Joanne C. White

23.6k total citations · 11 hit papers
245 papers, 16.3k citations indexed

About

Joanne C. White is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Joanne C. White has authored 245 papers receiving a total of 16.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 170 papers in Environmental Engineering, 148 papers in Ecology and 109 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Joanne C. White's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (166 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (123 papers) and Forest ecology and management (78 papers). Joanne C. White is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (166 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (123 papers) and Forest ecology and management (78 papers). Joanne C. White collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Finland. Joanne C. White's co-authors include Michael A. Wulder, Nicholas C. Coops, Txomin Hermosilla, Thomas Hilker, Cristina Gómez, Geordie Hobart, Piotr Tompalski, Jeffrey G. Masek, Mikko Vastaranta and Christopher W. Bater and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Joanne C. White

240 papers receiving 15.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Optical remotely sensed time series data for land cover classification: A review
    2016 893 citations Joanne C. White, Michael A. Wulder et al. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing profile →
  2. Remote Sensing Technologies for Enhancing Forest Inventories: A Review
    2016 615 citations Joanne C. White, Nicholas C. Coops et al. profile →
  3. A new data fusion model for high spatial- and temporal-resolution mapping of forest disturbance based on Landsat and MODIS
    2009 593 citations Michael A. Wulder, Nicholas C. Coops et al. profile →
  4. Lidar sampling for large-area forest characterization: A review
    2012 584 citations Michael A. Wulder, Joanne C. White et al. profile →
  5. The global Landsat archive: Status, consolidation, and direction
    2015 566 citations Michael A. Wulder, Joanne C. White et al. profile →
  6. Landsat continuity: Issues and opportunities for land cover monitoring
    2007 469 citations Michael A. Wulder, Joanne C. White et al. profile →
  7. Pixel-Based Image Compositing for Large-Area Dense Time Series Applications and Science
    2014 359 citations Joanne C. White, Michael A. Wulder et al. profile →
  8. A nationwide annual characterization of 25 years of forest disturbance and recovery for Canada using Landsat time series
    2017 297 citations Joanne C. White, Michael A. Wulder et al. profile →
  9. Land cover 2.0
    2018 291 citations Michael A. Wulder, Nicholas C. Coops et al. International Journal of Remote Sensing profile →
  10. Modelling lidar-derived estimates of forest attributes over space and time: A review of approaches and future trends
    2021 229 citations Nicholas C. Coops, Piotr Tompalski et al. profile →
  11. Remote sensing in forestry: current challenges, considerations and directions
    2023 154 citations Joanne C. White, Michael A. Wulder et al. Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joanne C. White Canada 62 10.1k 9.0k 7.4k 4.7k 2.3k 245 16.3k
Warren B. Cohen United States 75 15.1k 1.5× 11.2k 1.2× 13.1k 1.8× 6.4k 1.4× 1.8k 0.8× 176 23.7k
Ralph Dubayah United States 62 7.8k 0.8× 10.2k 1.1× 6.1k 0.8× 6.2k 1.3× 1.5k 0.7× 221 15.3k
Nicholas C. Coops Canada 83 16.5k 1.6× 15.0k 1.7× 13.4k 1.8× 9.2k 2.0× 3.6k 1.6× 642 28.9k
Qinghua Guo China 58 5.0k 0.5× 5.5k 0.6× 3.7k 0.5× 3.1k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 229 11.3k
M. A. Lefsky United States 34 5.2k 0.5× 7.2k 0.8× 3.7k 0.5× 4.7k 1.0× 1.6k 0.7× 70 10.2k
Michael A. Wulder Canada 91 20.2k 2.0× 16.1k 1.8× 15.1k 2.1× 8.6k 1.8× 3.7k 1.6× 446 32.2k
Maggi Kelly United States 50 4.9k 0.5× 3.7k 0.4× 3.7k 0.5× 2.2k 0.5× 932 0.4× 156 9.9k
Andrew T. Hudak United States 55 5.8k 0.6× 6.0k 0.7× 6.1k 0.8× 4.1k 0.9× 1.8k 0.8× 230 11.0k
Dar A. Roberts United States 73 10.7k 1.1× 6.6k 0.7× 10.3k 1.4× 2.5k 0.5× 464 0.2× 306 20.3k
Crystal Schaaf United States 74 11.9k 1.2× 8.6k 1.0× 12.6k 1.7× 1.9k 0.4× 557 0.2× 250 20.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tompalski, Piotr, Txomin Hermosilla, Sharad Kumar Baral, Michael A. Wulder, & Joanne C. White. (2025). National remote sensing-derived aboveground biomass yield curves for Canada. Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research. 99(2).
