2026 Mark A. Friedl: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	90	572	538	259	236	241	44266

Overview

Mark A. Friedl is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of environmental science. Their research primarily focuses on global and planetary change, ecology, environmental engineering, ecological modeling, and atmospheric science.

Their work has addressed key topics including remote sensing in agriculture, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, land use and ecosystem services, species distribution and climate change, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and climate variability and models.

Frequent publication venues for Friedl include the following:

Remote Sensing of Environment
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
SSRN Electronic Journal
Nature Climate Change
Remote Sensing

Among their recent papers are:

Continental-scale land surface phenology from harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 imagery, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
Disturbance suppresses the aboveground carbon sink in North American boreal forests, 2021, Nature Climate Change
Multiscale assessment of land surface phenology from harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2, PlanetScope, and PhenoCam imagery, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
Need and vision for global medium-resolution Landsat and Sentinel-2 data products, 2023, Remote Sensing of Environment
Accounting for Training Data Error in Machine Learning Applied to Earth Observations, 2020, Remote Sensing

Mark A. Friedl frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable coauthors include:

Minkyu Moon
Andrew D. Richardson
Radost Stanimirova
Jonathan Wang
Xiaojie Gao

Best Publications

MODIS Collection 5 global land cover: Algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets

Mark A. Friedl;Damien Sulla-Menashe;Bin Tan;Annemarie Schneider

3834
Citations
Global land cover mapping from MODIS: algorithms and early results

M.A Friedl;D.K McIver;J.C.F Hodges;X.Y Zhang

3303
Citations
Monitoring vegetation phenology using MODIS

Xiaoyang Zhang;Mark A. Friedl;Crystal B. Schaaf;Alan H. Strahler

3046
Citations
Global products of vegetation leaf area and fraction absorbed PAR from year one of MODIS data

Ranga B. Myneni;S. Hoffman;Yuri Knyazikhin;J. Privette

2367
Citations
Decision tree classification of land cover from remotely sensed data

M.A. Friedl;C.E. Brodley

2130
Citations
Estimated carbon dioxide emissions from tropical deforestation improved by carbon-density maps

A. Baccini;S. J. Goetz;W. S. Walker;N. T. Laporte

2100
Citations
Identifying mislabeled training data

Carla E. Brodley;Mark A. Friedl

1096
Citations
A new map of global urban extent from MODIS satellite data

A Schneider;M A Friedl;D Potere

1049
Citations
Influence of spring and autumn phenological transitions on forest ecosystem productivity

Andrew D. Richardson;T. Andy Black;Philippe Ciais;Nicolas Delbart

1022
Citations
Net carbon uptake has increased through warming-induced changes in temperate forest phenology

Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;Josh Gray;Mark A. Friedl;Michael Toomey

995
Citations
Forecasting crop yield using remotely sensed vegetation indices and crop phenology metrics

Douglas K. Bolton;Mark A. Friedl

848
Citations
Mapping global urban areas using MODIS 500-m data: new methods and datasets based on 'urban ecoregions'.

Annemarie Schneider;Mark A. Friedl;David Potere

784
Citations
Global vegetation phenology from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): Evaluation of global patterns and comparison with in situ measurements

Xiaoyang Zhang;Mark A. Friedl;Crystal B. Schaaf

700
Citations
Hierarchical mapping of annual global land cover 2001 to present: The MODIS Collection 6 Land Cover product

Damien Sulla-Menashe;Josh M. Gray;S. Parker Abercrombie;Mark A. Friedl

694
Citations
Digital repeat photography for phenological research in forest ecosystems

Oliver Sonnentag;Oliver Sonnentag;Koen Hufkens;Cory Teshera-Sterne;Adam M. Young

686
Citations
Climate controls on vegetation phenological patterns in northern mid‐ and high latitudes inferred from MODIS data

Xiaoyang Zhang;Mark A. Friedl;Crystal B. Schaaf;Alan H. Strahler

654
Citations
Drought and ecosystem carbon cycling

M.K. van der Molen;A.J. Dolman;P. Ciais;T. Eglin

649
Citations
Land Surface Phenology from MODIS: Characterization of the Collection 5 Global Land Cover Dynamics Product

Sangram Ganguly;Mark A. Friedl;Bin Tan;Xiaoyang Zhang

605
Citations
Large seasonal swings in leaf area of Amazon rainforests

Ranga B. Myneni;Wenze Yang;Wenze Yang;Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Alfredo R. Huete

520
Citations
Tracking vegetation phenology across diverse North American biomes using PhenoCam imagery.

Andrew D. Richardson;Koen Hufkens;Thomas E. Milliman;Donald M. Aubrecht

508
Citations
Net Carbon Uptake Has Increased through Warming-Induced Changes in Temperate Forest Phenology

T. F. Keenan;A. D. Richardson;J. M. Gray;M. A. Friedl

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew D. Richardson Northern Arizona University

Alan H. Strahler Boston University

Steve Frolking University of New Hampshire

Crystal B. Schaaf University of Massachusetts Boston

Xiaoyang Zhang South Dakota State University

Koen Hufkens Ghent University

Curtis E. Woodcock Boston University

Oliver Sonnentag University of Montreal

Carla E. Brodley Northeastern University

Trevor F. Keenan Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

External Links

Personal website of Mark A. Friedl

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