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John Townshend

121

Works

18,170

Citations

52

h-index

77

i10-index

Research Topics

Remote Sensing in Agriculture Land Use and Ecosystem Services Remote Sensing and Land Use

Affiliations

Goddard Space Flight Center1980–1980

Woodwell Climate Research Center2002–2002

Georgetown University1995–1995

Carnegie Institution for Science2002–2002

Center For Remote Sensing (United States)1995–1997

Top Works

Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems

Nick M. Haddad,Lars A. Brudvig,et al.

20154,352 citations

Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications

Remote-Sensing Image Classification

Global land change from 1982 to 2016

Xiao‐Peng Song,Matthew C. Hansen,et al.

20181,840 citations

African Land-Cover Classification Using Satellite Data

Compton J. Tucker,John Townshend,et al.

19851,055 citations

Global, 30-m resolution continuous fields of tree cover: Landsat-based rescaling of MODIS vegetation continuous fields with lidar-based estimates of error

Joe Sexton,Xiao‐Peng Song,et al.

2013831 citations

Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation and regrowth based on satellite observations for the 1980s and 1990s

Ruth DeFries,R. A. Houghton,et al.

2002724 citations

Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified by using multitemporal and multiresolution remotely sensed data

Matthew C. Hansen,Stephen V. Stehman,et al.

2008693 citations

A long-term Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) data-set for environmental studies

Shunlin Liang,Xiang Zhao,et al.

2013596 citations

Global land cover classification by remote sensing: present capabilities and future possibilities

John Townshend,Christopher O. Justice,et al.

1991441 citations

A global, high-resolution (30-m) inland water body dataset for 2000: first results of a topographic–spectral classification algorithm

Min Feng,Joe Sexton,et al.

2015363 citations