John Townshend

18.2k citations

88 papers · 10.3k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 48

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.1%
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Ecology top 0.1%
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 49
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 29
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 13
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 8
Ecology 55
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture 49

Co-authors: Matthew C. Hansen Xiao‐Peng Song Chengquan Huang Compton J. Tucker Joe Sexton Saurabh Channan Ruth DeFries Thomas Goff
Journals: Remote Sensing of Environment (21 papers)International Journal of Remote Sensing (9 papers)International Journal of Digital Earth (9 papers)Geographical Journal (4 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (4 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom China

In The Last Decade

John Townshend

87 papers receiving 9.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Global land change from 1982 to 2016 2018 · 1.4k citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2018 Nature
2013 International Journal of Digital Earth
2013 International Journal of Digital Earth
2008 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1985 Science

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside John Townshend, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Annual Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in the Amazon Basin between 2000 and 2010 PLoS ONE ·Xiao‐Peng Song, Chengquan Huang, Sassan Saatchi, Matthew C. Hansen, John Townshend	2015	52
2	Conservation policy and the measurement of forests Nature Climate Change ·Joe Sexton, Praveen Noojipady, Xiao‐Peng Song, Min Feng, Dan‐Xia Song, Do‐Hyung Kim, Anupam Anand, Chengquan Huang, Saurabh Channan, Stuart L. Pimm, John Townshend	2015	146
3	Comparison of remote sensing based forest area and change estimation with national forestry inventory between 2000 and 2005 in China Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·Dan‐Xia Song, Chengquan Huang, Praveen Noojipady, Saurabh Channan, John Townshend	2014	8
4	Global characterization and monitoring of forest cover using Landsat data: opportunities and challenges International Journal of Digital Earth ·John Townshend, Jeffrey G. Masek, Chengquan Huang, Éric Vermote, Feng Gao, Saurabh Channan, Joe Sexton, Min Feng, M. Zengin, Dohyung Kim, Kuan Song, Dan‐Xia Song, Xiao‐Peng Song, Praveen Noojipady, Bin Tan, Matthew C. Hansen, Mengxue Li, Robert E. Wolfe	2012	254
5	An approach for quickly labeling land cover types for multiple epochs at globally selected locations Min Feng, Chengquan Huang, Joe Sexton, Saurabh Channan, M. Zengin, John Townshend	2012	9
6	Development of time series stacks of Landsat images for reconstructing forest disturbance history International Journal of Digital Earth ·Chengquan Huang, Samuel N. Goward, Jeffrey G. Masek, Feng Gao, Éric Vermote, Nancy Thomas, Karen Schleeweis, Robert E. Kennedy, Zhiliang Zhu, Jeffery C. Eidenshink, John Townshend	2009	110
7	Assessment of Paraguay's forest cover change using Landsat observations Global and Planetary Change ·Chengquan Huang, Sunghee Kim, Kuan Song, John Townshend, Paul Davis, Alice Altstatt, Oscar Rodas, Alberto Yanosky, Rob P. Clay, Compton J. Tucker, John Musinsky	2009	127
8	Developing a spatially continuous 1 km surface albedo data set over North America from Terra MODIS products Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Hongliang Fang, Shunlin Liang, Hye‐Yun Kim, John Townshend, Crystal Schaaf, Alan H. Strahler, Robert E. Dickinson	2007	50
9	Using local transition probability models in Markov random fields for forest change detection Remote Sensing of Environment ·Desheng Liu, Kuan Song, John Townshend, Peng Gong	2007	80
10	The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): A new generation of Land Surface Monitoring Remote Sensing of Environment ·Christopher O. Justice, John Townshend	2002	3
11	MODIS 250m AND 500m TIME SERIES DATA FOR CHANGE DETECTION AND CONTINUOUS REPRESENTATION OF VEGETATION CHARACTERISTICS John Townshend, Ruth DeFries, Xiwu Zhan, 透馬淵, Matthew C. Hansen, C. Dimiceli, Mark Carroll, Ю. Л. Писаревский	2002	2
12	Landsat imagery shows decline of coastal marshes in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays Eos ·Michael Kearney, Giorgio Mazzucchetti, John Townshend, 裘树祥, David Stutzer, J. Court Stevenson, Paul F. Howard	2002	108
13	<title>Tropical deforestation in the Bolivian Amazon</title> Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Compton J. Tucker, Marc K. Steininger, John Townshend, Ya.V. Grigor'eva, Ayfer Yazgan	2000	1
14	An operational atmospheric correction algorithm for Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery over the land Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Shunlin Liang, F. Gissi, Satya Kalluri, Joseph F. JáJá, Yoram J. Kaufman, John Townshend	1997	104
15	A modified hapke model for soil bidirectional reflectance Remote Sensing of Environment ·Shunlin Liang, John Townshend	1996	55
16	Mapping the land surface for global atmosphere‐biosphere models: Toward continuous distributions of vegetation's functional properties Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Ruth DeFries, Christopher B. Field, Inez Fung, Christopher O. Justice, S. O. Los, Pamela A. Matson, Elaine Matthews, Harold A. Mooney, Christopher Potter, Katharine C. Prentice, P. J. Sellers, John Townshend, Compton J. Tucker, Susan L. Ustin, Peter M. Vitousek	1995	158
17	Global land cover classification by remote sensing: present capabilities and future possibilities Remote Sensing of Environment ·John Townshend, Christopher O. Justice, Wei Li, C. Gurney, Articals Mathematics	1991	344
18	African Land-Cover Classification Using Satellite Data Science ·Compton J. Tucker, John Townshend, Thomas Goff Hit paper breakdown →	1985	811
19	The spatial resolving power of earth resources satellites Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment ·John Townshend	1981	61
20	Unsupervised classification of MSS Landsat data for mapping spatially complex vegetation International Journal of Remote Sensing ·John Townshend, Christopher O. Justice	1980	24

About John Townshend

John Townshend is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Ecological Modeling and Media Technology, having authored 88 papers that have together received 10.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (49 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (29 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (15 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (15 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (13 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (11 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (9 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (6.5k citations), Ecology (5.7k citations), Environmental Engineering (3.1k citations), Ecological Modeling (886 citations) and Media Technology (1.2k citations). John Townshend has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Frequent co-authors include Matthew C. Hansen, Xiao‐Peng Song, Chengquan Huang, Compton J. Tucker, Joe Sexton, Saurabh Channan, Ruth DeFries, Thomas Goff, Éric Vermote and Min Feng. Their work appears in journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, International Journal of Remote Sensing, International Journal of Digital Earth, Geographical Journal and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

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