extent. From 2005 to 2010, he was on NASA detail to the U.S. Global Change Program where he was the co-chairperson of two Interagency Working Groups, for Observations and for Land Use and Land Cover Change. He was active in NASA’s Space Archaeology Program and has conducted ground-based radar and magnetic surveys at Troy, the Granicus River Valley, and Gordion in Turkey, with University of Pennsylvania projects working at these locations from 2001 to 2012. Since 2014, he has been active in mapping land and forest degradation and attempting to quantify arid and semi-arid woody biomass using Landsat, MODIS, and large volumes of commercial satellite data. More recently, Tucker and colleagues have mastered mapping billions of trees and converting these into carbon at tree-level using machine learning coupled to high-performance computing.
Teaching Experience
Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland, 1995–2024
Taught Introduction to Remote Sensing 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, and 2003
Consulting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2005–2024
Selected Public Outreach
Television Appearances, Radio Shows, and Congressional Testimony:
December 1988 - December 2018
"Decade of Destruction," a PBS program in 1988 that dealt with the Brazilian state of Rondonia, where a misdirected project caused a decade of trouble for the state of Rondonia;
“Banking on Disaster,” a PBS program in 1989 that exposed the role of international finance and corruption in the Brazilian state of Rondonia;
Congressional testimony to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere on the topic of Indigenous peoples and the natural environment of Brazil. Other notable people taking part in the testimony were Ms. Biance Jagger, Mr. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, formerly president of Brazil; Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, Shaman and Spokesperson for Yanomami Nation of Venezuela; Thomas E. Lovejoy, Assistant Secretary for External Affairs and the Environment, Smithsonian Institution; and David L. Skole, professor at Michigan State University. My testimony concerned Amazon deforestation and habitat fragmentation using satellite data. May 10, 1994, Washington D.C.;
"The Nature of Things" by David Suzuki, CBS Canada (1995);
"Miracle Planet," All Nippon Television (1998);
"Science Friday: Satellites and Disease," National Public Radio, July 19, 1999.
“Salt Bandits,” Earth and Sky Radio Show, an interview regarding an expedition to a meteorite crater in an isolated part of the Bolivian Amazon Basin (2002);
“Rainforests at the Crossroads” Jason Expedition (2004). Appeared in forty-five 1-hour live educational television shows for middle-school students, January 20–February 6, 2004, from Baro Colorado Island, Panama (January–February 2004);
"How the Earth Works”, a 1-hour C-Span panel discussion on the Global Earth Observing System, January 10, 2005, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society (2005);
Congressional testimony to the House Appropriations subcommittee for Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for Critical Satellite Climate Change Data Sets. My testimony concerned satellite observations needed to understand the role of land vegetation in weather and climate. March 18, 2009, The Capitol Building, Washington DC;
“The Geospatial Revolution” Episode 3, PBS (2011);
“Space Archaeology,” a program in the “Are We Alone? — Make contact with science” series of science radio programs produced by the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Institute. Released the week of June 6, 2011;
“My American Landscape Contest: A Space Chronicle of Change” May 31, 2012, Bay News 9 of Tampa, Florida, TV Interview about NASA’s Landsat Image Analysis Contest;
“How Many Trees are in the World?”, May 31, 2012, Aspen, Colorado Public Radio, 91.5 FM;
“Satellites revolutionize knowledge of ice sheets and glaciers”, June 8, 2012 Australian Radio National Breakfast with Ms. Fran Kelly, a live national radio program broadcast throughout Australia;
“It’s the First Day of Spring”, March 21, 2013. A series of live television interviews with television stations around the country on how satellite data show spring is arriving earlier due to global warming;
"Living Planet" -- Twenty years of synchronous land and ocean photosynthesis: >2.0M views on YouTube as of October 30, 2020, that was preceded by a number of television and radio interviews November 17–20, 2017. Twelve Living Planet live interviews in November 2017 for twelve television or radio stations;
NASA’s Dinosaur-Mammal Cretaceous Rosetta Stone January 31–Mid-February 2018 Media Extravaganza. Ten news stories or interviews.
