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D-Index
48
Citations
10836
World Ranking
5453
National Ranking
1998

Douglas A. Stow 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 Douglas A. Stow sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 220 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Douglas A. Stow 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 Douglas A. Stow sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Douglas A. Stow is affiliated with San Diego State University in the United States and is primarily active in the field of Environmental Science. Their research encompasses a range of subfields, including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Environmental Engineering, and Ecological Modeling.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Douglas A. Stow has contributed research articles to several publication venues, with frequent publications in:

  • International Journal of Remote Sensing
  • Fire
  • Remote Sensing
  • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Some of the recently published papers include:

  • Deer survey from drone thermal imagery using enhanced faster R-CNN based on ResNets and FPN, 2023, Ecological Informatics
  • Assessing the effects of payments for ecosystem services programs on forest structure and species biodiversity, 2020, Biodiversity and Conservation
  • From land cover to land use: applying random forest classifier to Landsat imagery for urban land-use change mapping, 2021, Geocarto International
  • A landscape-scale framework to identify refugia from multiple stressors, 2021, Conservation Biology
  • Assessment of volunteered geographic information for vegetation mapping, 2020, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Douglas A. Stow has collaborated extensively with various co-authors, including:

  • Li An
  • Rebecca L. Lewison
  • John F. O'Leary
  • Dar A. Roberts
  • Philip J. Riggan

Best Publications

  • Evidence and implications of recent climate change in northern Alaska and other arctic regions.

    Larry D. Hinzman;Neil D. Bettez;W. Robert Bolton;F. Stuart Chapin

  • Remote sensing of vegetation and land-cover change in Arctic Tundra Ecosystems

    Douglas A. Stow;Allen Hope;David McGuire;David Verbyla

  • Variability of the Seasonally Integrated Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Across the North Slope of Alaska in the 1990s

    D. Stow;Scott Daeschner;A. Hope;David C. Douglas

  • Examining the effect of spatial resolution and texture window size on classification accuracy: an urban environment case

    D. Chen;D. A. Stow;P. Gong

  • Mapping land-cover modifications over large areas: A comparison of machine learning algorithms

    John Rogan;Janet Franklin;Doug Stow;Jennifer A Miller

  • Land-Cover Change Monitoring with Classification Trees Using Landsat TM and Ancillary Data

    John Rogan;John Rogan;Jennifer A Miller;Jennifer A Miller;Doug Stow;Janet Franklin

  • THE EFFECT OF TRAINING STRATEGIES ON SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION AT DIFFERENT SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS

    DongMel Chen;Douglas Stow

  • Assessing the relationship between spectral vegetation indices and shrub cover in the Jornada Basin, New Mexico

    Jeff Duncan;D. Stow;J. Franklin;A. Hope

  • Sensitivity of multitemporal NOAA AVHRR data of an urbanizing region to land-use/land-cover changes and misregistration

    Douglas A. Stow;Dong Mei Chen

  • Mapping Vegetation and Land Use Types in Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve Using Google Earth Engine

    Yu Hsin Tsai;Douglas A. Stow;Hsiang Ling Chen;Rebecca Lewison

  • Can we spot a neighborhood from the air? Defining neighborhood structure in Accra, Ghana

    John R. Weeks;Allan Hill;Douglas Stow;Arthur Getis

  • Monitoring shrubland habitat changes through object-based change identification with airborne multispectral imagery

    Douglas Stow;Yuki Hamada;Lloyd Coulter;Zlatina Anguelova

  • Detecting Tamarisk species (Tamarix spp.) in riparian habitats of Southern California using high spatial resolution hyperspectral imagery

    Yuki Hamada;Douglas A. Stow;Lloyd L. Coulter;Jim C. Jafolla

  • Reducing the effects of misregistration on pixel-level change detection

    D. A. Stow

  • Interannual growth dynamics of vegetation in the Kuparuk River watershed, Alaska based on the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

    A.S. Hope;W.L. Boynton;D.A. Stow;David C. Douglas

  • Classification and assessment of land cover and land use change in southern Ghana using dense stacks of Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery

    Lloyd L. Coulter;Douglas A. Stow;Yu-Hsin Tsai;Nicholas Ibanez

  • The relationship between tussock tundra spectral reflectance properties and biomass and vegetation composition

    A. S. Hope;J. S. Kimball;D. A. Stow

  • Object-based classification of residential land use within Accra, Ghana based on QuickBird satellite data

    D. Stow;A. Lopez;C. Lippitt;S. Hinton

  • Greenness trends of Arctic tundra vegetation in the 1990s: comparison of two NDVI data sets from NOAA AVHRR systems

    D. Stow;A. Petersen;A. Hope;R. Engstrom

  • Land cover and land use change analysis using multi-spatial resolution data and object-based image analysis

    Sory I. Toure;Douglas A. Stow;Hsiao-chien Shih;John Weeks

  • Evidence and Implications of Recent Climate Change in Northern Alaska and Other Arctic Regions

    L. D. Hinzman;N. Bettez;W. R. Bolton;F. S. Chapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet Franklin
Janet Franklin San Diego State University
Dar A. Roberts
Dar A. Roberts University of California, Santa Barbara
Stuart R. Phinn
Stuart R. Phinn University of Queensland
Walter C. Oechel
Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University
David C. Douglas
David C. Douglas United States Geological Survey
Rebecca L. Lewison
Rebecca L. Lewison San Diego State University
Donald A. Walker
Donald A. Walker University of Alaska Fairbanks
Keith C. Clarke
Keith C. Clarke University of California, Santa Barbara
Matthew Sturm
Matthew Sturm University of Alaska Fairbanks
Ranga B. Myneni
Ranga B. Myneni Boston University

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