Brian Wardlow

11.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
109 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Brian Wardlow is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Wardlow has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 65 papers in Ecology and 30 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Brian Wardlow's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (57 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (38 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (32 papers). Brian Wardlow is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (57 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (38 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (32 papers). Brian Wardlow collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Brian Wardlow's co-authors include Stephen L. Egbert, Martha C. Anderson, Jesslyn F. Brown, Tsegaye Tadesse, Jude Kastens, Christopher Hain, J. P. Verdin, Mark Svoboda, Michael J. Hayes and Yingxin Gu and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Remote Sensing of Environment and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Brian Wardlow

107 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Analysis of time-series MODIS 250 m vegetation index data for crop classification in the U.S. Central Great Plains
    2007 698 citations Brian Wardlow, Stephen L. Egbert et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  2. Remote sensing of drought: Progress, challenges and opportunities
    2015 698 citations Martha C. Anderson, Brian Wardlow et al. profile →
  3. Large-area crop mapping using time-series MODIS 250 m NDVI data: An assessment for the U.S. Central Great Plains
    2007 617 citations Brian Wardlow, Stephen L. Egbert Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  4. A review of vegetation phenological metrics extraction using time-series, multispectral satellite data
    2019 580 citations Linglin Zeng, Brian Wardlow et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  5. A five‐year analysis of MODIS NDVI and NDWI for grassland drought assessment over the central Great Plains of the United States
    2007 536 citations Jesslyn F. Brown, Brian Wardlow et al. profile →
  6. A high-performance and in-season classification system of field-level crop types using time-series Landsat data and a machine learning approach
    2018 415 citations Brian Wardlow et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Brian Wardlow 5.6k 4.5k 2.2k 1.9k 1.4k 109 8.8k
Yuanwei Qin 6.3k 1.1× 5.2k 1.1× 2.3k 1.0× 2.1k 1.1× 890 0.7× 112 9.3k
Jiyuan Liu 7.1k 1.3× 4.0k 0.9× 1.7k 0.8× 2.6k 1.4× 810 0.6× 201 10.2k
Laerte Guimarães Ferreira 6.1k 1.1× 7.5k 1.6× 3.3k 1.5× 1.5k 0.8× 1.4k 1.0× 126 11.3k
Jesslyn F. Brown 4.9k 0.9× 3.8k 0.8× 1.9k 0.9× 2.1k 1.1× 891 0.7× 110 8.0k
Xiang Gao 5.8k 1.0× 6.4k 1.4× 3.5k 1.6× 2.2k 1.1× 1.2k 0.9× 112 10.7k
Prasad S. Thenkabail 3.8k 0.7× 6.1k 1.3× 2.3k 1.1× 1.6k 0.9× 2.0k 1.5× 125 8.6k
Geli Zhang 3.9k 0.7× 4.0k 0.9× 1.4k 0.7× 1.6k 0.8× 894 0.7× 86 6.3k
Kamel Didan 5.7k 1.0× 7.0k 1.5× 3.1k 1.4× 1.7k 0.9× 1.2k 0.9× 50 9.4k
Abdelghani Chehbouni 5.1k 0.9× 3.5k 0.8× 3.8k 1.7× 2.1k 1.1× 1.5k 1.1× 287 9.5k
V. K. Dadhwal 4.0k 0.7× 2.7k 0.6× 1.9k 0.9× 1.7k 0.9× 702 0.5× 341 7.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Wardlow

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Wardlow

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All Works

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Stephenson, Mitchell B., et al.. (2025). 15-Yr Biomass Production in Semiarid Nebraska Sandhills Grassland: Part 2-Response to Seasonal Precipitation and Temperature. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 101. 13–27. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Ran, et al.. (2024). Multitemporal airborne imaging spectrometry and fluorometry reveal contrasting photoprotective responses of trees. Remote Sensing of Environment. 311. 114295–114295. 1 indexed citations
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Nam, Won‐Ho, et al.. (2024). Assessment of agricultural drought status using visible infrared imaging radiometer suite land products. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 155(7). 6887–6897.
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Wylie, Bruce K., Michael J. Hayes, Deborah J. Bathke, et al.. (2023). Using seasonal climate scenarios in the ForageAhead annual forage production model for early drought impact assessment. Ecosphere. 14(5). 2 indexed citations
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Zeng, Linglin, Brian Wardlow, Shun Hu, et al.. (2021). A Novel Strategy to Reconstruct NDVI Time-Series with High Temporal Resolution from MODIS Multi-Temporal Composite Products. Remote Sensing. 13(7). 1397–1397. 27 indexed citations
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Brown, Jesslyn F., Stephen P. Boyte, Daniel M. Howard, et al.. (2021). Exploring VIIRS Continuity with MODIS in an Expedited Capability for Monitoring Drought-Related Vegetation Conditions. Remote Sensing. 13(6). 1210–1210. 10 indexed citations
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Gao, Feng, Martha C. Anderson, David M. Johnson, et al.. (2021). Towards Routine Mapping of Crop Emergence within the Season Using the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Dataset. Remote Sensing. 13(24). 5074–5074. 22 indexed citations
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Wylie, Bruce K., Deborah J. Bathke, Yared Bayissa, et al.. (2021). Monitoring Climate Impacts on Annual Forage Production across U.S. Semi-Arid Grasslands. Remote Sensing. 14(1). 4–4. 13 indexed citations
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Wardlow, Brian, et al.. (2021). Ecophysio-optical traits of semiarid Nebraska grasslands under different Juniperus virginiana and Pinus ponderosa canopy covers. Ecological Indicators. 131. 108159–108159. 8 indexed citations
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Tadesse, Tsegaye, David Y. Hollinger, Yared Bayissa, et al.. (2020). Forest Drought Response Index (ForDRI): A New Combined Model to Monitor Forest Drought in the Eastern United States. Remote Sensing. 12(21). 3605–3605. 3 indexed citations
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Donovan, Victoria M., Dirac Twidwell, Daniel R. Uden, et al.. (2020). Resilience to Large, “Catastrophic” Wildfires in North America's Grassland Biome. Earth s Future. 8(7). 21 indexed citations
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Wardlow, Brian, et al.. (2020). Developing a Remote Sensing-Based Combined Drought Indicator Approach for Agricultural Drought Monitoring over Marathwada, India. Remote Sensing. 12(13). 2091–2091. 65 indexed citations
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Nam, Won‐Ho, Song Feng, Brian Wardlow, et al.. (2020). Agricultural Drought Assessment in East Asia Using Satellite-Based Indices. Remote Sensing. 12(3). 444–444. 38 indexed citations
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Woldt, Wayne, et al.. (2019). Calibration of a common shortwave multispectral camera system for quantitative agricultural applications. Precision Agriculture. 21(4). 922–935. 10 indexed citations
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Li, Hua, Huidong Wang, Haigang Sui, et al.. (2019). Mapping the Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Vegetation Response Lag to Drought in a Semi-Arid Region. Remote Sensing. 11(16). 1873–1873. 44 indexed citations
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Wylie, Bruce K., Michael J. Hayes, Brian Wardlow, et al.. (2019). Monitoring Drought Impact on Annual Forage Production in Semi-Arid Grasslands: A Case Study of Nebraska Sandhills. Remote Sensing. 11(18). 2106–2106. 18 indexed citations
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Wardlow, Brian, Jude Kastens, & Stephen L. Egbert. (2006). Using USDA Crop Progress Data for the Evaluation of Greenup Onset Date Calculated from MODIS 250-Meter Data. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 72(11). 1225–1234. 122 indexed citations

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