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D-Index
88
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36711
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636
National Ranking
282

Crystal B. Schaaf 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 Crystal B. Schaaf sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 293 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Crystal B. Schaaf 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 Crystal B. Schaaf sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 88 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Crystal B. Schaaf is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Boston in the United States. Their research contributions primarily focus on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with an emphasis on global and planetary change, ecology, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, and nature and landscape conservation.

The main topics explored in their work include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Crystal B. Schaaf has coauthored multiple publications with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Angela Erb (11 collaborations)
  • Zhuosen Wang (10 collaborations)
  • Xiaoyang Zhang (6 collaborations)
  • Michael A. Wulder (5 collaborations)
  • David P. Roy (5 collaborations)

Their publication record spans a variety of scientific venues, with repeated contributions to the following journals:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment (9 publications)
  • Remote Sensing (5 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (3 publications)
  • Frontiers in Remote Sensing (2 publications)
  • Nature Communications (1 publication)

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • "Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts," 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Terrestrial laser scanning in forest ecology: Expanding the horizon," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Need and vision for global medium-resolution Landsat and Sentinel-2 data products," 2023, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Continuity between NASA MODIS Collection 6.1 and VIIRS Collection 2 land products," 2024, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Detecting Change in Forest Structure with Simulated GEDI Lidar Waveforms: A Case Study of the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA; Adelges tsugae) Infestation," 2020, Remote Sensing

Crystal B. Schaaf is also an author of a book titled Aboveground Woody Biomass Product Validation Good Practices Protocol, published by Ghent University in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Global land cover mapping from MODIS: algorithms and early results

    M.A Friedl;D.K McIver;J.C.F Hodges;X.Y Zhang

  • Monitoring vegetation phenology using MODIS

    Xiaoyang Zhang;Mark A. Friedl;Crystal B. Schaaf;Alan H. Strahler

  • First operational BRDF, albedo nadir reflectance products from MODIS

    Crystal B Schaaf;Feng Gao;Alan H Strahler;Wolfgang Lucht

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

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

  • An algorithm for the retrieval of albedo from space using semiempirical BRDF models

    W. Lucht;C.B. Schaaf;A.H. Strahler

  • Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications

    Michael A. Wulder;Thomas R. Loveland;David P. Roy;Christopher J. Crawford

  • Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts

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  • Global vegetation phenology from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): Evaluation of global patterns and comparison with in situ measurements

    Xiaoyang Zhang;Mark A. Friedl;Crystal B. Schaaf

  • Climate controls on vegetation phenological patterns in northern mid‐ and high latitudes inferred from MODIS data

    Xiaoyang Zhang;Mark A. Friedl;Crystal B. Schaaf;Alan H. Strahler

  • Multi-temporal MODIS-Landsat data fusion for relative radiometric normalization, gap filling, and prediction of Landsat data

    David P. Roy;David P. Roy;Junchang Ju;Junchang Ju;Philip Lewis;Philip Lewis;Crystal Schaaf;Crystal Schaaf

  • Validating MODIS land surface reflectance and albedo products: methods and preliminary results

    Shunlin Liang;Hongliang Fang;Mingzhen Chen;Chad J Shuey

  • Benefits of the free and open Landsat data policy

    Zhe Zhu;Michael A. Wulder;David P. Roy;Curtis E. Woodcock

  • Global retrieval of bidirectional reflectance and albedo over land from EOS MODIS and MISR data: Theory and algorithm

    W. Wanner;A. H. Strahler;B. Hu;P. Lewis

  • Terrestrial laser scanning in forest ecology: Expanding the horizon

    Kim Calders;Jennifer Adams;John Armston;Harm Bartholomeus

  • The Vegetation Adjusted NTL Urban Index: A new approach to reduce saturation and increase variation in nighttime luminosity

    Qingling Zhang;Crystal Schaaf;Karen C. Seto

  • A general method to normalize Landsat reflectance data to nadir BRDF adjusted reflectance

    David P. Roy;Hankui Zhang;Junchang Ju;Junchang Ju;Jose Luis Gomez-Dans

  • The footprint of urban climates on vegetation phenology

    Xiaoyang Zhang;Mark A. Friedl;Crystal B. Schaaf;Alan H. Strahler

  • Accuracy assessment of the MODIS 16-day albedo product for snow: comparisons with Greenland in situ measurements

    Julienne Stroeve;Jason E. Box;Feng Gao;Shunlin Liang

  • Spatially complete global spectral surface albedos: value-added datasets derived from Terra MODIS land products

    E.G. Moody;M.D. King;S. Platnick;C.B. Schaaf

  • Intercomparison of MODIS albedo retrievals and in situ measurements across the global FLUXNET network

    Alessandro Cescatti;Barbara Marcolla;Suresh K. Santhana Vannan;Jerry Yun Pan

  • New directions in earth observing: Scientific applications of multiangle remote sensing

    David J. Diner;Gregory P. Asner;Roger Davies;Yuri Knyazikhin

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan H. Strahler
Alan H. Strahler Boston University
Zhuosen Wang
Zhuosen Wang University of Maryland, College Park
Miguel O. Román
Miguel O. Román Goddard Space Flight Center
Xiaoyang Zhang
Xiaoyang Zhang South Dakota State University
Xiaowen Li
Xiaowen Li Tsinghua University
Mark A. Friedl
Mark A. Friedl Boston University
Wolfgang Lucht
Wolfgang Lucht Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Curtis E. Woodcock
Curtis E. Woodcock Boston University
Philip Lewis
Philip Lewis University College London
Jeffrey G. Masek
Jeffrey G. Masek Goddard Space Flight Center

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