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102
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322
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Matthew C. Hansen 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 Matthew C. Hansen sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 309 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Matthew C. Hansen 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 Matthew C. Hansen sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 102 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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

  • 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

  • An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm

    Eric Dinerstein;David Olson;Anup Joshi;Carly Vynne

  • Classifying drivers of global forest loss

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

  • Global land change from 1982 to 2016.

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

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

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

  • Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change

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

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

    Daniel Nepstad;David McGrath;Claudia Stickler;Ane Alencar

  • 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

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

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

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

    Matthew C. Hansen;Thomas R. Loveland

  • Primary forest cover loss in Indonesia over 2000–2012

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

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

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  • Quantification of global gross forest cover loss

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

  • 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

  • Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes

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

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

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Baseline Map of Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in Tropical Regions

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

  • 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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Potapov
Peter Potapov University of Maryland, College Park
Alexandra Tyukavina
Alexandra Tyukavina University of Maryland, College Park
Svetlana Turubanova
Svetlana Turubanova University of Maryland, College Park
Stephen V. Stehman
Stephen V. Stehman SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
John R. Townshend
John R. Townshend University of Maryland, College Park
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University
Scott J. Goetz
Scott J. Goetz Northern Arizona University
David P. Roy
David P. Roy Michigan State University
Christopher O. Justice
Christopher O. Justice University of Maryland, College Park
Eric Vermote
Eric Vermote Goddard Space Flight Center

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