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Publications
209
Citations
56.2K
H-Index
107
Active since
1981
Affiliations
Columbia University(Current)
University of Maryland, College Park
Goddard Space Flight Center
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
Earth Island Institute
Ruth DeFries is an author at Columbia University specializing in earth sciences, natural sciences, and natural resources.
Publications per year
1981–2024
Fire in the Earth System
David M. J. S. Bowman, Jennifer K. Balch, Paulo Artaxo et al. · Science · 2009 · 3.3K citations
Life Sciences, Earth Sciences, Ecology +17
Global fire emissions and the contribution of deforestation, savanna, forest, agricultural, and peat fires (1997–2009)
Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson, Louis Giglio et al. · Atmospheric chemistry and physics · 2010 · 3.2K citations · Full text
Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Forestry +14
Global land cover classification at 1 km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach
Matthew C. Hansen, Ruth DeFries, J. R. Townshend et al. · International Journal of Remote Sensing · 2000 · 2.3K citations
Natural Sciences, Geography, Physical Geography +17
Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Stephen R. Carpenter, Harold A. Mooney, John Agard et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 2.2K citations · Full text
Natural Sciences, Environmental Management, Environmental Sciences +16
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): land remote sensing for global change research
Chris Justice, Éric Vermote, J. R. Townshend et al. · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · 1998 · 1.6K citations
Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geography +16
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