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Environmental Sciences
Spain
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
8864
World Ranking
6666
National Ranking
187

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Spain Leader Award

Overview

David Riaño is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a specialization in Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Water Science and Technology.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Climate variability and models

David Riaño has published multiple papers in various scientific journals. Recent notable publications include:

  • Global fuel moisture content mapping from MODIS, 2021, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • The effect of pixel heterogeneity for remote sensing based retrievals of evapotranspiration in a semi-arid tree-grass ecosystem, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Seasonal Adaptation of the Thermal-Based Two-Source Energy Balance Model for Estimating Evapotranspiration in a Semiarid Tree-Grass Ecosystem, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • A Live Fuel Moisture Content Product from Landsat TM Satellite Time Series for Implementation in Fire Behavior Models, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • A remote sensing-based three-source energy balance model to improve global estimations of evapotranspiration in semi-arid tree-grass ecosystems, 2021, Global Change Biology

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • M. Pilar Martín
  • Marta Yebra
  • Vicente Burchard-Levine
  • Mirco Migliavacca
  • Mariano García

David Riaño's publications are often featured in scientific venues such as:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Remote Sensing
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • Global Change Biology
  • Revista de Teledetección

Best Publications

  • Assessment of different topographic corrections in Landsat-TM data for mapping vegetation types (2003)

    D. Riano;E. Chuvieco;J. Salas;I. Aguado

  • Combining NDVI and surface temperature for the estimation of live fuel moisture content in forest fire danger rating

    Emilio Chuvieco;David Cocero;David Riaño;David Riaño;M. Pilar Martín

  • Estimating biomass carbon stocks for a Mediterranean forest in central Spain using LiDAR height and intensity data

    Mariano García;David Riaño;David Riaño;Emilio Chuvieco;F. Mark Danson

  • A global review of remote sensing of live fuel moisture content for fire danger assessment: Moving towards operational products

    Marta Yebra;Philip E. Dennison;Emilio Chuvieco;David Riaño;David Riaño

  • Modeling airborne laser scanning data for the spatial generation of critical forest parameters in fire behavior modeling

    David Riaño;David Riaño;Erich Meier;Britta Allgöwer;Emilio Chuvieco

  • Estimation of fuel moisture content from multitemporal analysis of Landsat Thematic Mapper reflectance data: applications in fire danger assessment

    E. Chuvieco;D. Riaño;I. Aguado;D. Cocero

  • Estimation of leaf area index and covered ground from airborne laser scanner (Lidar) in two contrasting forests

    David Riaño;Fernando Valladares;Sonia Condés;Emilio Chuvieco

  • Estimation of live fuel moisture content from MODIS images for fire risk assessment

    Marta Yebra;Emilio Chuvieco;David Riaño

  • Assessment of vegetation regeneration after fire through multitemporal analysis of AVIRIS images in the Santa Monica Mountains

    D Riaño;D Riaño;E Chuvieco;S Ustin;R Zomer

  • Generation of crown bulk density for Pinus sylvestris L. from lidar

    David Riaño;David Riaño;Emilio Chuvieco;Sonia Condés;Javier González-Matesanz

  • Multispectral and LiDAR data fusion for fuel type mapping using Support Vector Machine and decision rules

    Mariano García;David Riaño;David Riaño;Emilio Chuvieco;Javier Salas

  • Estimating Vegetation Water content with Hyperspectral data for different Canopy scenarios: Relationships between AVIRIS and MODIS Indexes

    Yen-Ben Cheng;Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada;David Riaño;David Riaño;Carlos A. Rueda

  • Estimation of fuel moisture content by inversion of radiative transfer models to simulate equivalent water thickness and dry matter content: analysis at leaf and canopy level

    D. Riano;P. Vaughan;E. Chuvieco;P.J. Zarco-Tejada

  • Use of a radiative transfer model to simulate the postfire spectral response to burn severity

    E. Chuvieco;D. Riaño;D. Riaño;F. M. Danson;P. Martin

  • Generation of fuel type maps from Landsat TM images and ancillary data in Mediterranean ecosystems

    David Riaño;Emilio Chuvieco;Javier Salas;Alicia Palacios-Orueta

  • Evaluation of Hyperspectral Reflectance Indexes to Detect Grapevine Water Status in Vineyards

    José R. Rodríguez-Pérez;David Riaño;Eli Carlisle;Susan Ustin

  • Analysing forest recovery after wildfire disturbance in Boreal Siberia using remotely sensed vegetation indices

    María Cuevas-González;Heiko Balzter;David Riaño;David Riaño

  • A fuel moisture content and flammability monitoring methodology for continental Australia based on optical remote sensing

    Marta Yebra;Marta Yebra;Xingwen Quan;David Riaño;David Riaño;Pablo Rozas Larraondo

  • Development of angle indexes for soil moisture estimation, dry matter detection and land-cover discrimination

    Shruti Khanna;Alicia Palacios-Orueta;Alicia Palacios-Orueta;Michael L. Whiting;Susan L. Ustin

  • Multi-temporal vegetation canopy water content retrieval and interpretation using artificial neural networks for the continental USA

    M. Trombetti;D. Riaño;M.A. Rubio;Y.B. Cheng

  • Short communication Estimation of leaf area index and covered ground from airborne laser scanner (Lidar) in two contrasting forests

    David Riaño;Fernando Valladares;Sonia Condés;Emilio Chuvieco

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan L. Ustin
Susan L. Ustin University of California, Davis
Emilio Chuvieco
Emilio Chuvieco University of Alcalá
Philip E. Dennison
Philip E. Dennison University of Utah
Mirco Migliavacca
Mirco Migliavacca Joint Research Centre
Kaiguang Zhao
Kaiguang Zhao The Ohio State University
Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada
Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada Spanish National Research Council
Dar A. Roberts
Dar A. Roberts University of California, Santa Barbara
Arnaud Carrara
Arnaud Carrara University of Antwerp
Héctor Nieto
Héctor Nieto Spanish National Research Council
Heiko Balzter
Heiko Balzter University of Leicester

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