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Sassan Saatchi

Active 1995–2026

122
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23,295
Citations
61
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Citations

Citations per year for Sassan Saatchi1995: 1 citations1997: 4 citations1998: 4 citations1999: 1 citations2000: 5 citations2001: 1 citations2002: 6 citations2003: 4 citations2004: 8 citations2005: 6 citations2006: 2 citations2007: 26 citations2008: 36 citations2009: 70 citations2010: 65 citations2011: 81 citations2012: 132 citations2013: 158 citations2014: 242 citations2015: 224 citations2016: 249 citations2017: 231 citations2018: 325 citations2019: 394 citations2020: 439 citations2021: 399 citations2022: 400 citations2023: 342 citations2024: 361 citations2025: 163 citations2026: 14 citations1996: no citations, so this year is not shown

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,265 citing papers, 17.8% of this breakdownChina: 905 citing papers, 12.8% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 503 citing papers, 7.1% of this breakdownGermany: 438 citing papers, 6.2% of this breakdownFrance: 371 citing papers, 5.2% of this breakdownAustralia: 280 citing papers, 4% of this breakdownItaly: 278 citing papers, 3.9% of this breakdownBrazil: 265 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownNetherlands: 249 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownSpain: 207 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownCanada: 202 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 151 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Environmental Science71.1%
  • Engineering13.7%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences3.5%
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences3%
  • Immunology and Microbiology2.5%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.5%
  • Other4.7%

Topics

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture12%
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications11.1%
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques5.8%
  • Forest ecology and management5.2%
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics4.9%
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing3.5%
  • Other57.5%

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  1. Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes

    Authors: Nancy L. Harris, David A. Gibbs, Alessandro Baccini, Richard A. Birdsey, Sytze de Bruin, Mary Farina, Temilola Fatoyinbo, Matthew C. Hansen, Martin Herold, R. A. Houghton, Peter Potapov, Daniela Requena Suárez, Rosa María Román-Cuesta, Sassan Saatchi, Christy M. Slay, Svetlana Turubanova, Alexandra Tyukavina - Nature Climate Change 2021 cited by 1,153

  2. The European Space Agency BIOMASS mission: Measuring forest above-ground biomass from space

    Authors: S. Quegan, Thuy Le Toan, Jérôme Chave, Jørgen Dall, Jean‐François Exbrayat, Dinh Ho Tong Minh, Mark R. Lomas, Mauro Mariotti d’Alessandro, Philippe Paillou, Kostas Papathanassiou, F. Rocca, Sassan Saatchi, Klaus Scipal, Hank Shugart, T. Luke Smallman, Maciej J. Soja, Stefano Tebaldini, Lars M. H. Ulander, Ludovic Villard, Mathew Williams - Remote Sensing of Environment 2019 cited by 343

  3. The BIOMASS mission: Mapping global forest biomass to better understand the terrestrial carbon cycle

    Authors: Thuy Le Toan, S. Quegan, Malcolm Davidson, Heiko Balzter, P. Paillou, Kostas Papathanassiou, Stephen Plummer, F. Rocca, Sassan Saatchi, Herman H. Shugart, Lars M. H. Ulander - Remote Sensing of Environment 2011 cited by 745

  4. New global observations of the terrestrial carbon cycle from GOSAT: Patterns of plant fluorescence with gross primary productivity

    Authors: Christian Frankenberg, Joshua B. Fisher, John R. Worden, Grayson Badgley, Sassan Saatchi, Jung‐Eun Lee, Geoffrey C. Toon, A. Butz, Martin Jung, Akihiko Kuze, Tatsuya Yokota - Geophysical Research Letters 2011 cited by 1,132

  5. Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents

    Authors: Sassan Saatchi, Nancy L. Harris, Sandra Brown, M. A. Lefsky, Edward T. A. Mitchard, William Salas, Brian R. Zutta, Wolfgang Buermann, Simon L. Lewis, Stephen Hagen, Silvia Petrova, Lee White, Miles R. Silman, A. Morel - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2011 cited by 2,389

