Sassan Saatchi

32.7k total citations · 12 hit papers
269 papers, 20.0k citations indexed

About

Sassan Saatchi is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sassan Saatchi has authored 269 papers receiving a total of 20.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 141 papers in Environmental Engineering, 116 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 113 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Sassan Saatchi's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (114 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (94 papers) and Forest ecology and management (84 papers). Sassan Saatchi is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (114 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (94 papers) and Forest ecology and management (84 papers). Sassan Saatchi collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Sassan Saatchi's co-authors include Yadvinder Malhi, Nancy L. Harris, Yifan Yu, Edward T. A. Mitchard, Liana O. Anderson, Wolfgang Buermann, Simon L. Lewis, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Sandra Brown and Stephen Hagen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sassan Saatchi

254 papers receiving 19.3k 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.

Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents

2011 1.6k citations Sassan Saatchi, M. A. Lefsky et al. profile →
New global observations of the terrestrial carbon cycle from GOSAT: Patterns of plant fluorescence with gross primary productivity

2011 820 citations John R. Worden, Sassan Saatchi et al. profile →
Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes

2021 675 citations David A. Gibbs, Alessandro Baccini et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

2014 673 citations M. Mu, Sassan Saatchi et al. profile →
The BIOMASS mission: Mapping global forest biomass to better understand the terrestrial carbon cycle

2011 525 citations Sassan Saatchi et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Distribution of aboveground live biomass in the Amazon basin

2007 524 citations Sassan Saatchi, R. A. Houghton et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Greenhouse gas emissions intensity of global croplands

2016 506 citations Kimberly M. Carlson, James Gerber et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Baseline Map of Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in Tropical Regions

2012 502 citations Stephen Hagen, Sassan Saatchi et al. profile →
Observing terrestrial ecosystems and the carbon cycle from space

2014 400 citations Sassan Saatchi et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration

2020 391 citations Martin Brandt, Philippe Ciais et al. profile →
Changes in global terrestrial live biomass over the 21st century

2021 200 citations Liang Xu, Sassan Saatchi et al. Science Advances profile →
Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade

2023 84 citations Philippe Ciais, Frédéric Frappart et al. profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sassan Saatchi

