Kamel Didan

13.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
50 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Kamel Didan is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kamel Didan has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Ecology, 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 15 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kamel Didan's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (33 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (22 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (10 papers). Kamel Didan is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (33 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (22 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (10 papers). Kamel Didan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Iran. Kamel Didan's co-authors include Alfredo Huete, Xiang Gao, Tomoaki Miura, Laerte Guimarães Ferreira, P. Ratana, Lucy R. Hutyra, Ramakrishna Nemani, Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro, Wenze Yang and Ranga B. Myneni 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

Kamel Didan

47 papers receiving 9.0k 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.

Overview of the radiometric and biophysical performance of the MODIS vegetation indices

2002 7.4k citations Alfredo Huete, Kamel Didan et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Amazon rainforests green‐up with sunlight in dry season

2006 644 citations Alfredo Huete, Kamel Didan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kamel Didan United States	22	7.0k	5.7k	3.1k	1.7k	1.2k	50	9.4k
Tomoaki Miura United States	23	6.6k 1.0×	5.0k 0.9×	3.2k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	85	8.8k
Xiang Gao China	28	6.4k 0.9×	5.8k 1.0×	3.5k 1.1×	2.2k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	112	10.7k
Lars Eklundh Sweden	45	7.6k 1.1×	6.5k 1.2×	3.2k 1.0×	2.1k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	127	10.7k
Laerte Guimarães Ferreira Brazil	34	7.5k 1.1×	6.1k 1.1×	3.3k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	126	11.3k
Bradley C. Reed United States	25	5.7k 0.8×	5.3k 0.9×	2.1k 0.7×	2.2k 1.3×	579 0.5×	42	8.4k
Samuel N. Goward United States	50	7.1k 1.0×	7.1k 1.3×	4.5k 1.4×	2.3k 1.4×	784 0.7×	119	11.3k
Jesslyn F. Brown United States	31	3.8k 0.5×	4.9k 0.9×	1.9k 0.6×	2.1k 1.3×	891 0.8×	110	8.0k
Bruce K. Wylie United States	38	4.2k 0.6×	4.4k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.1×	392 0.3×	133	8.1k
Miaogen Shen China	45	5.2k 0.7×	5.4k 1.0×	1.5k 0.5×	2.2k 1.3×	912 0.8×	120	8.5k
Yuanwei Qin United States	45	5.2k 0.7×	6.3k 1.1×	2.3k 0.7×	2.1k 1.2×	890 0.8×	112	9.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kamel Didan

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Nagler, Pamela L., et al.. (2024). Greenness and Actual Evapotranspiration in the Unrestored Riparian Corridor of the Colorado River Delta in Response to In-Channel Water Deliveries in 2021 and 2022. Remote Sensing. 16(10). 1801–1801.

Nagler, Pamela L., et al.. (2024). Effect of water delivery and irrigation for riparian restoration in the Colorado River Delta, Mexico. Restoration Ecology. 33(1).

Didan, Kamel, Armando Barreto‐Muñoz, Theresa M. Crimmins, et al.. (2023). Random Forest Classification of Multitemporal Landsat 8 Spectral Data and Phenology Metrics for Land Cover Mapping in the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts. Remote Sensing. 15(5). 1266–1266. 9 indexed citations

Nouri, Hamideh, Pamela L. Nagler, Kamel Didan, et al.. (2023). Crop water use dynamics over arid and semi-arid croplands in the lower Colorado River Basin. European Journal of Remote Sensing. 56(1). 7 indexed citations

Nouri, Hamideh, Kamel Didan, Armando Barreto‐Muñoz, et al.. (2023). Mapping Vegetation Index-Derived Actual Evapotranspiration across Croplands Using the Google Earth Engine Platform. Remote Sensing. 15(4). 1017–1017. 12 indexed citations

Goldberg, Mark S., et al.. (2023). The association between the incidence of Lyme disease in the USA and indicators of greenness and land cover. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 100132–100132. 2 indexed citations

Nagler, Pamela L., et al.. (2022). Riparian Plant Evapotranspiration and Consumptive Use for Selected Areas of the Little Colorado River Watershed on the Navajo Nation. Remote Sensing. 15(1). 52–52. 6 indexed citations

Nagler, Pamela L., Armando Barreto‐Muñoz, Sattar Chavoshi Borujeni, et al.. (2021). Changes in Water Use on the Lower Colorado River in the USA from 2000-2020. 9 indexed citations

Nagler, Pamela L., Armando Barreto‐Muñoz, Sattar Chavoshi Borujeni, et al.. (2021). Riparian Area Changes in Greenness and Water Use on the Lower Colorado River in the USA from 2000 to 2020. Remote Sensing. 13(7). 1332–1332. 11 indexed citations

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Nouri, Hamideh, et al.. (2021). Changes in the water footprint of urban green spaces over time. 1 indexed citations

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Nouri, Hamideh, Kamel Didan, Armando Barreto‐Muñoz, et al.. (2021). Estimating Actual Evapotranspiration over Croplands Using Vegetation Index Methods and Dynamic Harvested Area. Remote Sensing. 13(24). 5167–5167. 23 indexed citations

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Didan, Kamel, et al.. (2021). Competitiveness of Enterprise: The Essence and Approaches to Definition. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(518). 100–104. 2 indexed citations

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Nagler, Pamela L., Armando Barreto‐Muñoz, Sattar Chavoshi Borujeni, et al.. (2020). Ecohydrological responses to surface flow across borders: Two decades of changes in vegetation greenness and water use in the riparian corridor of the Colorado River delta. Hydrological Processes. 34(25). 4851–4883. 36 indexed citations

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Jarchow, Christopher J., Kamel Didan, Armando Barreto‐Muñoz, Pamela L. Nagler, & Edward P. Glenn. (2018). Application and Comparison of the MODIS-Derived Enhanced Vegetation Index to VIIRS, Landsat 5 TM and Landsat 8 OLI Platforms: A Case Study in the Arid Colorado River Delta, Mexico. Sensors. 18(5). 1546–1546. 51 indexed citations

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Didan, Kamel, et al.. (2013). A 30-Year Multi-Sensor Vegetation Index and Land Surface Phenology Data Record: Methods Challenges and Potentials. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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White, Michael A., Kirsten M. de Beurs, Kamel Didan, et al.. (2009). Intercomparison, interpretation, and assessment of spring phenology in North America estimated from remote sensing for 1982-2006. The Mathematics Enthusiast. 2008. 7 indexed citations

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Glenn, Edward P., Kiyomi Morino, Kamel Didan, et al.. (2008). Scaling sap flux measurements of grazed and ungrazed shrub communities with fine and coarse‐resolution remote sensing. Ecohydrology. 1(4). 316–329. 43 indexed citations

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Jiang, Zhangyan, Alfredo Huete, Youngwook Kim, & Kamel Didan. (2007). 2-band enhanced vegetation index without a blue band and its application to AVHRR data. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6679. 667905–667905. 36 indexed citations

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Huete, Alfredo, et al.. (2002). Overview of the radiometric and biophysical performance of the MODIS vegetation indices. Remote Sensing of Environment. 83(1-2). 195–213. 7379 indexed citations breakdown →

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Huete, Alfredo, Kamel Didan, Willem van Leeuwen, & Éric Vermote. (1999). Global-scale analysis of vegetation indices for moderate resolution monitoring of terrestrial vegetation. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 10 indexed citations

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