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R. Nelson

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Publications

23

Citations

2.2K

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Active since

1983

Affiliations

Goddard Space Flight Center(Current)

University of Maryland, College Park

Sigma Space (United States)

Sukachev Institute of Forest

Science Systems and Applications (United States)

R. Nelson is an author at Goddard Space Flight Center specializing in engineering, earth science, and geography.

Top concepts

EngineeringGeographyEarth ScienceRemote SensingForestryDeforestationSocial SciencesEnvironmental MonitoringLand UseBiogeography

Publications per year

1983–2018

23

Publications

23

Remote sensing of vegetation 3‐D structure for biodiversity and habitat: Review and implications for lidar and radar spaceborne missions

Kathleen M. Bergen, S. J. Goetz, Ralph Dubayah et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2009 · 338 citations · Full text

Radar Data, Earth Observation, Environmental Monitoring +17

Detecting forest canopy change due to insect activity using Landsat MSS

R. Nelson · Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing · 1983 · 253 citations

Precision Agriculture, Environmental Monitoring, Engineering +18

Photon counting LiDAR: An adaptive ground and canopy height retrieval algorithm for ICESat-2 data

Sorin Popescu, Tan Zhou, R. Nelson et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment · 2018 · 192 citations

Earth Observation, Engineering, Adaptive Ground +11

Review article: Attributes of neural networks for extracting continuous vegetation variables from optical and radar measurements

D. S. Kimes, R. Nelson, M.T. Manry et al. · International Journal of Remote Sensing · 1998 · 176 citations

Earth Observation, Precision Agriculture, Environmental Monitoring +20

Estimating Siberian timber volume using MODIS and ICESat/GLAS

R. Nelson, K.J. Ranson, Guoqing Sun et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment · 2009 · 172 citations

Climatology, Engineering, Geography +7

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