Nicholas C. Coops

39.7k total citations · 9 hit papers
642 papers, 28.9k citations indexed

About

Nicholas C. Coops is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas C. Coops has authored 642 papers receiving a total of 28.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 391 papers in Ecology, 367 papers in Environmental Engineering and 293 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Nicholas C. Coops's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (332 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (290 papers) and Forest ecology and management (192 papers). Nicholas C. Coops is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (332 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (290 papers) and Forest ecology and management (192 papers). Nicholas C. Coops collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Nicholas C. Coops's co-authors include Michael A. Wulder, Joanne C. White, Thomas Hilker, Txomin Hermosilla, Richard H. Waring, Piotr Tompalski, Christopher W. Bater, Darius Culvenor, Geordie Hobart and Tristan R.H. Goodbody and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas C. Coops

624 papers receiving 27.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

lidR: An R package for analysis of Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data

2020 620 citations David Auty, Nicholas C. Coops et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Remote Sensing Technologies for Enhancing Forest Inventories: A Review

2016 615 citations Joanne C. White, Nicholas C. Coops et al. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing profile →
A new data fusion model for high spatial- and temporal-resolution mapping of forest disturbance based on Landsat and MODIS

2009 593 citations Michael A. Wulder, Nicholas C. Coops et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Lidar sampling for large-area forest characterization: A review

2012 584 citations Michael A. Wulder, Joanne C. White et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Pixel-Based Image Compositing for Large-Area Dense Time Series Applications and Science

2014 359 citations Joanne C. White, Michael A. Wulder et al. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing profile →
Environmental science: Agree on biodiversity metrics to track from space

2015 302 citations Nicholas C. Coops et al. profile →
A nationwide annual characterization of 25 years of forest disturbance and recovery for Canada using Landsat time series

2017 297 citations Joanne C. White, Michael A. Wulder et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Land cover 2.0

2018 291 citations Michael A. Wulder, Nicholas C. Coops et al. International Journal of Remote Sensing profile →
Modelling lidar-derived estimates of forest attributes over space and time: A review of approaches and future trends

2021 229 citations Nicholas C. Coops, Piotr Tompalski et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas C. Coops Canada	83	16.5k	15.0k	13.4k	9.2k	3.6k	642	28.9k
Michael A. Wulder Canada	91	20.2k 1.2×	16.1k 1.1×	15.1k 1.1×	8.6k 0.9×	3.7k 1.0×	446	32.2k
Warren B. Cohen United States	75	15.1k 0.9×	11.2k 0.7×	13.1k 1.0×	6.4k 0.7×	1.8k 0.5×	176	23.7k
Joanne C. White Canada	62	10.1k 0.6×	9.0k 0.6×	7.4k 0.6×	4.7k 0.5×	2.3k 0.6×	245	16.3k
S. J. Goetz United States	79	12.9k 0.8×	7.8k 0.5×	17.0k 1.3×	6.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.3×	241	29.4k
Martin Herold Netherlands	76	11.0k 0.7×	7.7k 0.5×	15.0k 1.1×	3.6k 0.4×	992 0.3×	364	24.6k
Ralph Dubayah United States	62	7.8k 0.5×	10.2k 0.7×	6.1k 0.5×	6.2k 0.7×	1.5k 0.4×	221	15.3k
Alan H. Strahler United States	73	13.5k 0.8×	9.9k 0.7×	11.6k 0.9×	2.3k 0.3×	577 0.2×	228	21.4k
Crystal Schaaf United States	74	11.9k 0.7×	8.6k 0.6×	12.6k 0.9×	1.9k 0.2×	557 0.2×	250	20.6k
Stephen V. Stehman United States	66	14.2k 0.9×	6.7k 0.4×	16.4k 1.2×	3.5k 0.4×	699 0.2×	193	27.3k
Sassan Saatchi United States	71	8.1k 0.5×	7.3k 0.5×	10.4k 0.8×	5.7k 0.6×	757 0.2×	269	20.0k

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Coops, Nicholas C., et al.. (2025). The assessment of individual tree canopies using drone-based intra-canopy photogrammetry. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 234. 110200–110200. 3 indexed citations

Coops, Nicholas C., et al.. (2025). Tree species proportion prediction using airborne laser scanning and Sentinel-2 data within a deep learning based dual-stream data fusion approach. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 46(14). 5436–5464.

