Robert E. Kennedy

18.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
149 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Robert E. Kennedy is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert E. Kennedy has authored 149 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 59 papers in Ecology and 33 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Robert E. Kennedy's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (38 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (34 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (30 papers). Robert E. Kennedy is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (38 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (34 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (30 papers). Robert E. Kennedy collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Robert E. Kennedy's co-authors include Warren B. Cohen, Zhiqiang Yang, Sean P. Healey, Anne C. Petersen, Dirk Pflugmacher, Pamela A Sarigiani, Justin Braaten, David P. Turner, Todd A. Schroeder and Noel Gorelick and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Journal of Finance and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Robert E. Kennedy

139 papers receiving 9.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Detecting trends in forest disturbance and recovery using yearly Landsat time series: 1. LandTrendr — Temporal segmentation algorithms

2010 1.4k citations Robert E. Kennedy, Zhiqiang Yang et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Adolescent depression: Why more girls?

1991 507 citations Robert E. Kennedy et al. profile →
Relationships between Leaf Area Index and Landsat TM Spectral Vegetation Indices across Three Temperate Zone Sites

1999 507 citations Warren B. Cohen, Robert E. Kennedy et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Quantification of live aboveground forest biomass dynamics with Landsat time-series and field inventory data: A comparison of empirical modeling approaches

2010 435 citations Scott Powell, Warren B. Cohen et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Implementation of the LandTrendr Algorithm on Google Earth Engine

2018 402 citations Robert E. Kennedy, Zhiqiang Yang 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
Robert E. Kennedy United States	51	6.1k	5.9k	3.3k	1.9k	1.3k	149	10.4k
Linda See Austria	57	2.5k 0.4×	4.8k 0.8×	3.7k 1.1×	436 0.2×	1.4k 1.1×	259	10.9k
Daniel G. Brown United States	56	1.7k 0.3×	4.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.4×	806 0.4×	877 0.7×	291	11.6k
Pedro J. Leitão Germany	25	4.2k 0.7×	2.7k 0.5×	725 0.2×	2.5k 1.3×	503 0.4×	57	9.5k
Molly E. Brown United States	39	3.3k 0.5×	4.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.3×	450 0.2×	1.7k 1.4×	142	8.0k
Philip A. Townsend United States	60	5.9k 1.0×	3.7k 0.6×	2.1k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	976 0.8×	308	11.5k
Sven Lautenbach Germany	33	3.8k 0.6×	4.9k 0.8×	1.0k 0.3×	2.7k 1.4×	583 0.5×	101	12.7k
Patrick Hostert Germany	67	7.8k 1.3×	8.4k 1.4×	3.8k 1.1×	1.5k 0.8×	2.2k 1.8×	201	14.6k
Joshua J. Lawler United States	53	6.7k 1.1×	5.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.3×	4.8k 2.5×	620 0.5×	134	15.0k
Xiaolin Zhu China	45	5.0k 0.8×	3.9k 0.7×	3.0k 0.9×	590 0.3×	2.0k 1.6×	160	9.5k
Lei Wang China	39	1.7k 0.3×	2.6k 0.4×	1.2k 0.4×	385 0.2×	1.2k 1.0×	376	7.8k

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Murillo‐Sandoval, Paulo J., et al.. (2025). Accelerated Adoption of Google Earth Engine for Mangrove Monitoring: A Global Review. Remote Sensing. 17(13). 2290–2290.

Kennedy, Robert E., et al.. (2024). A Large-Scale Inter-Comparison and Evaluation of Spatial Feature Engineering Strategies for Forest Aboveground Biomass Estimation Using Landsat Satellite Imagery. Remote Sensing. 16(23). 4586–4586.

