Ralph Dubayah

21.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
221 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

About

Ralph Dubayah is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralph Dubayah has authored 221 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 158 papers in Environmental Engineering, 105 papers in Ecology and 92 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Ralph Dubayah's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (144 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (97 papers) and Forest ecology and management (79 papers). Ralph Dubayah is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (144 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (97 papers) and Forest ecology and management (79 papers). Ralph Dubayah collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Ralph Dubayah's co-authors include S. J. Goetz, M. A. Hofton, J. B. Blair, Jason Drake, Hao Tang, Laura Duncanson, John Armston, G. C. Hurtt, Matthew C. Hansen and David B. Clark and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ralph Dubayah

215 papers receiving 14.6k 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.

Estimated carbon dioxide emissions from tropical deforestation improved by carbon-density maps

2012 1.3k citations S. J. Goetz, Ralph Dubayah et al. profile →
Mapping global forest canopy height through integration of GEDI and Landsat data

2020 789 citations Matthew C. Hansen, Hao Tang et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation: High-resolution laser ranging of the Earth’s forests and topography

2020 764 citations Ralph Dubayah, J. B. Blair et al. profile →
A meta-analysis of terrestrial aboveground biomass estimation using lidar remote sensing

2012 428 citations S. J. Goetz, Ralph Dubayah et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space

2022 137 citations Ralph Dubayah, John Armston et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

Peers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ralph Dubayah

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The importance of distinguishing between natural and managed tree cover gains in the moist tropics 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Peter B. Reich, Jeffrey R. Vincent, Matthew E. Fagan, Robin L. Chazdon, Steffen Fritz, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Matthew D. Potts, Matthew C. Hansen, Martin Jung, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, María Uriarte, Trevor F. Keenan, Thomas W. Crowther, Ralph Dubayah, Myroslava Lesiv, Shunlin Liang, Dongdong Wang	0
2	A Spatial Mixture Model for Spaceborne Lidar Observations Over Mixed Forest and Non-forest Land Types 2024 ·Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics ·(unknown), Andrew O. Finley, Ralph Dubayah	2
3	Mapping large-scale pantropical forest canopy height by integrating GEDI lidar and TanDEM-X InSAR data 2024 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Wenlu Qi, John Armston, (unknown), Atticus Stovall, Svetlana Saarela, Matteo Pardini, Temilola Fatoyinbo, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Adrián Pascual, Ralph Dubayah	6
4	Beyond MRV: combining remote sensing and ecosystem modeling for geospatial monitoring and attribution of forest carbon fluxes over Maryland, USA 2024 ·Environmental Research Letters ·G. C. Hurtt, Lei Ma, (unknown), Elliott Campbell, Ralph Dubayah, Matthew C. Hansen, Chengquan Huang, (unknown), Andrew J. Lister, (unknown), (unknown), Quan Shen, (unknown), Hao Tang	0
5	Characterizing the structural complexity of the Earth’s forests with spaceborne lidar 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), John Armston, Ralph Dubayah	18
6	The effectiveness of global protected areas for climate change mitigation 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Laura Duncanson, (unknown), Veronika Leitold, John Armston, Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy, Ralph Dubayah, Sébastien Costedoat, Brian J. Enquist, Temilola Fatoyinbo, S. J. Goetz, Mariano González‐Roglich, Cory Merow, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Karyn Tabor, Alex Zvoleff	82
7	Comparing frameworks for biomass prediction for the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation 2022 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Svetlana Saarela, Sören Holm, Sean P. Healey, Paul L. Patterson, Zhiqiang Yang, Hans‐Erik Andersen, Ralph Dubayah, Wenlu Qi, Laura Duncanson, John Armston, Terje Gobakken, Erik Næsset, Magnus Ekström, Göran Ståhl	27
8	Global canopy height regression and uncertainty estimation from GEDI LIDAR waveforms with deep ensembles 2021 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Nico Lang, Nikolai Kalischek, John Armston, Konrad Schindler, Ralph Dubayah, Jan Dirk Wegner	151
9	Geospatial assessment of the economic opportunity for reforestation in Maryland, USA 2021 ·Environmental Research Letters ·(unknown), Lei Ma, Ritvik Sahajpal, Jae Edmonds, Nathan Hultman, Ralph Dubayah, (unknown), G. C. Hurtt	5
10	Towards mapping the diversity of canopy structure from space with GEDI 2020 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Fabian Schneider, António Ferraz, Steven Hancock, Laura Duncanson, Ralph Dubayah, Ryan Pavlick, David Schimel	99
11	Global Ecosystem Demography Model (ED-global v1.0): Development, Calibration and Evaluation for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) 2020 ·Lei Ma, G. C. Hurtt, Lesley Ott, Ritvik Sahajpal, J. Fisk, (unknown), Benjamin Poulter, Shunlin Liang, Joe H. Sullivan, Ralph Dubayah	4
12	High-resolution forest carbon mapping for climate mitigation baselines over the RGGI region, USA 2020 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Hao Tang, Lei Ma, Andrew J. Lister, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ralph Dubayah, G. C. Hurtt	17
13	Incorporating canopy structure from simulated GEDI lidar into bird species distribution models 2020 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Patrick Burns, Matthew L. Clark, Leonardo Salas, Steven Hancock, (unknown), Patrick Jantz, Ralph Dubayah, S. J. Goetz	46
14	An open source tool to reduce geolocation uncertainty in GEDI data 2019 ·AGUFM ·Steven Hancock, (unknown), (unknown), M. A. Hofton, J. B. Blair, John Armston, Laura Duncanson, James R. Kellner, David Minor, Ralph Dubayah	4
15	High-resolution mapping of aboveground biomass for forest carbon monitoring system in the Tri-State region of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware, USA 2019 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Wenli Huang, (unknown), Anu Swatantran, Kristofer Johnson, Hao Tang, Jarlath O’Neil‐Dunne, Ralph Dubayah, G. C. Hurtt	41
16	Potential Transient Response of Terrestrial Vegetation and Carbon in Northern North America from Climate Change 2019 ·Climate ·(unknown), G. C. Hurtt, J. Fisk, Ritvik Sahajpal, (unknown), Ralph Dubayah, Matthew C. Hansen, Joe H. Sullivan, G. J. Collatz	5
17	Beyond MRV: high-resolution forest carbon modeling for climate mitigation planning over Maryland, USA 2019 ·Environmental Research Letters ·G. C. Hurtt, (unknown), Ritvik Sahajpal, Amanda Armstrong, Richard A. Birdsey, Elliott Campbell, (unknown), Ralph Dubayah, J. Fisk, (unknown), Chengquan Huang, Wenli Huang, Kristofer Johnson, (unknown), Lei Ma, (unknown), Donal O’Leary, Jarlath O’Neil‐Dunne, Anu Swatantran, Hao Tang	36
18	Large-Scale Mapping and Monitoring of Terrestrial Ecosystems with the NISAR Mission 2014 ·2014 AGU Fall Meeting ·Josef Kellndorfer, Ralph Dubayah, Paul Siqueira, S. S. Saatchi, Bruce Chapman, P. A. Rosen	1
19	Lidar Remote Sensing for Forestry 2000 ·Journal of Forestry ·Ralph Dubayah, Jason Drake	498
20	Topographic solar radiation models for GIS 1995 ·International Journal of Geographical Information Systems ·Ralph Dubayah, Paul M. Rich	314

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