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Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro 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 Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 377 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro 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 Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro is affiliated with the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research emphasizes areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's primary research topics include Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Fire effects on ecosystems, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Forest ecology and management, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Frequent coauthors in their body of work include Andeise Cerqueira Dutra, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Egídio Arai, Liana O. Anderson, and Guilherme Mataveli. These collaborations have helped produce a significant number of publications across various prominent venues.

Their frequent publication outlets include Remote Sensing, Forests, Espaço e Geografia, Revista Brasileira de Cartografia, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro encompass:

  • Persistent collapse of biomass in Amazonian forest edges following deforestation leads to unaccounted carbon losses, 2020, Science Advances
  • Benchmark maps of 33 years of secondary forest age for Brazil, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Forest conservation in Indigenous territories and protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, 2023, Nature Sustainability
  • Rapid Recent Deforestation Incursion in a Vulnerable Indigenous Land in the Brazilian Amazon and Fire-Driven Emissions of Fine Particulate Aerosol Pollutants, 2020, Forests
  • Amazonian forest degradation must be incorporated into the COP26 agenda, 2021, Nature Geoscience

Best Publications

  • Cropland expansion changes deforestation dynamics in the southern Brazilian Amazon

    Douglas C. Morton;Ruth S. DeFries;Yosio E. Shimabukuro;Liana O. Anderson

  • Amazon rainforests green‐up with sunlight in dry season

    Alfredo R. Huete;Kamel Didan;Yosio E. Shimabukuro;Piyachat Ratana

  • The least-squares mixing models to generate fraction images derived from remote sensing multispectral data

    Y.E. Shimabukuro;J.A. Smith

  • Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s

    Marcia N. Macedo;Ruth S. DeFries;Douglas C. Morton;Claudia M. Stickler

  • Spatial patterns and fire response of recent Amazonian droughts

    Luiz Eduardo O. C. Aragão;Yadvinder Malhi;Rosa Maria Roman‐Cuesta;Sassan Saatchi

  • Land cover changes in the Brazilian Cerrado and Caatinga biomes from 1990 to 2010 based on a systematic remote sensing sampling approach

    René Beuchle;Rosana Cristina Grecchi;Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro;Roman Seliger

  • Interactions between rainfall, deforestation and fires during recent years in the Brazilian Amazonia

    Luiz Eduardo O.C Aragão;Yadvinder Malhi;Nicolas Barbier;Nicolas Barbier;Andre Lima

  • The Incidence of Fire in Amazonian Forests with Implications for REDD

    Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Yosio E. Shimabukuro

  • Remote Sensing of Forest Biophysical Structure Using Mixture Decomposition and Geometric Reflectance Models

    Forrest G. Hall;Yosio E. Shimabukuro;Karl F. Huemmrich

  • Amazon forest carbon dynamics predicted by profiles of canopy leaf area and light environment

    Scott C Stark;Veronika Leitold;Jin L Wu;Maria O Hunter

  • Size and frequency of natural forest disturbances and the Amazon forest carbon balance

    Fernando D.B. Espírito-Santo;Fernando D.B. Espírito-Santo;Manuel Gloor;Michael Keller;Michael Keller;Michael Keller;Yadvinder Malhi

  • Using shade fraction image segmentation to evaluate deforestation in Landsat Thematic Mapper images of the Amazon Region

    Y. E. Shimabukuro;G. T. Batista;E. M. K. Mello;J. C. Moreira

  • Analysis and optimization of the MODIS leaf area index algorithm retrievals over broadleaf forests

    N.V. Shabanov;Dong Huang;Wenze Yang;B. Tan

  • Mapping tree species in tropical seasonal semi-deciduous forests with hyperspectral and multispectral data

    Matheus Pinheiro Ferreira;Maciel Zortea;Daniel Capella Zanotta;Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro

  • Tree species classification in tropical forests using visible to shortwave infrared WorldView-3 images and texture analysis

    Matheus Pinheiro Ferreira;Matheus Pinheiro Ferreira;Fabien Hubert Wagner;Luiz E.O.C. Aragão;Luiz E.O.C. Aragão;Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro

  • Rapid assessment of annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon using MODIS data

    Douglas C. Morton;Ruth S. DeFries;Yosio E. Shimabukuro;Liana O. Anderson

  • Persistent collapse of biomass in Amazonian forest edges following deforestation leads to unaccounted carbon losses

    Celso H. L. Silva Junior;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Liana O. Anderson;Marisa G. Fonseca

  • Multi‐temporal analysis of MODIS data to classify sugarcane crop

    Alexandre Cândido Xavier;Bernardo F. T. Rudorff;Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro;Luciana Miura Sugawara Berka

  • Individual tree crown delineation in a highly diverse tropical forest using very high resolution satellite images

    Fabien Hubert Wagner;Matheus Pinheiro Ferreira;Matheus Pinheiro Ferreira;Alber Sanchez;Mayumi C.M. Hirye

  • Assessing the extent of agriculture/pasture and secondary succession forest in the Brazilian Legal Amazon using SPOT VEGETATION data

    João M.B. Carreiras;José M.C. Pereira;Manuel L. Campagnolo;Yosio E. Shimabukuro

  • Effects of climate and land‐use change scenarios on fire probability during the 21st century in the Brazilian Amazon

    Marisa Gesteira Fonseca;Lincoln Muniz Alves;Ana Paula Dutra Aguiar;Egidio Arai

  • Comparing annual MODIS and PRODES forest cover change data for advancing monitoring of Brazilian forest cover

    Matthew C. Hansen;Yosio E. Shimabukuro;Peter Potapov;Kyle Pittman

  • A sourcebook of methods and procedures for monitoring and reporting anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and removals associated with deforestation, gains and losses of carbon stocks in forests remaining forests, and forestation.: GOFC-GOLD Report version COP18-1

    Frederic Achard;Sandra Brown;Michael Brady;Ruth DeFries

Frequent Co-Authors

Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão National Institute for Space Research
Liana O. Anderson
Liana O. Anderson National Institute for Space Research
Michael Keller
Michael Keller US Forest Service
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University
Douglas C. Morton
Douglas C. Morton Goddard Space Flight Center
Sassan Saatchi
Sassan Saatchi California Institute of Technology
Frédéric Achard
Frédéric Achard Joint Research Centre
Mathew Williams
Mathew Williams University of Edinburgh
Alfredo Huete
Alfredo Huete University of Technology Sydney
Saulo R. Freitas
Saulo R. Freitas National Institute for Space Research

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