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Overview

Christopher Small is affiliated with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to ecology, global and planetary change, media technology, atmospheric science, and artificial intelligence as subfields of study.

The scientist's publications cover several main topics including remote sensing in agriculture, remote-sensing image classification, the impact of light on environment and health, land use and ecosystem services, geochemistry and geologic mapping, remote sensing and land use, and spectroscopy and chemometric analyses.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Remote Sensing
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Frontiers in Remote Sensing
  • Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Journal of Neurosurgery Spine

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Christopher Small are:

  • Spatiotemporal evolution of COVID-19 infection and detection within night light networks: comparative analysis of USA and China, 2021, Applied Network Science
  • Evolution of Urban Spatial Clusters in China: A Graph-Based Method Using Nighttime Light Data, 2021, Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  • The Spectral Mixture Residual: A Source of Low-Variance Information to Enhance the Explainability and Accuracy of Surface Biology and Geology Retrievals, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Which Vegetation Index? Benchmarking Multispectral Metrics to Hyperspectral Mixture Models in Diverse Cropland, 2023, Remote Sensing
  • Topological Generality and Spectral Dimensionality in the Earth Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) Using Joint Characterization and the Spectral Mixture Residual, 2023, Remote Sensing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Christopher Small include:

  • Daniel Sousa
  • Jérôme Paquet
  • Michael H. Weber
  • Andrew Nataraj
  • Charles G. Fisher

Best Publications

  • A global analysis of human settlement in coastal zones

    Christopher Small;Robert J. Nicholls

  • Spatial analysis of global urban extent from DMSP-OLS night lights

    Christopher Small;Francesca Pozzi;C.D. Elvidge

  • Estimation of urban vegetation abundance by spectral mixture analysis

    C. Small

  • Estimates of Coastal Populations

    Joel E. Cohen;Christopher Small;Andrew Mellinger;John Gallup

  • Spatial variability of arsenic in 6000 tube wells in a 25 km2 area of Bangladesh

    A. van Geen;Y. Zheng;Y. Zheng;R. Versteeg;M. Stute

  • Health and environmental consequences of the world trade center disaster.

    Philip J Landrigan;Paul J Lioy;George Thurston;Gertrud Berkowitz

  • The Landsat ETM+ spectral mixing space

    Christopher Small

  • High spatial resolution spectral mixture analysis of urban reflectance

    Christopher Small

  • Flood risk of natural and embanked landscapes on the Ganges–Brahmaputra tidal delta plain

    Leslie W. Auerbach;S. L. Goodbred;Dhiman R. Mondal;Carol A. Wilson

  • The Nightsat mission concept

    C. D. Elvidge;P. Cinzano;D. R. Pettit;J. Arvesen

  • The effect of seamount subduction on seismic coupling

    Christopher H. Scholz;Christopher Small

  • Hypsographic demography: The distribution of human population by altitude

    Joel E. Cohen;Christopher Small

  • SUHI analysis using Local Climate Zones—A comparison of 50 cities

    Benjamin Bechtel;Matthias Demuzere;Matthias Demuzere;Gerald Mills;Wenfeng Zhan

  • Promotion of well-switching to mitigate the current arsenic crisis in Bangladesh

    Alexander van Geen;Habibul Ahsan;Allan H. Horneman;Ratan K. Dhar;Ratan K. Dhar

  • Spatial scaling of stable night lights

    Christopher Small;Christopher D. Elvidge;Deborah Balk;Mark R. Montgomery

  • Cities from space: potential applications of remote sensing in urban environmental research and policy

    Roberta Balstad Miller;Christopher Small

  • A global analysis of urban reflectance

    C. Small

  • Estimation and vicarious validation of urban vegetation abundance by spectral mixture analysis

    Christopher Small;Jacqueline W.T. Lu

  • Improved estimates of coastal population and exposure to hazards released

    Robert J. Nicholls;Christopher Small

  • The global distribution of human population and recent volcanism

    Christopher Small;Terry Naumann

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher D. Elvidge
Christopher D. Elvidge Colorado School of Mines
Barry Lynn
Barry Lynn Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Steven L. Goodbred
Steven L. Goodbred Vanderbilt University
Cynthia Rosenzweig
Cynthia Rosenzweig Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Son V. Nghiem
Son V. Nghiem California Institute of Technology
Patrick L. Kinney
Patrick L. Kinney Boston University
Kevin Civerolo
Kevin Civerolo New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Paul C. Sutton
Paul C. Sutton University of Denver
Christian Hogrefe
Christian Hogrefe Environmental Protection Agency
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University

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