Wai‐Tim Ng

961 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 705 citations indexed

About

Wai‐Tim Ng is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Wai‐Tim Ng has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 705 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Ecology, 5 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 5 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Wai‐Tim Ng's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (7 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (5 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (4 papers). Wai‐Tim Ng is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (7 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (5 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (4 papers). Wai‐Tim Ng collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Kenya and Switzerland. Wai‐Tim Ng's co-authors include Clement Atzberger, Markus Immitzer, Francesco Vuolo, Sandra Eckert, Urs Schaffner, Michele Meroni, Purity Rima Mbaabu, Hussein Gadain, Felix Rembold and Simon Choge and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation and Land Degradation and Development.

In The Last Decade

Wai‐Tim Ng

15 papers receiving 687 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.

  1. How much does multi-temporal Sentinel-2 data improve crop type classification?
    2018 247 citations Francesco Vuolo, Markus Immitzer et al. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wai‐Tim Ng Austria 13 462 228 185 148 143 16 705
Luis Carrasco United States 13 527 1.1× 263 1.2× 202 1.1× 155 1.0× 102 0.7× 20 740
David Sheeren France 18 462 1.0× 385 1.7× 256 1.4× 72 0.5× 134 0.9× 46 952
Hamed Gholizadeh United States 15 437 0.9× 351 1.5× 111 0.6× 101 0.7× 193 1.3× 38 768
Maïlys Lopes France 9 417 0.9× 236 1.0× 299 1.6× 70 0.5× 117 0.8× 10 588
Benjamin Mack Germany 12 408 0.9× 262 1.1× 152 0.8× 61 0.4× 126 0.9× 13 626
Grant M. Casady United States 11 442 1.0× 336 1.5× 180 1.0× 159 1.1× 81 0.6× 16 682
Cibele Hummel do Amaral Brazil 21 499 1.1× 350 1.5× 352 1.9× 197 1.3× 71 0.5× 50 947
Anne Jacquin France 11 389 0.8× 257 1.1× 163 0.9× 208 1.4× 57 0.4× 16 636
Javier Lopatin Chile 12 564 1.2× 274 1.2× 315 1.7× 102 0.7× 251 1.8× 26 801
Toon Spanhove Belgium 16 561 1.2× 332 1.5× 158 0.9× 61 0.4× 226 1.6× 33 870

Countries citing papers authored by Wai‐Tim Ng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wai‐Tim Ng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Wai‐Tim Ng. 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 Wai‐Tim Ng. The network helps show where Wai‐Tim Ng may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wai‐Tim Ng

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

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Forkel, Matthias, Milan Fischer, František Jurečka, et al.. (2020). Earth Observation for agricultural drought monitoring in the Pannonian Basin (southeastern Europe): current state and future directions. Regional Environmental Change. 20(4). 65 indexed citations
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Eckert, Sandra, Theo Linders, Wai‐Tim Ng, et al.. (2020). Niche change analysis as a tool to inform management of two invasive species in Eastern Africa. Ecosphere. 11(2). 29 indexed citations
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Dejene, Sintayehu W., et al.. (2020). Regional dynamics in distribution of Prosopis juliflora under predicted climate change in Africa. Tropical Ecology. 61(4). 437–445. 18 indexed citations
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Mbaabu, Purity Rima, Wai‐Tim Ng, Urs Schaffner, et al.. (2019). Spatial Evolution of Prosopis Invasion and its Effects on LULC and Livelihoods in Baringo, Kenya. Remote Sensing. 11(10). 1217–1217. 52 indexed citations
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Ng, Wai‐Tim, et al.. (2018). Seasonal variations in the availability of fodder resources and practices of dairy cattle feeding among the smallholder farmers in Western Usambara Highlands, Tanzania. Tropical Animal Health and Production. 50(7). 1653–1664. 22 indexed citations
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Vuolo, Francesco, et al.. (2018). How much does multi-temporal Sentinel-2 data improve crop type classification?. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 72. 122–130. 247 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ng, Wai‐Tim, et al.. (2018). Ensemble approach for potential habitat mapping of invasive Prosopis spp. in Turkana, Kenya. Ecology and Evolution. 8(23). 11921–11931. 23 indexed citations
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Low, Gabriel W., et al.. (2017). Survey of the avifauna of Giang Man proposed nature reserve, Quang Binh province, Vietnam. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 33. 8–13.
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Ng, Wai‐Tim, et al.. (2017). Assessing the Potential of Sentinel-2 and Pléiades Data for the Detection of Prosopis and Vachellia spp. in Kenya. Remote Sensing. 9(1). 74–74. 87 indexed citations
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Vuolo, Francesco, Wai‐Tim Ng, & Clement Atzberger. (2017). Smoothing and gap-filling of high resolution multi-spectral time series: Example of Landsat data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 57. 202–213. 64 indexed citations
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Ng, Wai‐Tim, et al.. (2016). Mapping Prosopis spp. within the Tarach water basin, Turkana, Kenya using Sentinel-2 imagery. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9998. 99980L–99980L. 5 indexed citations
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Meroni, Michele, et al.. (2016). Mapping Prosopis juliflora in West Somaliland with Landsat 8 Satellite Imagery and Ground Information. Land Degradation and Development. 28(2). 494–506. 30 indexed citations
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Ng, Wai‐Tim, Michele Meroni, Markus Immitzer, et al.. (2016). Mapping Prosopis spp. with Landsat 8 data in arid environments: Evaluating effectiveness of different methods and temporal imagery selection for Hargeisa, Somaliland. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 53. 76–89. 23 indexed citations
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Rembold, Felix, et al.. (2015). Mapping areas invaded by Prosopis juliflora in Somaliland on Landsat 8 imagery. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9637. 963723–963723. 20 indexed citations
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Ng, Wai‐Tim, et al.. (2014). Method Analysis for Collecting and Processing in-situ Hyperspectral Needle Reflectance Data for Monitoring Norway Spruce. Photogrammetrie - Fernerkundung - Geoinformation. 2014(5). 423–434. 14 indexed citations
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Yee, Alex Thiam Koon, et al.. (2013). THE VASCULAR PLANT FLORA OF BUKIT BATOK, SINGAPORE. 6 indexed citations

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