Ronald E. McRoberts

12.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
225 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Ronald E. McRoberts is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ronald E. McRoberts has authored 225 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 175 papers in Environmental Engineering, 138 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 115 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Ronald E. McRoberts's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (171 papers), Forest ecology and management (134 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (100 papers). Ronald E. McRoberts is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (171 papers), Forest ecology and management (134 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (100 papers). Ronald E. McRoberts collaborates with scholars based in United States, Norway and Italy. Ronald E. McRoberts's co-authors include Erkki Tomppo, Erik Næsset, Gherardo Chirici, Terje Gobakken, M. G. Lawrence, Mark D. Nelson, James A. Westfall, L. David Mech, Daniel G. Wendt and Susanne Winter and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Remote Sensing of Environment and Science Advances.

In The Last Decade

Ronald E. McRoberts

217 papers receiving 8.0k citations

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National Forest Inventories

2009 525 citations Erkki Tomppo, Ronald E. McRoberts et al. profile →
Changes in global terrestrial live biomass over the 21st century

2021 200 citations Grant M. Domke, Ronald E. McRoberts et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Forest species mapping and area proportion estimation combining Sentinel-2 harmonic predictors and national forest inventory data 2024 ·International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation ·Saverio Francini, Mart‐Jan Schelhaas, Elia Vangi, Bas Lerink, G.J. Nabuurs, Ronald E. McRoberts, Gherardo Chirici	12
2	Why ecosystem characteristics predicted from remotely sensed data are unbiased and biased at the same time – and how this affects applications 2024 ·Forest Ecosystems ·Göran Ståhl, Terje Gobakken, Svetlana Saarela, Henrik Persson, Magnus Ekström, Sean P. Healey, Zhiqiang Yang, Johan Holmgren, Eva Lindberg, Kenneth Nyström, (unknown), (unknown), Hans Ole Ørka, Erik Næsset, Zhengyang Hou, Håkan Olsson, Ronald E. McRoberts	10
3	Nexus of certain model-based estimators in remote sensing forest inventory 2024 ·Forest Ecosystems ·(unknown), Zhengyang Hou, Göran Ståhl, Ronald E. McRoberts, Weisheng Zeng, Erik Næsset, Terje Gobakken, (unknown), Qing Xu	1
4	Conjugating remotely sensed data assimilation and model-assisted estimation for efficient multivariate forest inventory 2023 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Zhengyang Hou, (unknown), Göran Ståhl, Ronald E. McRoberts, Annika Kangas, Hao Tang, Jingyi Jiang, Jinghui Meng, Qing Xu, Zengyuan Li	6
5	Effects of outliers on remote sensing‐assisted forest biomass estimation: A case study from the United States national forest inventory 2023 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Jonathan A. Knott, Greg C. Liknes, (unknown), Sungchan Oh, Grant M. Domke, Ronald E. McRoberts, (unknown), Brian F. Walters	17
6	Sentinel-1 Time Series for Predicting Growing Stock Volume of Boreal Forest: Multitemporal Analysis and Feature Selection 2023 ·Remote Sensing ·(unknown), Erkki Tomppo, Yrjö Rauste, Ronald E. McRoberts, Jaan Praks, Hong Gu, Weimin Su, Oleg Antropov	6
7	Estimating Afforestation Area Using Landsat Time Series and Photointerpreted Datasets 2023 ·Remote Sensing ·(unknown), Saverio Francini, Ronald E. McRoberts, (unknown), Luca Congedo, (unknown), Mauro Maesano, Michele Munafò, Gherardo Chirici, Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza	16
8	Reusing Remote Sensing-Based Validation Data: Comparing Direct and Indirect Approaches for Afforestation Monitoring 2023 ·Remote Sensing ·Saverio Francini, (unknown), Giovanni D’Amico, Ronald E. McRoberts, Mauro Maesano, Michele Munafò, Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza, Gherardo Chirici	10
9	Deep Learning Model Transfer in Forest Mapping Using Multi-Source Satellite SAR and Optical Images 2023 ·Remote Sensing ·(unknown), Oleg Antropov, Tuomas Häme, Ronald E. McRoberts, Jukka Miettinen	6
10	Effects of lidar coverage and field plot data numerosity on forest growing stock volume estimation 2022 ·European Journal of Remote Sensing ·Giovanni D’Amico, Ronald E. McRoberts, Francesca Giannetti, Elia Vangi, Saverio Francini, Gherardo Chirici	4
11	The Three Indices Three Dimensions (3I3D) algorithm: a new method for forest disturbance mapping and area estimation based on optical remotely sensed imagery 2021 ·International Journal of Remote Sensing ·Saverio Francini, Ronald E. McRoberts, Francesca Giannetti, Marco Marchetti, Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza, Gherardo Chirici	25
12	The Effect of Forest Mask Quality in the Wall-to-Wall Estimation of Growing Stock Volume 2021 ·Remote Sensing ·Elia Vangi, Giovanni D’Amico, Saverio Francini, Francesca Giannetti, Bruno Lasserre, Marco Marchetti, Ronald E. McRoberts, Gherardo Chirici	19
13	A New Method for Automated Clearcut Disturbance Detection in Mediterranean Coppice Forests Using Landsat Time Series 2020 ·Remote Sensing ·Francesca Giannetti, R. Pegna, Saverio Francini, Ronald E. McRoberts, Davide Travaglini, Marco Marchetti, Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza, Gherardo Chirici	26
14	Near-real time forest change detection using PlanetScope imagery 2020 ·European Journal of Remote Sensing ·Saverio Francini, Ronald E. McRoberts, Francesca Giannetti, (unknown), Marco Marchetti, Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza, Gherardo Chirici	76
15	Use of Remote Sensing Data to Improve the Efficiency of National Forest Inventories: A Case Study from the United States National Forest Inventory 2020 ·Forests ·Andrew J. Lister, Hans Henrik Andersen, Tracey S. Frescino, Demetrios Gatziolis, Sean P. Healey, Linda S. Heath, Greg C. Liknes, Ronald E. McRoberts, Gretchen G. Moisen, Mark D. Nelson, Rachel Riemann, Karen Schleeweis, Todd A. Schroeder, James A. Westfall, Barry T. Wilson	66
16	A Model-Dependent Method for Monitoring Subtle Changes in Vegetation Height in the Boreal–Alpine Ecotone Using Bi-Temporal, Three Dimensional Point Data from Airborne Laser Scanning 2019 ·Remote Sensing ·Erik Næsset, Terje Gobakken, Ronald E. McRoberts	7
17	The effects of imperfect reference data on remote sensing-assisted estimators of land cover class proportions 2018 ·ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ·Ronald E. McRoberts, Stephen V. Stehman, Greg C. Liknes, Erik Næsset, Christophe Sannier, Brian F. Walters	63
18	Harmonizing National Forest Inventories 2009 ·Journal of Forestry ·Ronald E. McRoberts, Erkki Tomppo, Klemens Schadauer, Claude Vidal, Göran Ståhl, Gherardo Chirici, Adrian Lanz, Emil Cienciala, Susanne Winter, W. Brad Smith	60
19	Applying an Efficient k-Nearest Neighbor Search to Forest Attribute Imputation 2006 ·Forest Science ·Andrew O. Finley, Ronald E. McRoberts, Alan R. Ek	15
20	Use of Aminopeptidase Substrate Specificities to Identify Species of Cylindrocladium in Wisconsin Nurseries 1990 ·Mycologia ·C. Stevens, Margaret A. Palmer, Anna Tang, Ronald E. McRoberts	1

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