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D-Index
43
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6264
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7181
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2559

Benjamin Holt 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 Benjamin Holt sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 152 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Benjamin Holt 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 Benjamin Holt sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 43 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Benjamin Holt is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States and focuses their research primarily on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Their work spans several subfields, including Oceanography, Pollution, Global and Planetary Change, Political Science and International Relations, and Language and Linguistics. This multidisciplinary approach reflects in the topics they study, which cover areas such as Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Water Quality Monitoring Technologies, Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis, and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing.

Recent publications highlight their ongoing research contributions. These include:

  • A review of Earth Artificial Intelligence, 2022, Computers & Geosciences
  • On the capacity of Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar in detecting floating macroalgae and other floating matters, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Oil-Spill-Response-Oriented Information Products Derived From a Rapid-Repeat Time Series of SAR Images, 2020, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • The Impact of System Noise in Polarimetric SAR Imagery on Oil Spill Observations, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Deep Learning for Mineral and Biogenic Oil Slick Classification With Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Data, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Benjamin Holt frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Computers & Geosciences
  • Remote Sensing of Environment

The scientist collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Cathleen E. Jones
  • Martine M. Espeseth
  • Camilla Brekke
  • Christine Lee
  • Eva Jean Scrivner

Best Publications

  • State of the art satellite and airborne marine oil spill remote sensing: Application to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill

    Ira Leifer;William J. Lehr;Debra Simecek-Beatty;Eliza Bradley

  • SEASAT views oceans and sea ice with synthetic aperture radar

    L. L. Fu;B. Holt

  • Polarimetric Analysis of Backscatter From the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Using L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar

    B. Minchew;C. E. Jones;B. Holt

  • Oil spill detection by imaging radars: Challenges and pitfalls

    Werner Alpers;Benjamin Holt;Kan Zeng

  • Satellite observations of small coastal ocean eddies in the Southern California Bight

    Paul M. DiGiacomo;Benjamin Holt

  • Estimation of the thin ice thickness and heat flux for the Chukchi Sea Alaskan coast polynya from Special Sensor Microwave/Imager data, 1990–2001

    Seelye Martin;Robert Drucker;Ronald Kwok;Benjamin Holt

  • Identification of sea ice types in spaceborne synthetic aperture radar data

    Ronald Kwok;Eric Rignot;Benjamin Holt;R. Onstott

  • Overview of results of Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C, X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR)

    E.R. Stofan;D.L. Evans;C. Schmullius;B. Holt

  • Internal waves in the Gulf of California: Observations from a spaceborne radar

    Lee-Lueng Fu;Benjamin Holt

  • Overview of the Arctic Sea State and Boundary Layer Physics Program

    Jim Thomson;Stephen Ackley;Fanny Girard-Ardhuin;Fabrice Ardhuin

  • Wave propagation in the marginal ice zone: Model predictions and comparisons with buoy and synthetic aperture radar data

    Antony K. Liu;Benjamin Holt;Paris W. Vachon

  • An Ultra-Wideband, Microwave Radar for Measuring Snow Thickness on Sea Ice and Mapping Near-Surface Internal Layers in Polar Firn

    Ben Panzer;Daniel Gomez-Garcia;Carl Leuschen;John Paden

  • Processes and imagery of first-year fast sea ice during the melt season

    Benjamin Holt;Susan A. Digby

  • Coastal pollution hazards in southern California observed by SAR imagery: stormwater plumes, wastewater plumes, and natural hydrocarbon seeps

    Paul M. DiGiacomo;Libe Washburn;Benjamin Holt;Burton H. Jones

  • Waves in frazil and pancake ice and their detection in Seasat synthetic aperture radar imagery

    Peter Wadhams;Benjamin Holt

  • Emerging trends in the sea state of the Beaufort and Chukchi seas

    James M. Thomson;Yalin Fan;Sharon E. Stammerjohn;Justin Stopa

  • Measurement and modeling of oil slick transport

    Cathleen E. Jones;Knut-Frode Dagestad;Øyvind Breivik;Benjamin Holt

  • Global ice and land climate studies using scatterometer image data

    David G. Long;Mark R. Drinkwater;Benjamin Holt;Sasan Saatchi

  • Classification of oil spill by thicknesses using multiple remote sensors

    Oscar Garcia-Pineda;Gordon Staples;Cathleen E. Jones;Chuanmin Hu

  • Some examples of detection of oceanic mesoscale eddies by the SEASAT synthetic‐aperture radar

    Lee-Lueng Fu;Benjamin Holt

  • Airborne surveys of snow depth over Arctic sea ice

    R. Kwok;B. Panzer;C. Leuschen;S. Pang

Frequent Co-Authors

Ron Kwok
Ron Kwok University of Washington
Jim Thomson
Jim Thomson University of Washington
Vernon A. Squire
Vernon A. Squire University of Otago
Werner Alpers
Werner Alpers Universität Hamburg
Seelye Martin
Seelye Martin University of Washington
Sharon Stammerjohn
Sharon Stammerjohn Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Libe Washburn
Libe Washburn University of California, Santa Barbara
Mark R. Drinkwater
Mark R. Drinkwater European Space Agency
Alexander V. Babanin
Alexander V. Babanin University of Melbourne
Peter Wadhams
Peter Wadhams University of Cambridge

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