F. Mark Danson

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

F. Mark Danson is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, F. Mark Danson has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Ecology, 33 papers in Environmental Engineering and 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in F. Mark Danson's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (39 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (30 papers) and Forest ecology and management (17 papers). F. Mark Danson is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (39 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (30 papers) and Forest ecology and management (17 papers). F. Mark Danson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and United States. F. Mark Danson's co-authors include Paul K. Bowyer, Emilio Chuvieco, David Riaño, Doreen S. Boyd, Mariano Garcı́a, Stephen Plummer, Rachel Gaulton, Frédéric Baret, Tim Malthus and Mathias Disney 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

F. Mark Danson

62 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Terrestrial laser scanning in forest ecology: Expanding the horizon

2020 344 citations Kim Calders, Jennifer Adams et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
F. Mark Danson United Kingdom	32	2.7k	2.4k	1.7k	1.2k	722	63	4.2k
Christopher M. Gough United States	45	2.3k 0.9×	991 0.4×	4.4k 2.5×	2.1k 1.8×	783 1.1×	124	6.3k
Carlos Alberto Silva United States	35	1.7k 0.6×	2.7k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	1.6k 1.4×	172 0.2×	153	4.2k
Roshanak Darvishzadeh Netherlands	42	3.9k 1.5×	1.9k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	394 0.3×	1.9k 2.6×	117	4.8k
Martin Schlerf Netherlands	36	3.6k 1.4×	1.7k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	312 0.3×	1.7k 2.4×	94	4.7k
Nicholas Hamm Netherlands	23	899 0.3×	703 0.3×	782 0.5×	483 0.4×	163 0.2×	57	3.1k
Jan U.H. Eitel United States	35	2.8k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	745 0.6×	1.2k 1.6×	96	4.1k
Douglas J. King Canada	30	2.1k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	871 0.8×	447 0.6×	80	3.4k
Yanjun Su China	43	2.6k 1.0×	3.1k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	1.4k 1.2×	827 1.1×	122	5.0k
David Riaño United States	39	3.4k 1.3×	2.7k 1.1×	3.4k 2.0×	1.0k 0.9×	624 0.9×	80	5.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of F. Mark Danson

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Brown, Luke A., et al.. (2025). Leaf‐wood classification of terrestrial laser scanning data with co‐registered near‐infrared photography. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16(7). 1425–1436. 1 indexed citations

Brown, Luke A., Harry Morris, Courtney L. Meier, et al.. (2023). Stage 1 Validation of Plant Area Index From the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 20. 1–5. 8 indexed citations

Calders, Kim, Jennifer Adams, John Armston, et al.. (2020). Terrestrial laser scanning in forest ecology: Expanding the horizon. Remote Sensing of Environment. 251. 112102–112102. 344 indexed citations breakdown →

Åkerblom, Markku, Pasi Raumonen, Eric Casella, et al.. (2018). Non-intersecting leaf insertion algorithm for tree structure models. Interface Focus. 8(2). 20170045–20170045. 48 indexed citations

Danson, F. Mark, Mathias Disney, Rachel Gaulton, Crystal Schaaf, & Alan H. Strahler. (2018). The terrestrial laser scanning revolution in forest ecology. Interface Focus. 8(2). 20180001–20180001. 16 indexed citations

Newnham, Glenn, John Armston, Kim Calders, et al.. (2015). Terrestrial Laser Scanning for Plot-Scale Forest Measurement. Current Forestry Reports. 1(4). 239–251. 199 indexed citations

Danson, F. Mark, Rachel Gaulton, Richard Armitage, et al.. (2014). Developing a dual-wavelength full-waveform terrestrial laser scanner to characterize forest canopy structure. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 198-199. 7–14. 101 indexed citations

Yebra, Marta, Philip E. Dennison, Emilio Chuvieco, et al.. (2013). A global review of remote sensing of live fuel moisture content for fire danger assessment: Moving towards operational products. Remote Sensing of Environment. 136. 455–468. 281 indexed citations

Armitage, Richard, et al.. (2012). Mapping fuel moisture content in upland vegetation using airborne hyperspectral imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 127. 74–83. 23 indexed citations

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Danson, F. Mark, Richard Armitage, & Christopher G. Marston. (2008). Spatial and temporal modelling for parasite transmission studies and risk assessment. Parasite. 15(3). 463–468. 6 indexed citations

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Chuvieco, Emilio, David Riaño, F. Mark Danson, & M. Pilar Martín. (2006). Use of a radiative transfer model to simulate the postfire spectral response to burn severity. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 111(G4). 137 indexed citations

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Danson, F. Mark, David Hetherington, Felix Morsdorf, Benjamin Koetz, & Britta Allgöwer. (2006). Three-dimensional forest canopy structure from terrestrial laser scanning. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 50–54. 6 indexed citations

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Pleydell, David, Francis Raoul, François-Pierre Tourneux, et al.. (2004). Modelling the spatial distribution of Echinococcus multilocularis infection in foxes. Acta Tropica. 91(3). 253–265. 43 indexed citations

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Graham, A.J., F. Mark Danson, Patrick Giraudoux, & Philip S. Craig. (2004). Ecological epidemiology: landscape metrics and human alveolar echinococossis. Acta Tropica. 91(3). 267–278. 37 indexed citations

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Danson, F. Mark, et al.. (2000). Crop LAI from neural network inversion.. Aspects of applied biology. 45–52. 3 indexed citations

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Danson, F. Mark, et al.. (1998). Measuring land surface directional reflectance with the along track scanning radiometer. Biblioteca Digital da Memória Científica do INPE (National Institute for Space Research). 1 indexed citations

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Danson, F. Mark & Stephen Plummer. (1995). Advances in environmental remote sensing. Oceanographic literature review. 8(43). 838. 65 indexed citations

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Malthus, Tim, Bruno Andrieu, F. Mark Danson, K. W. Jaggard, & M. D. Steven. (1993). Candidate high spectral resolution infrared indices for crop cover. Remote Sensing of Environment. 46(2). 204–212. 34 indexed citations

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Danson, F. Mark, M. D. Steven, Tim Malthus, & J. A. Clark. (1992). High-spectral resolution data for determining leaf water content. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 13(3). 461–470. 237 indexed citations

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Danson, F. Mark, A. Louise Heathwaite, & Stephen Trudgill. (1991). Multi-temporal monitoring of lake water quality. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 1 indexed citations

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