2026 Matthew C. Hansen: 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	102	322	301	144	131	309	69221

Overview

Matthew C. Hansen is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a strong focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work intersects multiple main topics such as Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Forest Ecology and Management, and Oil Palm Production and Sustainability.

Recent publications by Matthew C. Hansen include the following:

Mapping global forest canopy height through integration of GEDI and Landsat data, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation: High-resolution laser ranging of the Earth's forests and topography, 2020, Science of Remote Sensing
Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes, 2021, Nature Climate Change
Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century, 2021, Nature Food
Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues, with the most common being:

Remote Sensing of Environment
Environmental Research Letters
Remote Sensing
SSRN Electronic Journal
Energy Policy

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Peter Potapov
Alexandra Tyukavina
Amy Pickens
Svetlana Turubanova
Xiao-Peng Song

Best Publications

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

M.C. Hansen;P.V. Potapov;R. Moore;M. Hancher

12531
Citations
Global land cover classification at 1 km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach

M. C. Hansen;R. S. Defries;J. R. G. Townshend;R. Sohlberg

2684
Citations
An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm

Eric Dinerstein;David Olson;Anup Joshi;Carly Vynne

2267
Citations
Classifying drivers of global forest loss

Philip G. Curtis;Christy M. Slay;Nancy L. Harris;Alexandra Tyukavina

2207
Citations
Global land change from 1982 to 2016.

Xiao Peng Song;Matthew C. Hansen;Stephen V. Stehman;Peter V. Potapov

1945
Citations
Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century

Ruth S. DeFries;Thomas Rudel;Maria Uriarte;Matthew Hansen

1707
Citations
Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change

Richard A. Houghton;J.I. House;J. Pongratz;J. Pongratz;G. R. van der Werf

1440
Citations
Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains

Daniel Nepstad;David McGrath;Claudia Stickler;Ane Alencar

1345
Citations
Global Percent Tree Cover at a Spatial Resolution of 500 Meters: First Results of the MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields Algorithm

M. C. Hansen;R. S. DeFries;J. R. G. Townshend;M. Carroll

1273
Citations
Mapping global forest canopy height through integration of GEDI and Landsat data

Peter Potapov;Xinyuan Li;Andres Hernandez-Serna;Alexandra Tyukavina

1232
Citations
A review of large area monitoring of land cover change using Landsat data

Matthew C. Hansen;Thomas R. Loveland

1231
Citations
Primary forest cover loss in Indonesia over 2000–2012

Belinda Arunarwati Margono;Belinda Arunarwati Margono;Peter V. Potapov;Svetlana Turubanova;Fred Stolle

1191
Citations
Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century

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1136
Citations
Quantification of global gross forest cover loss

Matthew C. Hansen;Stephen V. Stehman;Peter V. Potapov

1113
Citations
The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation: High-resolution laser ranging of the Earth’s forests and topography

Ralph Dubayah;James Bryan Blair;Scott Goetz;Lola Fatoyinbo

1101
Citations
Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes

Nancy L. Harris;David A. Gibbs;Alessandro Baccini;Richard A. Birdsey

1066
Citations
INCREASING ISOLATION OF PROTECTED AREAS IN TROPICAL FORESTS OVER THE PAST TWENTY YEARS

Ruth DeFries;Andrew Hansen;Adrian C. Newton;Matthew C. Hansen

935
Citations
Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation and regrowth based on satellite observations for the 1980s and 1990s.

Ruth S. DeFries;Richard A. Houghton;Matthew C. Hansen;Christopher B. Field

933
Citations
The last frontiers of wilderness: Tracking loss of intact forest landscapes from 2000 to 2013

Peter Potapov;Matthew C. Hansen;Lars Laestadius;Svetlana Turubanova

883
Citations
Baseline Map of Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in Tropical Regions

Nancy L. Harris;Sandra Brown;Stephen C. Hagen;Sassan S. Saatchi;Sassan S. Saatchi

855
Citations
Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified by using multitemporal and multiresolution remotely sensed data

Matthew C. Hansen;Stephen V. Stehman;Peter V. Potapov;Thomas R. Loveland

839
Citations
Global land cover classifications at 8 km spatial resolution: The use of training data derived from Landsat imagery in decision tree classifiers

R. S. De Fries;M. Hansen;J. R. G. Townshend;R. Sohlberg

836
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Potapov University of Maryland, College Park

Alexandra Tyukavina University of Maryland, College Park

Svetlana Turubanova University of Maryland, College Park

Stephen V. Stehman SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

John R. Townshend University of Maryland, College Park

Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University

Scott J. Goetz Northern Arizona University

David P. Roy Michigan State University

Christopher O. Justice University of Maryland, College Park

Eric Vermote Goddard Space Flight Center

External Links

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