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Curtis E. Woodcock

Curtis E. Woodcock

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Environmental Sciences
USA
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
106
Citations
54157
World Ranking
246
National Ranking
111

Curtis E. Woodcock publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 274 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Curtis E. Woodcock 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 Curtis E. Woodcock sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 106 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

Overview

Curtis E. Woodcock is a researcher affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their main field of study is Environmental Science, with a focus on various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Media Technology, and Atmospheric Science.

The research topics addressed by Woodcock include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Advanced Image Fusion Techniques
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Woodcock has published extensively in several journals and platforms. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Science of Remote Sensing
  • Frontiers in Remote Sensing

Their recent papers include:

  • "Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts," 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Satellite-based estimates reveal widespread forest degradation in the Amazon," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Monitoring temperate forest degradation on Google Earth Engine using Landsat time series analysis," 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "A Suite of Tools for Continuous Land Change Monitoring in Google Earth Engine," 2020, Frontiers in Climate
  • "Need and vision for global medium-resolution Landsat and Sentinel-2 data products," 2023, Remote Sensing of Environment

Woodcock frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Pontus Olofsson
  • Eric L. Bullock
  • Xiaojing Tang
  • Zhe Zhu
  • Shijuan Chen

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

  • Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change

    Pontus Olofsson;Giles M. Foody;Martin Herold;Stephen V. Stehman

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

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

  • Classification and Change Detection Using Landsat TM Data: When and How to Correct Atmospheric Effects?

    Conghe Song;Curtis E. Woodcock;Karen C. Seto;Mary Pax Lenney

  • Object-based cloud and cloud shadow detection in Landsat imagery

    Zhe Zhu;Curtis E. Woodcock

  • The factor of scale in remote sensing

    Curtis E. Woodcock;Alan H. Strahler

  • Continuous change detection and classification of land cover using all available Landsat data

    Zhe Zhu;Curtis E. Woodcock

  • Improvement and expansion of the Fmask algorithm: cloud, cloud shadow, and snow detection for Landsats 4–7, 8, and Sentinel 2 images

    Zhe Zhu;Shixiong Wang;Curtis E. Woodcock

  • Opening the archive: How free data has enabled the science and monitoring promise of Landsat

    Michael A. Wulder;Jeffrey G. Masek;Warren B. Cohen;Thomas R. Loveland

  • Making better use of accuracy data in land change studies: Estimating accuracy and area and quantifying uncertainty using stratified estimation

    Pontus Olofsson;Giles M. Foody;Stephen V. Stehman;Curtis E. Woodcock

  • Free access to Landsat imagery.

    Curtis E. Woodcock;Richard Allen;Martha Anderson;Alan Belward

  • Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications

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

  • Compact, Dispersed, Fragmented, Extensive? A Comparison of Urban Growth in Twenty-five Global Cities using Remotely Sensed Data, Pattern Metrics and Census Information:

    Annemarie Schneider;Curtis E. Woodcock

  • The global Landsat archive: Status, consolidation, and direction

    Michael A. Wulder;Joanne C. White;Thomas R. Loveland;Curtis E. Woodcock

  • Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts

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  • Landsat continuity: Issues and opportunities for land cover monitoring

    Michael A. Wulder;Joanne C. White;Samuel N. Goward;Jeffrey G. Masek

  • Some challenges in global land cover mapping : An assessment of agreement and accuracy in existing 1 km datasets

    M. Herold;P. Mayaux;C.E. Woodcock;A. Baccini

  • An assessment of several linear change detection techniques for mapping forest mortality using multitemporal landsat TM data

    John B. Collins;Curtis E. Woodcock

  • Monitoring land-use change in the Pearl River Delta using Landsat TM

    K. C. Seto;C. E. Woodcock;C. Song;X. Huang

  • On the nature of models in remote sensing

    Alan H Strahler;Curtis E Woodcock;James A Smith

  • Theory and methods for accuracy assessment of thematic maps using fuzzy sets

    S. Gopal;C. Woodcock

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan H. Strahler
Alan H. Strahler Boston University
David L.B. Jupp
David L.B. Jupp Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Zhe Zhu
Zhe Zhu University of Connecticut
Sucharita Gopal
Sucharita Gopal Boston University
Xiaowen Li
Xiaowen Li Tsinghua University
Crystal B. Schaaf
Crystal B. Schaaf University of Massachusetts Boston
Glenn Newnham
Glenn Newnham Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Darius S. Culvenor
Darius S. Culvenor Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Warren B. Cohen
Warren B. Cohen Oregon State University
Thomas R. Loveland
Thomas R. Loveland United States Geological Survey

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