2026 Thomas R. Loveland: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	63	2392	2283	961	890	154	44332

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

12531
Citations
Status and distribution of mangrove forests of the world using earth observation satellite data

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

3641
Citations
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

3221
Citations
Landsat-8: Science and Product Vision for Terrestrial Global Change Research

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

2723
Citations
Measuring phenological variability from satellite imagery

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

1925
Citations
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

1342
Citations
A review of large area monitoring of land cover change using Landsat data

Matthew C. Hansen;Thomas R. Loveland

1231
Citations
Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications

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

1055
Citations
Rural land-use trends in the conterminous United States, 1950-2000

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

991
Citations
The IGBP-DIS global 1km land cover data set, DISCover: First results

Thomas R. Loveland;A.S. Belward

840
Citations
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

839
Citations
Development of a land-cover characteristics database for the conterminous U.S.

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

831
Citations
The global Landsat archive: Status, consolidation, and direction

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

828
Citations
Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts

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744
Citations
Landsat continuity: Issues and opportunities for land cover monitoring

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

702
Citations
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

615
Citations
Web-enabled Landsat Data (WELD): Landsat ETM+ composited mosaics of the conterminous United States

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

605
Citations
Landsat: building a strong future

Thomas R. Loveland;John L. Dwyer

504
Citations
Land-use Pressure and a Transition to Forest-cover Loss in the Eastern United States

Mark A. Drummond;Thomas R. Loveland

502
Citations
A remote sensing based vegetation classification logic for global land cover analysis

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

413
Citations
Land Use and Land Cover Change

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

8
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen V. Stehman SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Curtis E. Woodcock Boston University

David P. Roy Michigan State University

Zhe Zhu University of Connecticut

Michael A. Wulder Natural Resources Canada

Warren B. Cohen Oregon State University

James E. Vogelmann United States Geological Survey

Shuguang Liu Central South University of Forestry and Technology

Jeffrey G. Masek Goddard Space Flight Center

Peter Potapov University of Maryland, College Park

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