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Brian D. Wardlow 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 Brian D. Wardlow sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 141 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Brian D. Wardlow 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 Brian D. Wardlow sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Brian D. Wardlow is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields primarily within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a notable focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Engineering.

Their work involves key topics including Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Brian D. Wardlow's recent publications include:

  • Quantifying irrigation cooling benefits to maize yield in the US Midwest, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Developing a Remote Sensing-Based Combined Drought Indicator Approach for Agricultural Drought Monitoring over Marathwada, India, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • The role of topography, soil, and remotely sensed vegetation condition towards predicting crop yield, 2020, Field Crops Research
  • Explainable machine learning for the prediction and assessment of complex drought impacts, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Agricultural Drought Assessment in East Asia Using Satellite-Based Indices, 2020, Remote Sensing

They frequently collaborate with other researchers, including:

  • Tsegaye Tadesse
  • Tala Awada
  • Mark Svoboda
  • Yared Bayissa
  • Yuzhen Zhou

Their work is published predominantly in:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Rangeland Ecology & Management
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Journal of Environmental Quality
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Analysis of time-series MODIS 250 m vegetation index data for crop classification in the U.S. Central Great Plains

    Brian D. Wardlow;Stephen L. Egbert;Jude H. Kastens

  • Remote sensing of drought: Progress, challenges and opportunities

    A. AghaKouchak;A. Farahmand;F. S. Melton;J. Teixeira

  • Large-area crop mapping using time-series MODIS 250 m NDVI data: An assessment for the U.S. Central Great Plains

    Brian D. Wardlow;Stephen L. Egbert

  • A five‐year analysis of MODIS NDVI and NDWI for grassland drought assessment over the central Great Plains of the United States

    Yingxin Gu;Jesslyn F. Brown;James P. Verdin;Brian Wardlow

  • A review of vegetation phenological metrics extraction using time-series, multispectral satellite data

    Linglin Zeng;Brian D. Wardlow;Daxiang Xiang;Shun Hu

  • The Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI): A New Integrated Approach for Monitoring Drought Stress in Vegetation

    Jesslyn F. Brown;Brian D. Wardlow;Tsegaye Tadesse;Michael J. Hayes

  • Evaluation of Drought Indices Based on Thermal Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration over the Continental United States

    Martha C. Anderson;Christopher R. Hain;Brian Wardlow;Agustin Pimstein

  • A high-performance and in-season classification system of field-level crop types using time-series Landsat data and a machine learning approach

    Yaping Cai;Kaiyu Guan;Jian Peng;Shaowen Wang

  • Assessing the evolution of soil moisture and vegetation conditions during the 2012 United States flash drought

    Jason A. Otkin;Martha C. Anderson;Christopher R Hain;Mark D. Svoboda

  • Evaluation of MODIS NDVI and NDWI for vegetation drought monitoring using Oklahoma Mesonet soil moisture data

    Yingxin Gu;Eric Hunt;Brian Wardlow;Jeffrey B. Basara

  • A Two-Step Filtering approach for detecting maize and soybean phenology with time-series MODIS data

    Toshihiro Sakamoto;Brian D. Wardlow;Anatoly A. Gitelson;Shashi B. Verma

  • An Intercomparison of Drought Indicators Based on Thermal Remote Sensing and NLDAS-2 Simulations with U.S. Drought Monitor Classifications

    Martha C. Anderson;Christopher Hain;Jason Otkin;Xiwu Zhan

  • Use of remote sensing indicators to assess effects of drought and human-induced land degradation on ecosystem health in Northeastern Brazil

    Denis A. Mariano;Carlos A.C. dos Santos;Brian D. Wardlow;Martha C. Anderson

  • Urban drought challenge to 2030 sustainable development goals

    Xiang Zhang;Nengcheng Chen;Hao Sheng;Chris Ip

  • Remotely sensed high resolution irrigated area mapping in India for 2000 to 2015.

    Anukesh Krishnankutty Ambika;Brian Wardlow;Vimal Mishra

  • An alternative method using digital cameras for continuous monitoring of crop status

    Toshihiro Sakamoto;Anatoly A. Gitelson;Anthony L. Nguy-Robertson;Timothy J. Arkebauer

  • A comparison of MODIS 250-m EVI and NDVI data for crop mapping: a case study for southwest Kansas

    Brian D. Wardlow;Stephen L. Egbert

  • Using USDA Crop Progress Data for the Evaluation of Greenup Onset Date Calculated from MODIS 250-Meter Data

    Brian D. Wardlow;Jude H. Kastens;Stephen L. Egbert

  • Evaluating satellite-derived long-term historical precipitation datasets for drought monitoring in Chile

    Francisco Zambrano;Brian Wardlow;Tsegaye Tadesse;Mario Lillo-Saavedra

  • Remote sensing of drought : innovative monitoring approaches

    Brian D. Wardlow;Martha C. Anderson;James P. Verdin

  • Large-area crop mapping using time-series MODIS 250 m NDVI data: An assessment for the US Central Great Plains

    B. D. Wardlow;S. L. Egbert

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Svoboda
Mark Svoboda University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Michael J. Hayes
Michael J. Hayes University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Martha C. Anderson
Martha C. Anderson Agricultural Research Service
Christopher Hain
Christopher Hain Marshall Space Flight Center
Jason A. Otkin
Jason A. Otkin University of Wisconsin–Madison
Anatoly A. Gitelson
Anatoly A. Gitelson University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Miroslav Trnka
Miroslav Trnka Czech Academy of Sciences
Timothy J. Arkebauer
Timothy J. Arkebauer University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Zdeněk Žalud
Zdeněk Žalud Mendel University Brno
Andrew E. Suyker
Andrew E. Suyker University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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