Publications
Refereed
2026. "Adaptation and Response in Drylands: A Dryland Research Agenda and Campaign Strategy.", Global Change Biology, 32 (7): e70975 [10.1111/gcb.70975] [Journal Article/Letter]
2026. "An overview of the NASA Adaptation and Response in Drylands field experiment scoping study.", Cambridge Prisms: Drylands, 3 e22 [10.1017/dry.2025.10006] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "Adaptation and Response in Drylands (ARID): Community Insights for Scoping a NASA Terrestrial Ecology Field Campaign in Drylands.", Earth's Future, 12 (9): [10.1029/2024ef004811] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "Calibration of Maxar Constellation over Libya-4 Site using MAIAC Technique.", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 17 5460-5469 [10.1109/jstars.2024.3367250] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Sub-continental-scale carbon stocks of individual trees in African drylands.", Nature, 615 (7950): 80-86 [10.1038/s41586-022-05653-6] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "The Arctic.", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 103 (8): S257-S306 [10.1175/bams-d-22-0082.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Compact thermal imager: a flight demonstration of infrared technology for Earth observations.", Applied Optics, 61 (14): 4215 [10.1364/ao.450442] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "The impacts of warming on rapidly retreating high-altitude, low-latitude glaciers and ice core-derived climate records.", Global and Planetary Change, 203 103538 [10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103538] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Climate drivers of Arctic tundra variability and change using an indicators framework.", Environmental Research Letters, 16 (5): 055019 [10.1088/1748-9326/abe676] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Reanalysis of the 2000 Rift Valley fever outbreak in Southwestern Arabia.", PLOS ONE, 15 (12): e0233279 [10.1371/journal.pone.0233279] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel.", Nature, 587 (7832): 78-82 [10.1038/s41586-020-2824-5] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "An API for Spaceborne Sub-Meter Resolution Products for Earth Science.", IGARSS 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, [10.1109/igarss.2019.8898358] [Proceedings]
2019. "Evaluating the Operational Application of SMAP for Global Agricultural Drought Monitoring.", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 1-11 [10.1109/jstars.2019.2923555] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Widespread increase of boreal summer dry season length over the Congo rainforest.", Nature Climate Change, 9 617–622 [10.1038/s41558-019-0512-y] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Earth Observations and Integrative Models in Support of Food and Water Security.", Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences, [10.1007/s41976-019-0008-6] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Estimation of Terrestrial Global Gross Primary Production (GPP) with Satellite Data-Driven Models and Eddy Covariance Flux Data.", Remote Sensing, 10 (9): 1346 [10.3390/rs10091346] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Reduction of tree cover in West African woodlands and promotion in semi-arid farmlands.", Nature Geoscience, [10.1038/s41561-018-0092-x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Retrieving near-global aerosol loading over land and ocean from AVHRR.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122 (18): 9968-9989 [10.1002/2017jd026932] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Changing seasonality of panarctic tundra vegetation in relationship to climatic variables.", Environmental Research Letters, 12 (5): 055003 [10.1088/1748-9326/aa6b0b] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "In Memorium: Thomas Hilker.", Remote Sensing, 8 (10): 853 [10.3390/rs8100853] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Climate drivers linked to changing seasonality of Alaska coastal tundra vegetation productivity.", Earth Interact., 151016095240009 [10.1175/ei-d-15-0013.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "On the measurability of change in Amazon vegetation from MODIS.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 166 233–242 [10.1016/j.rse.2015.05.020] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "The 2010 Russian drought impact on satellite measurements of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence: Insights from modeling and comparisons with parameters derived from satellite reflectances.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 166 163–177 [10.1016/j.rse.2015.06.008] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Sensor Compatibility for Biomass Change Estimation Using Remote Sensing Data Sets: Part of NASA's Carbon Monitoring System Initiative.", IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing Lett., 12 (7): 1511-1515 [10.1109/lgrs.2015.2411262] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Change in the glacier extent in Turkey during the Landsat Era.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 163 32–41 [10.1016/j.rse.2015.03.002] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Land Degradation Assessment Using Residual Trend Analysis of GIMMS NDVI3g, Soil Moisture and Rainfall in Sub-Saharan West Africa from 1982 to 2012.", Remote Sensing, 7 (5): 5471-5494 [10.3390/rs70505471] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Global Climate Anomalies and Potential Infectious Disease Risks: 2014-2015.", PLOS Currents Outbreaks, Edition 1 [10.1371/currents.outbreaks.95fbc4a8fb4695e049baabfc2fc8289f] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Vegetation dynamics and rainfall sensitivity of the Amazon.", PNAS, 111 (45): 16041-16046 [10.1073/pnas.1404870111] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "A non-stationary 1981-2012 AVHRR NDVI3g time series.", Remote Sensing, 6 (8): 6929-6960 [10.3390/rs6086929] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Human Land-Use Practices Lead to Global Long-Term Increases in Photosynthetic Capacity.", Remote Sensing, 6 (6): 5717-5731 [10.3390/rs6065717] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Thirty-two Years of Sahelian Zone Growing Season Non-Stationary NDVI3g Patterns and Trends.", Remote Sens., 6 (4): 3101-3122 [10.3390/rs6043101] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Recent shift in Eurasian boreal forest greening response may be associated with warmer and drier summers.", Geophys. Res. Lett., 41 (6): 1995–2002 [10.1002/2014GL059450] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Recent Weather Extremes and Impacts on Agricultural Production and Vector-Borne Disease Outbreak Patterns.", PLOS ONE, 1-9 [10.1371/journal.pone.0092538] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Temperature and Snow-Mediated Moisture Controls of Summer Photosynthetic Activity in Northern Terrestrial Ecosystems between 1982 