Emilio Chuvieco

21.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
223 papers, 14.9k citations indexed

About

Emilio Chuvieco is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Emilio Chuvieco has authored 223 papers receiving a total of 14.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 182 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 125 papers in Ecology and 72 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Emilio Chuvieco's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (165 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (115 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (64 papers). Emilio Chuvieco is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (165 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (115 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (64 papers). Emilio Chuvieco collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and United Kingdom. Emilio Chuvieco's co-authors include David Riaño, Inmaculada Aguado, M. Pilar Martín, Javier Salas, Marta Yebra, Stijn Hantson, Aitor Bastarrika, Mariano Garcı́a, Marc Padilla and Russell G. Congalton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Emilio Chuvieco

213 papers receiving 14.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Historical background and current developments for mapping burned area from satellite Earth observation

2019 372 citations Emilio Chuvieco, Florent Mouillot et al. profile →
Development of a Sentinel-2 burned area algorithm: Generation of a small fire database for sub-Saharan Africa

2018 299 citations Ekhi Roteta, Aitor Bastarrika et al. profile →
A spatio-temporal active-fire clustering approach for global burned area mapping at 250 m from MODIS data

2019 263 citations Joshua Lizundia-Loiola, Gonzalo Otón et al. profile →
African burned area and fire carbon emissions are strongly impacted by small fires undetected by coarse resolution satellite data

2021 194 citations Rubén Ramo, Ekhi Roteta et al. profile →
Record-high CO ₂ emissions from boreal fires in 2021

2023 148 citations Bo Zheng, Philippe Ciais et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Emilio Chuvieco Spain	71	11.8k	7.8k	4.5k	1.9k	1.9k	223	14.9k
David P. Roy United States	66	12.8k 1.1×	11.3k 1.4×	5.7k 1.3×	4.3k 2.3×	1.0k 0.5×	206	19.4k
Christopher O. Justice United States	43	9.5k 0.8×	6.1k 0.8×	2.9k 0.7×	3.6k 1.9×	709 0.4×	70	12.5k
Douglas C. Morton United States	62	12.7k 1.1×	5.4k 0.7×	3.0k 0.7×	4.9k 2.5×	1.0k 0.5×	129	17.0k
Zhiliang Zhu United States	44	7.2k 0.6×	7.6k 1.0×	2.5k 0.6×	2.5k 1.3×	968 0.5×	139	12.4k
C. O. Justice United States	26	8.8k 0.7×	7.0k 0.9×	3.1k 0.7×	2.5k 1.3×	777 0.4×	40	13.8k
José M. C. Pereira Portugal	49	6.7k 0.6×	3.3k 0.4×	1.4k 0.3×	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	171	8.4k
Claudia Kuenzer Germany	61	4.9k 0.4×	4.2k 0.5×	2.2k 0.5×	2.7k 1.4×	1.1k 0.6×	210	11.3k
Louis Giglio United States	67	21.7k 1.8×	6.1k 0.8×	2.7k 0.6×	12.1k 6.3×	1.3k 0.7×	143	24.7k
Andrew T. Hudak United States	55	6.1k 0.5×	5.8k 0.7×	6.0k 1.3×	609 0.3×	688 0.4×	230	11.0k
Chris Justice United States	47	5.9k 0.5×	5.2k 0.7×	2.7k 0.6×	2.5k 1.3×	446 0.2×	98	9.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Emilio Chuvieco

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Gudmundsson, Lukas, Basil Kraft, Stijn Hantson, et al.. (2025). BuRNN (v1.0): A Data-Driven Fire Model. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council).

Bastarrika, Aitor, Ekhi Roteta, Stijn Hantson, et al.. (2024). An automatic procedure for mapping burned areas globally using Sentinel-2 and VIIRS/MODIS active fires in Google Earth Engine. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 218. 232–245. 9 indexed citations

Garcı́a, Mariano, et al.. (2023). Classification and mapping of European fuels using a hierarchical, multipurpose fuel classification system. Earth system science data. 15(3). 1287–1315. 33 indexed citations

Zheng, Bo, Philippe Ciais, Frédéric Chevallier, et al.. (2023). Record-high CO ₂ emissions from boreal fires in 2021. Science. 379(6635). 912–917. 148 indexed citations breakdown →

Chuvieco, Emilio, et al.. (2022). Examining the Relationships between Religious Affiliation, External and Internal Behavioural Factors, and Personal Carbon Footprint. Religions. 13(5). 416–416. 4 indexed citations

Aguado, Inmaculada, et al.. (2022). Global assessment and mapping of ecological vulnerability to wildfires. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 22(9). 2981–3003. 16 indexed citations

Chuvieco, Emilio, et al.. (2021). Links between Climate Change Knowledge, Perception and Action: Impacts on Personal Carbon Footprint. Sustainability. 13(14). 8088–8088. 17 indexed citations

Lizundia-Loiola, Joshua, Magí Franquesa, Martin Boettcher, et al.. (2021). Operational implementation of the burned area component of theCopernicus Climate Change Service: from MODIS 250 m to OLCI300 m data. 2 indexed citations

Aguado, Inmaculada, et al.. (2021). Global assessment and mapping of ecological vulnerability to wildfires. 3 indexed citations

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Franquesa, Magí, Melanie K. Vanderhoof, Dimitris Stavrakoudis, et al.. (2020). Development of a standard database of reference sites for validating global burned area products. Earth system science data. 12(4). 3229–3246. 38 indexed citations

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Forkel, Matthias, Niels Andela, Sandy P. Harrison, et al.. (2019). Emergent relationships with respect to burned area in global satellite observations and fire-enabled vegetation models. Biogeosciences. 16(1). 57–76. 112 indexed citations

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Forkel, Matthias, Niels Andela, Sandy P. Harrison, et al.. (2018). Emergent relationships on burned area in global satellite observations and fire-enabled vegetation models. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 5 indexed citations

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Chuvieco, Emilio, Joshua Lizundia-Loiola, M. Lucrecia Pettinari, et al.. (2018). Generation and analysis of a new global burned area product based on MODIS 250 m reflectance bands and thermal anomalies. Earth system science data. 10(4). 2015–2031. 217 indexed citations

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Forkel, Matthias, Wouter Dorigo, Gitta Lasslop, et al.. (2017). A data-driven approach to identify controls on global fire activity from satellite and climate observations (SOFIA V1). Geoscientific model development. 10(12). 4443–4476. 62 indexed citations

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Chuvieco, Emilio, Chao Yue, Angelika Heil, et al.. (2016). A new global burned area product for climate assessment of fire impacts. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25(5). 619–629. 143 indexed citations

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Forkel, Matthias, Wouter Dorigo, Gitta Lasslop, et al.. (2016). Identifying required model structures to predict global fire activityfrom satellite and climate data. 4 indexed citations

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Chuvieco, Emilio, et al.. (2014). Estimating water content from hyperspectral measurements for fire risk mapping. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

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Chuvieco, Emilio, et al.. (2013). Assessment of the discrimination ability of MERIS spectral data for burned area mapping using ROC curves. GeoFocus Revista Internacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Información Geográfica. 41–65. 1 indexed citations

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Martín, M. Pilar, et al.. (2002). Burned land mapping using NOAA-AVHRR and TERRA-MODIS.. 20 indexed citations

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Chuvieco, Emilio, et al.. (2001). ESTIMACIÓN DEL ESTADO HÍDRICO DE LA VEGETACIÓN A PARTIR DE SENSORES DE ALTA Y BAJA RESOLUCIÓN. GeoFocus Revista Internacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Información Geográfica. 1–16. 3 indexed citations

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