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Emilio Chuvieco

Emilio Chuvieco

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Environmental Sciences
Spain
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
89
Citations
25731
World Ranking
627
National Ranking
14

Emilio Chuvieco 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 Emilio Chuvieco sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 273 publications — 82nd percentile

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

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

Emilio Chuvieco 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 Emilio Chuvieco sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 89 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Emilio Chuvieco is affiliated with the University of Alcalá in Spain and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.

The scientist's research covers a number of key topics including:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Fire Detection and Safety Systems
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management

Notable recent papers from their work include:

  • "African burned area and fire carbon emissions are strongly impacted by small fires undetected by coarse resolution satellite data," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Increasing forest fire emissions despite the decline in global burned area," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Record-high CO 2 emissions from boreal fires in 2021," 2023, Science
  • "Satellite Remote Sensing Contributions to Wildland Fire Science and Management," 2020, Current Forestry Reports
  • "Wildfires: Australia needs national monitoring agency," 2020, Nature

Emilio Chuvieco frequently publishes research in several scientific journals with multiple articles in these venues:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Remote Sensing
  • Fire
  • Earth system science data
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • M. Lucrecia Pettinari
  • Magí Franquesa
  • Philippe Ciais
  • Ekhi Roteta
  • Florent Mouillot

Best Publications

  • Application of remote sensing and geographic information systems to forest fire hazard mapping.

    Emilio Chuvieco;Russell G. Congalton

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

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

  • Development of a framework for fire risk assessment using remote sensing and geographic information system technologies

    Emilio Chuvieco;Inmaculada Aguado;Marta Yebra;Héctor Nieto

  • Human-caused wildfire risk rating for prevention planning in Spain.

    Jesús Martínez;Cristina Vega-Garcia;Emilio Chuvieco

  • Assessment of different spectral indices in the red-near-infrared spectral domain for burned land discrimination

    E. Chuvieco;M. P. Martín;A. Palacios

  • Historical background and current developments for mapping burned area from satellite Earth observation

    Emilio Chuvieco;Florent Mouillot;Guido R. van der Werf;Jesús San Miguel

  • Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing : An Environmental Approach

    Emilio Chuvieco

  • 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

  • The ESA Climate Change Initiative: Satellite Data Records for Essential Climate Variables

    R Hollmann;CJ Merchant;RA Saunders;C Downy

  • 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

  • Global characterization of fire activity: toward defining fire regimes from Earth observation data

    Emilio Chuvieco;Emilio Chuvieco;Louis Giglio;Chris Justice

  • Development of a Sentinel-2 burned area algorithm: Generation of a small fire database for sub-Saharan Africa

    E. Roteta;A. Bastarrika;M. Padilla

  • 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

  • A spatio-temporal active-fire clustering approach for global burned area mapping at 250 m from MODIS data

    Joshua Lizundia-Loiola;Gonzalo Otón;Rubén Ramo;Emilio Chuvieco

  • 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

  • Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing

    Emilio Chuvieco

  • Mapping burned areas from Landsat TM/ETM+ data with a two-phase algorithm: Balancing omission and commission errors

    Aitor Bastarrika;Emilio Chuvieco;M. Pilar Martín

  • African burned area and fire carbon emissions are strongly impacted by small fires undetected by coarse resolution satellite data.

    Ruben Ramo;Ekhi Roteta;Ioannis Bistinas;Ioannis Bistinas;Dave van Wees

  • Mapping the spatial distribution of forest fire danger using GIS

    Emilio Chuvieco;Javier Salas

  • Ten years of global burned area products from spaceborne remote sensing-A review: Analysis of user needs and recommendations for future developments

    Florent Mouillot;Martin G. Schultz;Chao Yue;Patricia Cadule

Frequent Co-Authors

David Riaño
David Riaño Spanish National Research Council
Florent Mouillot
Florent Mouillot Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Gitta Lasslop
Gitta Lasslop Max Planck Society
Héctor Nieto
Héctor Nieto Spanish National Research Council
Susan L. Ustin
Susan L. Ustin University of California, Davis
José M. C. Pereira
José M. C. Pereira University of Lisbon
Kevin Tansey
Kevin Tansey University of Leicester
Sandy P. Harrison
Sandy P. Harrison University of Reading

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