Kennedy, Robert E., Shawn Serbin, Michael C. Dietze, et al.. (2024). Characterizing and communicating uncertainty: lessons from NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System. Environmental Research Letters. 19(12). 123003–123003. 2 indexed citations

Babcock, Chad, John Armston, Maurizio Santoro, et al.. (2024). A geostatistical approach to enhancing national forest biomass assessments with Earth Observation to aid climate policy needs. Remote Sensing of Environment. 318. 114557–114557. 6 indexed citations

Raleigh, Mark S., et al.. (2024). Tracking the Evolution of Snow Drought in the U.S. Pacific Northwest at Variable Scales. Water Resources Research. 60(7). 4 indexed citations

Ochoa, Carlos G., et al.. (2023). A Spatiotemporal Characterization of Water Resource Conditions and Demands as Influenced by the Hydrogeologic Framework of the Willcox Groundwater Basin, Southeastern Arizona, USA. Geosciences. 13(6). 176–176. 1 indexed citations

Poortinga, Ate, Biplov Bhandari, N. H. Quyen, et al.. (2023). Near Real-Time Mapping of Tropical Forest Disturbance Using SAR and Semantic Segmentation in Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing. 15(21). 5223–5223. 9 indexed citations

Johnston, James D., et al.. (2021). Does conserving roadless wildland increase wildfire activity in western US national forests?. Environmental Research Letters. 16(8). 84040–84040. 12 indexed citations

Zhou, Yu, C. A. Williams, Natalia Hasler, Huan Gu, & Robert E. Kennedy. (2021). Beyond biomass to carbon fluxes: application and evaluation of a comprehensive forest carbon monitoring system. Environmental Research Letters. 16(5). 55026–55026. 14 indexed citations

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Hudak, Andrew T., Patrick A. Fekety, Van R. Kane, et al.. (2020). A carbon monitoring system for mapping regional, annual aboveground biomass across the northwestern USA. Environmental Research Letters. 15(9). 95003–95003. 52 indexed citations

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Murillo‐Sandoval, Paulo J., et al.. (2020). The end of gunpoint conservation: forest disturbance after the Colombian peace agreement. Environmental Research Letters. 15(3). 34033–34033. 74 indexed citations

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Gosnell, Hannah, et al.. (2019). A land systems science approach to assessing forest governance and characterizing the emergence of social forestry in the Western Cascades of Oregon. Environmental Research Letters. 15(5). 55003–55003. 6 indexed citations

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Hoek, Jamon Van Den, Paulo J. Murillo‐Sandoval, Ryan Crumley, et al.. (2018). Refugee Camps as Climate Traps: Measuring the Enviro-climatic Marginality of 922 Global Refugee Camps with Satellite Time Series Data. AGUFM. 2018. 4 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Robert E., Janet L. Ohmann, Matthew A. Gregory, et al.. (2017). An empirical, integrated forest biomass monitoring system. Environmental Research Letters. 13(2). 25004–25004. 66 indexed citations

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Meigs, Garrett W., Harold S. J. Zald, John L. Campbell, William S. Keeton, & Robert E. Kennedy. (2016). Do insect outbreaks reduce the severity of subsequent forest fires?. Environmental Research Letters. 11(4). 45008–45008. 73 indexed citations

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Huang, Chengquan, Samuel N. Goward, Jeffrey G. Masek, et al.. (2009). Development of time series stacks of Landsat images for reconstructing forest disturbance history. International Journal of Digital Earth. 2(3). 195–218. 110 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Robert E., A. B. Rulkov, С. В. Попов, & J. R. Taylor. (2007). High-peak-power femtosecond pulse compression with polarization-maintaining ytterbium-doped fiber amplification. Optics Letters. 32(10). 1199–1199. 6 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Robert E., et al.. (1989). Niven Repunits and 10 ⁿ ≡ 1 (mod n ). The Fibonacci quarterly. 27(2). 139–143. 2 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Robert E.. (1980). Mathematical Discovery and Niven Numbers.. 14(1). 20–25. 8 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Robert E.. (1965). Mount Kennedy II: a peak worthy of the president. National geographic/The complete National geographic/The National geographic magazine. 128(1). 5–9. 1 indexed citations

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