William Philpot

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

William Philpot is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, William Philpot has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Environmental Engineering, 33 papers in Ecology and 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in William Philpot's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (29 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (19 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (14 papers). William Philpot is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (29 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (19 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (14 papers). William Philpot collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. William Philpot's co-authors include Fuan Tsai, Cort J. Willmott, Clinton M. Rowe, Jia Tian, M. L. Adams, W. A. Norvell, Chi‐Kuei Wang, Scott B. Jones, Morteza Sadeghi and Tammo S. Steenhuis and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

William Philpot

85 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Derivative Analysis of Hyperspectral Data 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Derivative Analysis of Hyperspectral Data
    1998 482 citations Fuan Tsai, William Philpot Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Philpot United States 25 1.4k 1.1k 856 666 516 93 3.1k
Tim Malthus United Kingdom 28 1.7k 1.2× 887 0.8× 776 0.9× 339 0.5× 602 1.2× 98 2.9k
Qingjiu Tian China 31 1.9k 1.4× 1.5k 1.4× 1.4k 1.6× 743 1.1× 230 0.4× 182 3.7k
Umberto Del Bello Netherlands 12 2.1k 1.5× 1.2k 1.1× 1.5k 1.7× 678 1.0× 206 0.4× 35 3.6k
François Spoto Netherlands 8 1.9k 1.4× 1.2k 1.1× 1.3k 1.5× 627 0.9× 210 0.4× 14 3.3k
Omar Sy Netherlands 4 1.8k 1.3× 1.1k 1.0× 1.2k 1.5× 606 0.9× 199 0.4× 7 3.2k
Philippe Martimort Netherlands 9 1.9k 1.4× 1.2k 1.1× 1.3k 1.5× 636 1.0× 208 0.4× 24 3.3k
Aimé Meygret France 14 2.0k 1.5× 1.3k 1.1× 1.4k 1.7× 861 1.3× 224 0.4× 44 3.8k
Claudia Isola Netherlands 8 1.8k 1.3× 1.1k 1.0× 1.3k 1.5× 624 0.9× 194 0.4× 16 3.2k
Bianca Hoersch Italy 4 1.8k 1.3× 1.1k 1.0× 1.3k 1.5× 616 0.9× 193 0.4× 9 3.2k
Franco Marchese Germany 3 1.7k 1.3× 1.1k 1.0× 1.2k 1.4× 580 0.9× 189 0.4× 6 3.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Philpot

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Philpot

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kaltenegger, Lisa, et al.. (2025). Colors of Life in the Clouds: Biopigments of Atmospheric Microorganisms as a New Signature to Detect Life on Planets like Earth. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 994(1). L2–L2.
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Tian, Jia, Zhichao Zhang, William Philpot, et al.. (2023). Simultaneous estimation of fractional cover of photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic vegetation using visible-near infrared satellite imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 290. 113549–113549. 19 indexed citations
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Yue, Jibo, Jia Tian, William Philpot, et al.. (2023). VNAI-NDVI-space and polar coordinate method for assessing crop leaf chlorophyll content and fractional cover. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 207. 107758–107758. 33 indexed citations
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Jordan, Teresa E., et al.. (2023). Recognition of whole-landscape changes due to extreme rain events in a hyperarid desert. Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment. 29. 100927–100927. 3 indexed citations
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Yoshino, Kunihiko & William Philpot. (2023). Temporal stability and spatial dependency of pixel-specific red-NIR soil lines from multi-temporal satellite remote sensing imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 44(4). 1308–1327. 3 indexed citations
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Longchamps, Louis & William Philpot. (2023). Full-Season Crop Phenology Monitoring Using Two-Dimensional Normalized Difference Pairs. Remote Sensing. 15(23). 5565–5565. 7 indexed citations
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Kaltenegger, Lisa, Stephen H. Zinder, William Philpot, et al.. (2021). Color Catalogue of Life in Ice: Surface Biosignatures on Icy Worlds. Astrobiology. 22(3). 313–321. 13 indexed citations
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Yoshino, Kunihiko & William Philpot. (2018). Red-NIR Soil-Line Coefficients Derived from Satellite Time Series. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018.
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Philpot, William. (2018). Soil Color: the Spectral Soil Line. AGUFM. 2018.
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Tian, Jia & William Philpot. (2015). Relating water absorption features to soil moisture characteristics. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9611. 96110M–96110M. 5 indexed citations
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Philpot, William. (2014). Spectral reflectance of drying, sandy soils. 3642–3645. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Chi‐Kuei, et al.. (2011). A Monte Carlo study of the seagrass-induced depth bias in bathymetric lidar. Optics Express. 19(8). 7230–7230. 8 indexed citations
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Easton, Zachary M., et al.. (2007). Unsupervised classification of saturated areas using a time series of remotely sensed images. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 11(5). 1609–1620. 43 indexed citations
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Peʼeri, Shachak & William Philpot. (2007). Increasing the Existence of Very Shallow-Water LIDAR Measurements Using the Red-Channel Waveforms. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 45(5). 1217–1223. 49 indexed citations
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Kim, Minsu & William Philpot. (2005). Development of a laboratory spectral backscattering instrument: design and simulation. Applied Optics. 44(32). 6952–6952. 2 indexed citations
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Tsai, Fuan & William Philpot. (2002). Derivative analysis of hyperspectral data for detecting spectral features. 3. 1243–1245. 9 indexed citations
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Adams, M. L., W. A. Norvell, John H. Peverly, & William Philpot. (1993). Fluorescence and reflectance characteristics of manganese deficient soybean leaves: Effects of leaf age and choice of leaflet. Plant and Soil. 155-156(1). 235–238. 14 indexed citations
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Philpot, William, et al.. (1991). Spectral texture pattern matching: a classifier for digital imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 29(4). 545–554. 27 indexed citations
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Philpot, William, et al.. (1989). Technical note Field reflectance calibration with grey standard reflectors. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 10(6). 1035–1039. 4 indexed citations
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Klemas, V. & William Philpot. (1981). Drift and dispersion studies of ocean-dumped waste using Landsat imagery and current drogues. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 47. 15 indexed citations

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