and 2011.", Remote Sens., 6 (2): 1390-1431 [10.3390/rs6021390] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Re-greening Sahel: 30 years of remote sensing data and field observations (Mali, Niger).", Remote Sensing of Environment, 140 350–364 [10.1016/j.rse.2013.09.011] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Scientific impact of MODIS C5 calibration degradation and C6+ improvements.", Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7 4353-4365 [10.5194/amt-7-4353-2014] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Association of Temperature and Historical Dynamics of Malaria in the Republic of Korea, Including Reemergence in 1993.", Military Medicine, 179 (7): 806-814 [10.7205/MILMED-D-13-00545] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands.", Nature Climate Change, 3 581-586 [doi:10.1038/nclimate1836] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Remote sensing of transpiration and heat fluxes using multi-angle observations.", Rem. Sens. Env, 137 31-42 [10.1016/j.rse.2013.05.023] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Rift Valley Fever Risk Map Model and Seroprevalence in Selected Wild Ungulates and Camels from Kenya.", PLoS ONE, 8 (6): e66626 [10.1371/journal.pone.0066626] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Recent Declines in Warming and Vegetation Greening Trends over Pan-Arctic Tundra.", Remote Sensing, 5 (9): 4229-4254 [10.3390/rs5094229] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Dynamics of aboveground phytomass of the circumpolar Arctic tundra during the past three decades.", Environmental Research Letters, 7 (1): 1-12 [doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/015506] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Historical Perspectives on AVHRR NDVI and Vegetation Drought Monitoring.", Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches, [Article in Book]
2012. "Climate Teleconnections and Recent Patterns of Human and Animal Disease Outbreaks.", PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 6 (1): e1465 [10.1371/journal.pntd.0001465] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Multi-angle implementation of atmospheric correction for MODIS (MAIAC): 3. Atmospheric correction.", Rem. Sens. Env, 127 385-393 [10.1016/j.rse.2012.09.002] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Remote sensing of tropical ecosystems: Atmospheric correction and cloud masking matter.", Rem. Sens. Env, 127 370-384 [10.1016/j.rse.2012.08.035] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Data assimilation of photosynthetic light-use efficiency using multi-angular satellite data: II Model implementation and validation.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 121 287-300 [10.1016/j.rse.2012.02.008] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Recent change of vegetation growth trend in China.", Environ. Res. Lett., 6 (4): 044027 [10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/044027] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Analysing the advantages of high temporal resolution geostationary MSG SEVIRI data compared to Polar Operational Environmental Satellite data for land surface monitoring in Africa.", International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 13 (5): 721-729 [10.1016/j.jag.2011.05.009] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Monitoring Global Croplands with Coarse Resolution Earth Observations: The Global Agriculture Monitoring (GLAM) Project.", Remote Sensing, 2 (6): 1589-1609 [10.3390/rs2061589] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Quantifying the negative feedback of vegetation to greenhouse warming: A modeling approach.", Geophys. Res. Lett, 37 (23): L23701 [10.1029/2010GL045338] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Prediction, Assessment of the Rift Valley Fever Activity in East and Southern Africa 2006–2008 and Possible Vector Control Strategies.", Am J Trop Med Hyg, 83 (2 Suppl): 43-51 [10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0289] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Circumpolar Arctic Tundra Vegetation Change Is Linked to Sea Ice Decline.", Earth Interactions, 14 (8): 1-20 [10.1175/2010EI315.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Prediction of a Rift Valley fever outbreak.", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 (3): 955-959 [10.1073/pnas.0806490106] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Satellite Vegetation Index Data as a Tool to Forecast Population Dynamics of Medically Important Mosquitoes at Military Installations in the Continental United States .", Military Medicine, 173 (7): 677-683 [10.7205/MILMED.173.7.677] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Long-term Surveillance Data and Patterns of Invasion by Aedes Albopictus in Florida.", J American Mosquito Control Association, 24 (1): 115-120 [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "North American vegetation dynamics observed with multi-resolution satellite data.", Remote Sens Environ, 112 1749-1772 [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "The modulated annual cycle: an alternative reference frame for climate anomalies.", Clim Dyn, 31 (7-8): 823-841 [10.1007/s00382-008-0437-z] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Extreme Weather and Epidemics: Rift Valley Fever and Chikungunya Fever.", Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Understanding the Contributions of Infectious Disease Emergence, 116-128 [Article in Book]
2008. "Ecology of disease: the intersection of human and animal health.", Vector-borne diseases - Understanding the Environmental, Human Health, and Ecological Considerations, Forum on Microbial Threats, 78-88 [Article in Book]
2008. "Environmental biosurveillance for epidemic prediction: experience with Rift Valley fever.", Biosurveillance and Biosecurity, 5354 169-174 [10.1007/978-3-540-89746-0_17] [Article in Book]
2007. "Drought-associated Chikungunya Emergence along Coastal East Africa.", The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 76 (3): 405-407 [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. " A Rift Valley fever risk surveillance system for Africa using remotely sensed data: potential for use on other continents.", Veterinaria Italiana, 43 (3): 663-674 [Full Text] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Fifty years of deforestation and forest fragmentation in Madagascar.", Environmental Conservation, 34 (4): 325-333 [10.1017/S0376892907004262] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "A Rift Valley fever risk surveillance system for Africa using remotely sensed data: potential for use on other continents.", Veterinaria Italiana, 43 (3): 663-674 [Full Text] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Synchronous NDVI and surface air temperature trends in Newfoundland: 1982 to 2003.", Intl J Remote Sensing, 28 (11): 2581-2598 [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "The changing carbon cycle at Mauna Loa Observatory.", PNAS, 104 (11): 4249-4254 [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Rapid loss of Paraguay's Atlantic forest and the status of protected areas — A Landsat assessment .", Remote Sens Enviorn, 106 460-466 [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Satellite Monitoring of Ebola Virus Hemorrhagic Fever Epidemics.", Our Changing Planet: The View from Space, 104-109 [Article in Book]
