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D-Index
95
Citations
35015
World Ranking
475
National Ranking
216

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Dar A. Roberts is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to global and planetary change, ecology, environmental engineering, atmospheric science, and media technology.

The scientist's work covers a spectrum of topics related to environmental science. Key research areas include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Remote-Sensing Image Classification

Roberts has published extensively in various scholarly venues. The most frequent publication outlets for their work are:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Urban Climate
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Collaborations form an important part of Roberts's research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Michael Bliss Singer
  • John C. Stella
  • K. K. Caylor
  • Charles Jones
  • J. P. McFadden

Recent publications by Dar A. Roberts illustrate their engagement with advancing remote sensing and environmental monitoring techniques. Notable papers include:

  • "Groundwater-dependent ecosystem map exposes global dryland protection needs," 2024, Nature
  • "Attribution of individual methane and carbon dioxide emission sources using EMIT observations from space," 2023, Science Advances
  • "No evidence of canopy-scale leaf thermoregulation to cool leaves below air temperature across a range of forest ecosystems," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms," 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Open water detection in urban environments using high spatial resolution remote sensing imagery," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment

In recognition of their contributions to geophysical research, Roberts was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Mapping Chaparral in the Santa Monica Mountains Using Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Models

    D.A. Roberts;M. Gardner;R. Church;S. Ustin

  • Edge Influence on Forest Structure and Composition in Fragmented Landscapes

    Karen A. Harper;S. Ellen Macdonald;Philip J. Burton;Jiquan Chen

  • Hyperspectral discrimination of tropical rain forest tree species at leaf to crown scales

    Matthew L. Clark;Dar A. Roberts;David B. Clark

  • Using Imaging Spectroscopy to Study Ecosystem Processes and Properties

    Susan L. Ustin;Dar A. Roberts;John A. Gamon;Gregory P. Asner

  • Green vegetation, nonphotosynthetic vegetation, and soils in AVIRIS data

    D.A. Roberts;M.O. Smith;J.B. Adams

  • A comparison of methods for monitoring multitemporal vegetation change using Thematic Mapper imagery

    John Rogan;Janet Franklin;Dar A Roberts

  • State of the art satellite and airborne marine oil spill remote sensing: Application to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill

    Ira Leifer;William J. Lehr;Debra Simecek-Beatty;Eliza Bradley

  • Census from Heaven: An estimate of the global human population using night-time satellite imagery

    P. Sutton;D. Roberts;C. Elvidge;K. Baugh

  • Urban tree species mapping using hyperspectral and lidar data fusion

    Michael Alonzo;Bodo Bookhagen;Dar A. Roberts

  • Sub-pixel mapping of urban land cover using multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis: Manaus, Brazil

    Rebecca L. Powell;Dar A. Roberts;Philip E. Dennison;Laura L. Hess

  • Endmember selection for multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis using endmember average RMSE

    Philip E. Dennison;Dar A. Roberts

  • Spectrometry for urban area remote sensing—Development and analysis of a spectral library from 350 to 2400 nm

    Martin Herold;Dar A Roberts;Margaret E Gardner;Philip E Dennison

  • Practical limits on hyperspectral vegetation discrimination in arid and semiarid environments

    Gregory S Okin;Dar A Roberts;Bruce Murray;William J Okin

  • Combining spectral and spatial information to map canopy damage from selective logging and forest fires

    Carlos M. Souza;Dar A. Roberts;Mark A. Cochrane

  • Small-footprint lidar estimation of sub-canopy elevation and tree height in a tropical rain forest landscape

    Matthew L. Clark;David B. Clark;Dar A. Roberts

  • Retrieval of subpixel snow-covered area and grain size from imaging spectrometer data

    Thomas H. Painter;Jeff Dozier;Dar A. Roberts;Robert E. Davis

  • Spectral resolution requirements for mapping urban areas

    M. Herold;M.E. Gardner;D.A. Roberts

  • A comparison of error metrics and constraints for multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis and spectral angle mapper

    Philip E. Dennison;Kerry Q. Halligan;Dar A. Roberts

  • Mapping forest degradation in the Eastern Amazon from SPOT 4 through spectral mixture models

    Carlos Souza;Laurel Firestone;Luciano Moreira Silva;Dar Roberts

  • The ECOSTRESS spectral library version 1.0

    Susan K. Meerdink;Simon J. Hook;Dar A. Roberts;Elsa A. Abbott

  • A Comparison of Nighttime Satellite Imagery and Population Density for the Continental United States

    Paul Sutton;Dar Roberts;Chris Elvidge;Henk Melj

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip E. Dennison
Philip E. Dennison University of Utah
Susan L. Ustin
Susan L. Ustin University of California, Davis
Robert O. Green
Robert O. Green California Institute of Technology
Oliver A. Chadwick
Oliver A. Chadwick University of California, Santa Barbara
Glynn C. Hulley
Glynn C. Hulley California Institute of Technology
John A. Gamon
John A. Gamon University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Jeff Dozier
Jeff Dozier University of California, Santa Barbara
Christopher J. Still
Christopher J. Still Oregon State University
John B. Adams
John B. Adams University of Washington
Ira Leifer
Ira Leifer University of California, Santa Barbara

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