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Overview

Yuri Knyazikhin is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research encompasses a range of subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Plant Science, and Aerospace Engineering.

Their work addresses several main topics such as Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement, Calibration and Measurement Techniques, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Yuri Knyazikhin has contributed to a variety of recent papers, including:

  • "Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measures" (2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Continuity between NASA MODIS Collection 6.1 and VIIRS Collection 2 land products" (2024, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • "Evaluation of the MODIS LAI/FPAR Algorithm Based on 3D-RTM Simulations: A Case Study of Grassland" (2020, Remote Sensing)
  • "Performance stability of the MODIS and VIIRS LAI algorithms inferred from analysis of long time series of products" (2021, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • "A Bibliometric Visualization Review of the MODIS LAI/FPAR Products from 1995 to 2020" (2021, Journal of Remote Sensing)

They frequently publish in the following venues:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Frontiers in Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Remote Sensing
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Yuri Knyazikhin collaborates regularly with several coauthors. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Ranga B. Myneni
  • Kai Yan
  • Jiabin Pu
  • Guangjian Yan
  • Si Gao

Best Publications

  • Global products of vegetation leaf area and fraction absorbed PAR from year one of MODIS data

    Ranga B. Myneni;S. Hoffman;Yuri Knyazikhin;J. Privette

  • The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): land remote sensing for global change research

    C.O. Justice;E. Vermote;J.R.G. Townshend;R. Defries

  • Synergistic algorithm for estimating vegetation canopy leaf area index and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation from MODIS and MISR data

    Yuri Knyazikhin;J. V. Martonchik;Ranga B. Myneni;D. J. Diner

  • Retrieval of canopy biophysical variables from bidirectional reflectance Using prior information to solve the ill-posed inverse problem

    B Combal;F Baret;M Weiss;A Trubuil

  • Validation and intercomparison of global Leaf Area Index products derived from remote sensing data

    S. Garrigues;R. Lacaze;F. Baret;J. T. Morisette

  • Hyperspectral remote sensing of foliar nitrogen content.

    Yuri Knyazikhin;Mitchell A. Schull;Pauline Stenberg;Matti Mõttus

  • Large seasonal swings in leaf area of Amazon rainforests

    Ranga B. Myneni;Wenze Yang;Wenze Yang;Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Alfredo R. Huete

  • MODIS leaf area index products: from validation to algorithm improvement

    Wenze Yang;Bin Tan;Dong Huang;M. Rautiainen

  • Estimation of vegetation canopy leaf area index and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation from atmosphere‐corrected MISR data

    Y. Knyazikhin;J. V. Martonchik;D. J. Diner;R. B. Myneni

  • Amazon forests did not green-up during the 2005 drought

    Arindam Samanta;Sangram Ganguly;Hirofumi Hashimoto;Sadashiva Devadiga

  • Inversion methods for physically‐based models

    D.S. Kimes;Y. Knyazikhin;J.L. Privette;A.A. Abuelgasim

  • Monitoring spring canopy phenology of a deciduous broadleaf forest using MODIS

    Douglas E. Ahl;Stith T. Gower;Sean N. Burrows;Nikolay V. Shabanov

  • The impact of gridding artifacts on the local spatial properties of MODIS data : Implications for validation, compositing, and band-to-band registration across resolutions

    B. Tan;C.E. Woodcock;J. Hu;P. Zhang

  • New directions in earth observing: Scientific applications of multiangle remote sensing

    David J. Diner;Gregory P. Asner;Roger Davies;Yuri Knyazikhin

  • Evaluation of the MODIS LAI algorithm at a coniferous forest site in Finland

    Yujie Wang;Curtis E Woodcock;Wolfgang Buermann;Pauline Stenberg

  • Evaluation of MODIS LAI/FPAR product Collection 6. Part 2: Validation and intercomparison

    Kai Yan;Taejin Park;Guangjian Yan;Zhao Liu

  • Multiscale analysis and validation of the MODIS LAI product: I. Uncertainty assessment

    Yuhong Tian;Yuhong Tian;Curtis E Woodcock;Yujie Wang;Jeff L Privette

  • Effect of orbital drift and sensor changes on the time series of AVHRR vegetation index data

    R.K. Kaufmann;L. Zhou;Y. Knyazikhin;V. Shabanov

  • The value of multiangle measurements for retrieving structurally and radiatively consistent properties of clouds, aerosols, and surfaces

    David J. Diner;Bobby H. Braswell;Roger Davies;Nadine Gobron

  • Analysis of interannual changes in northern vegetation activity observed in AVHRR data from 1981 to 1994

    N.V. Shabanov;Liming Zhou;Y. Knyazikhin;R.B. Myneni

  • Evaluation of MODIS LAI/FPAR Product Collection 6. Part 1: Consistency and Improvements

    Kai Yan;Taejin Park;Guangjian Yan;Chi Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ranga B. Myneni
Ranga B. Myneni Boston University
Alexander Marshak
Alexander Marshak Goddard Space Flight Center
Ramakrishna R. Nemani
Ramakrishna R. Nemani Ames Research Center
Yuhong Tian
Yuhong Tian National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Matti Mõttus
Matti Mõttus VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
John V. Martonchik
John V. Martonchik Jet Propulsion Lab
Alexei Lyapustin
Alexei Lyapustin Goddard Space Flight Center
Sassan Saatchi
Sassan Saatchi California Institute of Technology
Miina Rautiainen
Miina Rautiainen Aalto University
Pauline Stenberg
Pauline Stenberg University of Helsinki

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