David P. Roy

35.6k total citations · 17 hit papers
206 papers, 19.4k citations indexed

About

David P. Roy is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David P. Roy has authored 206 papers receiving a total of 19.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Ecology, 109 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 61 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in David P. Roy's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (111 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (58 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (48 papers). David P. Roy is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (111 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (58 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (48 papers). David P. Roy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. David P. Roy's co-authors include Luigi Boschetti, Lin Yan, Éric Vermote, Junchang Ju, Louis Giglio, Christopher O. Justice, Hankui K. Zhang, V. Kovalskyy, Robert E. Wolfe and P. Lewis and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

David P. Roy

196 papers receiving 18.6k citations

Hit Papers

An overview of MODIS Land data processing and product status 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2002 2016 2018 2009 250 500 750 1000
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. An overview of MODIS Land data processing and product status
    2002 1.0k citations Éric Vermote, E. Masuoka et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  2. The MODIS fire products
    2002 972 citations Louis Giglio, David P. Roy et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  3. Characterization of Landsat-7 to Landsat-8 reflective wavelength and normalized difference vegetation index continuity
    2016 887 citations David P. Roy, Éric Vermote et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  4. The Collection 6 MODIS burned area mapping algorithm and product
    2018 777 citations Louis Giglio, Luigi Boschetti et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  5. What limits fire? An examination of drivers of burnt area in Southern Africa
    2009 601 citations David P. Roy et al. profile →
  6. The global Landsat archive: Status, consolidation, and direction
    2015 566 citations Michael A. Wulder, Curtis E. Woodcock et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  7. The collection 5 MODIS burned area product — Global evaluation by comparison with the MODIS active fire product
    2008 537 citations David P. Roy, Luigi Boschetti et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  8. The availability of cloud-free Landsat ETM+ data over the conterminous United States and globally
    2007 513 citations Junchang Ju, David P. Roy Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  9. A Global Analysis of Sentinel-2A, Sentinel-2B and Landsat-8 Data Revisit Intervals and Implications for Terrestrial Monitoring
    2017 468 citations Jian Li, David P. Roy Remote Sensing profile →
  10. Achieving sub-pixel geolocation accuracy in support of MODIS land science
    2002 453 citations David P. Roy et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  11. Multi-temporal MODIS–Landsat data fusion for relative radiometric normalization, gap filling, and prediction of Landsat data
    2008 440 citations David P. Roy, Junchang Ju et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  12. Benefits of the free and open Landsat data policy
    2019 327 citations Michael A. Wulder, David P. Roy et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  13. Land cover 2.0
    2018 291 citations Michael A. Wulder, David P. Roy et al. International Journal of Remote Sensing profile →
  14. Characterization of Sentinel-2A and Landsat-8 top of atmosphere, surface, and nadir BRDF adjusted reflectance and NDVI differences
    2018 289 citations Hankui K. Zhang, David P. Roy et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  15. Analysis Ready Data: Enabling Analysis of the Landsat Archive
    2018 284 citations David P. Roy, Hankui K. Zhang et al. Remote Sensing profile →
  16. A general method to normalize Landsat reflectance data to nadir BRDF adjusted reflectance
    2016 280 citations David P. Roy, José Gómez‐Dans et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  17. A global analysis of the temporal availability of PlanetScope high spatial resolution multi-spectral imagery
    2021 162 citations David P. Roy, Haiyan Huang et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David P. Roy United States 66 12.8k 11.3k 5.7k 4.3k 2.4k 206 19.4k
Dar A. Roberts United States 73 10.3k 0.8× 10.7k 0.9× 6.6k 1.2× 3.7k 0.9× 3.8k 1.6× 306 20.3k
Christopher O. Justice United States 43 9.5k 0.7× 6.1k 0.5× 2.9k 0.5× 3.6k 0.8× 801 0.3× 70 12.5k
Russell G. Congalton United States 39 9.0k 0.7× 10.5k 0.9× 5.4k 1.0× 3.3k 0.8× 3.8k 1.6× 131 18.3k
Emilio Chuvieco Spain 71 11.8k 0.9× 7.8k 0.7× 4.5k 0.8× 1.9k 0.4× 710 0.3× 223 14.9k
Susan L. Ustin United States 77 9.0k 0.7× 14.7k 1.3× 6.9k 1.2× 2.7k 0.6× 2.2k 0.9× 329 21.1k
Éric Vermote United States 68 24.5k 1.9× 14.3k 1.3× 8.3k 1.5× 16.1k 3.7× 2.2k 0.9× 160 34.2k
Noel Gorelick United States 34 9.1k 0.7× 7.2k 0.6× 4.2k 0.7× 3.4k 0.8× 976 0.4× 56 16.7k
Zhe Zhu United States 41 6.7k 0.5× 7.4k 0.7× 3.7k 0.7× 2.6k 0.6× 2.6k 1.1× 114 12.0k
Philip E. Dennison United States 53 6.2k 0.5× 4.0k 0.4× 2.0k 0.4× 1.9k 0.4× 1.2k 0.5× 143 9.5k
Curtis E. Woodcock United States 87 17.5k 1.4× 19.1k 1.7× 10.9k 1.9× 7.0k 1.6× 5.5k 2.3× 221 31.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David P. Roy

