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1890

Overview

Bruce D. Cook is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with notable focus areas in Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Insect Science.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, including Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Forest ecology and management, Fire effects on ecosystems, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Some of Bruce D. Cook's recent notable papers include:

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data (2020, Scientific Data)
  • Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts (2022, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • The 50-year Landsat collection 2 archive (2023, Science of Remote Sensing)
  • Storm surge and ponding explain mangrove dieback in southwest Florida following Hurricane Irma (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Need and vision for global medium-resolution Landsat and Sentinel-2 data products (2023, Remote Sensing of Environment)

Bruce D. Cook frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Remote Sensing
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Scientific Data

They have collaborated extensively with other researchers including Douglas C. Morton, Christopher J. Crawford, C. S. R. Neigh, Hans-Erik Andersen, and Andrew O. Finley.

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

  • Evaluation of remote sensing based terrestrial productivity from MODIS using regional tower eddy flux network observations

    F.A. Heinsch;Maosheng Zhao;S.W. Running;J.S. Kimball

  • Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts

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  • Amazon forests maintain consistent canopy structure and greenness during the dry season

    Douglas C. Morton;Jyoteshwar Nagol;Claudia C. Carabajal;Jacqueline Rosette

  • Canopy nitrogen, carbon assimilation, and albedo in temperate and boreal forests: Functional relations and potential climate feedbacks

    S. V. Ollinger;A. D. Richardson;M. E. Martin;D. Y. Hollinger

  • Discrete Anisotropic Radiative Transfer (DART 5) for modeling airborne and satellite spectroradiometer and LIDAR acquisitions of natural and urban landscapes

    J.P. Gastellu Etchegorry;T. Yin;N. Lauret;T. Cajgfinger

  • Comparing net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide between an old-growth and mature forest in the upper Midwest, USA

    Ankur R. Desai;Paul V. Bolstad;Bruce D. Cook;Kenneth J. Davis

  • A best practices guide for generating forest inventory attributes from airborne laser scanning data using an area-based approach

    Joanne C. White;Michael A. Wulder;Andrés Varhola;Mikko Vastaranta

  • NASA Goddards LiDAR, Hyperspectral and Thermal (G-LiHT) Airborne Imager

    Bruce D. Cook;Lawrence A. Corp;Ross F. Nelson;Elizabeth M. Middleton

  • Carbon exchange and venting anomalies in an upland deciduous forest in northern Wisconsin, USA

    Bruce D. Cook;Kenneth J. Davis;Weiguo Wang;Ankur Desai

  • Influence of vegetation and seasonal forcing on carbon dioxide fluxes across the Upper Midwest, USA: Implications for regional scaling

    Ankur R. Desai;Asko Noormets;Paul V. Bolstad;Jiquan Chen

  • An efficient, multi-layered crown delineation algorithm for mapping individual tree structure across multiple ecosystems

    L.I. Duncanson;B.D. Cook;G.C. Hurtt;R.O. Dubayah

  • Dissolved organic carbon in old field soils : total amounts as a measure of available resources for soil mineralization

    Bruce D. Cook;Deborah L. Allan

  • DART: Recent Advances in Remote Sensing Data Modeling With Atmosphere, Polarization, and Chlorophyll Fluorescence

    Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry;Nicolas Lauret;Tiangang Yin;Lucas Landier

  • Component and whole-system respiration fluxes in northern deciduous forests.

    P. V. Bolstad;K. J. Davis;J. Martin;B. D. Cook

  • Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

    Chuixiang Yi;Daniel Ricciuto;Runze Li;John Wolbeck

  • Contrasting carbon dioxide fluxes between a drying shrub wetland in Northern Wisconsin, USA, and nearby forests

    B. N. Sulman;A. R. Desai;B. D. Cook;N. Saliendra

  • Storm surge and ponding explain mangrove dieback in southwest Florida following Hurricane Irma.

    David Lagomasino;Temilola Fatoyinbo;Edward Castañeda-Moya;Bruce D. Cook

  • Efficient Algorithms for Bayesian Nearest Neighbor Gaussian Processes

    Andrew O. Finley;Abhirup Datta;Bruce D. Cook;Douglas C. Morton

  • Using High Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery to Map Forest Burn Severity Across Spatial Scales in a Pine Barrens Ecosystem

    Ran Meng;Jin Wu;Kathy L. Schwager;Feng Zhao

  • Ecosystem respiration and its components in an old-growth forest in the Great Lakes region of the United States

    Jianwu Tang;Paul V. Bolstad;Ankur R. Desai;Jonathan G. Martin

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas C. Morton
Douglas C. Morton Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul V. Bolstad
Paul V. Bolstad University of Minnesota
Ankur R. Desai
Ankur R. Desai University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kenneth J. Davis
Kenneth J. Davis Pennsylvania State University
Sudipto Banerjee
Sudipto Banerjee University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel M. Ricciuto
Daniel M. Ricciuto Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ross Nelson
Ross Nelson Goddard Space Flight Center
Asko Noormets
Asko Noormets Texas A&M University
Michael Keller
Michael Keller US Forest Service
Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry
Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

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