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Environmental Sciences
Saudi Arabia
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
76
Citations
22124
World Ranking
1192
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Saudi Arabia Leader Award

Overview

Matthew F. McCabe is affiliated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to related subfields such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Plant Science, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work includes numerous publications in prominent journals and venues. Frequent publication outlets include Agricultural Water Management, Remote Sensing, SSRN Electronic Journal, Scientific Reports, and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

McCabe's research topics cover a variety of areas, highlighting expertise in:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation

A selection of recent papers published by McCabe includes:

  • "Multi-sensor remote sensing for drought characterization: current status, opportunities and a roadmap for the future," 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Current Practices in UAS-based Environmental Monitoring," 2020, Remote Sensing
  • "Global Climate," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Predicting Biomass and Yield in a Tomato Phenotyping Experiment Using UAV Imagery and Random Forest," 2020, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • "Retrieval of High-Resolution Soil Moisture through Combination of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data," 2020, Remote Sensing

McCabe has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, most notably:

  • Kasper Johansen
  • Matteo G. Ziliani
  • Samir Al-Mashharawi
  • Mohammad El Hajj
  • B. Aragon

The scientist has authored books published by Frontiers Media, including the 2023 title "Remote Sensing Application for Precision Agriculture."

Best Publications

  • Estimating Land Surface Evaporation: A Review of Methods Using Remotely Sensed Surface Temperature Data

    Jetse D. Kalma;Tim R. McVicar;Matthew F. McCabe

  • The future of evapotranspiration: global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources.

    Joshua B. Fisher;Forrest S. Melton;Elizabeth M. Middleton;Christopher Hain;Christopher Hain

  • Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals

    Y. Y. Liu;W. A. Dorigo;R. M. Parinussa;R. A. M. de Jeu

  • Developing an improved soil moisture dataset by blending passive and active microwave satellite-based retrievals

    Y. Y. Liu;Y. Y. Liu;Y. Y. Liu;R. M. Parinussa;W. A. Dorigo;R. A. M. De Jeu

  • On the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Monitoring

    Salvatore Manfreda;Matthew F. McCabe;Pauline E. Miller;Richard Lucas

  • Recent reversal in loss of global terrestrial biomass

    Yi Y. Liu;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Richard A. M. de Jeu;Josep G. Canadell

  • The Future of Earth Observation in Hydrology.

    Matthew F. McCabe;Matthew Rodell;Douglas E. Alsdorf;Diego G. Miralles

  • Scale influences on the remote estimation of evapotranspiration using multiple satellite sensors

    Matthew F. McCabe;Matthew F. McCabe;Eric F. Wood

  • Global intercomparison of 12 land surface heat flux estimates

    C. Jiménez;C. Prigent;B. Mueller;S. I. Seneviratne

  • Benchmark products for land evapotranspiration: LandFlux-EVAL multi-data set synthesis

    Brigitte Mueller;Martin Hirschi;Carlos Jimenez;Philippe Ciais

  • Evaluation of global observations-based evapotranspiration datasets and IPCC AR4 simulations

    Brigitte Mueller;S. I. Seneviratne;C. Jimenez;T. Corti

  • The WACMOS-ET project – Part 2: Evaluation of global terrestrial evaporation data sets

    Diego Miralles;Diego Miralles;C Jiménez;M Jung;D Michel

  • ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station

    Joshua B. Fisher;Brian Lee;Adam J. Purdy;Gregory H. Halverson

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • Dryland ecohydrology and climate change: critical issues and technical advances

    Lixin Wang;Lixin Wang;P. D'Odorico;J. P. Evans;D. J. Eldridge

  • Multi-site evaluation of terrestrial evaporation models using FLUXNET data

    Ali Ershadi;Matthew McCabe;Jason P. Evans;Nathaniel W. Chaney

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Response of Chlorophyll, Carotenoid and SPAD-502 Measurement to Salinity and Nutrient Stress in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

    Syed Haleem Shah;Rasmus Houborg;Matthew F. McCabe

  • Global long-term passive microwave satellite-based retrievals of vegetation optical depth

    Yi Y. Liu;Yi Y. Liu;Yi Y. Liu;Richard A. M. de Jeu;Matthew F. McCabe;Jason P. Evans

  • Closing the terrestrial water budget from satellite remote sensing

    Justin Sheffield;Craig R. Ferguson;Tara J. Troy;Eric F. Wood

  • Estimating land surface evaporation: a review of methods using remotely sensed surface temperature data | NOVA. The University of Newcastle's Digital Repository

    Jetse D. Kalma;Tim R. McVicar;Matthew F. McCabe

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason P. Evans
Jason P. Evans University of New South Wales
Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University
Rasmus Houborg
Rasmus Houborg South Dakota State University
Lixin Wang
Lixin Wang Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Diego G. Miralles
Diego G. Miralles Ghent University
Ahmed El Kenawy
Ahmed El Kenawy Mansoura University
Kasper Johansen
Kasper Johansen King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Albert van Dijk
Albert van Dijk Australian National University
Yi Y. Liu
Yi Y. Liu Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Joshua B. Fisher
Joshua B. Fisher Chapman University

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