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D-Index
46
Citations
10452
World Ranking
5984
National Ranking
2167

Thomas Hilker 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 Thomas Hilker sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 96 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas Hilker 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 Thomas Hilker sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Thomas Hilker was affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their academic career was associated with this institution, where they contributed to their field through various scholarly activities. Since they are deceased, all accomplishments are referenced in the past tense.

During their career, Hilker did not have recorded recent papers or publications listed in the available data. Similarly, no frequent co-authors, publication venues, or book publications were documented for them, indicating limited publicly available bibliographic data on their collaborative and publishing footprint.

The academic profile of Hilker does not include information on main fields or subfields of study, nor specific main topics of research work. This lack of detailed topical and disciplinary data limits a comprehensive outline of their precise research focus or specialization.

No records of awards received were noted in the source dataset, which leaves this aspect of their professional recognition without public documentation.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • The role of LiDAR in sustainable forest management

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

  • Vegetation dynamics and rainfall sensitivity of the Amazon

    Thomas Hilker;Alexei I. Lyapustin;Compton J. Tucker;Forrest G. Hall;Forrest G. Hall

  • The use of remote sensing in light use efficiency based models of gross primary production: a review of current status and future requirements.

    Thomas Hilker;Nicholas C. Coops;Michael A. Wulder;T. Andrew Black

  • Satellite observed widespread decline in Mongolian grasslands largely due to overgrazing

    Thomas Hilker;Enkhjargal Natsagdorj;Richard H. Waring;Alexei Lyapustin

  • Generation of dense time series synthetic Landsat data through data blending with MODIS using a spatial and temporal adaptive reflectance fusion model.

    Thomas Hilker;Michael A. Wulder;Nicholas C. Coops;Nicole Seitz

  • Multi-angle implementation of atmospheric correction for MODIS (MAIAC): 3. Atmospheric correction

    Alexei I. Lyapustin;Yujie Wang;Yujie Wang;Istvan Laszlo;Thomas Hilker

  • Fusing Landsat and MODIS Data for Vegetation Monitoring

    Feng Gao;Thomas Hilker;Xiaolin Zhu;Martha Anderson

  • Virtual constellations for global terrestrial monitoring

    Michael A. Wulder;Thomas Hilker;Joanne C. White;Nicholas C. Coops

  • Scientific Impact of MODIS C5 Calibration Degradation and C6+ Improvements

    A. Lyapustin;Yujie Wang;X. Xiong;G. Meister

  • Multi-angle remote sensing of forest light use efficiency by observing PRI variation with canopy shadow fraction

    Forrest G Hall;Thomas Hilker;Nicholas C Coops;Alexei Lyapustin

  • Comparing canopy metrics derived from terrestrial and airborne laser scanning in a Douglas-fir dominated forest stand

    Thomas Hilker;Martin van Leeuwen;Nicholas C. Coops;Michael A. Wulder

  • Separating physiologically and directionally induced changes in PRI using BRDF models

    Thomas Hilker;Nicholas C. Coops;Forrest G. Hall;T. Andrew Black

  • Assessing tower flux footprint climatology and scaling between remotely sensed and eddy covariance measurements.

    Baozhang Chen;T. Andrew Black;Nicholas C. Coops;Thomas Hilker

  • Improved classification of conservation tillage adoption using high temporal and synthetic satellite imagery

    Jennifer D. Watts;Scott L. Powell;Rick L. Lawrence;Thomas Hilker

  • Remote sensing of tropical ecosystems: Atmospheric correction and cloud masking matter

    Thomas Hilker;Thomas Hilker;Thomas Hilker;Alexei I. Lyapustin;Compton J. Tucker;Piers J. Sellers

  • Integrating Landsat pixel composites and change metrics with lidar plots to predictively map forest structure and aboveground biomass in Saskatchewan, Canada

    Harold S.J. Zald;Michael A. Wulder;Joanne C. White;Thomas Hilker

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas C. Coops
Nicholas C. Coops University of British Columbia
Michael A. Wulder
Michael A. Wulder Natural Resources Canada
Alexei Lyapustin
Alexei Lyapustin Goddard Space Flight Center
Yujie Wang
Yujie Wang University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Joanne C. White
Joanne C. White Natural Resources Canada
Glenn Newnham
Glenn Newnham Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Piers J. Sellers
Piers J. Sellers Goddard Space Flight Center
Darius S. Culvenor
Darius S. Culvenor Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Zoran Nesic
Zoran Nesic University of British Columbia
Elizabeth M. Middleton
Elizabeth M. Middleton Goddard Space Flight Center

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