Scott Powell

2.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
35 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Scott Powell is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott Powell has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Ecology, 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 14 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Scott Powell's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (16 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (9 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (7 papers). Scott Powell is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (16 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (9 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (7 papers). Scott Powell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Iran and Austria. Scott Powell's co-authors include Andrew J. Hansen, Kathryn E. Brown, Richard L. Knight, Patricia H. Gude, John M. Marzluff, Rick L. Lawrence, Robert E. Kennedy, Warren B. Cohen, Sean P. Healey and Janet L. Ohmann and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Remote Sensing of Environment and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Scott Powell

33 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

EFFECTS OF EXURBAN DEVELOPMENT ON BIODIVERSITY: PATTERNS, MECHANISMS, AND RESEARCH NEEDS

2005 574 citations Andrew J. Hansen, Richard L. Knight et al. Ecological Applications 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 →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Scott Powell United States	14	1000	829	589	486	144	35	1.7k
Greg C. Liknes United States	18	710 0.7×	802 1.0×	584 1.0×	437 0.9×	127 0.9×	50	1.5k
Jon Pasher Canada	21	648 0.6×	665 0.8×	535 0.9×	389 0.8×	153 1.1×	44	1.8k
Valéry Gond France	31	1.3k 1.3×	1.5k 1.8×	665 1.1×	563 1.2×	243 1.7×	92	2.7k
C. Milesi United States	20	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	617 1.0×	257 0.5×	93 0.6×	42	2.1k
Myroslava Lesiv Austria	25	896 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	480 0.8×	158 0.3×	200 1.4×	55	2.0k
Jonathan H. Smith United States	13	781 0.8×	792 1.0×	328 0.6×	221 0.5×	125 0.9×	22	1.3k
Domingo Alcaraz‐Segura Spain	28	1.2k 1.2×	1.3k 1.5×	462 0.8×	395 0.8×	571 4.0×	86	2.4k
René Beuchle Italy	20	910 0.9×	1.2k 1.5×	354 0.6×	331 0.7×	156 1.1×	33	1.9k
Hammad Gilani Nepal	21	607 0.6×	813 1.0×	387 0.7×	278 0.6×	119 0.8×	44	1.4k
Stephen M. Howard United States	9	1.5k 1.5×	2.0k 2.4×	475 0.8×	468 1.0×	192 1.3×	19	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Scott Powell

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Fields of papers citing papers by Scott Powell

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Scott Powell

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Farina, Mary, Timothy R. McDermott, Scott Powell, et al.. (2025). Methane emission hotspots in a boreal forest-fen mosaic potentially linked to deep taliks. Environmental Research Letters. 20(10). 104029–104029.

Powell, Scott, et al.. (2024). Multitemporal Hyperspectral Characterization of Wheat Infested by Wheat Stem Sawfly, Cephus cinctus Norton. Remote Sensing. 16(18). 3505–3505.

Carr, Patrick M., et al.. (2023). Sentinel-2-based predictions of soil depth to inform water and nutrient retention strategies in dryland wheat. Agricultural Water Management. 289. 108524–108524. 3 indexed citations

Stoy, Paul C., et al.. (2022). The spatial variability of NDVI within a wheat field: Information content and implications for yield and grain protein monitoring. PLoS ONE. 17(3). e0265243–e0265243. 13 indexed citations

Wood, David J. A., Todd M. Preston, Scott Powell, & Paul C. Stoy. (2022). Multiple UAV Flights across the Growing Season Can Characterize Fine Scale Phenological Heterogeneity within and among Vegetation Functional Groups. Remote Sensing. 14(5). 1290–1290. 11 indexed citations

Wood, David J. A., Scott Powell, Paul C. Stoy, Lindsey L. Thurman, & Erik A. Beever. (2021). Is the grass always greener? Land surface phenology reveals differences in peak and season‐long vegetation productivity responses to climate and management. Ecology and Evolution. 11(16). 11168–11199. 9 indexed citations

Powell, Scott, et al.. (2021). Does drone remote sensing accurately estimate soil pH in a spring wheat field in southwest Montana?. Precision Agriculture. 22(6). 1803–1815. 13 indexed citations

Mullan, Katrina, et al.. (2021). Natural amenities and low-density residential development: Magnitude and spatial scale of influences. Land Use Policy. 102. 105285–105285. 15 indexed citations

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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Repasky, Kevin S., et al.. (2017). Multi-temporal mesoscale hyperspectral data of mixed agricultural and grassland regions for anomaly detection. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 131. 121–133. 28 indexed citations

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Powell, Scott, et al.. (2015). Effect of thematic map misclassification on landscape multi-metric assessment. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 187(6). 321–321. 8 indexed citations

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Ament, Robert, et al.. (2014). Roadside Vegetation and Soils on Federal Lands - Evaluation of the Potential for Increasing Carbon Capture and Storage and Decreasing Carbon Emissions. 9 indexed citations

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Powell, Scott, et al.. (2014). Hyperspectral Detection of a Subsurface CO2 Leak in the Presence of Water Stressed Vegetation. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e108299–e108299. 16 indexed citations

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Vsevolozhskaya, Olga A., Mark Greenwood, Scott Powell, & Dmitri V. Zaykin. (2014). Resampling-based multiple comparison procedure with application to point-wise testing with functional data. Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 22(1). 45–59. 6 indexed citations

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Powell, Scott, et al.. (2013). Woodland Dynamics at the Northern Range Periphery: A Challenge for Protected Area Management in a Changing World. PLoS ONE. 8(7). e70454–e70454. 10 indexed citations

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Lawrence, Rick L., et al.. (2012). Analyzing Change in Yellowstone's Terrestrial Emittance with Landsat Imagery. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 49(3). 317–345. 6 indexed citations

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Thomas, Nancy, Chengquan Huang, Samuel N. Goward, et al.. (2010). Validation of North American Forest Disturbance dynamics derived from Landsat time series stacks. Remote Sensing of Environment. 115(1). 19–32. 100 indexed citations

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Watts, Jennifer D., Scott Powell, Rick L. Lawrence, & Thomas Hilker. (2010). Improved classification of conservation tillage adoption using high temporal and synthetic satellite imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 115(1). 66–75. 117 indexed citations

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Lawrence, Rick L., et al.. (2010). Review of Alternative Methods for Estimating Terrestrial Emittance and Geothermal Heat Flux for Yellowstone National Park Using Landsat Imagery. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 47(4). 460–479. 21 indexed citations

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Hansen, Andrew J., Richard L. Knight, John M. Marzluff, et al.. (2005). EFFECTS OF EXURBAN DEVELOPMENT ON BIODIVERSITY: PATTERNS, MECHANISMS, AND RESEARCH NEEDS. Ecological Applications. 15(6). 1893–1905. 574 indexed citations breakdown →

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