C. L. Walthall

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

C. L. Walthall is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, C. L. Walthall has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Ecology, 37 papers in Environmental Engineering and 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in C. L. Walthall's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (40 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (16 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (13 papers). C. L. Walthall is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (40 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (16 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (13 papers). C. L. Walthall collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. C. L. Walthall's co-authors include Craig S. T. Daughtry, Jerry L. Hatfield, J. E. McMurtrey, Anatoly A. Gitelson, James S. Schepers, Shunlin Liang, John M. Norman, Robert L. Hill, Blaine L. Blad and Martha C. Anderson and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Remote Sensing of Environment and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

C. L. Walthall

64 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Vegetation water content mapping using Landsat data derived normalized difference water index for corn and soybeans

2003 627 citations Martha C. Anderson, C. L. Walthall et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

Peers

C. L. Walthall

ECOLO

GPC

Mirco Boschetti Italy

Donald W. Deering United States

Rasmus Houborg United States

Michele Meroni Italy

Christophe François France

Stephen Plummer United Kingdom

Jingfeng Huang China

George Alan Blackburn United Kingdom

Frédéric Jacob France

J. E. McMurtrey United States

Mirco Boschetti Italy

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3.0k ×1.1

ECOLO

1.7k ×0.9

GPC

1.4k ×0.7

2.0k ×1.4

715 ×0.9

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Countries citing papers authored by C. L. Walthall

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. L. Walthall

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20 of 20 papers shown

Walthall, C. L., Nicholas T. Girkin, Zoltán Kevei, & Alice S. A. Johnston. (2025). A global synthesis of genotypic variation in crop greenhouse gas emissions under variable nitrogen fertilisation. Frontiers in Agronomy. 7.

Goodrich, D. C., C. L. Walthall, Jacqueline Campbell, et al.. (2016). The USDA Long-Term Agro-ecosystems Research (LTAR) Network. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 1 indexed citations

Hatfield, Jerry L. & C. L. Walthall. (2015). Meeting Global Food Needs: Realizing the Potential via Genetics × Environment × Management Interactions. Agronomy Journal. 107(4). 1215–1226. 141 indexed citations

Ko, Jonghan, Lajpat R. Ahuja, S.A. Saseendran, et al.. (2011). Climate change impacts on dryland cropping systems in the Central Great Plains, USA. Climatic Change. 111(2). 445–472. 57 indexed citations

Hunt, E. Raymond, Michel A. Cavigelli, Craig S. T. Daughtry, J. E. McMurtrey, & C. L. Walthall. (2005). Evaluation of Digital Photography from Model Aircraft for Remote Sensing of Crop Biomass and Nitrogen Status. Precision Agriculture. 6(4). 359–378. 428 indexed citations

Gish, T. J., Craig S. T. Daughtry, C. L. Walthall, & K.‐J. S. Kung. (2004). Quantifying impact of hydrology on corn grain yield using ground-penetrating radar. 493–496. 3 indexed citations

Kaul, Michael G., et al.. (2004). Soybean growth and development visualized with L-systems simulations: effect of temperature. 33. 31–47. 7 indexed citations

Walthall, C. L., et al.. (2004). Analysis of surrogate indicators for evidence of subsurface preferential flow pathways: impact of subsurface preferential flow on variability of NDVI. 6. 3992–3995. 1 indexed citations

Walthall, C. L., W. Dulaney, Martha C. Anderson, et al.. (2004). Alternative approaches for estimating leaf area index (LAI) from remotely sensed satellite and aircraft imagery. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5544. 241–241. 5 indexed citations

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Fang, Hongliang, Shunlin Liang, M. Chen, C. L. Walthall, & Craig S. T. Daughtry. (2004). Statistical comparison of MISR, ETM+ and MODIS land surface reflectance and albedo products of the BARC land validation core site, USA. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 25(2). 409–422. 18 indexed citations

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Hunt, E. Raymond, et al.. (2003). Comparison of remote sensing imagery for nitrogen management.. 1480–1485. 6 indexed citations

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Gamon, John A., K. F. Huemmrich, Derek R. Peddle, et al.. (2003). Remote sensing in BOREAS: Lessons learned. Remote Sensing of Environment. 89(2). 139–162. 66 indexed citations

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Walthall, C. L., et al.. (2001). Principles for helicopters as platforms for optical wavelength remote sensing and the NASA GSFC/WFF helicopter remote sensing system. Remote Sensing Reviews. 20(3). 169–205. 2 indexed citations

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Walthall, C. L., Jean‐Louis Roujean, & J. T. Morisette. (2000). Field and landscape BRDF optical wavelength measurements: Experience, techniques and the future. Remote Sensing Reviews. 18(2-4). 503–531. 24 indexed citations

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Liang, Shunlin, Alan H. Strahler, & C. L. Walthall. (1998). Retrieval of land surface albedo from satellite observations: a simulation study. 1286–1288 vol.3. 12 indexed citations

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Daughtry, Craig S. T. & C. L. Walthall. (1998). Spectral Discrimination of Cannabis sativa L. Leaves and Canopies. Remote Sensing of Environment. 64(2). 192–201. 51 indexed citations

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Margolis, Hank A., et al.. (1997). Profiles of photosynthetically active radiation, nitrogen and photosynthetic capacity in the boreal forest: Implications for scaling from leaf to canopy. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 102(D24). 28845–28859. 87 indexed citations

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Bréon, François‐Marie, et al.. (1997). Evidence of hot spot directional signature from airborne POLDER measurements. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 35(2). 479–484. 41 indexed citations

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Walthall, C. L., et al.. (1995). Estimating the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (ƒ_APAR) at FIFE with airborne bidirectional spectral reflectance data. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 100(D12). 25523–25535. 9 indexed citations

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Deering, Donald W., E. Middleton, James R. Irons, et al.. (1992). Prairie grassland bidirectional reflectances measured by different instruments at the FIFE site. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 97(D17). 84 indexed citations

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