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D-Index
90
Citations
44266
World Ranking
572
National Ranking
259

Mark A. Friedl 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 Mark A. Friedl sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 241 publications — 76th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Mark A. Friedl 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 Mark A. Friedl sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

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

  • Global land cover mapping from MODIS: algorithms and early results

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

  • Monitoring vegetation phenology using MODIS

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

  • 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

  • Decision tree classification of land cover from remotely sensed data

    M.A. Friedl;C.E. Brodley

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

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

  • Identifying mislabeled training data

    Carla E. Brodley;Mark A. Friedl

  • A new map of global urban extent from MODIS satellite data

    A Schneider;M A Friedl;D Potere

  • Influence of spring and autumn phenological transitions on forest ecosystem productivity

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

  • 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

  • Forecasting crop yield using remotely sensed vegetation indices and crop phenology metrics

    Douglas K. Bolton;Mark A. Friedl

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

    Annemarie Schneider;Mark A. Friedl;David Potere

  • 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

  • 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

  • Digital repeat photography for phenological research in forest ecosystems

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

  • 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

  • Drought and ecosystem carbon cycling

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

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

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

  • Large seasonal swings in leaf area of Amazon rainforests

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

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

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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew D. Richardson
Andrew D. Richardson Northern Arizona University
Alan H. Strahler
Alan H. Strahler Boston University
Steve Frolking
Steve Frolking University of New Hampshire
Crystal B. Schaaf
Crystal B. Schaaf University of Massachusetts Boston
Xiaoyang Zhang
Xiaoyang Zhang South Dakota State University
Koen Hufkens
Koen Hufkens Ghent University
Curtis E. Woodcock
Curtis E. Woodcock Boston University
Oliver Sonnentag
Oliver Sonnentag University of Montreal
Carla E. Brodley
Carla E. Brodley Northeastern University
Trevor F. Keenan
Trevor F. Keenan Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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