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Protect young secondary forests for optimum carbon removal 2025 ·Nature Climate Change ·Nathaniel Robinson, C. Ronnie Drever, David A. Gibbs, (unknown), Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert, Viola Heinrich, Philippe Ciais, Celso H. L. Silva, Zhihua Liu, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Sassan Saatchi, Yidi Xu, Susan C. Cook‐Patton	4
2	Monitoring sustainable logging in an Amazon forest under management using deep learning and Planet NICFI imagery 2025 ·International Journal of Remote Sensing ·(unknown), Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, (unknown), (unknown), Fabien Wagner, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Liana O. Anderson, (unknown), (unknown), Sassan Saatchi, Ricardo Dalagnol	0
3	Monitoring the Early Growth of Pinus and Eucalyptus Plantations Using a Planet NICFI-Based Canopy Height Model: A Case Study in Riqueza, Brazil 2025 ·Remote Sensing ·Fabien Wagner, Fábio Marcelo Breunig, Rafaelo Balbinot, Emanuel Araújo Silva, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ricardo Dalagnol, Stephen Hagen, Sassan Saatchi	0
4	Wood density variation across an Andes‐to‐Amazon elevational gradient 2025 ·Journal of Ecology ·William Farfán-Ríos, Sassan Saatchi, Imma Oliveras Menor, Yadvinder Malhi, (unknown), Oliver L. Phillips, (unknown), Juan Francisco Gibaja, (unknown), Karina García‐Cabrera, Norma Salinas, John Terborgh, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Rodolfo Vásquez, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Percy Núñez Vargas, Craig A. Layman, Miles R. Silman	0
5	Degradation and deforestation increase the sensitivity of the Amazon Forest to climate extremes 2025 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Marcos Longo, Michael Keller, Lara M. Kueppers, K. W. Bowman, Ovidiu Csillik, António Ferraz, (unknown), Jean Pierre Ometto, Britaldo Soares‐Filho, Xiangtao Xu, (unknown), Eric Bastos Görgens, (unknown), Jessica Needham, Elsa M. Ordway, (unknown), Ekena Rangel Pinagé, (unknown), Liang Xu, Sassan Saatchi	1
6	The weak land carbon sink hypothesis 2025 ·Science Advances ·James T. Randerson, Yue Li, Weiwei Fu, François Primeau, (unknown), M. Mu, Forrest M. Hoffman, Anna T. Trugman, Linqing Yang, Chao Wu, Jonathan Wang, William R. L. Anderegg, Alessandro Baccini, M. A. Friedl, Sassan Saatchi, Scott Denning, Michael L. Goulden	0
7	Using multiscale lidar to determine variation in canopy structure from African forest elephant trails 2024 ·Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation ·(unknown), Patrick Burns, Andrew J. Abraham, Patrick Jantz, Loïc Makaga, Sassan Saatchi, Fiona Maisels, Katharine Abernethy, Christopher E. Doughty	3
8	Hy-TeC: a hybrid vision transformer model for high-resolution and large-scale mapping of canopy height 2023 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Ibrahim Fayad, Philippe Ciais, Martin A. Schwartz, Jean‐Pierre Wigneron, Nicolas Baghdadi, (unknown), Alexandre d’Aspremont, Frédéric Frappart, Sassan Saatchi, (unknown), (unknown), Hassan S. Bazzi	39
9	CARDAMOM-FluxVal version 1.0: a FLUXNET-based validation system for CARDAMOM carbon and water flux estimates 2022 ·Geoscientific model development ·Yan Yang, A. Anthony Bloom, Shuang Ma, Paul A. Levine, Alexander Norton, Nicholas C. Parazoo, J. T. Reager, John R. Worden, Gregory R. Quetin, T. Luke Smallman, Mathew Williams, Liang Xu, Sassan Saatchi	9
10	Impacts of Degradation on Water, Energy, and Carbon Cycling of the Amazon Tropical Forests 2020 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Marcos Longo, Sassan Saatchi, Michael Keller, K. W. Bowman, (unknown), P. R. Moorcroft, Douglas C. Morton, Damien Bonal, Paulo Brando, Benoît Burban, Géraldine Derroire, M. N. dos-Santos, Victoria Meyer, S. R. Saleska, Susan Trumbore, Grégoire Vincent	65
11	Evaluation of the Sensitivity of SMOS L-VOD to Forest Above-Ground Biomass at Global Scale 2020 ·Remote Sensing ·Arnaud Mialon, Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández, Maurizio Santoro, Sassan Saatchi, Stéphane Mermoz, (unknown), Yann H. Kerr	37
12	Satellite-observed pantropical carbon dynamics 2019 ·Nature Plants ·Lei Fan, Jean‐Pierre Wigneron, Philippe Ciais, Jérôme Chave, Martin Brandt, Rasmus Fensholt, Sassan Saatchi, Ana Bastos, Amen Al‐Yaari, Koen Hufkens, Yuanwei Qin, Xiangming Xiao, Chi Chen, Ranga B. Myneni, Roberto Fernandez-Morán, Arnaud Mialon, Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández, Yann H. Kerr, Feng Tian, Josep Peñuelas	160
13	Forest degradation and biomass loss along the Chocó region of Colombia 2019 ·Carbon Balance and Management ·Victoria Meyer, Sassan Saatchi, António Ferraz, Liang Xu, Álvaro Duque, Mariano Garcı́a, Jérôme Chave	30
14	The Sensitivity of North American Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes to Spatial and Temporal Variation in Soil Moisture: An Analysis Using Radar‐Derived Estimates of Root‐Zone Soil Moisture 2019 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Ke Zhang, Ashehad A. Ali, Alexander S. Antonarakis, Mahta Moghaddam, Sassan Saatchi, Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, Richard H. Chen, Sermsak Jaruwatanadilok, Richard H. Cuenca, Wade T. Crow, P. R. Moorcroft	117
15	Canopy area of large trees explains aboveground biomass variations across neotropical forest landscapes 2018 ·Biogeosciences ·Victoria Meyer, Sassan Saatchi, David B. Clark, Michael Keller, Grégoire Vincent, António Ferraz, Fernando Del Bon Espírito-Santo, Marcus Vinício Neves d'Oliveira, (unknown), Jérôme Chave	45
16	Predicting Stem Total and Assortment Volumes in an Industrial Pinus taeda L. Forest Plantation Using Airborne Laser Scanning Data and Random Forest 2017 ·Forests ·Carlos Alberto Silva, Carine Klauberg, Andrew T. Hudak, Lee A. Vierling, Wan Shafrina Wan Mohd Jaafar, Midhun Mohan, Mariano Garcı́a, António Ferraz, Adrián Cardíl, Sassan Saatchi	45
17	Greenhouse gas emissions intensity of global croplands breakdown → 2016 ·Nature Climate Change ·Kimberly M. Carlson, James Gerber, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Mario Herrero, Graham K. MacDonald, Kate A. Brauman, Peter Havlík, Christine S. O’Connell, Justin A. Johnson, Sassan Saatchi, Paul West	506
18	Mapping tropical forest biomass with radar and spaceborne LiDAR: overcoming problems of high biomass and persistent cloud 2011 ·Edward T. A. Mitchard, Sassan Saatchi, Lee White, Katharine Abernethy, Kathryn J. Jeffery, Simon L. Lewis, M. Collins, M. A. Lefsky, Miguel E. Leal, Iain Woodhouse, Patrick Meir	19
19	Synergism of optical and radar data for forest structure and biomass / Sinergismo entre dados ópticos e de radar da estrutura da floresta e biomassa 2010 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Sassan Saatchi	1
20	Distribution of aboveground live biomass in the Amazon basin breakdown → 2007 ·Global Change Biology ·Sassan Saatchi, R. A. Houghton, Regina Célia dos Santos Alvalá, João Vitor Soares, Yifan Yu	524

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