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Environmental Sciences
Israel
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
70
Citations
18896
World Ranking
1670
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Arnon Karnieli is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with 76 publications in the field. Key subfields of study include global and planetary change, ecology, environmental engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, which include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Archaeological Research and Protection

Arnon Karnieli has published extensively in various venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Remote Sensing
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • Ecological Informatics

Recent publications include the following papers:

  • "A within-season approach for detecting early growth stages in corn and soybean using high temporal and spatial resolution imagery," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "The superiority of the normalized difference phenology index (NDPI) for estimating grassland aboveground fresh biomass," 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Using reflectance spectroscopy for detecting land-use effects on soil quality in drylands," 2020, Soil and Tillage Research
  • "Sustainability challenges for the social-environmental systems across the Asian Drylands Belt," 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Object-Based Image Procedures for Assessing the Solar Energy Photovoltaic Potential of Heterogeneous Rooftops Using Airborne LiDAR and Orthophoto," 2020, Remote Sensing

Karnieli frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Micha Silver, Arti Tiwari, Klil Noy, Ady Arie, and Ido Kaminer.

Best Publications

  • A mono-window algorithm for retrieving land surface temperature from Landsat TM data and its application to the Israel-Egypt border region

    Z. Qin;A. Karnieli;P. Berliner

  • Use of NDVI and Land Surface Temperature for Drought Assessment: Merits and Limitations

    Arnon Karnieli;Nurit Agam;Rachel T. Pinker;Martha Anderson

  • Mapping of several soil properties using DAIS-7915 hyperspectral scanner data - a case study over clayey soils in Israel

    E. Ben-Dor;K. Patkin;A. Banin;A. Karnieli

  • Derivation of land surface temperature for Landsat-8 TIRS using a split window algorithm.

    Offer Rozenstein;Zhihao Qin;Yevgeny Derimian;Arnon Karnieli

  • An Improved Mono-Window Algorithm for Land Surface Temperature Retrieval from Landsat 8 Thermal Infrared Sensor Data

    Fei Wang;Zhihao Qin;Caiying Song;Lili Tu

  • Quantitative remote sensing methods for real-time monitoring of inland waters quality

    A. Gitelson;G. Garbuzov;F. Szilagyi;K. H. Mittenzwey

  • Absorption of sunlight by dust as inferred from satellite and ground-based remote sensing

    Y. J. Kaufman;Didier Tanré;O. Dubovik;A. Karnieli

  • Comparison of methods for land-use classification incorporating remote sensing and GIS inputs

    Offer Rozenstein;Arnon Karnieli

  • Derivation of split window algorithm and its sensitivity analysis for retrieving land surface temperature from NOAA-advanced very high resolution radiometer data

    Zhihao Qin;Giorgio Dall'Olmo;Arnon Karnieli;Pedro Berliner

  • A comparative study of NOAA–AVHRR derived drought indices using change vector analysis

    Y. Bayarjargal;A. Karnieli;M. Bayasgalan;S. Khudulmur

  • Size distribution and scattering phase function of aerosol particles retrieved from sky brightness measurements

    Y. J. Kaufman;A. A. Gitelson;A. Karnieli;E. Ganor

  • LAI assessment of wheat and potato crops by VENμS and Sentinel-2 bands

    I. Herrmann;A. Pimstein;A. Karnieli;Y. Cohen

  • A review of mixture modeling techniques for sub‐pixel land cover estimation

    Charles Ichoku;Arnon Karnieli

  • Remote sensing of the seasonal variability of vegetation in a semi-arid environment

    Heike Schmidt;Arnon Karnieli

  • Climatology of dust aerosol size distribution and optical properties derived from remotely sensed data in the solar spectrum

    D. Tanré;Y. J. Kaufman;B. N. Holben;B. Chatenet

  • Mono-window algorithm for retrieving land surface temperature from Landsat TM6 data

    Z. H. Qin;M. H. Zhang;A. Karnieli;P. Berliner

  • Progress in the remote sensing of land surface temperature and ground emissivity using NOAA-AVHRR data

    Zhihao Qin;A. Karnieli

  • AFRI — aerosol free vegetation index

    Arnon Karnieli;Yoram J. Kaufman;Lorraine Remer;Andrew Wald

  • Predicting forest structural parameters using the image texture derived from WorldView-2 multispectral imagery in a dryland forest, Israel

    Ibrahim Ozdemir;Arnon Karnieli

  • SWIR-based spectral indices for assessing nitrogen content in potato fields

    I. Herrmann;A. Karnieli;D. J. Bonfil;Y. Cohen

Frequent Co-Authors

Eli Zaady
Eli Zaady Agricultural Research Organization
Willy Maenhaut
Willy Maenhaut Ghent University
Yoram J. Kaufman
Yoram J. Kaufman Goddard Space Flight Center
Eyal Ben-Dor
Eyal Ben-Dor Tel Aviv University
Brent N. Holben
Brent N. Holben Goddard Space Flight Center
Meinrat O. Andreae
Meinrat O. Andreae Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Charles Ichoku
Charles Ichoku Goddard Space Flight Center
Moshe Shachak
Moshe Shachak Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Anatoly A. Gitelson
Anatoly A. Gitelson University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Oleg Dubovik
Oleg Dubovik University of Lille

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