Susan Meerdink

795 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 493 citations indexed

About

Susan Meerdink is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Susan Meerdink has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 493 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Ecology, 5 papers in Environmental Engineering and 4 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Susan Meerdink's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (11 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (4 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (4 papers). Susan Meerdink is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (11 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (4 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (4 papers). Susan Meerdink collaborates with scholars based in United States, Estonia and Spain. Susan Meerdink's co-authors include Dar A. Roberts, Simon J. Hook, Elsa Abbott, Keely L. Roth, Jennifer Y. King, Paul Gader, Philip E. Dennison, Cibele Hummel do Amaral, Alexander Koltunov and Michael Alonzo and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Remote Sensing and ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Susan Meerdink

13 papers receiving 478 citations

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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.

The ECOSTRESS spectral library version 1.0

2019 263 citations Susan Meerdink, Simon J. Hook et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Susan Meerdink United States	8	211	195	175	113	96	14	493
Olga Sykioti Greece	10	265 1.3×	136 0.7×	138 0.8×	79 0.7×	106 1.1×	40	481
Daniel Scheffler Germany	8	239 1.1×	149 0.8×	134 0.8×	111 1.0×	193 2.0×	22	551
Raymond Soffer Canada	12	350 1.7×	169 0.9×	191 1.1×	61 0.5×	87 0.9×	27	527
Stefan Suess Germany	9	315 1.5×	242 1.2×	141 0.8×	89 0.8×	128 1.3×	9	482
Rocchina Guarini Italy	9	186 0.9×	151 0.8×	91 0.5×	86 0.8×	149 1.6×	17	440
Koen Meuleman Belgium	12	203 1.0×	138 0.7×	94 0.5×	121 1.1×	102 1.1×	26	394
Jorge Vicent Spain	13	421 2.0×	370 1.9×	179 1.0×	134 1.2×	53 0.6×	37	612
H. H. Bulcock South Africa	8	239 1.1×	196 1.0×	103 0.6×	105 0.9×	165 1.7×	11	606
Lixin Sun Canada	11	125 0.6×	124 0.6×	134 0.8×	94 0.8×	152 1.6×	15	420
Yady Tatiana Solano‐Correa Italy	12	237 1.1×	120 0.6×	99 0.6×	135 1.2×	171 1.8×	43	422

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Susan Meerdink

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

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14 of 14 papers shown

Meerdink, Susan, Dar A. Roberts, Jennifer Y. King, et al.. (2025). Using hyperspectral and thermal imagery to monitor stress of Southern California plant species during the 2013–2015 drought. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 220. 580–592. 4 indexed citations

Meerdink, Susan, et al.. (2023). Dealing with imperfect data for invasive species detection using multispectral imagery. Ecological Informatics. 79. 102432–102432. 7 indexed citations

Dannenberg, Matthew P., Mallory L. Barnes, William K. Smith, et al.. (2023). Upscaling dryland carbon and water fluxes with artificial neural networks of optical, thermal, and microwave satellite remote sensing. Biogeosciences. 20(2). 383–404. 9 indexed citations

Miller, David L., Michael Alonzo, Susan Meerdink, et al.. (2021). Seasonal and interannual drought responses of vegetation in a California urbanized area measured using complementary remote sensing indices. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 183. 178–195. 34 indexed citations

Meerdink, Susan, Dar A. Roberts, Glynn Hulley, et al.. (2019). Plant species' spectral emissivity and temperature using the hyperspectral thermal emission spectrometer (HyTES) sensor. Remote Sensing of Environment. 224. 421–435. 28 indexed citations

Meerdink, Susan, Dar A. Roberts, Keely L. Roth, et al.. (2019). Classifying California plant species temporally using airborne hyperspectral imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 232. 111308–111308. 37 indexed citations

Meerdink, Susan, et al.. (2019). Developing Spectral Libraries Using Multiple Target Multiple Instance Adaptive Cosine/Coherence Estimator. 1–5. 1 indexed citations

Gader, Paul, et al.. (2019). Temporal Mapping of Hyperspectral Data. 1–4. 1 indexed citations

Meerdink, Susan, Simon J. Hook, Dar A. Roberts, & Elsa Abbott. (2019). The ECOSTRESS spectral library version 1.0. Remote Sensing of Environment. 230. 111196–111196. 263 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dennison, Philip E., Yi Qi, Susan Meerdink, et al.. (2019). Comparison of Methods for Modeling Fractional Cover Using Simulated Satellite Hyperspectral Imager Spectra. Remote Sensing. 11(18). 2072–2072. 40 indexed citations

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Peterson, S., et al.. (2019). Monitoring Post-Fire Recovery of Chaparral and Conifer Species Using Field Surveys and Landsat Time Series. Remote Sensing. 11(24). 2963–2963. 21 indexed citations

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Meerdink, Susan. (2018). Remote Sensing of Plant Species Using Airborne Hyperspectral Visible-Shortwave Infrared and Thermal Infrared Imagery. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 6 indexed citations

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Meerdink, Susan. (2017). Spectral emissivity features of plants: Prospects for the Hyperspectral Thermal Emission Spectrometer (HyTES) sensor. Figshare. 2016.

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Meerdink, Susan, Dar A. Roberts, Jennifer Y. King, et al.. (2016). Linking seasonal foliar traits to VSWIR-TIR spectroscopy across California ecosystems. Remote Sensing of Environment. 186. 322–338. 42 indexed citations

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