2026 Arthur P. Cracknell: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	52	4526	346	276	9067

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Environmental Sciences

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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

596
Citations
Deep Learning Based Oil Palm Tree Detection and Counting for High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images

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

418
Citations
Review article Synergy in remote sensing-what's in a pixel?

Unknown

344
Citations
Evaluation of Six High-Resolution Satellite and Ground-Based Precipitation Products over Malaysia

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

326
Citations
Remote sensing techniques in estuaries and coastal zones an update

Unknown

242
Citations
Advanced thermal inertia modelling

Y. Xue;A. P. Cracknell

199
Citations
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

182
Citations
An overview of small satellites in remote sensing

Herbert J. Kramer;Arthur P. Cracknell

160
Citations
Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study

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

152
Citations
UAVs: regulations and law enforcement

Arthur P. Cracknell

147
Citations
Introduction to Remote Sensing

Unknown

145
Citations
Airborne lidar bathymetry

K. Muirhead;A. P. Cracknell

144
Citations
Long‐range persistence in global Aerosol Index dynamics

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

139
Citations
Retrieval of land and sea surface temperature using NOAA-11 AVHRR· data in north-eastern Brazil

G.B. Franc;A. P. Cracknell

139
Citations
Operational bi-angle approach to retrieve the Earth surface albedo from AVHRR data in the visible band

Y. Xue;A. P. Cracknell

131
Citations
Editorial and cover: Fifty years after the first artificial satellite: from Sputnik 1 to ENVISAT

Arthur P. Cracknell;Costas A. Varotsos

129
Citations
New features observed in the 11-year solar cycle

A. P. Cracknell

124
Citations
New aspects of global climate-dynamics research and remote sensing

Arthur P. Cracknell;Costas A. Varotsos

120
Citations
Ozone depletion over Scotland as derived from Nimbus-7 TOMS measurements

A. P. Cracknell;C. A. Varotsos

117
Citations
Subject area 3: Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Arthur P. Cracknell;Costas A. Varotsos

115
Citations
Three years of total ozone measurements over Athens obtained using the remote sensing technique of a Dobson spectrophotometer

C. A. Varotsos;A. P. Cracknell

115
Citations
New evidence for ozone depletion over Athens, Greece

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

115
Citations
Total ozone amount trend at St Petersburg as deduced from Nimbus-7 TOMS observations

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

112
Citations
Principles of Remote Sensing

Unknown

27
Citations
The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer AVHRR

Unknown

24
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Costas A. Varotsos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Le Yu Tsinghua University

Peng Gong University of Hong Kong

Mou Leong Tan Universiti Sains Malaysia

Mazlan Hashim University of Technology Malaysia

Hui Lu Tsinghua University

John M. Ondov University of Maryland, College Park

D. N. Asimakopoulos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Philip W. Gassman Iowa State University

Ramesh P. Singh Chapman University

External Links

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