M. O. Hunter

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

M. O. Hunter is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, M. O. Hunter has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Environmental Engineering, 5 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in M. O. Hunter's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (7 papers), Forest ecology and management (5 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (4 papers). M. O. Hunter is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (7 papers), Forest ecology and management (5 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (4 papers). M. O. Hunter collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United States and Puerto Rico. M. O. Hunter's co-authors include Michael Keller, M. A. Lefsky, Fernando Del Bon Espírito-Santo, Warren B. Cohen, C. C. Carabajal, David J. Harding, Douglas C. Morton, D. de C. Victoria, Raimundo Cosme de Oliveira and Juliana Schietti and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Geophysical Research Letters and Ecology Letters.

In The Last Decade

M. O. Hunter

10 papers receiving 973 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.

Estimates of forest canopy height and aboveground biomass using ICESat

2005 531 citations M. A. Lefsky, David J. Harding et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
M. O. Hunter Brazil	7	726	589	521	370	132	11	1.0k
Gordon W. Frazer Canada	14	671 0.9×	688 1.2×	494 0.9×	340 0.9×	251 1.9×	18	1.1k
Simon Murphy Australia	11	647 0.9×	674 1.1×	282 0.5×	383 1.0×	204 1.5×	14	990
She Guang-hui China	12	503 0.7×	330 0.6×	300 0.6×	149 0.4×	147 1.1×	33	653
Svetlana Saarela Sweden	18	1.1k 1.5×	764 1.3×	705 1.4×	454 1.2×	183 1.4×	36	1.3k
Victoria Meyer United States	13	455 0.6×	383 0.7×	317 0.6×	316 0.9×	114 0.9×	18	746
Jeff W. Atkins United States	20	381 0.5×	689 1.2×	398 0.8×	593 1.6×	198 1.5×	60	1.1k
J. Kevin Hiers United States	13	283 0.4×	472 0.8×	308 0.6×	625 1.7×	126 1.0×	27	860
Guangcai Xu China	13	691 1.0×	389 0.7×	451 0.9×	210 0.6×	163 1.2×	31	987
Birgit Peterson United States	14	484 0.7×	300 0.5×	436 0.8×	350 0.9×	78 0.6×	28	724
Cédric Vega France	20	1.1k 1.5×	671 1.1×	734 1.4×	222 0.6×	327 2.5×	38	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of M. O. Hunter

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

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Hunter, M. O., et al.. (2025). Global 30-m annual median vegetation height maps (2000–2022) based on ICESat-2 data and Machine Learning. Scientific Data. 12(1). 1470–1470.

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Hunter, M. O., et al.. (2025). Accounting for alternation in temporal quality analysis in MapBiomas Brazil. International Journal of Digital Earth. 18(1). 1 indexed citations

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Parente, Leandro, Lindsey Sloat, Vinícius Vieira Mesquita, et al.. (2024). Annual 30-m maps of global grassland class and extent (2000–2022) based on spatiotemporal Machine Learning. Scientific Data. 11(1). 1303–1303. 12 indexed citations

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Amorim, Ricardo Santos Silva, et al.. (2023). Using the GeoWEPP Model to Predict Water Erosion in Micro-Watersheds in the Brazilian Cerrado. Sustainability. 15(6). 4711–4711. 5 indexed citations

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Amorim, Ricardo Santos Silva, et al.. (2022). Natural erosion potential in the Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental. 26(9). 655–661. 1 indexed citations

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Morton, Douglas C., J. Rubio, Bruce D. Cook, et al.. (2016). Amazon forest structure generates diurnal and seasonal variability in light utilization. Biogeosciences. 13(7). 2195–2206. 31 indexed citations

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Hunter, M. O., Michael Keller, Douglas C. Morton, et al.. (2015). Structural Dynamics of Tropical Moist Forest Gaps. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0132144–e0132144. 63 indexed citations

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Hunter, M. O., Michael Keller, D. de C. Victoria, & Douglas C. Morton. (2013). Tree height and tropical forest biomass estimation. Biogeosciences. 10(12). 8385–8399. 170 indexed citations

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Stark, Scott C., Veronika Leitold, Jin Wu, et al.. (2012). Amazon forest carbon dynamics predicted by profiles of canopy leaf area and light environment. Ecology Letters. 15(12). 1406–1414. 182 indexed citations

10.

Lefsky, M. A., David J. Harding, Michael Keller, et al.. (2006). Correction to “Estimates of forest canopy height and aboveground biomass using ICESat”. Geophysical Research Letters. 33(5). 8 indexed citations

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Lefsky, M. A., David J. Harding, Michael Keller, et al.. (2005). Estimates of forest canopy height and aboveground biomass using ICESat. Geophysical Research Letters. 32(22). 531 indexed citations breakdown →

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