Stephen V. Stehman

37.3k citations

193 papers · 27.3k indexed · 16 hit papers · h-index 66

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.02%
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
Ecological Modeling top 0.1%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 112
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 56
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 30
- Fire effects on ecosystems 19
Environmental Engineering 69
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications 38
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping 32

Co-authors: Matthew C. Hansen Peter Potapov Alexandra Tyukavina Thomas R. Loveland Giles M. Foody Svetlana Turubanova Anil Kommareddy Curtis E. Woodcock
Journals: Remote Sensing of Environment (59 papers)International Journal of Remote Sensing (15 papers)Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (10 papers)Environmental Research Letters (6 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (6 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Spain

In The Last Decade

Stephen V. Stehman

188 papers receiving 26.1k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Global Trends of Forest Loss Due to Fire From 2001 to 2019 2022 · 187 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología
2021 Remote Sensing of Environment
2021 Nature Sustainability
2020 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
2020 Remote Sensing of Environment
2019 Remote Sensing of Environment
2018 Science Advances
2018 Nature
2016 Remote Sensing of Environment
2014 Remote Sensing of Environment
2013 Science
2012 Remote Sensing of Environment
2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2008 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1998 Remote Sensing of Environment
1997 Remote Sensing of Environment

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#	Work
1	From pixels to parcels: Flexible, practical small-area uncertainty estimation for spatial averages obtained from aboveground biomass maps Remote Sensing of Environment ·Lucas K. Johnson, Grant M. Domke, Stephen V. Stehman, M. J. Mahoney, Colin M. Beier	2025	1
2	A shift from human-directed to undirected wild land disturbances in the USA Nature Geoscience ·Shi Qiu, Zhe Zhu, Xiucheng Yang, Curtis E. Woodcock, Robert T. Fahey, Stephen V. Stehman, Yingtong Zhang, Mari Cullerton, Ashley Grinstead, Falu Hong, Kexin Song, Ji Won Suh, Li Tian, Wei Ren, Ramakrishna Nemani	2025	1
3	Land in limbo: Nearly one third of Indonesia’s cleared old-growth forests left idle Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Diana Parker, Anna Tosiani, Muhammad Yazid, Inggit Lolita Sari, Tatik Kartika, Kustiyo, Rizky Firmansyah, Zuraidah Said, Arief Wijaya, Peter Potapov, Alexandra Tyukavina, Stephen V. Stehman, Viviana Zalles, Amy Pickens, Jeffrey Pickering, Svetlana Turubanova, Matthew C. Hansen	2024	7
4	Choosing a sample size allocation to strata based on trade-offs in precision when estimating accuracy and area of a rare class from a stratified sample Remote Sensing of Environment ·Stephen V. Stehman, John E. Wagner	2023	6
5	Development of a 10-m resolution maize and soybean map over China: Matching satellite-based crop classification with sample-based area estimation Remote Sensing of Environment ·Haijun Li, Xiao‐Peng Song, Matthew C. Hansen, Inbal Becker‐Reshef, Bernard Adusei, Jeffrey Pickering, Li Wang, Lei Wang, Zhengyang Lin, Viviana Zalles, Peter Potapov, Stephen V. Stehman, Chris Justice	2023	42
6	Thematic accuracy assessment of the NLCD 2019 land cover for the conterminous United States GIScience & Remote Sensing ·James Wickham, Stephen V. Stehman, Daniel G. Sorenson, Leila Gass, Jon Dewitz	2023	47
7	Conterminous United States Land-Cover Change (1985–2016): New Insights from Annual Time Series Land ·Roger F. Auch, Danika Wellington, Janis L. Taylor, Stephen V. Stehman, H. Tollerud, Jesslyn F. Brown, Thomas R. Loveland, Bruce W. Pengra, Josephine A. Horton, Zhe Zhu, Alemayehu Midekisa, Kristi L. Sayler, George Xian, Christopher Barber, Ryan R. Reker	2022	23
8	Massive soybean expansion in South America since 2000 and implications for conservation Nature Sustainability ·Xiao‐Peng Song, Matthew C. Hansen, Peter Potapov, Bernard Adusei, Jeffrey Pickering, Marcos Adami, André Lima, Viviana Zalles, Stephen V. Stehman, Carlos M. Di Bella, María C. Conde, E. J. Copati, Lucas Barbosa Fernandes, Andrés Hernández-Serna, Samuel M. Jantz, Amy Pickens, Svetlana Turubanova, Alexandra Tyukavina Hit paper breakdown →	2021	277
