Joel McCorkel

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Joel McCorkel is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Joel McCorkel has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 42 papers in Atmospheric Science and 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Joel McCorkel's work include Calibration and Measurement Techniques (69 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (38 papers) and Infrared Target Detection Methodologies (26 papers). Joel McCorkel is often cited by papers focused on Calibration and Measurement Techniques (69 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (38 papers) and Infrared Target Detection Methodologies (26 papers). Joel McCorkel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Bolivia and Canada. Joel McCorkel's co-authors include Jeffrey G. Masek, Kurtis J. Thome, Brian L. Markham, Jeffrey S. Czapla-Myers, Elizabeth M. Middleton, Del T. Jenstrom, Christopher J. Crawford, James C. Storey, Michael A. Wulder and Bruce D. Cook and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Remote Sensing of Environment and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Joel McCorkel

85 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Landsat 9: Empowering open science and applications throu... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150 200 250
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. Landsat 9: Empowering open science and applications through continuity
    2020 267 citations Jeffrey G. Masek, Brian L. Markham et al. profile →

Peers

Joel McCorkel
G. Fedosejevs Canada
Dinh Ho Tong Minh France
James C. Storey United States
Pat Scaramuzza United States
Jens Nieke Netherlands
Yrjö Rauste Finland
G. De Grandi Italy
Alexander P. Trishchenko Canada
Valentyn Tolpekin Netherlands
Charles K. Gatebe United States
G. Fedosejevs Canada
Joel McCorkel
Citations per year, relative to Joel McCorkel Joel McCorkel (= 1×) peers G. Fedosejevs

Countries citing papers authored by Joel McCorkel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joel McCorkel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joel McCorkel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Joel McCorkel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Joel McCorkel based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Joel McCorkel. Joel McCorkel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Barsi, Julia A., Thomas U. Kampe, Brian L. Markham, et al.. (2024). Prelaunch Spectral Characterization of the Operational Land Imager-2. Remote Sensing. 16(6). 981–981. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhipeng, Julia A. Barsi, Kurtis J. Thome, et al.. (2024). Uncertainty budget for detector-based absolute radiometric calibration with GLAMR. Applied Optics. 63(12). 3015–3015. 1 indexed citations
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Lindsey, Daniel T., Andrew K. Heidinger, Pamela C. Sullivan, et al.. (2024). GeoXO: NOAA’s Future Geostationary Satellite System. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 105(3). E660–E679. 12 indexed citations
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Holmes, Thomas, Benjamin Poulter, Joel McCorkel, et al.. (2024). On‐Orbit Spatial Performance Characterization for Thermal Infrared Imagers of Landsat 7, 8, and 9, ECOSTRESS and CTI. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(2). 2 indexed citations
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Jhabvala, M, Donald E. Jennings, Compton J. Tucker, et al.. (2023). Dual and multi-spectral band SLS infrared camera systems. 10–10.
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Pearlman, Aaron, Boryana Efremova, Matthew Montanaro, et al.. (2022). Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 On-Orbit Calibration and Initial Performance. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–8. 13 indexed citations
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Montanaro, Matthew, Joel McCorkel, June L. Tveekrem, et al.. (2022). Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 (TIRS-2) Stray Light Mitigation and Assessment. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–8. 17 indexed citations
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Pearlman, Aaron, Monica Cook, Boryana Efremova, et al.. (2022). Polarization performance simulation for the GeoXO atmospheric composition instrument: NO 2 retrieval impacts. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 15(15). 4489–4501. 2 indexed citations
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Paynter, Ian, Bruce D. Cook, Jyoteshwar Nagol, & Joel McCorkel. (2020). Characterization of FIREFLY, an Imaging Spectrometer Designed for Remote Sensing of Solar Induced Fluorescence. Sensors. 20(17). 4682–4682. 7 indexed citations
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Pearlman, Aaron, Matthew Montanaro, Boryana Efremova, et al.. (2020). Prelaunch Radiometric Calibration and Uncertainty Analysis of Landsat Thermal Infrared Sensor 2. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 59(4). 2715–2726. 9 indexed citations
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Monson, Russell K., Barbro Winkler, Todd N. Rosenstiel, et al.. (2020). High productivity in hybrid-poplar plantations without isoprene emission to the atmosphere. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(3). 1596–1605. 35 indexed citations
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Montanaro, Matthew, Joel McCorkel, June L. Tveekrem, et al.. (2018). Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 Preliminary Stray Light Assessment. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 8853–8856. 9 indexed citations
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Thome, Kurtis J., et al.. (2018). Ultra-portable field transfer radiometer for vicarious calibration of earth imaging sensors. Metrologia. 55(3). S104–S117. 10 indexed citations
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McCorkel, Joel, Matthew Montanaro, Boryana Efremova, et al.. (2018). Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 Characterization Plan Overview. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 8845–8848. 18 indexed citations
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Román, Miguel O., et al.. (2016). MALIBU: A High Spatial Resolution Multi-Angle Imaging Unmanned Airborne System to Validate Satellite-derived BRDF/Albedo Products. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 1 indexed citations
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McCorkel, Joel, Brian Cairns, & Andrzej P. Wasilewski. (2016). Imager-to-radiometer in-flight cross calibration: RSP radiometric comparison with airborne and satellite sensors. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 9(3). 955–962. 4 indexed citations
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Neigh, C. S. R., Joel McCorkel, Petya Campbell, et al.. (2016). Monitoring Orbital Precession of EO-1 Hyperion With Three Atmospheric Correction Models in the Libya-4 PICS. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 13(12). 1797–1801. 6 indexed citations
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Cook, Bruce D., Ross Nelson, Elizabeth M. Middleton, et al.. (2013). NASA Goddard’s LiDAR, Hyperspectral and Thermal (G-LiHT) Airborne Imager. Remote Sensing. 5(8). 4045–4066. 291 indexed citations

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