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Michael A. Wulder

Michael A. Wulder

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Environmental Sciences
Canada
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
112
Citations
53285
World Ranking
178
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Michael A. Wulder is affiliated with Natural Resources Canada in Canada and specializes in environmental science. Their research focuses heavily on remote sensing technologies and their applications in ecological and environmental monitoring.

The main areas of study for Wulder include:

  • Environmental Science

Within this broad field, key subfields of study include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Atmospheric Science

Wulder's research interests cover a variety of topics, notably:

  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

The scientist has contributed to numerous academic publications, with prominent papers including:

  • "Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts" (2022), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Landsat 9: Empowering open science and applications through continuity" (2020), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Modelling lidar-derived estimates of forest attributes over space and time: A review of approaches and future trends" (2021), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Near Real-Time Wildfire Progression Monitoring with Sentinel-1 SAR Time Series and Deep Learning" (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Remote sensing in forestry: current challenges, considerations and directions" (2023), published in Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research

Wulder has co-authored extensively with several frequent collaborators including:

  • Joanne C. White
  • Txomin Hermosilla
  • Nicholas C. Coops
  • Piotr Tompalski
  • Curtis E. Woodcock

The scientist publishes often in leading venues, notably:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research
  • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

In addition to journal articles, Wulder has contributed to book publications, including a work titled Aboveground Woody Biomass Product Validation Good Practices Protocol, published by Ghent University in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change

    Pontus Olofsson;Giles M. Foody;Martin Herold;Stephen V. Stehman

  • Landsat-8: Science and Product Vision for Terrestrial Global Change Research

    David P. Roy;M.A. Wulder;Thomas R. Loveland;C.E. Woodcock

  • LiDAR remote sensing of forest structure

    Kevin Lim;Paul Treitz;Michael Wulder;Benoît St-Onge

  • Opening the archive: How free data has enabled the science and monitoring promise of Landsat

    Michael A. Wulder;Jeffrey G. Masek;Warren B. Cohen;Thomas R. Loveland

  • Optical remotely sensed time series data for land cover classification: A review

    Cristina Gómez;Joanne C. White;Michael A. Wulder

  • Free access to Landsat imagery.

    Curtis E. Woodcock;Richard Allen;Martha Anderson;Alan Belward

  • Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications

    Michael A. Wulder;Thomas R. Loveland;David P. Roy;Christopher J. Crawford

  • Lidar sampling for large-area forest characterization: A review

    Michael A. Wulder;Joanne C. White;Ross F. Nelson;Erik Næsset

  • Remote Sensing Technologies for Enhancing Forest Inventories: A Review

    Joanne C. White;Nicholas C. Coops;Michael A. Wulder;Mikko Vastaranta

  • The global Landsat archive: Status, consolidation, and direction

    Michael A. Wulder;Joanne C. White;Thomas R. Loveland;Curtis E. Woodcock

  • A new data fusion model for high spatial- and temporal-resolution mapping of forest disturbance based on Landsat and MODIS

    Thomas Hilker;Michael A. Wulder;Nicholas C. Coops;Julia Linke

  • Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts

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  • Landsat continuity: Issues and opportunities for land cover monitoring

    Michael A. Wulder;Joanne C. White;Samuel N. Goward;Jeffrey G. Masek

  • Object-based change detection

    Gang Chen;Geoffrey J. Hay;Luis M. T. Carvalho;Michael A. Wulder

  • Optical remote-sensing techniques for the assessment of forest inventory and biophysical parameters

    Mike Wulder

  • Local Maximum Filtering for the Extraction of Tree Locations and Basal Area from High Spatial Resolution Imagery

    Mike Wulder;Mike Wulder;K.Olaf Niemann;David G. Goodenough

  • High Spatial Resolution Remotely Sensed Data for Ecosystem Characterization

    Michael A. Wulder;Ronald J. Hall;Nicholas C. Coops;Steven E. Franklin

  • Pixel-Based Image Compositing for Large-Area Dense Time Series Applications and Science

    J. C. White;M. A. Wulder;G. W. Hobart;J. E. Luther

  • An automated object-based approach for the multiscale image segmentation of forest scenes

    Geoffrey J. Hay;Guillermo Castilla;Michael A. Wulder;Jose R. Ruiz

  • Estimating canopy structure of Douglas-fir forest stands from discrete-return LiDAR

    Nicholas C. Coops;Thomas Hilker;Michael A. Wulder;Benoît St-Onge

  • Surveying mountain pine beetle damage of forests: A review of remote sensing opportunities

    Michael A. Wulder;Caren C. Dymond;Joanne C. White;Donald G. Leckie

  • The role of LiDAR in sustainable forest management

    Michael A. Wulder;Christopher W. Bater;Nicholas C. Coops;Thomas Hilker

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas C. Coops
Nicholas C. Coops University of British Columbia
Joanne C. White
Joanne C. White Natural Resources Canada
Trisalyn A. Nelson
Trisalyn A. Nelson University of California, Santa Barbara
Txomin Hermosilla
Txomin Hermosilla Natural Resources Canada
Steven E. Franklin
Steven E. Franklin Trent University
Thomas Hilker
Thomas Hilker Oregon State University
Mikko Vastaranta
Mikko Vastaranta University of Eastern Finland
Juha Hyyppä
Juha Hyyppä Finnish Geospatial Research Institute
Markus Holopainen
Markus Holopainen University of Helsinki
Jeffrey G. Masek
Jeffrey G. Masek Goddard Space Flight Center

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