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All Works

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Liu, Hao, Hankui K. Zhang, Bo Huang, et al.. (2024). Reconstruction of seamless harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) time series via self-supervised learning. Remote Sensing of Environment. 308. 114191–114191. 15 indexed citations
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Gao, Shuai, Xiaoyang Zhang, Hankui K. Zhang, et al.. (2024). A new constant scattering angle solar geometry definition for normalization of GOES-R ABI reflectance times series to support land surface phenology studies. Remote Sensing of Environment. 315. 114407–114407. 2 indexed citations
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Roy, David P., et al.. (2024). Multi-resolution monitoring of the 2023 maui wildfires, implications and needs for satellite-based wildfire disaster monitoring. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10. 100142–100142. 8 indexed citations
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Chen, Jiquan, Ranjeet John, Changliang Shao, et al.. (2021). Towards a Single Integrative Metric on the Dynamics of Social-Environmental Systems. Sustainability. 13(20). 11246–11246. 4 indexed citations
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Egorov, Alexey, David P. Roy, Hankui K. Zhang, et al.. (2019). Landsat 4, 5 and 7 (1982 to 2017) Analysis Ready Data (ARD) Observation Coverage over the Conterminous United States and Implications for Terrestrial Monitoring. Remote Sensing. 11(4). 447–447. 50 indexed citations
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Roy, David P., Haiyan Huang, Luigi Boschetti, et al.. (2019). Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 burned area mapping - A combined sensor multi-temporal change detection approach. Remote Sensing of Environment. 231. 111254–111254. 192 indexed citations
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Crawford, Christopher J., J. G. Masek, David P. Roy, Curtis E. Woodcock, & Michael A. Wulder. (2017). Requirements, Science, and Measurements for Landsat 10 and Beyond: Perspectives from the Landsat Science Team. AGUFM. 2017. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Zhongbin, Hankui K. Zhang, David P. Roy, et al.. (2017). Landsat 15-m Panchromatic-Assisted Downscaling (LPAD) of the 30-m Reflective Wavelength Bands to Sentinel-2 20-m Resolution. Remote Sensing. 9(7). 755–755. 31 indexed citations
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Huang, Haiyan, David P. Roy, Luigi Boschetti, et al.. (2016). Separability Analysis of Sentinel-2A Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) Data for Burned Area Discrimination. Remote Sensing. 8(10). 873–873. 131 indexed citations
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White, Emma & David P. Roy. (2015). A contemporary decennial examination of changing agricultural field sizes using Landsat time series data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 33–54. 47 indexed citations
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Boschetti, Luigi, David P. Roy, Andrea Baraldi, & M. L. Humber. (2013). MODIS-Landsat data fusion for automated continental 30 m burned area mapping. AGUFM. 2013. 1 indexed citations
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Naggara, Olivier, Félix Alexandre Antunes Soares, Emmanuel Touzé, et al.. (2011). Is It Possible to Recognize Cervical Artery Dissection on Stroke Brain MR Imaging? A Matched Case-Control Study. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 32(5). 869–873. 14 indexed citations
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Pedelty, J. A., Sadashiva Devadiga, Edward J. Masuoka, et al.. (2007). Generating a long-term land data record from the AVHRR and MODIS Instruments. 1021–1025. 159 indexed citations
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Roy, David P. & Tobias Landmann. (2005). Characterizing the surface heterogeneity of fire effects using multi‐temporal reflective wavelength data. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 26(19). 4197–4218. 75 indexed citations
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Vermote, E., E. Masuoka, J. L. Privette, et al.. (2004). A long-term land data record from AVHRR, MODIS and VIIRS.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 1 indexed citations
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Roy, David P., et al.. (2003). Multi-year southern Africa MODIS burned area product generation and validation. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2003. 2 indexed citations
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Gumbricht, Thomas, T.S. McCarthy, Jenny McCarthy, et al.. (2002). Remote sensing to detect sub-surface peat fires and peat fire scars in the Okavango Delta, Botswana : research article. South African Journal of Science. 98. 351–358. 15 indexed citations

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