2006. "Development of a daily long term record of NOAA-14 AVHRR land surface temperature over Africa.", Remote Sens Environ, 103 (2): 153-164 [10.1016/j.rse.2006.03.009] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Analysing NDVI for the African continent using the geostationary meteosat second generation SEVIRI sensor.", Remote Sensing of Environment , 101 (2): 212-229 [10.1016/j.rse.2005.11.013] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "A comparative study of NOAA—AVHRR derived drought indices using change vector analysis.", Remote Sens. Environ, 105 9-22 [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Evaluation of the consistency of long-term NDVI time series derived from AVHRR,SPOT-vegetation, SeaWiFS, MODIS, and Landsat ETM+ sensors.", IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 44 (7): 1787-1793 [10.1109/TGRS.2005.860205] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Rift Valley Fever Potential, Arabian Peninsula.", Emerging Infectious Diseases, 12 (3): 518-520 [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Developing climate anomalies suggest potential disease risks for 2006-2007.", Int J Health Geographics , 5 (60): 8 pp [10.1186/1476-072X-5-60] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Analysis of Sahelian vegetation dynamics using NOAA-AVHRR NDVI data from 1981-2003.", J Arid Environ, 63 (3): 596-614 [10.1016/j.jaridenv.2005.03.007] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "EMD Correction of Orbital Drift Artifacts in Satellite Data Stream.", in Hilbert-Huang Transform and its Applications, E. N.E. Huang and S.S. Shen, 167-186 [Article in Book]
2005. "Using the satellite-derived NDVI to assess ecological responses to environmental change.", Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 20 (9): 503-510 [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Climate-based health monitoring systems for eco-climatic conditions associated with infectious diseases.", Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique, 98 (3): 239-243 [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Drier summers cancel out the CO2 uptake enhancement induced by warmer springs.", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102 (31): 10823-10827 [10.1073/pnas.0501647102] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Recent trends in vegetation dynamics in the African Sahel and their relationship to climate.", Global Environ Change, 15 394-404 [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Response of terrestrial ecosystems to recent Northern Hemispheric drought.", Geophys Res Lett, 32 5 pp [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Precipitation patterns alter growth of temperate vegetation.", Geophysical Research Letters, 32 (21): L21411 [10.1029/2005GL024231] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Monitoring Drought Using Coarse-Resolution Polar-Orbiting Satellite Data.", Oxford University Press, 57-78 [Article in Book]
2005. "An extended AVHRR 8-km NDVI dataset compatible with MODIS and SPOT vegetation NDVI data.", International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26 (20): 4485-4498 [10.1080/01431160500168686] [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Directional Effects in a Daily AVHRR Land Surface Temperature Dataset Over Africa.", IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sens, 42 (9): 1941-1954 [10.1109/TGRS.2004.831886] [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Eurasian land use impacts on rangeland productivity.", Ecosystems and Land Use Change, 153 293-301 [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Evidence for a significant urbanization effect on climate in China.", Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America, 101 (26): 9540-9544 [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Trigger events: Enviroclimatic coupling of Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreaks.", American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 71 (5): 664-674 [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "The consequences of urban land transformation on net primary productivity in the United States.", Remote Sensing of Environment , 89 434-443 [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "NASA's Global orthorectified Landsat Data.", Photogram. Eng. Remote Sens, 70 313-322 [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "New Vegetation Index Dataset Available to Monitor Global Change.", Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 85 565-569 [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Coupled vegetation-precipitation variability observed from satellite and climate records.", Geophysical Research Letters , 30 (14): 1774-1778 [10.1029/2003GL017506] [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Climate-driven increases in global terrestrial net primary production from 1982 to 1999.", Science, 300 (5625): 1560-1563 [10.1126/science.1082750] [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Remote sensing estimates of boreal and temperate forest woody biomass: carbon pools, sources, and sinks.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 84 (3): 393-410 [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Postfire response of North American boreal forest net primary productivity analyzed with satellite observations.", Global Change Biology, 9 (8): 1145-1157 [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Interannual covariability in Northern Hemisphere air temperatures and greenness associated with El Niño-Southern Oscillation and the Arctic Oscillation.", J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D13): 4396 [10.1029/2002JD002630] [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Seasonal to interannual variability of vegetation and fires at SAFARI 2000 sites inferred from advanced very high resolution radiometer time series data.", Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 108 8507-8516 [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "The effect of vegetation on surface temperature: A statistical analysis of NDVI and climate data.", J. Geophysical Research Letters , 30 2147-2152 [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Seasonality and trends of snow-cover, vegetation index, and temperature in northern Eurasia.", Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (7): 1405-1408 [10.1029/2002GL016384] [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Northern hemisphere photosynthetic trends 1982-1999.", Global Change Biology, 9 1-15 [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Relation between interannual variations in satellite measures of