Alessandro Baccini

16.1k citations

59 papers · 11.1k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 38

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.1%
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Forest Management and Policy
- Fire effects on ecosystems
Environmental Engineering top 0.1%
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications

Papers in

Environmental Engineering 27
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications 25
Global and Planetary Change 38
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 21
- Forest Management and Policy 11
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 8
- Fire effects on ecosystems 8

Co-authors: S. J. Goetz M. A. Friedl Curtis E. Woodcock R. A. Houghton Wayne Walker N. Pinto Joshua B. Fisher Marc Simard
Journals: Environmental Research Letters (8 papers)Remote Sensing of Environment (5 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (5 papers)Nature Climate Change (4 papers)Science Advances (4 papers)
Partner nations: United States Brazil United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Alessandro Baccini

57 papers receiving 10.7k citations

Hit Papers

8 papers align trajectories log scale

The global potential for increased storage of carbon on land 2022 · 143 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2021 Nature Climate Change
2019 Science Advances
2019 Science Advances
2017 Science
2012 Nature Climate Change
2011 Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
2002 Remote Sensing of Environment

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authors

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All Works

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#	Work
1	The weak land carbon sink hypothesis Science Advances ·James T. Randerson, Yue Li, Weiwei Fu, François Primeau, Ulises Botija-Munoz, M. Mu, Forrest M. Hoffman, Anna T. Trugman, Linqing Yang, Chao Wu, Jonathan Wang, William R. L. Anderegg, Alessandro Baccini, M. A. Friedl, Sassan Saatchi, Scott Denning, Michael L. Goulden	2025	0
2	Continuous mapping of aboveground biomass using Landsat time series Remote Sensing of Environment ·Paulo Arévalo, Alessandro Baccini, Curtis E. Woodcock, Pontus Olofsson, Wayne Walker	2023	32
3	Beyond Deforestation: Carbon Emissions From Land Grabbing and Forest Degradation in the Brazilian Amazon Frontiers in Forests and Global Change ·Shri Ram Kishan, Márcia N. Macedo, Seth R. Gorelik, Wayne Walker, Paulo Moutinho, Paulo Brando, Andrea Castanho, Ane Alencar, Alessandro Baccini, Michael T. Coe	2021	37
4	Spatiotemporal tracking of carbon emissions and uptake using time series analysis of Landsat data: A spatially explicit carbon bookkeeping model The Science of The Total Environment ·Xiaojing Tang, Lucy R. Hutyra, Paulo Arévalo, Alessandro Baccini, Curtis E. Woodcock, Pontus Olofsson	2020	24
5	A close look at above ground biomass of a large and heterogeneous Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest - Caatinga in North East of Brazil Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências ·Andrea Castanho, Michael T. Coe, Eunice Maia de Andrade, Wayne Walker, Alessandro Baccini, Olr W. Börner, Mary Farina	2020	20
6	Tropical deforestation drivers and associated carbon emission factors derived from remote sensing data Environmental Research Letters ·Veronique De Sy, Martin Herold, Frédéric Achard, Valerio Avitabile, Alessandro Baccini, Sarah Carter, J.G.P.W. Clevers, Erik Lindquist, Maria João Veloso da Costa Ramos Pereira, Louis Verchot	2019	58
7	A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets Science Advances ·Eric Dinerstein, Carly Vynne, Enric Sala, Anup R. Joshi, S. Antony Fernando, Thomas Ε. Lovejoy, Juan Mayorga, David M. Olson, Gregory P. Asner, Jonathan Baillie, Neil D. Burgess, Katrin Burkart, Reed F. Noss, Ya‐Ping Zhang, Alessandro Baccini, Tanya Birch, Nathan Hahn, Lucas Joppa, Eric Wikramanayake Hit paper breakdown →	2019	466
8	Estimating Aboveground Biomass in Tropical Forests: Field Methods and Error Analysis for the Calibration of Remote Sensing Observations Remote Sensing ·F. G. Gonçalves, R. N. Treuhaft, B. E. Law, André Quintão de Almeida, Wayne Walker, Alessandro Baccini, Quality Safety Branch, Paulo Maurı́cio Lima de Alencastro Graça	2017	25
