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J. R. Townshend

138

Works

28,932

Citations

40

h-index

62

i10-index

Research Topics

Remote Sensing in Agriculture Remote Sensing and Land Use Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications

Affiliations

Goddard Space Flight Center1980–2000

Center For Remote Sensing (United States)1996–1999

Balfour Beatty (United Kingdom)2005–2005

Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center2002–2002

Science Systems and Applications (United States)2000–2000

Top Works

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

Matthew C. Hansen,Peter Potapov,et al.

201311,335 citations

Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Remote-Sensing Image Classification

Global land cover classification at 1 km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach

Matthew C. Hansen,Ruth DeFries,et al.

20002,322 citations

An assessment of support vector machines for land cover classification

Chenn‐Jung Huang,Larr S. Davis,et al.

20021,761 citations

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): land remote sensing for global change research

Chris Justice,Éric Vermote,et al.

19981,610 citations

An overview of MODIS Land data processing and product status

C. O. Justice,J. R. Townshend,et al.

20021,361 citations

Analysis of the phenology of global vegetation using meteorological satellite data

Chris Justice,J. R. Townshend,et al.

19851,109 citations

Global Percent Tree Cover at a Spatial Resolution of 500 Meters: First Results of the MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields Algorithm

Matthew C. Hansen,Ruth DeFries,et al.

20031,071 citations

NDVI-derived land cover classifications at a global scale

Ruth DeFries,J. R. Townshend

19941,070 citations

Global land cover classifications at 8 km spatial resolution: The use of training data derived from Landsat imagery in decision tree classifiers

R. Fries,Matthew C. Hansen,et al.

1998630 citations