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D-Index
101
Citations
36208
World Ranking
362
National Ranking
158

Susan L. Ustin 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 Susan L. Ustin sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 461 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Susan L. Ustin 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 Susan L. Ustin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 101 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Susan L. Ustin is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to ecology, global and planetary change, environmental engineering, atmospheric science, and plant science. Their work intersects multiple subfields, reflecting a broad engagement with environmental processes and applications.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Remote Sensing and Land Use

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Susan L. Ustin include:

  • "NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms" (2021), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation" (2022), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Current and near-term advances in Earth observation for ecological applications" (2021), published in Ecological Processes
  • "Leaf reflectance spectra capture the evolutionary history of seed plants" (2020), published in New Phytologist
  • "Vis-SWIR spectral prediction model for soil organic matter with different grouping strategies" (2020), published in CATENA

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Margarita Huesca, Xinle Zhang, Karine Adeline, Xavier Briottet, and Philip A. Townsend. These collaborations have contributed to advancing research in remote sensing and ecological applications.

Publications by Susan L. Ustin commonly appear in the following venues:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Sensors
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • New Phytologist
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

Over the course of their career, the scientist has been recognized as a Fellow by two major scientific organizations: the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2020 and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • PROSPECT+SAIL models: A review of use for vegetation characterization

    Stéphane Jacquemoud;Wout Verhoef;Frédéric Baret;Cédric Bacour

  • Mapping Chaparral in the Santa Monica Mountains Using Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Models

    D.A. Roberts;M. Gardner;R. Church;S. Ustin

  • PROSPECT-4 and 5: Advances in the leaf optical properties model separating photosynthetic pigments

    Jean Baptiste Feret;Jean Baptiste Feret;Christophe François;Gregory P. Asner;Anatoly A. Gitelson

  • Vegetation in deserts: I. A regional measure of abundance from multispectral images

    Milton O. Smith;Susan L. Ustin;John B. Adams;Alan R. Gillespie

  • Estimating leaf biochemistry using the PROSPECT leaf optical properties model

    S. Jacquemoud;S.L. Ustin;J. Verdebout;G. Schmuck

  • Retrieval of foliar information about plant pigment systems from high resolution spectroscopy

    Susan L. Ustin;Anatoly A. Gitelson;Stéphane Jacquemoud;Michael Schaepman

  • Using Imaging Spectroscopy to Study Ecosystem Processes and Properties

    Susan L. Ustin;Dar A. Roberts;John A. Gamon;Gregory P. Asner

  • Water content estimation in vegetation with MODIS reflectance data and model inversion methods

    Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada;C. A. Rueda;S. L. Ustin

  • Remote sensing of plant functional types

    Susan L. Ustin;John A. Gamon

  • Remote sensing of nitrogen and lignin in Mediterranean vegetation from AVIRIS data: Decomposing biochemical from structural signals

    Lydia Serrano;Josep Peñuelas;Susan L Ustin

  • Mapping nonnative plants using hyperspectral imagery

    Emma Underwood;Susan Ustin;Deanne DiPietro

  • Identification of invasive vegetation using hyperspectral remote sensing in the California Delta ecosystem

    Erin L. Hestir;Shruti Khanna;Margaret E. Andrew;Maria J. Santos

  • Winter rainfall interception by two mature open‐grown trees in Davis, California

    Qingfu Xiao;E. Gregory McPherson;Susan L. Ustin;Mark E. Grismer

  • Deriving water content of chaparral vegetation from AVIRIS data

    Lydia Serrano;Susan L. Ustin;Dar A. Roberts;John A. Gamon

  • Steady-state chlorophyll a fluorescence detection from canopy derivative reflectance and double-peak red-edge effects

    Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada;J. C. Pushnik;S. Z. Dobrowski;S. L. Ustin

  • Modeling airborne laser scanning data for the spatial generation of critical forest parameters in fire behavior modeling

    David Riaño;David Riaño;Erich Meier;Britta Allgöwer;Emilio Chuvieco

  • Earth system science related imaging spectroscopy — an assessment

    Michael E. Schaepman;Michael E. Schaepman;Susan L. Ustin;Antonio J. Plaza;Thomas H. Painter

  • Monitoring plant functional diversity from space

    Walter Jetz;Jeannine Cavender-Bares;Ryan Pavlick;David Schimel

  • Improving estimation of summer maize nitrogen status with red edge-based spectral vegetation indices

    Fei Li;Yuxin Miao;Guohui Feng;Fei Yuan

  • Simple reflectance indices track heat and water stress-induced changes in steady-state chlorophyll fluorescence at the canopy scale

    S. Z. Dobrowski;J. C. Pushnik;Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada;S. L. Ustin

  • Erratum: Monitoring plant functional diversity from space

    Walter Jetz;Jeannine Cavender-Bares;Ryan Pavlick;David Schimel

  • Vegetation in deserts. I - A regional measure of abundance from multispectral images. II - Environmental influences on regional abundance

    Milton O. Smith;Susan L. Ustin;John B. Adams;Alan R. Gillespie

Frequent Co-Authors

David Riaño
David Riaño Spanish National Research Council
Dar A. Roberts
Dar A. Roberts University of California, Santa Barbara
Stéphane Jacquemoud
Stéphane Jacquemoud Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada
Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada Spanish National Research Council
Gregory P. Asner
Gregory P. Asner Arizona State University
John A. Gamon
John A. Gamon University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Michael E. Schaepman
Michael E. Schaepman University of Zurich
Solomon Z. Dobrowski
Solomon Z. Dobrowski University of Montana
Philip E. Dennison
Philip E. Dennison University of Utah
Eric W. Sanderson
Eric W. Sanderson Wildlife Conservation Society

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