Stephen Boles

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
23 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Stephen Boles is a scholar working on Ecology, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Boles has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Ecology, 12 papers in Atmospheric Science and 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Stephen Boles's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (14 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (9 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers). Stephen Boles is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (14 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (9 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers). Stephen Boles collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and India. Stephen Boles's co-authors include Xiangming Xiao, Berrien Moore, Steve Frolking, William Salas, Changsheng Li, Jiyuan Liu, Dafang Zhuang, David L. Verbyla, Qingyuan Zhang and Mingliang Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Remote Sensing of Environment and Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Boles

23 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Mapping paddy rice agriculture in southern China using multi-temporal MODIS images

2005 847 citations Xiangming Xiao, Stephen Boles et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Mapping paddy rice agriculture in South and Southeast Asia using multi-temporal MODIS images

2005 626 citations Xiangming Xiao, Stephen Boles et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen Boles United States	19	2.5k	1.9k	1.1k	834	570	23	3.9k
Çhandrashekhar Biradar United States	36	2.9k 1.2×	2.5k 1.3×	975 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	764 1.3×	97	4.7k
Pietro Ceccato United States	33	1.9k 0.8×	3.5k 1.9×	2.2k 2.0×	1.5k 1.8×	615 1.1×	76	6.3k
Martin Rudbeck Jepsen Denmark	25	1.1k 0.5×	1.8k 0.9×	340 0.3×	508 0.6×	262 0.5×	55	3.3k
Danny Lo Seen France	30	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	402 0.4×	466 0.6×	373 0.7×	70	2.7k
Jon Dewitz United States	13	2.9k 1.2×	3.2k 1.7×	855 0.8×	1.6k 1.9×	170 0.3×	22	6.5k
Suming Jin United States	16	3.7k 1.5×	3.6k 1.9×	1.2k 1.1×	1.8k 2.2×	213 0.4×	26	7.5k
Christopher M. Gough United States	45	2.3k 0.9×	4.4k 2.3×	895 0.8×	991 1.2×	783 1.4×	124	6.3k
Wei Su China	28	1.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	555 0.5×	857 1.0×	736 1.3×	118	3.2k
Willem W. Verstraeten Belgium	35	1.6k 0.7×	2.0k 1.0×	984 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	518 0.9×	103	3.9k
Kirsten M. de Beurs United States	37	2.7k 1.1×	2.7k 1.4×	881 0.8×	1.2k 1.5×	433 0.8×	103	4.9k

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Smith, Ward, Brian Grant, R. L. Desjardins, et al.. (2010). A tool to link agricultural activity data with the DNDC model to estimate GHG emission factors in Canada. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 136(3-4). 301–309. 88 indexed citations

Gilbert, Marius, Xiangming Xiao, Dirk U. Pfeiffer, et al.. (2008). Mapping H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza risk in Southeast Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(12). 4769–4774. 263 indexed citations

Salas, William, Stephen Boles, Changsheng Li, et al.. (2007). Mapping and modelling of greenhouse gas emissions from rice paddies with satellite radar observations and the DNDC biogeochemical model. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 17(3). 319–329. 21 indexed citations

Gilbert, Marius, Xiangming Xiao, Wantanee Kalpravidh, et al.. (2006). Avian influenza, domestic ducks and rice agriculture in Thailand. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 119(3-4). 409–415. 113 indexed citations

Frolking, Steve, Xilin Xiao, Stephen Boles, et al.. (2005). Modeling the effects of farming management alternatives on greenhouse gas emissions: a case study for rice agriculture in China.. 551–554. 1 indexed citations

Xiao, Xiangming, et al.. (2004). Mapping snow cover in the pan-Arctic zone, using multi-year (1998-2001) images from optical VEGETATION sensor. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 25(24). 5731–5744. 20 indexed citations

Boles, Stephen, Xiangming Xiao, Jiyuan Liu, et al.. (2004). Land cover characterization of Temperate East Asia using multi-temporal VEGETATION sensor data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 90(4). 477–489. 124 indexed citations

Xiao, Xiangming, Qingyuan Zhang, S. R. Saleska, et al.. (2004). Satellite-based modeling of gross primary production in a seasonally moist tropical evergreen forest. Remote Sensing of Environment. 94(1). 105–122. 243 indexed citations

Xiao, Xiangming, B. H. Braswell, Qingyuan Zhang, et al.. (2003). Sensitivity of vegetation indices to atmospheric aerosols: continental-scale observations in Northern Asia. Remote Sensing of Environment. 84(3). 385–392. 168 indexed citations

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Qiu, Jianjun, Huajun Tang, Steve Frolking, et al.. (2003). Mapping Single‐, Double‐, and Triple‐crop Agriculture in China at 0.5° × 0.5° by Combining County‐scale Census Data with a Remote Sensing‐derived Land Cover Map. Geocarto International. 18(2). 3–13. 71 indexed citations

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Salas, William A., Stephen Boles, Steve Frolking, Xiangming Xiao, & C. Li. (2003). The perimeter/area ratio as an index of misregistration bias in land cover change estimates. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 24(5). 1165–1170. 16 indexed citations

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Xiao, Xiangming, Stephen Boles, Steve Frolking, et al.. (2002). Landscape-scale characterization of cropland in China using Vegetation and Landsat TM images. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 23(18). 3579–3594. 80 indexed citations

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Xiao, Xiangming, et al.. (2002). Large-scale observations of alpine snow and ice cover in Asia: Using multi-temporal VEGETATION sensor data. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 23(11). 2213–2228. 46 indexed citations

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Xiao, Xiangming, Stephen Boles, Steve Frolking, et al.. (2002). Observation of flooding and rice transplanting of paddy rice fields at the site to landscape scales in China using VEGETATION sensor data. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 23(15). 3009–3022. 298 indexed citations

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Frolking, Steve, Jianjun Qiu, Stephen Boles, et al.. (2002). Combining remote sensing and ground census data to develop new maps of the distribution of rice agriculture in China. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 16(4). 312 indexed citations

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Xiao, Xiangming, Stephen Boles, Jiyuan Liu, Dafang Zhuang, & Mingliang Liu. (2002). Characterization of forest types in Northeastern China, using multi-temporal SPOT-4 VEGETATION sensor data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 82(2-3). 335–348. 294 indexed citations

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Xiao, Xue, Lei He, William Salas, et al.. (2002). Quantitative relationships between field-measured leaf area index and vegetation index derived from VEGETATION images for paddy rice fields. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 23(18). 3595–3604. 80 indexed citations

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Boles, Stephen & David L. Verbyla. (2000). Comparison of Three AVHRR-Based Fire Detection Algorithms for Interior Alaska. Remote Sensing of Environment. 72(1). 1–16. 58 indexed citations

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Verbyla, David L. & Stephen Boles. (2000). Bias in land cover change estimates due to misregistration. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 21(18). 3553–3560. 76 indexed citations

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Boles, Stephen & David L. Verbyla. (1999). Effect of scan angle on AVHRR fire detection accuracy in interior Alaska. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 20(17). 3437–3443. 12 indexed citations

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