Michael Alonzo

2.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Michael Alonzo is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Alonzo has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 16 papers in Ecology and 16 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Michael Alonzo's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (13 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (10 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (8 papers). Michael Alonzo is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (13 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (10 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (8 papers). Michael Alonzo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Michael Alonzo's co-authors include Dar A. Roberts, Bodo Bookhagen, Lori A. Magruder, J. P. McFadden, Kelly M. Brunt, Amy Neuenschwander, Christopher Parrish, Michael F. Jasinski, Bruce D. Cook and Hans‐Erik Andersen and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Remote Sensing of Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Michael Alonzo

26 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Urban tree species mapping using hyperspectral and lidar data fusion

2014 406 citations Michael Alonzo, Bodo Bookhagen et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Validation of ICESat-2 ATLAS Bathymetry and Analysis of ATLAS’s Bathymetric Mapping Performance

2019 284 citations Lori A. Magruder, Michael Alonzo et al. Remote Sensing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Alonzo United States	18	1.1k	854	710	257	214	27	1.7k
Xihan Mu China	28	1.6k 1.5×	2.0k 2.3×	1.3k 1.9×	81 0.3×	267 1.2×	111	3.0k
Weile Wang United States	24	657 0.6×	786 0.9×	1.6k 2.3×	128 0.5×	202 0.9×	63	2.4k
Stefan Maier Australia	26	441 0.4×	1.2k 1.4×	1.0k 1.4×	32 0.1×	201 0.9×	54	1.9k
Mark Chopping United States	21	940 0.9×	1.3k 1.5×	1.1k 1.6×	110 0.4×	279 1.3×	51	2.0k
David A.J. Ripley United States	3	1.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.4×	1.4k 2.0×	278 1.1×	125 0.6×	5	2.4k
Rudi Goossens Belgium	22	645 0.6×	810 0.9×	881 1.2×	32 0.1×	79 0.4×	107	1.8k
Alexander Damm Switzerland	35	793 0.7×	2.3k 2.7×	2.4k 3.3×	75 0.3×	152 0.7×	94	3.6k
Jörg Kaduk United Kingdom	24	365 0.3×	899 1.1×	1.2k 1.6×	34 0.1×	200 0.9×	53	2.0k
V. Kovalskyy United States	13	857 0.8×	1.7k 2.0×	1.4k 2.0×	61 0.2×	159 0.7×	23	2.4k
Wenge Ni‐Meister United States	27	1.8k 1.6×	1.3k 1.6×	1.1k 1.6×	46 0.2×	920 4.3×	67	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Alonzo

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Vivès, S., Marie-Hélène Aumeunier, X. Courtois, et al.. (2025). System level design of the Tangential visible and infrared viewing system for DTT. Fusion Engineering and Design. 215. 114906–114906.

Alonzo, Michael, et al.. (2025). Urban Trees and Cooling: A Review of the Recent Literature (2018 to 2024). Arboriculture & Urban Forestry. 51(5). 420–444. 3 indexed citations

Locke, Dexter H., Matthew E. Baker, Michael Alonzo, et al.. (2024). Variation the in relationship between urban tree canopy and air temperature reduction under a range of daily weather conditions. Heliyon. 10(3). e25041–e25041. 5 indexed citations

Alonzo, Michael, et al.. (2024). Predicting Urban Trees’ Functional Trait Responses to Heat Using Reflectance Spectroscopy. Remote Sensing. 16(13). 2291–2291. 1 indexed citations

Alonzo, Michael, et al.. (2023). Canopy composition drives variability in urban growing season length more than the heat island effect. The Science of The Total Environment. 884. 163818–163818. 12 indexed citations

Culver, David C., et al.. (2022). Landscape features and forest maturity promote the occurrence of macroinvertebrates specialized for seepage springs in urban forests in Washington, DC. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 32(5). 922–929. 4 indexed citations

Alonzo, Michael, et al.. (2021). Mapping Boreal Forest Spruce Beetle Health Status at the Individual Crown Scale Using Fused Spectral and Structural Data. Forests. 12(9). 1145–1145. 17 indexed citations

Alonzo, Michael, Jamon Van Den Hoek, Paulo J. Murillo‐Sandoval, Cara Steger, & John Aloysius Zinda. (2021). Mapping and quantifying land cover dynamics using dense remote sensing time series with the user-friendly pyNITA software. Environmental Modelling & Software. 145. 105179–105179. 6 indexed citations

Blanchar, John C., et al.. (2021). A Replication of Stern, West, and Schmitt (2014) Indicates Less False Consensus Among Liberals Than Conservatives, But No False Uniqueness. Social Psychology. 52(3). 197–202. 3 indexed citations

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Magruder, Lori A., Kelly M. Brunt, T. Neumann, Bradley W. Klotz, & Michael Alonzo. (2021). Passive Ground‐Based Optical Techniques for Monitoring the On‐Orbit ICESat‐2 Altimeter Geolocation and Footprint Diameter. Earth and Space Science. 8(10). 70 indexed citations

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Alonzo, Michael, et al.. (2021). Spatial configuration and time of day impact the magnitude of urban tree canopy cooling. Environmental Research Letters. 16(8). 84028–84028. 54 indexed citations

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Steger, Cara, Michael Alonzo, Bikila Warkineh, et al.. (2020). Knowledge coproduction improves understanding of environmental change in the Ethiopian highlands. Ecology and Society. 25(2). 23 indexed citations

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Miller, David L., Michael Alonzo, Dar A. Roberts, C. Tague, & J. P. McFadden. (2020). Drought response of urban trees and turfgrass using airborne imaging spectroscopy. Remote Sensing of Environment. 240. 111646–111646. 46 indexed citations

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Alonzo, Michael, Hans‐Erik Andersen, Douglas C. Morton, & Bruce D. Cook. (2018). Quantifying Boreal Forest Structure and Composition Using UAV Structure from Motion. Forests. 9(3). 119–119. 99 indexed citations

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Alonzo, Michael, Douglas C. Morton, Bruce D. Cook, et al.. (2017). Patterns of canopy and surface layer consumption in a boreal forest fire from repeat airborne lidar. Environmental Research Letters. 12(6). 65004–65004. 48 indexed citations

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Jenerette, G. Darrel, Lorraine Weller Clarke, Meghan L. Avolio, et al.. (2016). Climate tolerances and trait choices shape continental patterns of urban tree biodiversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25(11). 1367–1376. 83 indexed citations

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Alonzo, Michael, et al.. (2016). Capturing coupled riparian and coastal disturbance from industrial mining using cloud-resilient satellite time series analysis. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 35129–35129. 25 indexed citations

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Roth, Keely L., Dar A. Roberts, Philip E. Dennison, S. Peterson, & Michael Alonzo. (2015). The impact of spatial resolution on the classification of plant species and functional types within imaging spectrometer data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 171. 45–57. 80 indexed citations

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Alonzo, Michael, et al.. (2015). Mapping urban forest leaf area index with airborne lidar using penetration metrics and allometry. Remote Sensing of Environment. 162. 141–153. 107 indexed citations

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Alonzo, Michael, Bodo Bookhagen, & Dar A. Roberts. (2014). Urban tree species mapping using hyperspectral and lidar data fusion. Remote Sensing of Environment. 148. 70–83. 406 indexed citations breakdown →

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