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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
77
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25092
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1124
National Ranking
40

Joanne C. White 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 Joanne C. White sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 241 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Joanne C. White 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 Joanne C. White sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Joanne C. White is affiliated with Natural Resources Canada in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant concentration on environmental engineering, global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and insect science.

Their work covers a range of main topics including remote sensing and LiDAR applications, remote sensing in agriculture, forest ecology and management, fire effects on ecosystems, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, land use and ecosystem services, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include Nicholas C. Coops, Michael A. Wulder, Txomin Hermosilla, Piotr Tompalski, and Tristan R.H. Goodbody. These partnerships have contributed to multiple publications across various venues.

The scientist has published extensively in several journals, with the highest number of contributions appearing in Remote Sensing of Environment, Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research, Forest Ecology and Management, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Representative papers authored or coauthored by Joanne C. White include:

  • Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts (2022), Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Modelling lidar-derived estimates of forest attributes over space and time: A review of approaches and future trends (2021), Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Remote sensing in forestry: current challenges, considerations and directions (2023), Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research
  • Validation of ICESat-2 terrain and canopy heights in boreal forests (2020), Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Under-canopy UAV laser scanning for accurate forest field measurements (2020), ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Optical remotely sensed time series data for land cover classification: A review

    Cristina Gómez;Joanne C. White;Michael A. Wulder

  • Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications

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

  • Lidar sampling for large-area forest characterization: A review

    Michael A. Wulder;Joanne C. White;Ross F. Nelson;Erik Næsset

  • Remote Sensing Technologies for Enhancing Forest Inventories: A Review

    Joanne C. White;Nicholas C. Coops;Michael A. Wulder;Mikko Vastaranta

  • 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

  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission

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  • Pixel-Based Image Compositing for Large-Area Dense Time Series Applications and Science

    J. C. White;M. A. Wulder;G. W. Hobart;J. E. Luther

  • Surveying mountain pine beetle damage of forests: A review of remote sensing opportunities

    Michael A. Wulder;Caren C. Dymond;Joanne C. White;Donald G. Leckie

  • The role of LiDAR in sustainable forest management

    Michael A. Wulder;Christopher W. Bater;Nicholas C. Coops;Thomas Hilker

  • Forest Monitoring Using Landsat Time Series Data: A Review

    Asim Banskota;Nilam Kayastha;Michael J. Falkowski;Michael A. Wulder

  • Land cover 2.0

    Michael A. Wulder;Nicholas C. Coops;David P. Roy;Joanne C. White

  • A nationwide annual characterization of 25 years of forest disturbance and recovery for Canada using Landsat time series

    Joanne C. White;Michael A. Wulder;Txomin Hermosilla;Nicholas C. Coops

  • The Utility of Image-Based Point Clouds for Forest Inventory: A Comparison with Airborne Laser Scanning

    Joanne C. White;Michael A. Wulder;Mikko Vastaranta;Nicholas C. Coops

  • A best practices guide for generating forest inventory attributes from airborne laser scanning data using an area-based approach

    Joanne C. White;Michael A. Wulder;Andrés Varhola;Mikko Vastaranta

  • An integrated Landsat time series protocol for change detection and generation of annual gap-free surface reflectance composites

    Txomin Hermosilla;Michael A. Wulder;Joanne C. White;Nicholas C. Coops

  • Modelling lidar-derived estimates of forest attributes over space and time: A review of approaches and future trends

    Nicholas C. Coops;Piotr Tompalski;Tristan R.H. Goodbody;Martin Queinnec

  • Regional detection, characterization, and attribution of annual forest change from 1984 to 2012 using Landsat-derived time-series metrics

    Txomin Hermosilla;Michael A. Wulder;Joanne C. White;Nicholas C. Coops

  • 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

  • Assessment of QuickBird high spatial resolution imagery to detect red attack damage due to mountain pine beetle infestation

    Nicholas C. Coops;Matt Johnson;Michael A. Wulder;Joanne C. White

  • Forest monitoring using Landsat time-series data- A

    Asim Banskota;Nilam Kayastha;Michael J. Falkowski;Michael A. Wulder

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Wulder
Michael A. Wulder Natural Resources Canada
Nicholas C. Coops
Nicholas C. Coops University of British Columbia
Txomin Hermosilla
Txomin Hermosilla Natural Resources Canada
Mikko Vastaranta
Mikko Vastaranta University of Eastern Finland
Juha Hyyppä
Juha Hyyppä Finnish Geospatial Research Institute
Trisalyn A. Nelson
Trisalyn A. Nelson University of California, Santa Barbara
Markus Holopainen
Markus Holopainen University of Helsinki
Thomas Hilker
Thomas Hilker Oregon State University
Steven E. Franklin
Steven E. Franklin Trent University
Jeffrey G. Masek
Jeffrey G. Masek Goddard Space Flight Center

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