9	Synthesizing Global and Local Datasets to Estimate Jurisdictional Forest Carbon Fluxes in Berau, Indonesia PLoS ONE ·Bronson W. Griscom, Peter W. Ellis, Alessandro Baccini, Lenka Závišová, Jeffrey S. Evans, Ruslandi	2016	8
10	CMS: Estimated Deforested Area Biomass, Tropical America, Africa, and Asia, 2000 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics ·Alessandro Baccini, Wayne Walker, Mary Farina, R. A. Houghton	2016	4
11	Can carbon emissions from tropical deforestation drop by 50% in 5 years? Global Change Biology ·Daniel J. Zarin, Nancy L. Harris, Alessandro Baccini, Dmitry Aksenov, Matthew C. Hansen, Cláudia Azevedo-Ramos, Tasso Azevedo, Belinda Arunarwati Margono, Ane Alencar, Nemanja Glintić, Michael Hadge, Peter Potapov, Mary Farina, Wayne Walker, Jean-Phillipe Galons, Tatiana Loboda, Svetlana Turubanova, Alexandra Tyukavina	2015	109
12	Guiding Agricultural Expansion to Spare Tropical Forests Conservation Letters ·Eric Dinerstein, Alessandro Baccini, Michael L. Anderson, Greg Fiske, Eric Wikramanayake, David McLaughlin, 馨野口, David M. Olson, Anup R. Joshi	2014	15
13	Uncertainty in the spatial distribution of tropical forest biomass: a comparison of pan-tropical maps Carbon Balance and Management ·Edward T. A. Mitchard, Sassan Saatchi, Alessandro Baccini, Gregory P. Asner, S. J. Goetz, Nancy L. Harris, Sandra Brown	2013	170
14	Large-area Mapping of Forest Cover and Biomass using ALOS PALSAR AGUFM ·Oliver Cartus, Josef Kellndorfer, Wayne Walker, S. J. Goetz, N. Laporte, D Shivson, Helmi Nurlaili, Alessandro Baccini	2011	1
15	Forests, biomass use and poverty in Malawi Ecological Economics ·Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay, Priya Shyamsundar, Alessandro Baccini	2011	43
16	Implications of land use change on the national terrestrial carbon budget of Georgia Carbon Balance and Management ·Pontus Olofsson, 雷荣城, Curtis E. Woodcock, Alessandro Baccini, R. A. Houghton, Mutlu Özdoğan, Feng Zhao, Xiaoyuan Yang	2010	22
17	Mapping and monitoring carbon stocks with satellite observations: a comparison of methods Carbon Balance and Management ·S. J. Goetz, Alessandro Baccini, Nadine Laporte, Tracy Johns, Wayne Walker, Josef Kellndorfer, R. A. Houghton, V N Gribov	2009	315
18	Meeting the challenge of mapping peatlands with remotely sensed data Biogeosciences ·Olga N. Krankina, Dirk Pflugmacher, M. A. Friedl, Warren B. Cohen, P. Nelson, Alessandro Baccini	2008	43
19	Forest biomass mapping using satellite, climate and field data PhDT ·Alessandro Baccini	2005	0
20	Forest biomass estimation over regional scales using multisource data Geophysical Research Letters ·Alessandro Baccini, M. A. Friedl, Curtis E. Woodcock, Ralph Warbington	2004	145

About Alessandro Baccini

Alessandro Baccini is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Horticulture, having authored 59 papers that have together received 11.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (25 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (22 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (21 papers), Forest ecology and management (16 papers), Forest Management and Policy (11 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (8 papers) and Oil Palm Production and Sustainability (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (7.0k citations), Environmental Engineering (3.6k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (2.7k citations), Ecology (5.1k citations) and Ecological Modeling (759 citations). Alessandro Baccini has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Brazil and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include S. J. Goetz, M. A. Friedl, Curtis E. Woodcock, R. A. Houghton, Wayne Walker, N. Pinto, Joshua B. Fisher, Marc Simard, Damien Sulla‐Menashe and Pieter S. A. Beck. Their work appears in journals such as Environmental Research Letters, Remote Sensing of Environment, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Climate Change and Science Advances.

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