Rick Mueller

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
28 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Rick Mueller is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Rick Mueller has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Ecology, 15 papers in Environmental Engineering and 11 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Rick Mueller's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (15 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (8 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (7 papers). Rick Mueller is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (15 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (8 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (7 papers). Rick Mueller collaborates with scholars based in United States and India. Rick Mueller's co-authors include Zhengwei Yang, Claire G. Boryan, David M. Johnson, Martha C. Anderson, William P. Kustas, Xiaoyang Zhang, Feng Gao, Joseph G. Alfieri, John H. Prueger and James Wickham and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Water Resources Research and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Rick Mueller

26 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Monitoring US agriculture: the US Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Cropland Data Layer Program

2011 893 citations Claire G. Boryan, Zhengwei Yang et al. Geocarto International profile →
Toward mapping crop progress at field scales through fusion of Landsat and MODIS imagery

2016 387 citations Feng Gao, Martha C. Anderson 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
Rick Mueller United States	11	1.2k	802	606	394	304	28	1.9k
Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla United States	16	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	489 0.8×	350 0.9×	413 1.4×	36	1.9k
Carlos M. Di Bella Argentina	20	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.7×	453 0.7×	334 0.8×	334 1.1×	58	2.3k
Felix Rembold Italy	26	1.3k 1.1×	1.2k 1.5×	439 0.7×	405 1.0×	337 1.1×	73	2.2k
Qingbo Zhou China	23	1.2k 1.0×	839 1.0×	540 0.9×	439 1.1×	438 1.4×	79	1.8k
Megan Lewis Australia	27	1.4k 1.2×	847 1.1×	659 1.1×	386 1.0×	252 0.8×	105	2.6k
C. Milesi United States	20	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	617 1.0×	313 0.8×	298 1.0×	42	2.1k
Jun Xiong United States	16	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.5×	484 0.8×	262 0.7×	573 1.9×	25	2.0k
Kamini Yadav United States	14	1.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.6×	598 1.0×	315 0.8×	507 1.7×	30	2.2k
Damien Arvor France	24	983 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	347 0.6×	306 0.8×	353 1.2×	74	2.0k
Bernard Adusei United States	14	1.3k 1.1×	1.2k 1.5×	583 1.0×	276 0.7×	280 0.9×	21	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Rick Mueller

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rick Mueller

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rick Mueller

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

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Sohl, Terry L., Karen Schleeweis, Nate Herold, et al.. (2025). An interagency perspective on improving consistency and transparency of land use and land cover mapping. U.S. Geological Survey circular. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Chen, Hannah Kerner, Sherrie Wang, et al.. (2025). Remote sensing for crop mapping: A perspective on current and future crop-specific land cover data products. Remote Sensing of Environment. 330. 114995–114995. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Chen, Zhengwei Yang, Haoteng Zhao, et al.. (2022). Crop-CASMA: A web geoprocessing and map service based architecture and implementation for serving soil moisture and crop vegetation condition data over U.S. Cropland. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 112. 102902–102902. 26 indexed citations

Colliander, Andreas, Zhengwei Yang, Rick Mueller, et al.. (2019). Consistency Between NASS Surveyed Soil Moisture Conditions and SMAP Soil Moisture Observations. Water Resources Research. 55(9). 7682–7693. 11 indexed citations

Mladenova, I. E., John Bolten, Wade T. Crow, et al.. (2017). Intercomparison of Soil Moisture, Evaporative Stress, and Vegetation Indices for Estimating Corn and Soybean Yields Over the U.S.. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 10(4). 1328–1343. 61 indexed citations

Yang, Zhengwei, Wade T. Crow, Lei Hu, Liping Di, & Rick Mueller. (2017). SMAP DATA for cropland soil moisture assessment — A case study. 1996–1999. 7 indexed citations

Gao, Feng, Martha C. Anderson, Xiaoyang Zhang, et al.. (2016). Toward mapping crop progress at field scales through fusion of Landsat and MODIS imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 188. 9–25. 387 indexed citations breakdown →

Yang, Zhengwei, Lei Hu, Genong Yu, et al.. (2016). Web service-based SMAP soil moisture data visualization, dissemination and analytics based on vegscape framwork. 3624–3627. 6 indexed citations

Singhee, Amith, et al.. (2016). OPRO: Precise emergency preparedness for electric utilities. IBM Journal of Research and Development. 60(1). 6:1–6:15. 6 indexed citations

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Wu, Zhuoting, Prasad S. Thenkabail, Rick Mueller, et al.. (2014). Seasonal cultivated and fallow cropland mapping using MODIS-based automated cropland classification algorithm. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. 8(1). 83685–83685. 29 indexed citations

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Wickham, James, Collin G. Homer, James E. Vogelmann, et al.. (2014). The Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium — 20 Years of Development and Integration of USA National Land Cover Data. Remote Sensing. 6(8). 7424–7441. 146 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhengwei, Genong Yu, Liping Di, et al.. (2013). Web service-based vegetation condition monitoring system - VegScape. 3638–3641. 19 indexed citations

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Boryan, Claire G., et al.. (2011). Monitoring US agriculture: the US Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Cropland Data Layer Program. Geocarto International. 26(5). 341–358. 893 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mueller, Rick, et al.. (2009). Data partnership synergy: The Cropland Data Layer. 1–6. 6 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhengwei, et al.. (2008). IMPACT OF BAND-RATIO ENHANCED AWIFS IMAGE TO CROP CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY. 83 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhengwei & Rick Mueller. (2007). Heterogeneously sensed imagery radiometric response normalization for citrus grove change detection. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6761. 67610N–67610N. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhengwei & Rick Mueller. (2007). SPATIAL-SPECTRAL CROSS-CORRELATION FOR CHANGE DETECTION ---A CASE STUDY FOR CITRUS COVERAGE CHANGE DETECTION. 9 indexed citations

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Mueller, Rick, et al.. (2002). Creating a Cropland Data Layer for an Entire State. AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA). 10 indexed citations

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Mueller, Rick & D. Oertel. (1995). Laboratory Calibration of DAIS-7915 for Systematic Data Correction. elib (German Aerospace Center). 1 indexed citations

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Mueller, Rick, et al.. (1994). AVHRR map products for crop condition assessment: a geographic information systems approach. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 60(9). 1145–1150. 8 indexed citations

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