northern forest greenness and climate between 1982 and 1999.", J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D1): 4004 [10.1029/2002JD002510] [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "Climatic and Ecological Context of Ebola Outbreaks.", Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 68 (2): 147-152 [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "Analysis of interannual changes in northern vegetation activity observed in AVHRR data from 1981 to 1994.", IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens, 40 (1): 115-130 [10.1109/36.981354] [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "Trends in North American net primary productivity derived from satellite observations, 1982-1998.", Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 16 (2): 2-1—2-14 [10.1029/2001GB001550] [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "Satellite-derived increases in net primary productivity across North America, 1982-1998.", Geophysical Research Letters, 29 (10): 69-1-69-4 [10.1029/2001GL013578] [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "Satellite estimates of productivity and light use efficiency in United States agriculture, 1982-98.", Global Change Biology, 8 (8): 722-735 [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "Evidence for a persistent and extensive greening trend in Eurasia inferred from satellite vegetation index data.", J.Geophys. Research-Atmospheres, 107 (D11): ACL-4-1-ACL4-14 [10.1029/2001JD001075] [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "Predicting the distribution of West Nile Fever in North America using satellite sensor data.", Photogram. Eng. Remote Sens, 68 112-136 [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "Structural stage in Pacific Northwest forests estimated using simple mixing models of multispectral images.", Remote Sens. Environ, 80 1-16 [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "Remote estimates of boreal and temperate forest woody biomass: carbon pools, sources, and sinks.", Remote Sensing Environment, 84 (3): 393-410 [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "From El Niño to La Niña: Vegetation response patterns over East and Southern Africa during 1997-2000 period.", J. Climate, 15 3096-3103 [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "Mapping Potential Risk of Rift Valley fever outbreaks in African Savannas using Vegetation Index Time Series Data.", Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 68 (2): 137-145 [Journal Article/Letter]
2001. "Clearance and fragmentation of tropical deciduous forest in the Tierras Bajas, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.", Cons. Bio., 15 (4): 856-866 [10.1046/j.1523-1739.2001.015004856.x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2001. "Biospheric Primary Production During an ENSO Transition.", Science, 291 (5513): 2594-2597 [10.1126/science.1055071] [Journal Article/Letter]
2001. "Variations in northern hemisphere vegetation activity inferred from satellite data of vegetation index during 1981 to 1999.", J. Geophys. Res, 106 20069-20084. [Journal Article/Letter]
2001. "Evidence for a larger carbon sink in the woody biomass of Eurasian forests.", Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci, 98 14784-14789 [Journal Article/Letter]
2001. "NDVI anomaly paterns over Africa during the 1997/98 ENSO warm event.", Int. J. Remote Sens. 22, 1847-1859 [Journal Article/Letter]
2001. "Tropical deforestation in the Bolivian Amazon.", Environ. Cons, 28 127-134 [Journal Article/Letter]
2001. "Higher northern latitude normalized difference vegetation index and growing season trends from 1982 to 1999.", Int. J. Biometeorology, 45 184-190 [Journal Article/Letter]
2001. "Evaluating coherence of natural images by smoothness membership in Besov spaces.", IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 39 (9): 1879-1889 [10.1109/36.951078] [Journal Article/Letter]
2000. "A Global 9-yr Biophysical Land Surface Dataset from NOAA AVHRR Data.", Journal of Hydrometeorology, 1 (2): 183-199 [10.1175/1525-7541(2000)001<0183:AGYBLS>2.0.CO;2] [Journal Article/Letter]
2000. "Sensitivity of climate to changes in NDVI.", Journal of Climate, 13 (13): 2277-2292 [Journal Article/Letter]
2000. "Effect of orbital drift and sensor changes on the time series of AVHRR vegetation index data.", IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens, 38 2484-2597 [Journal Article/Letter]
2000. "Global interannual variations in sea surface temperature and land surface vegetation, air temperature, and precipitation.", J. Climate, 14 1535-1549 [Journal Article/Letter]
2000. "Interactions between vegetation and climate: Radiative and physiological effects of doubled atmospheric CO2.", Climate, 12 309-324 [Journal Article/Letter]
2000. "Remote sensing of fires with the TRMM VIRS.", Int. J. Remote Sens., 21 203-207 [Journal Article/Letter]
2000. "The use of multisource satellite and geospatial data to study the effect of urbanization on primary productivity in the United States.", IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 38 2549-2556 [Journal Article/Letter]
2000. "Strategies for tropical deforestation assessment using satellite data”.", Int. J. Remote Sens, 21 1461-1471 [Journal Article/Letter]
1999. "Enhancement of interdecadal climate variability in the Sahel by vegetation interaction.", Science, 286 (5444): 1537-1540 [10.1126/science.286.5444.1537] [Journal Article/Letter]
1999. "Climate and satellite indicators to forecast Rift Valley Fever in Kenya.", Science, 285 (5426): 397-400 [10.1126/science.285.5426.397] [Journal Article/Letter]
1999. "Variation in the size of the Sahara Desert from 1980 to 1997.", Ambio , 28 587-591 [Journal Article/Letter]
1998. "Desertification, drought and surface vegetation: an example from the West African Sahel.", Bul. Am. Meteorological Soc, 79 (5): 815-829 [10.1175/1520-0477(1998)079<0815:DDASVA>2.0.CO;2] [Journal Article/Letter]
1998. "Interannual variation in satellite-sensed vegetation index data from 1981 to 1991.", J. Geophys. Res, 103 (D6): 6145-6160 [Journal Article/Letter]
1997. "ncreased plant growth in the northern high latitudes from 1981-1991.", Nature, 386 698-702 [Journal Article/Letter]
1996. "Use of weather data and remote sensing to predict the geographic and seasonal distribution of Phlebotomus papatasi in southwest Asia.", Am. J. Trop. Med. Hygiene, 54 530-536 [Journal Article/Letter]
1996. "Satellite-based identification of linked vegetation index and sea surface temperature anomaly areas from 1982-1990 for Africa, Australia and South America.", J. Geophysical Letters, 23 729-732 [Journal Article/Letter]
1996. "A Revised Land Surface Parameterization (SiB2) for Atmospheric GCMS. Part II: The Generation of Global Fields of Terrestrial Biophysical Parameters from Satellite Data.", J. Climate, 9 (4): 706-737 [10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<0706:ARLSPF>2.0.CO;2] [Journal Article/Letter]
