Kyle McDonald

878 total citations
16 papers, 677 citations indexed

About

Kyle McDonald is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kyle McDonald has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 677 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Environmental Engineering, 9 papers in Atmospheric Science and 3 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kyle McDonald's work include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (10 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (7 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (5 papers). Kyle McDonald is often cited by papers focused on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (10 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (7 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (5 papers). Kyle McDonald collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Peru. Kyle McDonald's co-authors include John S. Kimball, Youngwook Kim, Ke Zhang, Joseph Glassy, L. A. Jones, Yonghong Yi, Rolf H. Reichle, E. G. Njoku, Craig R. Ferguson and Eric F. Wood and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Climate and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Kyle McDonald

16 papers receiving 656 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kyle McDonald United States 10 509 348 205 112 34 16 677
Zeke Li China 1 343 0.7× 441 1.3× 334 1.6× 146 1.3× 56 1.6× 2 676
Clare Webster United Kingdom 16 356 0.7× 157 0.5× 241 1.2× 86 0.8× 18 0.5× 28 545
Christian Hüttich Germany 11 156 0.3× 187 0.5× 236 1.2× 266 2.4× 28 0.8× 23 455
Sari Metsämäki Finland 17 753 1.5× 214 0.6× 209 1.0× 111 1.0× 36 1.1× 58 887
Xiaoji Shen China 11 228 0.4× 263 0.8× 127 0.6× 97 0.9× 31 0.9× 24 412
Phyllis Adams United States 5 201 0.4× 129 0.4× 207 1.0× 240 2.1× 34 1.0× 10 501
W. Grey United Kingdom 13 540 1.1× 134 0.4× 642 3.1× 169 1.5× 70 2.1× 16 783
T.P. DeFelice United States 12 185 0.4× 130 0.4× 263 1.3× 151 1.3× 17 0.5× 29 409
C. Toté Belgium 10 287 0.6× 111 0.3× 375 1.8× 162 1.4× 15 0.4× 21 572
Marcel Urban Germany 10 131 0.3× 290 0.8× 173 0.8× 262 2.3× 31 0.9× 25 477

Countries citing papers authored by Kyle McDonald

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kyle McDonald

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kyle McDonald

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kyle McDonald. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kyle McDonald 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 Kyle McDonald. Kyle McDonald is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Tsang, Leung, Mehmet Kurum, Andreas Colliander, et al.. (2025). Full-Wave Simulations of Forest at L-Band With Fast Hybrid Multiple Scattering Theory Method and Comparison With GNSS Signals. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18. 5395–5405. 1 indexed citations
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McDonald, Kyle, et al.. (2024). NISAR: Seeing Beyond the Trees to Understand Wetlands, Forests and Biodiversity. 6775–6778. 3 indexed citations
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Siqueira, Paul, John Armston, Bruce Chapman, et al.. (2024). Ecosystem Science with NISAR: Final Preparations in The Pre-Launch Period. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 6628–6630. 1 indexed citations
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Winter, Jonathan M., et al.. (2020). Integrated crop growth and radiometric modeling to support Sentinel synthetic aperture radar observations of agricultural fields. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. 14(4). 7 indexed citations
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Rowlandson, Tracy, Aaron Berg, Edward Kim, et al.. (2018). Capturing agricultural soil freeze/thaw state through remote sensing and ground observations: A soil freeze/thaw validation campaign. Remote Sensing of Environment. 211. 59–70. 43 indexed citations
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Arendt, A. A., Paul R. Houser, Sarah Kapnick, et al.. (2017). NASA's High Mountain Asia Team (HiMAT): collaborative research to study changes of the High Asia region. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations
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Chapman, Bruce, et al.. (2014). Detection and Monitoring of Inundation with Polarimetric L-Band SAR. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. 2014. 1 indexed citations
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Bateni, Sayed M., S. A. Margulis, E. Podest, & Kyle McDonald. (2014). Characterizing Snowpack and the Freeze–Thaw State of Underlying Soil via Assimilation of Multifrequency Passive/Active Microwave Data: A Case Study (NASA CLPX 2003). IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 53(1). 173–189. 10 indexed citations
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Bateni, Sayed M., Chunlin Huang, S. A. Margulis, E. Podest, & Kyle McDonald. (2013). Feasibility of Characterizing Snowpack and the Freeze–Thaw State of Underlying Soil Using Multifrequency Active/Passive Microwave Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 51(7). 4085–4102. 28 indexed citations
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Kim, Youngwook, John S. Kimball, Ke Zhang, & Kyle McDonald. (2012). Satellite detection of increasing Northern Hemisphere non-frozen seasons from 1979 to 2008: Implications for regional vegetation growth. Remote Sensing of Environment. 121. 472–487. 220 indexed citations
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Yi, Yonghong, John S. Kimball, L. A. Jones, Rolf H. Reichle, & Kyle McDonald. (2011). Evaluation of MERRA Land Surface Estimates in Preparation for the Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission. Journal of Climate. 24(15). 3797–3816. 77 indexed citations
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Kim, Youngwook, John S. Kimball, Kyle McDonald, & Joseph Glassy. (2010). Developing a Global Data Record of Daily Landscape Freeze/Thaw Status Using Satellite Passive Microwave Remote Sensing. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 49(3). 949–960. 156 indexed citations
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Jones, L. A., Craig R. Ferguson, John S. Kimball, et al.. (2010). Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing of Daily Land Surface Air Temperature Minima and Maxima From AMSR-E. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 3(1). 111–123. 93 indexed citations
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Kim, Seung-Bum, Jakob van Zyl, Kyle McDonald, & E. G. Njoku. (2010). Monitoring surface soil moisture and freeze-thaw state with the high-resolution radar of the Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) mission. 47. 735–739. 13 indexed citations
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McDonald, Kyle, et al.. (2005). An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Tree Water Potential And Dielectric Constant. 523–525. 9 indexed citations
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Dobson, M.C., Kyle McDonald, F.T. Ulaby, & Terry L. Sharik. (1991). Relating the temporal change observed by AIRSAR to surface and canopy properties of mixed conifer and hardwood forests of northern Michigan. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 14 indexed citations

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