Alan Belward

20.2k citations
50 papers · 10.1k · 5 hit papers · h-index 28

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Papers in

    • Remote Sensing in Agriculture 26
    • Land Use and Ecosystem Services 8
    • Fire effects on ecosystems 7
    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 7

Alan Belward

50 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Alan Belward's Hit Papers

High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes 2016 · 3.6k citations
3.6k0+9+19Years since publication10002.0k3.0k

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Alan Belward
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  • Global and Planetary Change 6.5k
  • Ecology 4.5k
  • Ecological Modeling 718
  • Environmental Engineering 2.3k
  • Atmospheric Science 2.4k
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High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes
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20163601
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GLC2000: a new approach to global land cover mapping from Earth observation data
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20051429
3
The global Landsat archive: Status, consolidation, and direction
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2015576
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The IGBP-DIS global 1km land cover data set, DISCover: First results
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1997517
5 1992424
6 2004418
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Who launched what, when and why; trends in global land-cover observation capacity from civilian earth observation satellites
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2014324
8 2004288
9 2004254
10 2000225
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The IGBP-DIS global 1-km land-cover data set DIS-Cover : A project overview
1999221
12 2013178
13 2003164
14 2019149
15 2006144
16 2005131
17 1997128
18 1994100
19 200799
20 200089

About Alan Belward

Alan Belward is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Engineering, having authored 50 papers that have together received 10.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (26 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (12 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (7 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (7 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (7 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (6 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (6.5k citations), Ecology (4.5k citations), Ecological Modeling (718 citations), Environmental Engineering (2.3k citations) and Atmospheric Science (2.4k citations). Alan Belward has collaborated with scholars based in Italy, Belgium and United States. Frequent co-authors include Jean‐François Pekel, Noel Gorelick, Andrew Cottam, Étienne Bartholomé, Thomas R. Loveland, Philippe Mayaux, Jon Olav Skøien, Steffen Fritz, Nicolas Viovy and Olivier Arinò. Their work appears in journals such as International Journal of Remote Sensing, Journal of Biogeography, Global Change Biology, Earth s Future and Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

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