1996. "A Revised Land Surface Parameterization (SiB2) for GCMS. Part III: The Greening of the Colorado State University General Circulation Model.", J. Climate, 9 (4): 738-763 [10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<0738:ARLSPF>2.0.CO;2] [Journal Article/Letter]
1996. "Comparison of Radiative and Physiological Effects of Doubled Atmospheric CO₂ on Climate.", Science, 271 (5254): 1402-1406 [10.1126/science.271.5254.1402] [Journal Article/Letter]
1996. "Remotely sensed surrogates of meteorological data for the study of the distribution and abundance of arthropod vectors of disease.", Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 90 (1): 1-19 [Journal Article/Letter]
1995. "Mapping the land surface for global atmosphere-biosphere models: Toward continuous distributions of vegetation's functional properties.", J. Geophys. Res., 100 (D10): 20867-20882 [10.1029/95JD01536] [Journal Article/Letter]
1994. "A global 1° by 1° NDVI data set for climate studies. Part 2: The generation of global fields of terrestrial biophysical parameters from the NDVI.", International Journal of Remote Sensing, 15 (17): 3519-3545 [10.1080/01431169408954343] [Journal Article/Letter]
1994. "A global 1° by 1° NDVI data set for climate studies derived from the GIMMS continental NDVI data.", International Journal of Remote Sensing , 15 (17): 3493-3518 [10.1080/01431169408954342] [Journal Article/Letter]
1994. "AVHRR data sets for determination of desert spatial extent.", International Journal of Remote Sensing, 15 (17): 3547-3566 [10.1080/01431169408954344] [Journal Article/Letter]
1993. "Modeling Land Surface Atmosphere Fluxes of Energy, Heat, Moisture and Carbon on Global Scales.", Proceedings of AMS Conference on Hydroclimatology, Anaheim, CA, 41-53 [Proceedings]
1993. "Evidence for Tropical deforestation, fragmented habitat, and adversely affected habitat in the Brazilian Amazon:1978-1988.", Science, 260 1905-1910 [Journal Article/Letter]
1992. "Satellite remote sensing of breeding habitat for an African weaver-bird.", Landscape Ecology, 7 87-99 [Journal Article/Letter]
1992. "Relating SMMR 37 GHz polarization difference to precipitation and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration: a reappraisal.", International Journal of Remote Sensing , 13 177-191 [Journal Article/Letter]
1991. "Investigation of soil influences in AVHRR red and near-infrared vegetation index imagery.", International Journal of Remote Sensing, 12 1223-1242 [Journal Article/Letter]
1991. "Expansion and contraction of the Sahara Desert from 1980 to 1990.", Science, 253 299-301 [Journal Article/Letter]
1991. "Towards real-time prediction of Rift Valley Fever epidemics in Africa.", Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 11 325-334 [Journal Article/Letter]
1990. "Application of polar-orbiting, meteorological satellite data to detect flooding of Rift Valley Fever virus vector mosquito habitats in Kenya.", Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 4 (4): 433-438 [10.1111/j.1365-2915.1990.tb00462.x] [Journal Article/Letter]
1990. "Remote sensing of biomass burning in the tropics.", J. Geophysical Res, 95 (D7): 9927-9939 [Journal Article/Letter]
1989. "A three-dimensional model of atmospheric CO2 transport based on observed winds: 3. Seasonal cycle and synoptic time scale variations.", Geophysical Monograph Series: Aspects of Climate Variability in the Pacific and the Western Americas, 55 277-303 [10.1029/GM055p0277] [Article in Book]
1989. "Comparing SMMR and AVHRR data for drought monitoring.", Int. J. Remote Sens, 10 (10): 1663-1672 [10.1080/01431168908903997] [Journal Article/Letter]
1989. "AVHRR for monitoring global tropical deforestation.", Internation J. Remote Sens, 10 (4-5): 855-867 [10.1080/01431168908903926] [Journal Article/Letter]
1988. "Large-scale deforestation in the southeastern Amazon Basin of Brazil.", Ambio, 17 49-55 [Journal Article/Letter]
1988. "Green biomass and rainfall in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa.", J. Arid Environments , 15 245-252 [Journal Article/Letter]
1988. "Desert encroachment.", Desertification Control Bulletin, 16 16-19 [Journal Article/Letter]
1987. "Application of AVHRR Vegetation Index to Study Atmosphere-Biosphere Exchange of C02.", J. Geophysical Res, 92 (D3): 2999-3015 [10.1029/JD092iD03p02999] [Journal Article/Letter]
1987. "Monitoring global vegetation using Nimbus-7 37 GH3 Data: Some Empirical Relations.", Int. J. Remote Sens, 8 1085-1090 [Journal Article/Letter]
1987. "Satellite Remote Sensing of Drought Conditions.", Remote Sens. Environment, 23 243-251 [Journal Article/Letter]
1987. "Satellites et Dynamique Globale de la Vegetation.", La Recherche, 18 180-189 [Journal Article/Letter]
1987. "Monitoring vegetation using Nimbus-7 scanning multichannel microwave radiometer's data.", International Journal of Remote Sensing, 8 (3): 533-538 [10.1080/01431168708948660] [Journal Article/Letter]
1987. "Prediction of Rift Valley Fever Activity in Kenya by Satellite Remote Sensing Imagery.", Science, 235 1656-1659 [Journal Article/Letter]
1986. "Monitoring the Grasslands of the Sahel 1984-1985.", Int. J. Remote Sens, 7 1571-1582 [Journal Article/Letter]
1986. "Satellite Remote Sensing of Rangelands in Botswava. II. NOAA AVHRR and Herbaceous Vegetation.", Int. J. Remote Sensing, 7 1555-1570 [Journal Article/Letter]
1986. "Satellite remote sensing of primary production.", International Journal of Remote Sensing, 7 (11): 1395-1416 [10.1080/01431168608948944] [Journal Article/Letter]
1986. "Cover Maximum normalized difference vegetation index images for sub-Saharan Africa for 1983-1985.", International Journal of Remote Sensing, 7 (11): 1383-1384 [10.1080/01431168608948941] [Journal Article/Letter]
1986. "Satellite Remote Sensing of Desert Spatial Extent.", Desertification Contral Bulletin, 13 2-50 [Journal Article/Letter]
1986. "Assessment of Ecological Conditions Associated with the 1980 Desert Locust Plague Upsurge in West Africa Using Environmental Satellite Data.", Int. J. Remote Sensing, 7 (11): 1609-1622 [10.1080/01431168608948956] [Journal Article/Letter]
1986. "The Relationship Between Atmospheric C02 Variations and a Satellite-derived Vegetation Index.", Nature, 319 195-199 [Journal Article/Letter]
1985. "African Land Cover Classification Using Satellite Data.", Science, 227 (4685): 369-375 [10.1126/science.227.4685.369] [Journal Article/Letter]
1985. "Multitemporal Dimensionality of Images of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index at Continental Scales.", EEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens, 6 888-895 [Journal Article/Letter]
1985. "Phenology of Global Vegetation Using Meteorological Satellite Data.", International Journal of Remote Sensing, 8 1271-1318 [Journal Article/Letter]
1985. "North American Vegetation Patterns Observed with the NOAA-7 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer.", Vegetacio, 64 3-14 [Journal Article/Letter]
1985. "Satellite Remote Sensing of Total Herbaceous Biomass Production in the Senegalese Sahel: 1980-1984.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 17 233-249 [Journal Article/Letter]
