Dengsheng Lu

23.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
171 papers, 18.2k citations indexed

About

Dengsheng Lu is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Dengsheng Lu has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 18.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Ecology, 100 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 88 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Dengsheng Lu's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (99 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (84 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (49 papers). Dengsheng Lu is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (99 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (84 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (49 papers). Dengsheng Lu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Brazil. Dengsheng Lu's co-authors include Qihao Weng, Emilio F. Morán, Paul W. Mausel, Eduardo S. Brondízio, Guiying Li, Mateus Batistella, Guangxing Wang, Scott Hetrick, Wenhui Kuang and Qi Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Remote Sensing of Environment and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Dengsheng Lu

165 papers receiving 17.3k citations

Hit Papers

A survey of image classification methods and techniques f... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2007 2004 2003 2006 2014 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. A survey of image classification methods and techniques for improving classification performance
    2007 2.4k citations Dengsheng Lu, Qihao Weng International Journal of Remote Sensing profile →
  2. Change detection techniques
    2004 2.4k citations Dengsheng Lu, Emilio F. Morán et al. International Journal of Remote Sensing profile →
  3. Estimation of land surface temperature–vegetation abundance relationship for urban heat island studies
    2003 1.9k citations Qihao Weng, Dengsheng Lu et al. profile →
  4. The potential and challenge of remote sensing‐based biomass estimation
    2006 944 citations Dengsheng Lu International Journal of Remote Sensing profile →
  5. A survey of remote sensing-based aboveground biomass estimation methods in forest ecosystems
    2014 646 citations Dengsheng Lu, Guangxing Wang et al. International Journal of Digital Earth profile →
  6. Use of impervious surface in urban land-use classification
    2006 536 citations Dengsheng Lu, Qihao Weng profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dengsheng Lu China 59 9.5k 9.0k 8.4k 4.3k 3.9k 171 18.2k
Dar A. Roberts United States 73 10.3k 1.1× 6.6k 0.7× 10.7k 1.3× 3.7k 0.9× 3.8k 1.0× 306 20.3k
M. A. Friedl United States 74 16.8k 1.8× 8.7k 1.0× 15.9k 1.9× 6.1k 1.4× 1.9k 0.5× 176 26.5k
Curtis E. Woodcock United States 87 17.5k 1.8× 10.9k 1.2× 19.1k 2.3× 7.0k 1.6× 5.5k 1.4× 221 31.0k
David P. Roy United States 66 12.8k 1.3× 5.7k 0.6× 11.3k 1.3× 4.3k 1.0× 2.4k 0.6× 206 19.4k
Susan L. Ustin United States 77 9.0k 1.0× 6.9k 0.8× 14.7k 1.7× 2.7k 0.6× 2.2k 0.6× 329 21.1k
Russell G. Congalton United States 39 9.0k 1.0× 5.4k 0.6× 10.5k 1.2× 3.3k 0.8× 3.8k 1.0× 131 18.3k
Feng Gao United States 69 13.0k 1.4× 8.6k 1.0× 13.6k 1.6× 5.7k 1.3× 3.7k 0.9× 270 22.8k
Noel Gorelick United States 34 9.1k 1.0× 4.2k 0.5× 7.2k 0.8× 3.4k 0.8× 976 0.2× 56 16.7k
J. R. Townshend United States 37 11.8k 1.2× 5.3k 0.6× 11.1k 1.3× 4.4k 1.0× 2.5k 0.6× 85 20.6k
Patrick Hostert Germany 67 8.4k 0.9× 3.8k 0.4× 7.8k 0.9× 2.2k 0.5× 1.9k 0.5× 201 14.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dengsheng Lu

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All Works

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Li, Guiying, et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal patterns of annual clear-cutting distribution in tropical and subtropical regions of China with time series Landsat and CCDC. Geo-spatial Information Science. 28(6). 2763–2780. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Guiying, et al.. (2025). Modeling Moso Bamboo Tree Density and Aboveground Biomass Using Multi-Site UAV-LiDAR Data. Remote Sensing. 18(1). 115–115.
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Li, Dengqiu, et al.. (2024). Vegetation classification in a subtropical region with Sentinel-2 time series data and deep learning. Geo-spatial Information Science. 28(1). 145–163. 6 indexed citations
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Li, Guiying, et al.. (2024). Developing a New Method to Rapidly Map Eucalyptus Distribution in Subtropical Regions Using Sentinel-2 Imagery. Forests. 15(10). 1799–1799. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Dengqiu, et al.. (2023). Integration of Landsat time-series vegetation indices improves consistency of change detection. International Journal of Digital Earth. 16(1). 1276–1299. 15 indexed citations
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Li, Dengqiu, Dengsheng Lu, Emilio F. Morán, & Ramón Silva. (2020). Examining Water Area Changes Accompanying Dam Construction in the Madeira River in the Brazilian Amazon. Water. 12(7). 1921–1921. 14 indexed citations
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Li, Guiying, et al.. (2020). Modeling Forest Aboveground Carbon Density in the Brazilian Amazon with Integration of MODIS and Airborne LiDAR Data. Remote Sensing. 12(20). 3330–3330. 8 indexed citations
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Lu, Dengsheng, Longwei Li, Guiying Li, et al.. (2018). Examining Spatial Patterns of Urban Distribution and Impacts of Physical Conditions on Urbanization in Coastal and Inland Metropoles. Remote Sensing. 10(7). 1101–1101. 25 indexed citations
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Lu, Dengsheng, et al.. (2018). Examining impacts of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction on land-cover changes using multitemporal Landsat imagery. Applied Geography. 97. 35–47. 49 indexed citations
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Li, Guiying, et al.. (2018). Examining deforestation and agropasture dynamics along the Brazilian TransAmazon Highway using multitemporal Landsat imagery. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 56(2). 161–183. 17 indexed citations
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Pan, Tao, Dengsheng Lu, Chi Zhang, et al.. (2017). Urban Land-Cover Dynamics in Arid China Based on High-Resolution Urban Land Mapping Products. Remote Sensing. 9(7). 730–730. 19 indexed citations
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Zhao, Panpan, Dengsheng Lu, Guangxing Wang, et al.. (2016). Examining Spectral Reflectance Saturation in Landsat Imagery and Corresponding Solutions to Improve Forest Aboveground Biomass Estimation. Remote Sensing. 8(6). 469–469. 208 indexed citations
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Zhang, Chi, Yaoliang Chen, & Dengsheng Lu. (2015). Mapping the land-cover distribution in arid and semiarid urban landscapes with Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 36(17). 4483–4500. 30 indexed citations
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Lu, Dengsheng, Mateus Batistella, & Emilio F. Morán. (2014). Detecting Amazonian deforestation using multitemporal thematic mapper imageries and spectral mixture analysis.. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 1 indexed citations
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Lu, Dengsheng, Guiying Li, Wenhui Kuang, & Emilio F. Morán. (2013). Methods to extract impervious surface areas from satellite images. International Journal of Digital Earth. 7(2). 93–112. 123 indexed citations
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Weng, Qihao & Dengsheng Lu. (2009). Landscape as a continuum: an examination of the urban landscape structures and dynamics of Indianapolis City, 1991–2000, by using satellite images. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 30(10). 2547–2577. 51 indexed citations
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Lu, Dengsheng, Qihao Weng, & Guiying Li. (2006). Residential population estimation using a remote sensing derived impervious surface approach. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 27(16). 3553–3570. 103 indexed citations

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