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36
Citations
5307
World Ranking
9126
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344

Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Jorg M. Hacker is affiliated with Flinders University in Australia and has conducted research primarily across environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans numerous subfields, including global and planetary change, ecology, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, and earth-surface processes.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of themes within environmental and archaeological studies. Key areas of focus include remote sensing and LiDAR applications, Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, geology and paleoclimatology research, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, coral and marine ecosystem studies, and archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

Jorg M. Hacker has published in various academic venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Remote Sensing
  • PLoS ONE
  • Coral Reefs
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Quaternary International

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Jorg M. Hacker are:

  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Linking the Remote Sensing of Geodiversity and Traits Relevant to Biodiversity-Part II: Geomorphology, Terrain and Surfaces, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Aboriginal artefacts on the continental shelf reveal ancient drowned cultural landscapes in northwest Australia, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • A multi-scalar approach to marine survey and underwater archaeological site prospection in Murujuga, Western Australia, 2020, Quaternary International
  • Coal seam gas industry methane emissions in the Surat Basin, Australia: comparing airborne measurements with inventories, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Michael O'Leary
  • Jo McDonald
  • Jonathan Benjamín
  • Chelsea Wiseman
  • J. McCarthy

Jorg M. Hacker holds the distinction of membership in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Best Publications

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

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  • Linking the Remote Sensing of Geodiversity and Traits Relevant to Biodiversity—Part II: Geomorphology, Terrain and Surfaces

    Angela Lausch;Angela Lausch;Michael E. Schaepman;Andrew K. Skidmore;Sina C. Truckenbrodt

  • The Soil Moisture Active Passive Experiments (SMAPEx): Toward Soil Moisture Retrieval From the SMAP Mission

    Rocco Panciera;Jeffrey P. Walker;Thomas J. Jackson;Douglas A. Gray

  • Linking earth observation and taxonomic, structural and functional biodiversity: local to ecosystem perspectives

    Angela Lausch;L Bannehr;Michael Beckmann;Christoph Boehm

  • A sub-continental scale living laboratory: Spatial patterns of savanna vegetation over a rainfall gradient in northern Australia

    Lindsay B. Hutley;Jason Beringer;Peter R. Isaac;Jorg M. Hacker

  • Tropical Island Convection in the Absence of Significant Topography. Part I: Life Cycle of Diurnally Forced Convection

    R. E. Carbone;J. W. Wilson;T. D. Keenan;J. M. Hacker

  • The NAFE'05/CoSMOS Data Set: Toward SMOS Soil Moisture Retrieval, Downscaling, and Assimilation

    R. Panciera;J.P. Walker;J.D. Kalma;E.J. Kim

  • The Maritime Continent — Thunderstorm Experiment (MCTEX): Overview and Some Results

    T. Keenan;S. Rutledge;R. Carbone;J. Wilson

  • A complete sea-breeze circulation cell derived from aircraft observations

    Klara Finkele;Jörg M. Hacker;Helmut Kraus;Roland A. D. Byron-Scott

  • Fire in Australian savannas: From leaf to landscape

    Jason Beringer;Jason Beringer;Lindsay B. Hutley;David Abramson;Stefan K. Arndt

  • A new source for high spatial resolution night time images — The EROS-B commercial satellite

    Noam Levin;Noam Levin;Kasper Johansen;Jorg M. Hacker;Stuart Phinn

  • The NAFE'06 data set: towards soil moisture retrieval at intermediate resolution

    Olivier Merlin;Jeffrey P. Walker;Jetse D. Kalma;Edward J. Kim

  • Land-atmosphere interaction in a semiarid region: the bunny fence experiment

    T. J. Lyons;P. Schwerdtfeger;J. M. Hacker;I. J. Foster

  • The Vertical Distribution of Radon in Clear and Cloudy Daytime Terrestrial Boundary Layers

    Alastair G. Williams;Wlodek Zahorowski;Scott Chambers;Alan Griffiths

  • Anatomy of Cirrus Clouds: Results from the Emerald Airborne Campaigns

    James Whiteway;James Whiteway;Clive Cook;Clive Cook;Martin Gallagher;Tom Choularton

  • The composite shape and structure of coherent eddies in the convective boundary layer

    A. G. Williams;J. M. Hacker

  • Patterns and processes of carbon, water and energy cycles across northern Australian landscapes: From point to region

    Jason Beringer;Lindsay B. Hutley;Jorg M. Hacker;Bruno Neininger

  • Analysis of full-waveform LiDAR data for classification of an orange orchard scene

    Karolina Fieber;Ian Davenport;James Ferryman;Robert James Gurney

  • Airborne multi-temporal L-band polarimetric SAR data for biomass estimation in semi-arid forests

    Mihai Tanase;Rocco Panciera;Kim Lowell;Siyuan Tian

  • An observational aircraft-based study of sea-breeze frontogenesis

    H. Kraus;J. M. Hacker;J. Hartmann

  • Interactions between coherent eddies in the lower convective boundary layer

    A. G. Williams;J. M. Hacker

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey P. Walker
Jeffrey P. Walker Monash University
James A. Whiteway
James A. Whiteway York University
Geoff Bailey
Geoff Bailey University of York
Jetse D. Kalma
Jetse D. Kalma University of Newcastle Australia
Martin Gallagher
Martin Gallagher University of Manchester
Michael Flynn
Michael Flynn University of Manchester
Keith Bower
Keith Bower University of Manchester
Thomas Choularton
Thomas Choularton University of Manchester
Jason Beringer
Jason Beringer University of Western Australia
Paul Connolly
Paul Connolly University of Manchester

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