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74
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1316
National Ranking
560

Overview

Jeffrey G. Masek is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Engineering, with contributions to Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Engineering as subfields of study.

Their recent publications emphasize the use of remote sensing technologies and their applications in environmental monitoring. Representative papers include:

  • Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Landsat 9: Empowering open science and applications through continuity, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Comparison of cloud detection algorithms for Sentinel-2 imagery, 2020, Science of Remote Sensing
  • Can we detect more ephemeral floods with higher density harmonized Landsat Sentinel 2 data compared to Landsat 8 alone?, 2022, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Augmenting Landsat time series with Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 data products: Assessment of spectral correspondence, 2021, Science of Remote Sensing

Their work explores several main topics including:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Advanced Image Fusion Techniques
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping

Jeffrey G. Masek has frequently published in venues such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Science of Remote Sensing, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and Climatic Change.

Their collaborative network includes coauthors who have contributed frequently to related research fields. Notable frequent coauthors are:

  • Junchang Ju
  • Zhe Zhu
  • Christopher J. Crawford
  • Curtis E. Woodcock
  • Michael A. Wulder

Jeffrey G. Masek's publications and collaborative efforts contribute to enhanced understanding and advancements in the application of remote sensing data for environmental monitoring, agriculture, and planetary change analysis.

Best Publications

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

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

  • On the blending of the Landsat and MODIS surface reflectance: predicting daily Landsat surface reflectance

    Feng Gao;J. Masek;M. Schwaller;F. Hall

  • A Landsat surface reflectance dataset for North America, 1990-2000

    J.G. Masek;E.F. Vermote;N.E. Saleous;R. Wolfe

  • An enhanced spatial and temporal adaptive reflectance fusion model for complex heterogeneous regions

    Xiaolin Zhu;Jin Chen;Feng Gao;Xuehong Chen

  • 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

  • The Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 surface reflectance data set

    Martin Claverie;Martin Claverie;Junchang Ju;Junchang Ju;Jeffrey G. Masek;Jennifer L. Dungan

  • Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications

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

  • An automated approach for reconstructing recent forest disturbance history using dense Landsat time series stacks

    Chengquan Huang;Samuel N. Goward;Jeffrey G. Masek;Nancy Thomas

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

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

  • A new data fusion model for high spatial- and temporal-resolution mapping of forest disturbance based on Landsat and MODIS

    Thomas Hilker;Michael A. Wulder;Nicholas C. Coops;Julia Linke

  • 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

  • Dynamics of urban growth in the Washington DC metropolitan area, 1973-1996, from Landsat observations

    J. G. Masek;F. E. Lindsay;S. N. Goward

  • North American forest disturbance mapped from a decadal Landsat record

    Jeffrey G. Masek;Chengquan Huang;Robert Wolfe;Warren Cohen

  • The vegetation greenness trend in Canada and US Alaska from 1984–2012 Landsat data

    Junchang Ju;Junchang Ju;Jeffrey G. Masek

  • Global Characterization and Monitoring of Forest Cover Using Landsat Data: Opportunities and Challenges

    John R. Townshend;Jeffrey G. Masek;ChengQuan Huang;Eric F. Vermote

  • Landsat 9: Empowering open science and applications through continuity

    Jeffrey G. Masek;Michael A. Wulder;Brian Markham;Joel McCorkel

  • Erosion and tectonics at the margins of continental plateaus

    Jeffrey G. Masek;Bryan L. Isacks;Timothy L. Gubbels;Eric J. Fielding

  • Use of a dark object concept and support vector machines to automate forest cover change analysis

    Chengquan Huang;Kuan Song;Sunghee Kim;John R.G. Townshend

  • Generation of dense time series synthetic Landsat data through data blending with MODIS using a spatial and temporal adaptive reflectance fusion model.

    Thomas Hilker;Michael A. Wulder;Nicholas C. Coops;Nicole Seitz

  • NASA Goddards LiDAR, Hyperspectral and Thermal (G-LiHT) Airborne Imager

    Bruce D. Cook;Lawrence A. Corp;Ross F. Nelson;Elizabeth M. Middleton

  • Forest disturbance across the conterminous United States from 1985-2012: The emerging dominance of forest decline

    Warren B. Cohen;Zhiqiang Yang;Stephen V. Stehman;Todd A. Schroeder

Frequent Co-Authors

Chengquan Huang
Chengquan Huang University of Maryland, College Park
Samuel N. Goward
Samuel N. Goward University of Maryland, College Park
Eric Vermote
Eric Vermote Goddard Space Flight Center
Warren B. Cohen
Warren B. Cohen Oregon State University
Jean-Claude Roger
Jean-Claude Roger University of Maryland, College Park
Sergii Skakun
Sergii Skakun University of Maryland, College Park
Michael A. Wulder
Michael A. Wulder Natural Resources Canada
Crystal B. Schaaf
Crystal B. Schaaf University of Massachusetts Boston
Robert E. Kennedy
Robert E. Kennedy Oregon State University
Sean P. Healey
Sean P. Healey US Forest Service

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