Douglas E. Ahl

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

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Douglas E. Ahl is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas E. Ahl has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 17 papers in Ecology and 8 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Douglas E. Ahl's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (15 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (11 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (6 papers). Douglas E. Ahl is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (15 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (11 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (6 papers). Douglas E. Ahl collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Niger. Douglas E. Ahl's co-authors include Stith T. Gower, Stith T. Gower, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, S. D. Peckham, S. N. Burrows, Yuri Knyazikhin, Nikolay V. Shabanov, Ranga B. Myneni, D. S. Mackay and William D. Ritts and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Remote Sensing of Environment and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Douglas E. Ahl

22 papers receiving 2.5k citations

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Evaluation of MODIS NPP and GPP products across multiple biomes

2006 538 citations David P. Turner, William D. Ritts et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Douglas E. Ahl United States	19	1.9k	1.5k	711	540	380	22	2.6k
Jonathan Seaquist Sweden	24	1.8k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	466 0.7×	465 0.9×	274 0.7×	40	2.6k
Lars L. Pierce United States	17	1.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	834 1.2×	373 0.7×	390 1.0×	24	2.2k
J.M. Chen Canada	27	2.1k 1.1×	2.1k 1.4×	1.1k 1.6×	457 0.8×	360 0.9×	39	3.1k
Carlos M. Di Bella Argentina	20	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	453 0.6×	334 0.6×	249 0.7×	58	2.3k
Wenquan Zhu China	29	1.9k 1.0×	1.8k 1.2×	534 0.8×	603 1.1×	245 0.6×	122	2.8k
Baozhang Chen China	32	2.5k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	693 1.0×	893 1.7×	375 1.0×	113	3.4k
Stephen L. Egbert United States	20	1.2k 0.6×	1.7k 1.2×	608 0.9×	585 1.1×	182 0.5×	48	2.4k
William D. Ritts United States	16	1.7k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	549 0.8×	278 0.5×	328 0.9×	21	2.2k
Natasha MacBean United States	26	1.9k 1.0×	958 0.6×	384 0.5×	634 1.2×	258 0.7×	50	2.5k
Bangqian Chen China	28	1.6k 0.8×	1.9k 1.3×	1.0k 1.4×	359 0.7×	322 0.8×	76	3.1k

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Serbin, Shawn, Douglas E. Ahl, & Stith T. Gower. (2013). Spatial and temporal validation of the MODIS LAI and FPAR products across a boreal forest wildfire chronosequence. Remote Sensing of Environment. 133. 71–84. 93 indexed citations

Peckham, S. D., Douglas E. Ahl, & Stith T. Gower. (2009). Bryophyte cover estimation in a boreal black spruce forest using airborne lidar and multispectral sensors. Remote Sensing of Environment. 113(6). 1127–1132. 14 indexed citations

Serbin, Shawn, Stith T. Gower, & Douglas E. Ahl. (2008). Canopy dynamics and phenology of a boreal black spruce wildfire chronosequence. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 149(1). 187–204. 22 indexed citations

Peckham, S. D., Douglas E. Ahl, Shawn Serbin, & Stith T. Gower. (2008). Fire-induced changes in green-up and leaf maturity of the Canadian boreal forest. Remote Sensing of Environment. 112(9). 3594–3603. 30 indexed citations

Bond‐Lamberty, Ben, S. D. Peckham, Douglas E. Ahl, & Stith T. Gower. (2007). Fire as the dominant driver of central Canadian boreal forest carbon balance. Nature. 450(7166). 89–92. 408 indexed citations

Bond‐Lamberty, Ben, Stith T. Gower, & Douglas E. Ahl. (2007). Improved simulation of poorly drained forests using Biome-BGC. Tree Physiology. 27(5). 703–715. 38 indexed citations

Ahl, Douglas E., Stith T. Gower, S. N. Burrows, et al.. (2006). Monitoring spring canopy phenology of a deciduous broadleaf forest using MODIS. Remote Sensing of Environment. 104(1). 88–95. 243 indexed citations

Yang, Wenze, Bin Tan, Dong Huang, et al.. (2006). MODIS leaf area index products: from validation to algorithm improvement. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 44(7). 1885–1898. 296 indexed citations

Turner, David P., William D. Ritts, Warren B. Cohen, et al.. (2006). Evaluation of MODIS NPP and GPP products across multiple biomes. Remote Sensing of Environment. 102(3-4). 282–292. 538 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bond‐Lamberty, Ben, et al.. (2005). Reimplementation of the Biome-BGC model to simulate successional change. Tree Physiology. 25(4). 413–424. 68 indexed citations

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Ahl, Douglas E., Stith T. Gower, D. S. Mackay, et al.. (2005). The effects of aggregated land cover data on estimating NPP in northern Wisconsin. Remote Sensing of Environment. 97(1). 1–14. 42 indexed citations

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Gower, Stith T., et al.. (2005). Life cycle inventories of roundwood production in northern Wisconsin: Inputs into an industrial forest carbon budget. Forest Ecology and Management. 219(1). 13–28. 59 indexed citations

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Shabanov, Nikolay V., Dong Huang, Wenze Yang, et al.. (2005). Analysis and optimization of the MODIS leaf area index algorithm retrievals over broadleaf forests. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 43(8). 1855–1865. 151 indexed citations

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Ahl, Douglas E., Stith T. Gower, D. S. Mackay, et al.. (2004). Heterogeneity of light use efficiency in a northern Wisconsin forest: implications for modeling net primary production with remote sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment. 93(1-2). 168–178. 94 indexed citations

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Burrows, S. N., Stith T. Gower, John M. Norman, et al.. (2003). Spatial variability of aboveground net primary production for a forested landscape in northern Wisconsin. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 33(10). 2007–2018. 33 indexed citations

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Ahl, Douglas E.. (2002). A Measurement and Modeling Perspective on Requirements for Future Remote Sensing Vegetation Indices and Classifications. 2 indexed citations

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Mackay, D. S., Douglas E. Ahl, B. E. Ewers, et al.. (2002). Physiological tradeoffs in the parameterization of a model of canopy transpiration. Advances in Water Resources. 26(2). 179–194. 49 indexed citations

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Mackay, D. S., Douglas E. Ahl, B. E. Ewers, et al.. (2002). Effects of aggregated classifications of forest composition on estimates of evapotranspiration in a northern Wisconsin forest. Global Change Biology. 8(12). 1253–1265. 71 indexed citations

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Ewers, B. E., D. S. Mackay, Stith T. Gower, et al.. (2002). Tree species effects on stand transpiration in northern Wisconsin. Water Resources Research. 38(7). 143 indexed citations

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Sader, Steven A., et al.. (1995). Accuracy of landsat-TM and GIS rule-based methods for forest wetland classification in Maine. Remote Sensing of Environment. 53(3). 133–144. 138 indexed citations

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