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Arthur P. Cracknell

Arthur P. Cracknell

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
52
Citations
9067
World Ranking
4526
National Ranking
346

Arthur P. Cracknell publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Arthur P. Cracknell sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 276 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Arthur P. Cracknell D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Arthur P. Cracknell sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1976 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Arthur P. Cracknell was affiliated with the University of Dundee in the United Kingdom. Their research work primarily focused on Environmental Science, with several contributions also touching upon related subfields such as Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their research included multiple topics spanning Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Oil Palm Production and Sustainability, Agricultural and Environmental Management, History and Developments in Astronomy, and Space Exploration and Regulation.

Arthur P. Cracknell's publication record included papers in a variety of journals. The frequent venues for their publications were:

  • Remote Sensing Letters (2 publications)
  • Forests (1 publication)
  • Diversity (1 publication)

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Cracknell are as follows:

  • "Remote Sensing Letters contribution to the success of the Sustainable Development Goals - UN 2030 agenda", 2020, published in Remote Sensing Letters
  • "Synergy of Active and Passive Remote Sensing Data for Effective Mapping of Oil Palm Plantation in Malaysia", 2020, published in Forests
  • "Editorial Sir John Houghton", 2021, published in Remote Sensing Letters
  • "Detection and Quantification of Forest-Agriculture Ecotones Caused by Returning Farmland to Forest Program Using Unmanned Aircraft Imagery", 2022, published in Diversity

Throughout their career, Cracknell frequently collaborated with a network of co-authors, including:

  • Costas A. Varotsos
  • Nazarin Ezzaty Mohd Najib
  • Kasturi Devi Kanniah
  • Le Yu
  • Bin Wang

Arthur P. Cracknell was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an award received in 1976.

Best Publications

  • The mathematical theory of symmetry in solids : representation theory for point groups and space groups

    Christopher John Bradley;Arthur P. Cracknell

  • Deep Learning Based Oil Palm Tree Detection and Counting for High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images

    Weijia Li;Haohuan Fu;Le Yu;Arthur P. Cracknell

  • Review article Synergy in remote sensing-what's in a pixel?

    Unknown

  • Evaluation of Six High-Resolution Satellite and Ground-Based Precipitation Products over Malaysia

    Mou Leong Tan;Ab Latif Ibrahim;Zheng Duan;Arthur P. Cracknell

  • Remote sensing techniques in estuaries and coastal zones an update

    Unknown

  • Advanced thermal inertia modelling

    Y. Xue;A. P. Cracknell

  • Satellite Images for Monitoring Mangrove Cover Changes in a Fast Growing Economic Region in Southern Peninsular Malaysia

    Kasturi Devi Kanniah;Afsaneh Sheikhi;Arthur P. Cracknell;Hong Ching Goh

  • An overview of small satellites in remote sensing

    Herbert J. Kramer;Arthur P. Cracknell

  • Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study

    Vijendra K. Boken;Arthur P. Cracknell;Ronald L. Heathcote

  • UAVs: regulations and law enforcement

    Arthur P. Cracknell

  • Introduction to Remote Sensing

    Unknown

  • Airborne lidar bathymetry

    K. Muirhead;A. P. Cracknell

  • Long‐range persistence in global Aerosol Index dynamics

    C. A. Varotsos;J. M. Ondov;A. P. Cracknell;M. N. Efstathiou

  • Retrieval of land and sea surface temperature using NOAA-11 AVHRR· data in north-eastern Brazil

    G.B. Franc;A. P. Cracknell

  • Operational bi-angle approach to retrieve the Earth surface albedo from AVHRR data in the visible band

    Y. Xue;A. P. Cracknell

  • Editorial and cover: Fifty years after the first artificial satellite: from Sputnik 1 to ENVISAT

    Arthur P. Cracknell;Costas A. Varotsos

  • New features observed in the 11-year solar cycle

    A. P. Cracknell

  • New aspects of global climate-dynamics research and remote sensing

    Arthur P. Cracknell;Costas A. Varotsos

  • Ozone depletion over Scotland as derived from Nimbus-7 TOMS measurements

    A. P. Cracknell;C. A. Varotsos

  • Subject area 3: Atmospheric chemistry and physics

    Arthur P. Cracknell;Costas A. Varotsos

  • Three years of total ozone measurements over Athens obtained using the remote sensing technique of a Dobson spectrophotometer

    C. A. Varotsos;A. P. Cracknell

  • New evidence for ozone depletion over Athens, Greece

    C. A. Varotsos;K. Ya. Kondratyev;A. P. Cracknell

  • Total ozone amount trend at St Petersburg as deduced from Nimbus-7 TOMS observations

    K. Ya. Kondratyev;C. A. Varotsos;A. P. Cracknell

  • Principles of Remote Sensing

    Unknown

  • The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer AVHRR

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Costas A. Varotsos
Costas A. Varotsos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Le Yu
Le Yu Tsinghua University
Peng Gong
Peng Gong University of Hong Kong
Mou Leong Tan
Mou Leong Tan Universiti Sains Malaysia
Mazlan Hashim
Mazlan Hashim University of Technology Malaysia
Hui Lu
Hui Lu Tsinghua University
John M. Ondov
John M. Ondov University of Maryland, College Park
D. N. Asimakopoulos
D. N. Asimakopoulos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Philip W. Gassman
Philip W. Gassman Iowa State University
Ramesh P. Singh
Ramesh P. Singh Chapman University

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