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Coops, Nicholas C., et al.. (2025). Tree species proportion prediction using airborne laser scanning and Sentinel-2 data within a deep learning based dual-stream data fusion approach. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 46(14). 5436–5464.
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Coops, Nicholas C., et al.. (2025). Forest aboveground biomass estimation using deep learning data fusion of ALS, multispectral, and topographic data. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 46(10). 3874–3912. 3 indexed citations
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Baral, Sharad Kumar, Paul Boudewyn, Txomin Hermosilla, et al.. (2025). Improving sample-based National Forest Inventory estimates of tree cover using Landsat-derived land cover data as auxiliary information. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 55. 1–19. 1 indexed citations
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Fortin, Mathieu, et al.. (2024). A bootstrap-based approach to combine individual-based forest growth models and remotely sensed data. Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research. 97(4). 649–661. 1 indexed citations
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Queinnec, Martin, Nicholas C. Coops, & Joanne C. White. (2024). Characterizing post-fire northern boreal forest height dynamics. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 45(7). 2182–2207. 2 indexed citations
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Coops, Nicholas C., et al.. (2023). Estimating tree species composition from airborne laser scanning data using point-based deep learning models. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 207. 282–297. 9 indexed citations
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White, Joanne C., et al.. (2023). Detecting and excluding disturbed forest areas improves site index determination using bitemporal airborne laser scanner data. Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research. 97(1). 48–58. 4 indexed citations
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Coops, Nicholas C., et al.. (2023). Modeling instream temperature from solar insolation under varying timber harvesting intensities using RPAS laser scanning. The Science of The Total Environment. 912. 169459–169459. 4 indexed citations
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Goodbody, Tristan R.H., Nicholas C. Coops, Martin Queinnec, et al.. (2023). sgsR: a structurally guided sampling toolbox for LiDAR-based forest inventories. Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research. 96(4). 411–424. 16 indexed citations
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Coops, Nicholas C., et al.. (2023). Modelling tree biomass using direct and additive methods with point cloud deep learning in a temperate mixed forest. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8. 100110–100110. 12 indexed citations
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Crowley, Morgan A., Christopher A. Stockdale, Joshua M. Johnston, et al.. (2022). Towards a whole‐system framework for wildfire monitoring using Earth observations. Global Change Biology. 29(6). 1423–1436. 30 indexed citations
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Li, Zhan, Joanne C. White, Michael A. Wulder, et al.. (2020). Land cover harmonization using Latent Dirichlet Allocation. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 35(2). 348–374. 16 indexed citations
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Crowley, Morgan A., Jeffrey A. Cardille, Joanne C. White, & Michael A. Wulder. (2018). Multi-sensor, multi-scale, Bayesian data synthesis for mapping within-year wildfire progression. Remote Sensing Letters. 10(3). 302–311. 41 indexed citations
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Wulder, Michael A., Nicholas C. Coops, David P. Roy, Joanne C. White, & Txomin Hermosilla. (2018). Land cover 2.0. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 39(12). 4254–4284. 291 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vastaranta, Mikko, Xiaowei Yu, Ville Luoma, et al.. (2018). Aboveground forest biomass derived using multiple dates of WorldView-2 stereo-imagery: quantifying the improvement in estimation accuracy. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 39(23). 8766–8783. 19 indexed citations
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Tompalski, Piotr, et al.. (2018). Combining Multi-Date Airborne Laser Scanning and Digital Aerial Photogrammetric Data for Forest Growth and Yield Modelling. Remote Sensing. 10(2). 347–347. 52 indexed citations

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