9	Spring fires in Russia: results from participatory burned area mapping with Sentinel-2 imagery Environmental Research Letters ·Igor Glushkov, Ilona Zhuravleva, J. L. McCarty, Anna Komarova, Alexey Drozdovsky, Marina Drozdovskaya, Vilen Lupachik, Alexey Yaroshenko, Stephen V. Stehman, Alexander V. Prishchepov	2021	18
10	Contextualizing Landscape-Scale Forest Cover Loss in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between 2000 and 2015 Land ·Giuseppe Molinario, Matthew C. Hansen, Peter Potapov, Alexandra Tyukavina, Stephen V. Stehman	2020	43
11	Degradation as a catalyst for primary forest conversion in Indonesia AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Dhan Parker, Andri Kusuma Wijaya, A. Tosiani, M. Yazid, Inggit Sari, Tatik Kartika, Rizky Firmansyah, Zuraidah Said, Peter Potapov, Alexandra Tyukavina, Stephen V. Stehman, Michael Jørgen Hansen	2020	1
12	The effects of imperfect reference data on remote sensing-assisted estimators of land cover class proportions ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ·Ronald E. McRoberts, Stephen V. Stehman, Greg C. Liknes, Erik Næsset, Christophe Sannier, Brian F. Walters	2018	63
13	A stratified random sampling design in space and time for regional to global scale burned area product validation Remote Sensing of Environment ·Luigi Boschetti, Stephen V. Stehman, David P. Roy	2016	93
14	Quantification of global gross forest cover loss Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Matthew C. Hansen, Stephen V. Stehman, Peter Potapov Hit paper breakdown →	2010	686
15	A Pòlya-Urn Resampling Scheme for Estimating Precision and Confidence Intervals Under One-Stage Cluster Sampling: Application to Map Classification Accuracy and Cover-Type Frequencies Forest Science ·Steen Magnussen, Stephen V. Stehman, Piermaria Corona, Michael A. Wulder	2004	2
16	Statistical Rigor and Practical Utility in Thematic Map Accuracy Assessment Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing ·Stephen V. Stehman	2001	97
17	Accuracy assessment for the U.S. Geological Survey Regional Land-Cover Mapping Program: New York and New Jersey Region Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing ·Zhiliang Zhu, Limin Yang, Stephen V. Stehman, Raymond L. Czaplewski	2000	78
18	Estimating the Kappa Coefficient and its Variance under Stratified Random Sampling Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing ·Stephen V. Stehman	1996	188
19	The Horvitz-Thompson Theorem as a Unifying Perspective for Probability Sampling: With Examples from Natural Resource Sampling The American Statistician ·W. Scott Overton, Stephen V. Stehman	1995	46
20	Properties of designs for sampling continuous spatial resources from a triangular grid Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods ·W. Scott Overton, Stephen V. Stehman	1993	32

About Stephen V. Stehman

Stephen V. Stehman is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Geography, Planning and Development and Ecological Modeling, having authored 193 papers that have together received 27.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (93 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (56 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (38 papers), Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (32 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (30 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (19 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (19 papers) and Geographic Information Systems Studies (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (16.4k citations), Ecological Modeling (2.4k citations), Ecology (14.2k citations), Environmental Engineering (6.7k citations) and Media Technology (2.5k citations). Stephen V. Stehman has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. Frequent co-authors include Matthew C. Hansen, Peter Potapov, Alexandra Tyukavina, Thomas R. Loveland, Giles M. Foody, Svetlana Turubanova, Anil Kommareddy, Curtis E. Woodcock, Pontus Olofsson and S. J. Goetz. Their work appears in journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, Environmental Research Letters and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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