Shen, Xin, et al.. (2024). Estimating structure of understory bamboo for giant panda habitat by developing an advanced vertical vegetation classification approach using UAS-LiDAR data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 136. 104304–104304. 2 indexed citations

Coops, Nicholas C., et al.. (2024). Quantifying forest disturbance regimes within caribou (Rangifer tarandus) range in British Columbia. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 6520–6520. 5 indexed citations

Coops, Nicholas C., et al.. (2024). Responses of spectral indices to heat and drought differ by tree size in Douglas-fir. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11. 100193–100193. 1 indexed citations

Queinnec, Martin, Nicholas C. Coops, & Joanne C. White. (2024). Characterizing post-fire northern boreal forest height dynamics. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 45(7). 2182–2207. 2 indexed citations

Coops, Nicholas C., et al.. (2024). Characterizing forest structural changes in response to non-stand replacing disturbances using bitemporal airborne laser scanning data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10. 100160–100160. 3 indexed citations

Winiwarter, Lukas, et al.. (2024). Extraction of Forest Road Information from CubeSat Imagery Using Convolutional Neural Networks. Remote Sensing. 16(6). 1083–1083. 4 indexed citations

Coops, Nicholas C., et al.. (2023). Estimating tree species composition from airborne laser scanning data using point-based deep learning models. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 207. 282–297. 9 indexed citations

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Silveira, Eduarda Martiniano de Oliveira, Anna M. Pidgeon, Laura S. Farwell, et al.. (2023). Multi-grain habitat models that combine satellite sensors with different resolutions explain bird species richness patterns best. Remote Sensing of Environment. 295. 113661–113661. 8 indexed citations

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White, Joanne C., et al.. (2023). Detecting and excluding disturbed forest areas improves site index determination using bitemporal airborne laser scanner data. Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research. 97(1). 48–58. 4 indexed citations

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Coops, Nicholas C., et al.. (2023). Modeling instream temperature from solar insolation under varying timber harvesting intensities using RPAS laser scanning. The Science of The Total Environment. 912. 169459–169459. 4 indexed citations

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Goodbody, Tristan R.H., Nicholas C. Coops, Martin Queinnec, et al.. (2023). sgsR: a structurally guided sampling toolbox for LiDAR-based forest inventories. Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research. 96(4). 411–424. 16 indexed citations

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Coops, Nicholas C., et al.. (2023). Multi-Source Remote Sensing Based Modeling of Vegetation Productivity in the Boreal: Issues & Opportunities. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 49(1). 6 indexed citations

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Kothari, Shan, Anna K. Schweiger, Anne Bruneau, et al.. (2023). Predicting leaf traits across functional groups using reflectance spectroscopy. New Phytologist. 238(2). 549–566. 30 indexed citations

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Coops, Nicholas C., et al.. (2022). Modelling internal tree attributes for breeding applications in Douglas-fir progeny trials using RPAS-ALS. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 100072–100072. 8 indexed citations

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Lin, Shangrong, Nicholas C. Coops, Zoran Nesic, et al.. (2021). Species and stand-age driven differences in photochemical reflectance index and light use efficiency across four temperate forests. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 98. 102308–102308. 2 indexed citations

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Marinelli, Daniele, Nicholas C. Coops, Douglas K. Bolton, & Lorenzo Bruzzone. (2020). Forest Change Detection in Lidar Data Based on Polar Change Vector Analysis. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 19. 1–5. 11 indexed citations

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Meyer, Gesa, T. Andrew Black, Rachhpal S. Jassal, et al.. (2018). Simulation of net ecosystem productivity of a lodgepole pine forest after mountain pine beetle attack using a modified version of 3-PG. Forest Ecology and Management. 412. 41–52. 13 indexed citations

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Wulder, Michael A., Nicholas C. Coops, David P. Roy, Joanne C. White, & Txomin Hermosilla. (2018). Land cover 2.0. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 39(12). 4254–4284. 291 indexed citations breakdown →

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