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Ramakrishna R. Nemani

Ramakrishna R. Nemani

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
98
Citations
59677
World Ranking
401
National Ranking
178

Overview

Ramakrishna R. Nemani is affiliated with Ames Research Center in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence. They have contributed significantly to the understanding of earth systems through remote sensing technologies and environmental modeling.

Nemani's research topics cover a diverse range of subjects including:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Advanced Image Fusion Techniques
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Calibration and Measurement Techniques

Their recent published papers include:

  • "NASA Global Daily Downscaled Projections, CMIP6," 2022, Scientific Data
  • "Biophysical impacts of Earth greening largely controlled by aerodynamic resistance," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measures," 2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "New generation geostationary satellite observations support seasonality in greenness of the Amazon evergreen forests," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "An Introduction to the Geostationary-NASA Earth Exchange (GeoNEX) Products: 1. Top-of-Atmosphere Reflectance and Brightness Temperature," 2020, Remote Sensing

Nemani frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Weile Wang
  • Andrew Michaelis
  • Taejin Park
  • Thomas Vandal
  • Hirofumi Hashimoto

The most common venues where Nemani publishes their work encompass:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Increased plant growth in the northern high latitudes from 1981 to 1991

    R. B. Myneni;C. D. Keeling;C. J. Tucker;G. Asrar

  • Climate-Driven Increases in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 1982 to 1999

    Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Charles D. Keeling;Hirofumi Hashimoto;Hirofumi Hashimoto;William M. Jolly

  • China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management

    Chi Chen;Taejin Park;Xuhui Wang;Shilong Piao

  • A Continuous Satellite-Derived Measure of Global Terrestrial Primary Production

    Steven W Running;Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Faith Ann Heinsch;Maosheng Zhao

  • 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

  • The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): land remote sensing for global change research

    C.O. Justice;E. Vermote;J.R.G. Townshend;R. Defries

  • Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Xuhui Wang;Taejin Park;Taejin Park;Chi Chen

  • Improvements of the MODIS terrestrial gross and net primary production global data set

    Maosheng Zhao;Faith Ann Heinsch;Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Steven W. Running

  • Estimation of global leaf area index and absorbed par using radiative transfer models

    R.B. Myneni;R. Ramakrishna;R. Nemani;S.W. Running

  • Intercomparison, interpretation, and assessment of spring phenology in North America estimated from remote sensing for 1982-2006

    Michael A. White;Kirsten M. de Beurs;Kamel Didan;David W. Inouye

  • Parameterization and Sensitivity Analysis of the BIOME–BGC Terrestrial Ecosystem Model: Net Primary Production Controls

    Michael A. White;Peter Edmond Thornton;Steven W Running;Ramakrishna R. Nemani

  • Amazon rainforests green‐up with sunlight in dry season

    Alfredo R. Huete;Kamel Didan;Yosio E. Shimabukuro;Piyachat Ratana

  • Mapping and modeling the biogeochemical cycling of turf grasses in the United States.

    Cristina Milesi;Steven W. Running;Christopher D. Elvidge;John B. Dietz

  • Global Data Sets of Vegetation Leaf Area Index (LAI)3g and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR)3g Derived from Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI3g) for the Period 1981 to 2011

    Zaichun Zhu;Jian Bi;Yaozhong Pan;Sangram Ganguly

  • Global Terrestrial Gross and Net Primary Productivity from the Earth Observing System

    Steven W Running;Peter Edmond Thornton;Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Joseph Marion Glassy

  • Estimation of regional surface resistance to evapotranspiration from NDVI and thermal-IR AVHRR data

    Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Steven W. Running

  • Evaluation of remote sensing based terrestrial productivity from MODIS using regional tower eddy flux network observations

    F.A. Heinsch;Maosheng Zhao;S.W. Running;J.S. Kimball

  • Extrapolation of synoptic meteorological data in mountainous terrain and its use for simulating forest evapotranspiration and photosynthesis

    Steven W. Running;Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Roger D. Hungerford

  • The 2007 Eastern US Spring Freeze: Increased Cold Damage in a Warming World

    Lianhong Gu;Paul J. Hanson;W. Mac Post;Dale P. Kaiser

  • Simulated impacts of historical land cover changes on global climate in northern winter

    Thomas N. Chase;Roger A. Pielke;T. G. F. Kittel;Ramakrishna R. Nemani

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven W. Running
Steven W. Running University of Montana
Ranga B. Myneni
Ranga B. Myneni Boston University
Yuri Knyazikhin
Yuri Knyazikhin Boston University
Kazuhito Ichii
Kazuhito Ichii Chiba University
Michael R. H. White
Michael R. H. White University of Manchester
Sassan Saatchi
Sassan Saatchi California Institute of Technology
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
John S. Kimball
John S. Kimball University of Montana
Govindasamy Bala
Govindasamy Bala Indian Institute of Science
Christopher D. Elvidge
Christopher D. Elvidge Colorado School of Mines

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