1985. "Determination of Volcanic Dust Deposition of El Chichon using Ground and Satellite Data.", International Journal of Remote Sensing, 6 (5): 619-627 [10.1080/01431168508948485] [Journal Article/Letter]
1985. "The Potential of Satellite Remote Sensing of Ecological Conditions for Desert Locust Survey and Forecasting.", International Journal of Remote Sensing, 6 127-138 [Journal Article/Letter]
1985. "Satellite Measurements of Surface Albedo and Temperatures in Semi-Desert.", Journal of Climate and Applied Meterology, 24 (3): 228-235 [10.1175/1520-0450(1985)024<0228:SMOSAA>2.0.CO;2] [Journal Article/Letter]
1984. "Optimal Directional View Angles for Remote-Sensing Missions.", International Journal of Remote Sensing, 5 887-908 [Journal Article/Letter]
1984. "Objective Assessment of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Data for Land Cover Mapping.", International Journal of Remote Sensing, 5 497-504 [Journal Article/Letter]
1984. "Intensive Forest Clearing in Rondonia, Brazil, as Detected by Satellite Remote Sensing.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 15 255-261 [Journal Article/Letter]
1984. "Monitoring Vegetation in the Nile Delta with NOAA-6 and NOAA-7 AVHRR Data.", Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 50 53-61 [Journal Article/Letter]
1983. "Satellite Remote Sensing of Total Dry Matter Production in the Senegalese Sahel.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 13 461-474 [Journal Article/Letter]
1981. "A Three-band Hand-held Radiometer for Field Use.", Science, 211 281-283 [Journal Article/Letter]
1981. "Thematic Mapper Simulator Data.", International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2 (1): 101-103 [Journal Article/Letter]
1981. "The Relationship of Temporal Spectral Response of a Corn Canopy to Grain Yield and Final Dry Matter Accumulation.", Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 48 (11): 1599-1605 [Journal Article/Letter]
1981. "Temporal relationships between spectral response and agronomic variables of a corn canopy.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 11 401-411 [10.1016/0034-4257(81)90037-7] [Journal Article/Letter]
1981. "Remote Sensing of Total Dry-matter Accumulation in Winter Wheat.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 11 171-189 [Journal Article/Letter]
1980. "A Critical Comparison of Remote Sensing and Other Nondestructive Biomass Estimation Methods.", Grass and Forage Science, 35 (3): 177-183 [10.1111/j.1365-2494.1980.tb01509.x] [Journal Article/Letter]
1980. "A Spectral Method for Determining the Percentage of Green Herbage Material in Clipped Samples.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 9 (2): 175-181 [10.1016/0034-4257(80)90007-3] [Journal Article/Letter]
1980. "Spectral Assessment of Soybean Leaf Area and Leaf Biomass.", Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 46 (5): 651-656 [Journal Article/Letter]
1980. "Remote Sensing of Leaf Water Content in the Near Infrared.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 10 23-32 [Journal Article/Letter]
1980. "Relationship of Spectral Data to Grain Yield Variation.", Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 6 (5): 657-666 [Journal Article/Letter]
1980. "Radiometric Resolution for Monitoring Vegetation: How Many Bits are Needed.", International Journal of Remote Sensing, 1 (3): 241-254 [Journal Article/Letter]
1980. "Limitations on the Applications of a Ground-Based Spectral Technique for Determining Rain Forest Leaf Area Index.", Photogrammetric Engineering Sensing, 46 (12): 1555-1561 [Journal Article/Letter]
1980. "Relationship of Crop Radiances to Alfalfa Agronomic Values.", International Journal of Remote Sensing, 1 (1): 69-76 [Journal Article/Letter]
1980. "Evaluation of a Hand-held Radiometer for Estimating Pasture Biomass in Iceland.", Journal of Agricultural Research Iceland, 12 (1): 11-25 [Journal Article/Letter]
1979. "Monitoring Corn and Soybean Crop development with Hand-held Radiometer Spectral Data.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 8 (3): 237-248 [Journal Article/Letter]
1979. "Temporal Spectral Measurements of Corn and Soybean Crops.", Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 45 (5): 643-653 [Journal Article/Letter]
1979. "Red and Photographic Infrared Linear Combinations for Monitoring Vegetation.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 8 (2): 127-150 [Journal Article/Letter]
1978. "A Comparison of Satellite Sensor Bands for Vegetation Monitoring.", Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 44 (11): 1169-1180 [Journal Article/Letter]
1978. "Post Senescent Grass Canopy Remote Sensing.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 7 (2): 203-210 [Journal Article/Letter]
1978. "Are Two Photographic Infrared Sensors Required?.", Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 44 (3): 289-295 [Journal Article/Letter]
1977. "Asymptotic Nature of Grass Canopy Spectral Reflectance.", Appl Opt, 16 (5): 1151-1156 [10.1364/AO.16.001151] [Journal Article/Letter]
1977. "Soil Spectra Contributions to Grass Canopy Spectral Reflectance.", Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 43 (6): 721-726 [Journal Article/Letter]
1977. "Spectral Estimation of Grass Canopy Variables.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 6 (1): 11-28 [Journal Article/Letter]
1977. "Resolution of Grass Canopy Biomass Classes.", Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 43 (8): 1059-1067 [Journal Article/Letter]
1977. "Leaf Optical System Modeled as a Stochastic Process.", Applied Optics, 16 635-642 [Journal Article/Letter]
1976. "Sensor Design for Monitoring Vegetation Canopies.", Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 42 (11): 1399-1410 [Journal Article/Letter]
1976. "Spectral Mapping of Shortgrass Prairie Biomass.", Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 42 (3): 317-323 [Journal Article/Letter]
1976. "Hand-held Spectral Radiometer to Estimate Gramineous Biomass.", Applied Optics, 16 (2): 416-418 [Journal Article/Letter]
1976. "Design of a Mobile Field Spectrometer Laboratory,.", Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 42 (4): 569-572 [Journal Article/Letter]
1976. "Three-dimensional Chlorophyll Concentrations in a High Biomass Blue Grama Canopy.", J. Range Management, 29 (2): 170-171 [Journal Article/Letter]
1975. "Shortgrass Prairie Spectral Measurements.", Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 41 (9): 1157-1162 [Journal Article/Letter]
Non-Refereed
2011. "A Low-cost, Small-sat Mission Concept to Augment Landsat Temporal Repeat Frequency .", International Symposium for Remote Sensing of the Environment, [Full Text] [Proceedings]
Professional Service
M.S. or Ph.D. Graduate Committees Served On or Supervised while at NASA/GSFC:
David Wallin, 1990, Habitat Dynamics for an African Weaver-Bird: The Red-Billed Quela quelea, Ph.D., University of Virginia;
Peter Doughty, 1993, A Theoretical Study of Fire Detection Using AVHRR Data, M.S., University of Virginia, 1993.
