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104
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William P. Kustas 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 William P. Kustas sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 579 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William P. Kustas 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 William P. Kustas sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 104 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2003 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

William P. Kustas is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily spans environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, focusing on various subfields such as global and planetary change, plant science, ecology, environmental engineering, and soil science.

The scientist's work emphasizes several main topics including plant water relations and carbon dynamics, remote sensing in agriculture, horticultural and viticultural research, irrigation practices and water management, hydrology and watershed management studies, urban heat island mitigation, and greenhouse technology and climate control.

William P. Kustas has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Irrigation Science
  • Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Agricultural Water Management

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Martha C. Anderson
  • Joseph G. Alfieri
  • Andrew J. McElrone
  • María Mar Alsina
  • John H. Prueger

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by William P. Kustas are:

  • Interoperability of ECOSTRESS and Landsat for mapping evapotranspiration time series at sub-field scales (2020), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • A within-season approach for detecting early growth stages in corn and soybean using high temporal and spatial resolution imagery (2020), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Data assimilation of high-resolution thermal and radar remote sensing retrievals for soil moisture monitoring in a drip-irrigated vineyard (2020), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • A decadal (2008-2017) daily evapotranspiration data set of 1 km spatial resolution and spatial completeness across the North China Plain using TSEB and data fusion (2021), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Spatial-temporal modeling of root zone soil moisture dynamics in a vineyard using machine learning and remote sensing (2022), published in Irrigation Science

William P. Kustas was awarded the Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Correcting eddy-covariance flux underestimates over a grassland

    Tracy E Twine;W. P. Kustas;J. M. Norman;D. R. Cook

  • Source approach for estimating soil and vegetation energy fluxes in observations of directional radiometric surface temperature

    J.M. Norman;W.P. Kustas;K.S. Humes

  • A Two-Source Time-Integrated Model for Estimating Surface Fluxes Using Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing

    M.C. Anderson;J.M. Norman;G.R. Diak;W.P. Kustas

  • Evaluation of soil and vegetation heat flux predictions using a simple two-source model with radiometric temperatures for partial canopy cover

    William P Kustas;John M Norman

  • Use of Landsat thermal imagery in monitoring evapotranspiration and managing water resources

    Martha C. Anderson;Richard G. Allen;Anthony Morse;William P. Kustas

  • Use of remote sensing for evapotranspiration monitoring over land surfaces

    W. P. Kustas;J. M. Norman

  • A climatological study of evapotranspiration and moisture stress across the continental United States based on thermal remote sensing: 1. Model formulation

    Martha C. Anderson;John M. Norman;John R. Mecikalski;Jason A. Otkin

  • Remote sensing in hydrology

    Thomas J. Schmugge;William P. Kustas;Jerry C. Ritchie;Thomas J. Jackson

  • A verification of the 'triangle' method for obtaining surface soil water content and energy fluxes from remote measurements of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and surface e

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  • Estimating subpixel surface temperatures and energy fluxes from the vegetation index-radiometric temperature relationship

    William P. Kustas;John M. Norman;Martha C. Anderson;Andrew N. French

  • Mapping daily evapotranspiration at field to continental scales using geostationary and polar orbiting satellite imagery

    M. C. Anderson;W. P. Kustas;J. M. Norman;C. R. Hain

  • A thermal-based remote sensing technique for routine mapping of land-surface carbon, water and energy fluxes from field to regional scales

    M.C. Anderson;J.M. Norman;W.P. Kustas;R. Houborg

  • Evaluation of Drought Indices Based on Thermal Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration over the Continental United States

    Martha C. Anderson;Christopher R. Hain;Brian Wardlow;Agustin Pimstein

  • Advances in thermal infrared remote sensing for land surface modeling

    William Kustas;Martha Anderson

  • Estimation of the soil heat flux/net radiation ratio from spectral data

    William P Kustas;Craig S.T Daughtry

  • A vegetation index based technique for spatial sharpening of thermal imagery

    Nurit Agam;William P. Kustas;Martha C. Anderson;Fuqin Li

  • Toward mapping crop progress at field scales through fusion of Landsat and MODIS imagery

    Feng Gao;Martha C. Anderson;Xiaoyang Zhang;Zhengwei Yang

  • An intercomparison of the Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL) and the Two-Source Energy Balance (TSEB) modeling schemes

    Wim J. Timmermans;William P. Kustas;Martha C. Anderson;Andrew N. French

  • A climatological study of evapotranspiration and moisture stress across the continental United States based on thermal remote sensing: 2. Surface moisture climatology

    Martha C. Anderson;John M. Norman;John R. Mecikalski;Jason A. Otkin

  • A reexamination of the crop water stress index

    Ray D. Jackson;William P. Kustas;Bhaskar J. Choudhury

  • Remote sensing of surface energy fluxes at 101‐m pixel resolutions

    J. M. Norman;M. C. Anderson;W. P. Kustas;A. N. French;A. N. French

Frequent Co-Authors

Martha C. Anderson
Martha C. Anderson Agricultural Research Service
John H. Prueger
John H. Prueger Agricultural Research Service
Lawrence E. Hipps
Lawrence E. Hipps Utah State University
Joseph G. Alfieri
Joseph G. Alfieri Agricultural Research Service
Héctor Nieto
Héctor Nieto Spanish National Research Council
John M. Norman
John M. Norman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Andrew N. French
Andrew N. French Agricultural Research Service
Christopher Hain
Christopher Hain Marshall Space Flight Center
Steven R. Evett
Steven R. Evett Agricultural Research Service
Christopher M. U. Neale
Christopher M. U. Neale University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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