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John Townshend

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72

Publications

17.7K

Citations

51

H-Index

1978

Active since

Affiliations

University of Maryland, College Park(Current)

Goddard Space Flight Center

University of Reading

Chinese Academy of Sciences

John Townshend is an author at University of Maryland, College Park specializing in geography, engineering, and remote sensing.

Top concepts

GeographyEngineeringRemote SensingSocial SciencesEarth ScienceLand UseForestryDeforestationSynthetic Aperture RadarEnvironmental Monitoring

Publications per year

1978–2021

72

Publications

72

Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems

Nick M. Haddad, Lars A. Brudvig, Jean Clobert et al. · Science Advances · 2015 · 4.3K citations · Full text

Biodiversity Loss, Biodiversity, Engineering +14

Global land change from 1982 to 2016

Xiao‐Peng Song, Matthew C. Hansen, Stephen V. Stehman et al. · Nature · 2018 · 1.8K citations · Full text

Global Change Impact, Engineering, Land Development +9

African Land-Cover Classification Using Satellite Data

Compton J. Tucker, John Townshend, Thomas Goff · Science · 1985 · 1.1K citations

Precision Agriculture, Engineering, Land Use +19

Global, 30-m resolution continuous fields of tree cover: Landsat-based rescaling of MODIS vegetation continuous fields with lidar-based estimates of error

Xiao‐Peng Song, Min Feng, Praveen Noojipady et al. · International Journal of Digital Earth · 2013 · 824 citations · Full text

Precision Agriculture, Engineering, Forest Biometrics +20

Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation and regrowth based on satellite observations for the 1980s and 1990s

Ruth DeFries, R. A. Houghton, Matthew C. Hansen et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2002 · 718 citations · Full text

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