Lars Eckland, 1996, AVHRR NDVI for Monitoring and Mapping of Vegetation and Drought in East African Environments, Ph.D., Lund University, Sweden.
Assaf Anyamba, 1997, Interannual Variations of NDVI over Africa and Their Relationship to ENSO: 1982-1995, Ph.D., Clarke University.
Sietse Los, 1998, Linkages Between Global Vegetation and Climate, Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit, Holland.
Chengquan Huang, 1999, Improved Land Cover Characterization from Satellite Remote Sensing, Ph.D., University of Maryland.
Malinda Paris, 2000, North American NDVI trends 1981 to 1999, M.S., University of Maryland.
Liming Zhou, 2002, Warming Enhanced Plant Growth in the North Since the 1980s: A Greener Greenhouse?, Ph.D., Boston Universiy.
Jiarou Dong, 2002, Dynamics of Carbon Storeage in the Woody Biomass of Northern Forests, Ph.D., Boston University.
Ana Pinheiro, 2004, Directional Effects in Observations of AVHRR Land Surface Temperature Over Africa, Ph.D., Universidad Nova de Lisboa.
Grant Harris, 2004, Remote Sensing and GIS Applications for Modeling Species Distributions, Ph.D., Duke University.
Rasmus Fensholt, 2004, Assessment of Primary Production in a Semi-arid Environment from Satellite Data, Ph.D., University of Copenhagen.
Alexander Lotsch, 2004, Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Global Precipitation and Terrestrial Vegetation Inferred from Satellite and Climate Records, Ph.D., Boston University.
Hector Chikoore, 2005, Linking Land-Surface Processes to Regional Climate Models, M.S., University of Zululand.
Christopher Neigh, 2004, Newfoundland Vegetation Trends: Linkages between Temperature and NDVI, M.S., University of Maryland.
Allard de Wit, 2007, Regional crop yield forecasting using probabilistic crop growth modeling and remote sensing data assimilation, Ph.D., Wageningen Universitet, Holland
Christopher Neigh, 2008, Identifying and Understanding North American Carbon Cycle Perturbations from Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbances: 1982–2005, Ph.D., University of Maryland.
Sangram Ganguly, 2008, Earth System Data Records of Vegetation Leaf Area Index from Multiple Satellite-Borne Sensors, Ph.D., Boston University.
Gŕegory Duveiller, 2011, Crop specific GAI retrieval from multi-scale remote sensing for agricultural monitoring, Ph.D., Universit́e Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
Inbal Becker-Reshef, 2012, MODIS Prediction of Cereal Crop Yield, Ph.D., University of Maryland.
Liang Xu, 2013, Monitoring Global Vegetation Dynamics with Coarse and Moderate Resolution Satellite Data, Boston University.
Carolina Santos, 2015, Complex Land Use and Cover Trajectories in the Northern Chocó Bioregion of Colombia, Ph.D., Michigan State University.
Giuseppe Molanario, 2018, Forest Cover Dynamics of Shifting Cultivation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, University of Maryland.
Arden Burrell, 2018, Quantifying the role of Climate Change and Land Use on Desertification using Remote Sensing, University of New South Wales.
Reyadh Albarakat, 2019, Quantifying the destruction and recovery of the Iraqi Marshes with Satellite Data, University of South Carolina.
Yasmin Fits, 2022, Phenology of Sahelian Trees with Satellite Data, University of Toulouse
Katherine Melocik, 2020 Incorporation of tree elevation at the 50 cm scale from Satellite Data, University of Maryland.
Raghda El-Behaedi, 2023, How the Hydraulic Landscape of the Fayum Region of Egypt Influenced Settlement Patterns During the Pharaonic Period, University of Chicago.
Professional Societies
Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2009)
Fellow and member
2009 - Present
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow and member
2014 - Present
National Academy of Science
member
2025 - Present
Awards
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award (1986);
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1987);
Henry Shaw Medal, Missouri Botanical Garden (1992);
National Air and Space Museum Trophy (1993);
William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Sciences (1995);
Mongolian Friendship Medal (1st U.S. co-recipient with Dr. Mary Cleave) (1996);
William T. Pecora Award, U.S. Geological Survey (1997);
International Society for Optical Engineering Remote Sensing Award (2000);
Science Citation Index “Highly Cited” Recognition (2002);
Galathea Medal, Royal Danish Geographical Society (2004);
Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2009);
Vega Medal, Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography (2014);
Fellow of the American Association of Science (2016);
Senior Executive Service Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service (2017);
Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer (2020-2021);and
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2025).