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John H. Prueger is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, supported by a substantial body of work spanning these fields. The scientist's work addresses multiple subfields, including global and planetary change, plant science, environmental engineering, ecology, and soil science.

The research topics covered by John H. Prueger include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Horticultural and Viticultural Research
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Irrigation Practices and Water Management
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation

The scientist has published extensively in various journals, with the most frequent publication venues being:

  • Irrigation Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Among their recent papers are the following, highlighting important contributions to agricultural and environmental monitoring and analysis:

  • "Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites," 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • "Interoperability of ECOSTRESS and Landsat for mapping evapotranspiration time series at sub-field scales," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Using high-spatiotemporal thermal satellite ET retrievals to monitor water use over California vineyards of different climate, vine variety and trellis design," 2020, Agricultural Water Management
  • "Direct partitioning of eddy-covariance water and carbon dioxide fluxes into ground and plant components," 2022, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • "Relationships between soil water content, evapotranspiration, and irrigation measurements in a California drip-irrigated Pinot noir vineyard," 2020, Agricultural Water Management

John H. Prueger has collaborated frequently with several other researchers. Notable co-authors include William P. Kustas, Joseph G. Alfieri, L. McKee, María Mar Alsina, and Lawrence E. Hipps. These collaborations reflect ongoing work within multidisciplinary teams on environmental and agricultural topics.

Best Publications

  • Temperature extremes: Effect on plant growth and development

    Jerry L. Hatfield;John H. Prueger

  • Correcting eddy-covariance flux underestimates over a grassland

    Tracy E Twine;W. P. Kustas;J. M. Norman;D. R. Cook

  • Managing Soils to Achieve Greater Water Use Efficiency

    Jerry L. Hatfield;Thomas J. Sauer;John H. Prueger

  • Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites

    A. Colliander;T.J. Jackson;R. Bindlish;S. Chan

  • Assessment of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product

    Steven K. Chan;Rajat Bindlish;Peggy E. O'Neill;Eni Njoku

  • Crop condition and yield simulations using Landsat and MODIS

    P.C. Doraiswamy;J.L. Hatfield;T.J. Jackson;B. Akhmedov

  • Toward mapping crop progress at field scales through fusion of Landsat and MODIS imagery

    Feng Gao;Martha C. Anderson;Xiaoyang Zhang;Zhengwei Yang

  • Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture product

    S. K. Chan;R. Bindlish;P. O'Neill;T. Jackson

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites

    Housen Chu;Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Zutao Ouyang;W. Stephen Chan

  • Value of using different vegetative indices to quantify agricultural crop characteristics at different growth stages under varying management practices.

    Jerry L. Hatfield;John H. Prueger

  • Application of MODIS derived parameters for regional crop yield assessment

    Paul C. Doraiswamy;Thomas R. Sinclair;Steven Hollinger;Bakhyt Akhmedov

  • Watershed scale temporal and spatial stability of soil moisture and its role in validating satellite estimates

    Michael H. Cosh;Thomas J. Jackson;Rajat Bindlish;John H. Prueger

  • Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 surface and root-zone soil moisture product using in situ measurements

    Rolf H. Reichle;Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy;Qing Liu;Joseph V. Ardizzone

  • A comparison of operational remote sensing-based models for estimating crop evapotranspiration

    M.P. Gonzalez-Dugo;C.M.U. Neale;L. Mateos;W.P. Kustas

  • Monitoring daily evapotranspiration over two California vineyards using Landsat 8 in a multi-sensor data fusion approach

    Kathryn A. Semmens;Martha C. Anderson;William P. Kustas;Feng Gao

  • Surface flux estimation using radiometric temperature: A dual-temperature-difference method to minimize measurement errors

    J. M. Norman;W. P. Kustas;J. H. Prueger;G. R. Diak

  • Utility of Remote Sensing–Based Two-Source Energy Balance Model under Low- and High-Vegetation Cover Conditions

    Fuqin Li;William P. Kustas;John H. Prueger;Christopher M. U. Neale

  • Surface energy fluxes with the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection radiometer (ASTER) at the Iowa 2002 SMACEX site (USA)

    A.N. French;F. Jacob;M.C. Anderson;W.P. Kustas

  • Modeling Evapotranspiration during SMACEX: Comparing Two Approaches for Local- and Regional-Scale Prediction

    H. Su;M.F. McCabe;E.F. Wood;Zhongbo Su

  • Effects of remote sensing pixel resolution on modeled energy flux variability of croplands in Iowa

    W.P. Kustas;F. Li;T.J. Jackson;J.H. Prueger

  • Version 4 of the SMAP Level-4 Soil Moisture algorithm and data product

    Rolf H. Reichle;Qing Liu;Randal D. Koster;Wade T. Crow

Frequent Co-Authors

William P. Kustas
William P. Kustas Agricultural Research Service
Jerry L. Hatfield
Jerry L. Hatfield Iowa State University
Lawrence E. Hipps
Lawrence E. Hipps Utah State University
Martha C. Anderson
Martha C. Anderson Agricultural Research Service
Joseph G. Alfieri
Joseph G. Alfieri Agricultural Research Service
Michael H. Cosh
Michael H. Cosh Agricultural Research Service
David D. Bosch
David D. Bosch Agricultural Research Service
Thomas J. Jackson
Thomas J. Jackson Agricultural Research Service
Aaron A. Berg
Aaron A. Berg University of Guelph
Rajat Bindlish
Rajat Bindlish Goddard Space Flight Center

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