Thomas Hilker

9.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
83 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Thomas Hilker is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Hilker has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Ecology, 50 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 43 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thomas Hilker's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (60 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (38 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (32 papers). Thomas Hilker is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (60 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (38 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (32 papers). Thomas Hilker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Thomas Hilker's co-authors include Nicholas C. Coops, Michael A. Wulder, Joanne C. White, Forrest G. Hall, Alexei Lyapustin, T. Andrew Black, Jeffrey G. Masek, Christopher W. Bater, Feng Gao and P. J. Sellers and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Hilker

83 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit 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.

Remote Sensing Technologies for Enhancing Forest Inventories: A Review

2016 615 citations Joanne C. White, Nicholas C. Coops et al. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing profile →
A new data fusion model for high spatial- and temporal-resolution mapping of forest disturbance based on Landsat and MODIS

2009 593 citations Thomas Hilker, Michael A. Wulder et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Lidar sampling for large-area forest characterization: A review

2012 584 citations Michael A. Wulder, Joanne C. White et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Hilker

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Thomas Hilker's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Thomas Hilker with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Thomas Hilker more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Hilker

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Thomas Hilker. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Thomas Hilker. The network helps show where Thomas Hilker may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Hilker

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Remote sensing of seasonal light use efficiency in temperate bog ecosystems 2017 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), Nicholas C. Coops, Zoran Nesic, Andreas Christen, Sung‐Ching Lee, Thomas Hilker	7
2	Climate drivers of the Amazon forest greening 2017 ·PLoS ONE ·Fabien Wagner, Bruno Hérault, Vivien Rossi, Thomas Hilker, Eduardo Eiji Maeda, Alber Sánchez, Alexei Lyapustin, Lênio Soares Galvão, Yujie Wang, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão	57
3	Remote Sensing Technologies for Enhancing Forest Inventories: A Review breakdown → 2016 ·Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing ·Joanne C. White, Nicholas C. Coops, Michael A. Wulder, Mikko Vastaranta, Thomas Hilker, Piotr Tompalski	615
4	Scaling estimates of vegetation structure in Amazonian tropical forests using multi-angle MODIS observations 2016 ·International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation ·Yhasmin Mendes de Moura, Thomas Hilker, F. G. Gonçalves, Lênio Soares Galvão, Joáo Roberto dos Santos, Alexei Lyapustin, Eduardo Eiji Maeda, Camila V. J. Silva	7
5	Detecting Trends in Landuse and Landcover Change of Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia 2015 ·Environmental Management ·Aramde Fetene, Thomas Hilker, Kumelachew Yeshitela, (unknown), Warren B. Cohen, Zhiqiang Yang	40
6	Scientific impact of MODIS C5 calibration degradation and C6+ improvements 2014 ·Atmospheric measurement techniques ·Alexei Lyapustin, (unknown), X. Xiong, Gerhard Meister, Steven Platnick, R. C. Levy, Bryan A. Franz, Sergey Korkin, Thomas Hilker, (unknown), F. G. HALL, P. J. Sellers, Aisheng Wu, Amit Angal	196
7	Process-Based Modeling to Assess the Effects of Recent Climatic Variation on Site Productivity and Forest Function across Western North America 2014 ·Forests ·Richard H. Waring, Nicholas C. Coops, (unknown), Thomas Hilker, Greg Latta	19
8	Study of Changes in Habitat Type Distribution and Habitat Structure of Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia 2013 ·ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) ·Aramde Fetene, Kumelachew Yeshitela, (unknown), Thomas Hilker	8
9	Multi-angle implementation of atmospheric correction for MODIS (MAIAC): 3. Atmospheric correction 2012 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Alexei Lyapustin, Yujie Wang, István László, Thomas Hilker, Forrest G. Hall, P. J. Sellers, Compton J. Tucker, Sergey Korkin	217
10	Tracking plant physiological properties from multi-angular tower-based remote sensing 2011 ·Oecologia ·Thomas Hilker, Anatoly A. Gitelson, Nicholas C. Coops, Forrest G. Hall, T. Andrew Black	61
11	Assessing the impact of N-fertilization on biochemical composition and biomass of a Douglas-fir canopy—A remote sensing approach 2011 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Thomas Hilker, L. C. Lepine, Nicholas C. Coops, Rachhpal S. Jassal, T. Andrew Black, Michael A. Wulder, Scott V. Ollinger, (unknown), (unknown)	13
12	Improved classification of conservation tillage adoption using high temporal and synthetic satellite imagery 2010 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Jennifer D. Watts, Scott Powell, Rick L. Lawrence, Thomas Hilker	117
13	Using digital time-lapse cameras to monitor species-specific understorey and overstorey phenology in support of wildlife habitat assessment 2010 ·Environmental Monitoring and Assessment ·Christopher W. Bater, Nicholas C. Coops, Michael A. Wulder, Thomas Hilker, Scott E. Nielsen, Gregory J. McDermid, Gordon B. Stenhouse	49
14	Implications of differing input data sources and approaches upon forest carbon stock estimation 2009 ·Environmental Monitoring and Assessment ·Michael A. Wulder, Joanne C. White, G. Stinson, Thomas Hilker, Werner A. Kurz, Nicholas C. Coops, Benoît St-Onge, J. A. Trofymow	30
15	Generation of dense time series synthetic Landsat data through data blending with MODIS using a spatial and temporal adaptive reflectance fusion model 2009 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Thomas Hilker, Michael A. Wulder, Nicholas C. Coops, Nicole Seitz, Joanne C. White, Feng Gao, Jeffrey G. Masek, Gordon Stenhouse	237
16	Effects of mutual shading of tree crowns on prediction of photosynthetic light-use efficiency in a coastal Douglas-fir forest 2008 ·Tree Physiology ·Thomas Hilker, Nicholas C. Coops, Christopher R. Schwalm, Rachhpal S. Jassal, T. A. Black, P. Krishnan	48
17	Detection of foliage conditions and disturbance from multi-angular high spectral resolution remote sensing 2008 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Thomas Hilker, Nicholas C. Coops, (unknown), Michael A. Wulder, Mathew Brown, T. Andrew Black, Zoran Nesic, (unknown)	49
18	Assessing Tower Flux Footprint Climatology and Scaling Between Remotely Sensed and Eddy Covariance Measurements 2008 ·Boundary-Layer Meteorology ·Baozhang Chen, T. Andrew Black, Nicholas C. Coops, Thomas Hilker, J. A. Trofymow, Kai Morgenstern	156
19	Separating physiologically and directionally induced changes in PRI using BRDF models 2008 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Thomas Hilker, Nicholas C. Coops, Forrest G. Hall, T. Andrew Black, Michael A. Wulder, Zoran Nesic, P. Krishnan	158
20	The use of remote sensing in light use efficiency based models of gross primary production: A review of current status and future requirements 2007 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Thomas Hilker, Nicholas C. Coops, Michael A. Wulder, T. Andrew Black, Robert D. Guy	239

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact