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D-Index
63
Citations
44332
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2392
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961

Thomas R. Loveland 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 R. Loveland sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 154 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas R. Loveland 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 R. Loveland sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 63 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Thomas R. Loveland is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on various subfields and topics related to land use, climate, and remote sensing technologies.

Their work covers several subfields of study including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Environmental Engineering

Key topics addressed in their research are:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Climate variability and models
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Thomas R. Loveland has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications, appearing frequently in journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, Global Change Biology, Land, and Remote Sensing.

Their recent papers include:

  • Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Critical land change information enhances the understanding of carbon balance in the United States, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Conterminous United States Land-Cover Change (1985-2016): New Insights from Annual Time Series, 2022, Land
  • Investigating the Effects of Land Use and Land Cover on the Relationship between Moisture and Reflectance Using Landsat Time Series, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Climate sensitivity to decadal land cover and land use change across the conterminous United States, 2020, Global and Planetary Change

Collaborations form an important aspect of Thomas R. Loveland's research. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Curtis E. Woodcock
  • Michael A. Wulder
  • Martha C. Anderson
  • David M. Johnson
  • Zhe Zhu

Best Publications

  • High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

    M.C. Hansen;P.V. Potapov;R. Moore;M. Hancher

  • Status and distribution of mangrove forests of the world using earth observation satellite data

    Chandra Giri;E. Ochieng;Larry L. Tieszen;Zhi-Liang Zhu

  • DEVELOPMENT OF A GLOBAL LAND COVER CHARACTERISTICS DATABASE AND IGBP DISCOVER FROM 1 KM AVHRR DATA

    Thomas R. Loveland;B.C. Reed;Jesslyn F. Brown;D.O. Ohlen

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

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

  • Measuring phenological variability from satellite imagery

    Bradley C. Reed;Jesslyn F. Brown;Darrel VanderZee;Thomas R. Loveland

  • 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

  • A review of large area monitoring of land cover change using Landsat data

    Matthew C. Hansen;Thomas R. Loveland

  • Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications

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

  • Rural land-use trends in the conterminous United States, 1950-2000

    Daniel G. Brown;S Kenneth M. Johnson;Thomas R. Loveland;David M. Theobald

  • The IGBP-DIS global 1km land cover data set, DISCover: First results

    Thomas R. Loveland;A.S. Belward

  • Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified by using multitemporal and multiresolution remotely sensed data

    Matthew C. Hansen;Stephen V. Stehman;Peter V. Potapov;Thomas R. Loveland

  • Development of a land-cover characteristics database for the conterminous U.S.

    Thomas R. Loveland;J.W. Merchant;D.O. Ohlen;Jesslyn F. Brown

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

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

  • 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

  • A new global 1-km dataset of percentage tree cover derived from remote sensing

    R.S. DeFries;M.C. Hansen;J.R.G. Townshend;A.C. Janetos

  • Web-enabled Landsat Data (WELD): Landsat ETM+ composited mosaics of the conterminous United States

    David P. Roy;Junchang Ju;Kristi Kline;Pasquale L. Scaramuzza

  • Landsat: building a strong future

    Thomas R. Loveland;John L. Dwyer

  • Land-use Pressure and a Transition to Forest-cover Loss in the Eastern United States

    Mark A. Drummond;Thomas R. Loveland

  • A remote sensing based vegetation classification logic for global land cover analysis

    Steven W Running;Thomas R. Loveland;Lars Lowell Pierce;Ramakrishna R. Nemani

  • Land Use and Land Cover Change

    Daniel Brown;Colin Polsky;Paul V. Bolstad;Samuel D. Brody

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen V. Stehman
Stephen V. Stehman SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Curtis E. Woodcock
Curtis E. Woodcock Boston University
David P. Roy
David P. Roy Michigan State University
Zhe Zhu
Zhe Zhu University of Connecticut
Michael A. Wulder
Michael A. Wulder Natural Resources Canada
Warren B. Cohen
Warren B. Cohen Oregon State University
James E. Vogelmann
James E. Vogelmann United States Geological Survey
Shuguang Liu
Shuguang Liu Central South University of Forestry and Technology
Jeffrey G. Masek
Jeffrey G. Masek Goddard Space Flight Center
Peter Potapov
Peter Potapov University of Maryland, College Park

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