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103
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Christopher O. Justice 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 Christopher O. Justice sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 324 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christopher O. Justice 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 Christopher O. Justice sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 103 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award

Overview

Christopher O. Justice is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science. They also engage in studies within general agricultural and biological sciences, economics and econometrics, and pollution.

The scientist's notable research topics include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Agricultural innovations and practices
  • Agricultural economics and practices
  • Economics of agriculture and food markets
  • Oil spill detection and mitigation

Recent publications by Christopher O. Justice include:

  • Towards food security: Exploring the spatio-temporal dynamics of soybean in India, 2024, PLoS ONE
  • Mapping and Characterizing Fire, 2023, Geophysical monograph
  • Early polar-orbiting satellite-based fire remote sensing during the 1960s, 2024, International Journal of Remote Sensing
  • Aerosol Models from the Aeronet Data Base. Application to Surface Reflectance Validation, 2022, IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

Their frequent co-authors include Louis Giglio, Meghavi Prashnani, B U Dupare, Krishna Prasad Vadrevu, and Roger Jean-Claude. Collaboration with these researchers spans multiple projects mainly focused on fire remote sensing, atmospheric studies, and agricultural topics.

Christopher O. Justice's work often appears in publication venues such as:

  • PLoS ONE
  • International Journal of Remote Sensing
  • IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
  • Geophysical monograph

Best Publications

  • High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

    M.C. Hansen;P.V. Potapov;R. Moore;M. Hancher

  • Landsat-8: Science and Product Vision for Terrestrial Global Change Research

    David P. Roy;M.A. Wulder;Thomas R. Loveland;C.E. Woodcock

  • An Enhanced Contextual Fire Detection Algorithm for MODIS

    Louis Giglio;Jacques Descloitres;Christopher O. Justice;Yoram J. Kaufman

  • The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): land remote sensing for global change research

    C.O. Justice;E. Vermote;J.R.G. Townshend;R. Defries

  • An overview of MODIS Land data processing and product status

    C.O Justice;J.R.G Townshend;E.F Vermote;E Masuoka

  • Preliminary analysis of the performance of the Landsat 8/OLI land surface reflectance product

    Eric Vermote;Chris Justice;Martin Claverie;Martin Claverie;Belen Franch;Belen Franch

  • The MODIS fire products

    C.O Justice;L Giglio;S Korontzi;J Owens

  • Analysis of the phenology of global vegetation using meteorological satellite data

    C. O. Justice;J. R. G. Townshend;B. N. Holben;C. J. Tucker

  • The collection 6 MODIS active fire detection algorithm and fire products.

    Louis Giglio;Wilfrid Schroeder;Christopher O. Justice

  • The Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 surface reflectance data set

    Martin Claverie;Martin Claverie;Junchang Ju;Junchang Ju;Jeffrey G. Masek;Jennifer L. Dungan

  • A Revised Land Surface Parameterization (SiB2) for Atmospheric GCMS. Part II: The Generation of Global Fields of Terrestrial Biophysical Parameters from Satellite Data

    Piers J. Sellers;Compton J. Tucker;G. James Collatz;Sietse O. Los

  • The Collection 6 MODIS burned area mapping algorithm and product

    Louis Giglio;Luigi Boschetti;David P. Roy;Michael L. Humber

  • Development of vegetation and soil indices for MODIS-EOS

    A. R. Huete;C. Justice;H. Liu

  • Atmospheric correction of MODIS data in the visible to middle infrared: first results

    Eric F Vermote;Nazmi Z El Saleous;Christopher O Justice

  • Potential global fire monitoring from EOS‐MODIS

    Yoram J. Kaufman;Christopher O. Justice;Luke P. Flynn;Jackie D. Kendall

  • The collection 5 MODIS burned area product — Global evaluation by comparison with the MODIS active fire product

    David P. Roy;L. Boschetti;C. O. Justice;J. Ju

  • Global distribution and seasonality of active fires as observed with the Terra and Aqua Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors

    Louis Giglio;Ivan Csiszar;Christopher O. Justice

  • An active-fire based burned area mapping algorithm for the MODIS sensor

    Louis Giglio;Tatiana Loboda;David P. Roy;Brad Quayle

  • Prototyping a global algorithm for systematic fire-affected area mapping using MODIS time series data

    David P. Roy;Y. Jin;P. E. Lewis;C. O. Justice

  • Atmospheric correction of visible to middle-infrared EOS-MODIS data over land surfaces: Background, operational algorithm and validation

    E. F. Vermote;N. El Saleous;C. O. Justice;Y. J. Kaufman

  • A global 1° by 1° NDVI data set for climate studies. Part 2: The generation of global fields of terrestrial biophysical parameters from the NDVI

    P. J. Sellers;C. J. Tucker;G. J. Collatz;S. O. Los

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Vermote
Eric Vermote Goddard Space Flight Center
Louis Giglio
Louis Giglio University of Maryland, College Park
John R. Townshend
John R. Townshend University of Maryland, College Park
David P. Roy
David P. Roy Michigan State University
Ivan Csiszar
Ivan Csiszar National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jean-Claude Roger
Jean-Claude Roger University of Maryland, College Park
Sergii Skakun
Sergii Skakun University of Maryland, College Park
Compton J. Tucker
Compton J. Tucker Goddard Space Flight Center
Luigi Boschetti
Luigi Boschetti University of Idaho
Jeffrey T. Morisette
Jeffrey T. Morisette United States Geological Survey

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