  6. Observing terrestrial ecosystems and the carbon cycle from space

    Authors: David Schimel, Ryan Pavlick, Joshua B. Fisher, Gregory P. Asner, Sassan Saatchi, Philip A. Townsend, Charles E. Miller, Christian Frankenberg, Kathy Hibbard, Peter M. Cox - Global Change Biology 2014 cited by 602

  7. Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth

    Authors: Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Sara M. Leavitt, David A. Gibbs, Nancy L. Harris, Kristine Lister, Kristina J. Anderson‐Teixeira, Russell D. Briggs, Robin L. Chazdon, Thomas W. Crowther, Peter W. Ellis, Heather P. Griscom, Valentine Herrmann, Karen D. Holl, R. A. Houghton, Cecilia Larrosa, Guy Lomax, Richard Lucas, Palle Madsen, Yadvinder Malhi, Alain Paquette, John D. Parker, Keryn I. Paul, Devin Routh, Stephen H. Roxburgh, Sassan Saatchi, Johan van den Hoogen, Wayne Walker, Charlotte Wheeler, Stephen A. Wood, Liang Xu, Bronson W. Griscom - Nature 2020 cited by 633

  8. Changes in global terrestrial live biomass over the 21st century

    Authors: Liang Xu, Sassan Saatchi, Yan Yang, Yifan Yu, Julia Pongratz, A. Anthony Bloom, K. W. Bowman, John R. Worden, Junjie Liu, Yi Yin, Grant M. Domke, Ronald E. McRoberts, Christopher W. Woodall, G.J. Nabuurs, Sergio de‐Miguel, Michael Keller, Nancy L. Harris, Sean Maxwell, David Schimel - Science Advances 2021 cited by 356

  9. 21st Century drought-related fires counteract the decline of Amazon deforestation carbon emissions

    Authors: Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Liana O. Anderson, Marisa Gesteira Fonseca, Thais M. Rosan, Laura B. Vedovato, Fabien Wagner, Camila V. J. Silva, Celso H. L. Silva, Egídio Arai, Ana Paula Aguiar, Jos Barlow, Érika Berenguer, M. N. Deeter, Lucas G. Domingues, Luciana V. Gatti, Manuel Gloor, Yadvinder Malhi, José Marengo, J. B. Miller, Oliver L. Phillips, Sassan Saatchi - Nature Communications 2018 cited by 887

  10. Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content

    Authors: Alexandra G. Konings, Sassan Saatchi, Christian Frankenberg, Michael Keller, Victor O. Leshyk, William R. L. Anderegg, Vincent Humphrey, Ashley M. Matheny, Anna T. Trugman, Lawren Sack, Elizabeth Agee, Mallory L. Barnes, Oliver Binks, Kerry Cawse‐Nicholson, Bradley Christoffersen, Dara Entekhabi, Pierre Gentine, Natan Holtzman, Gabriel G. Katul, Yanlan Liu, Marcos Longo, Jordi Martínez‐Vilalta, Nate G. McDowell, Patrick Meir, Maurizio Mencuccini, Assaad Mrad, Kimberly A. Novick, Rafael S. Oliveira, Paul Siqueira, Susan Steele‐Dunne, David R. Thompson, Yujie Wang, Richard Wehr, Jeffrey D. Wood, Xiangtao Xu, Pieter A. Zuidema - Global Change Biology 2021 cited by 212

  11. Sensitivity of L-Band SAR Backscatter to Aboveground Biomass of Global Forests

    Authors: Yifan Yu, Sassan Saatchi - Remote Sensing, Remote. Sens. 2016 cited by 168

  12. Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity

    Authors: Hedley S. Grantham, A. J. Duncan, Tom Evans, Kendall R. Jones, Hawthorne L. Beyer, Richard Schuster, Joe Walston, Justina C. Ray, John G. Robinson, Mark Callow, Tom Clements, Hugo M. Costa, Alfred DeGemmis, Paul R. Elsen, Jamison Ervin, Peter A. Franco, Elizabeth Dow Goldman, S. J. Goetz, Andrew J. Hansen, E. Hofsvang, Patrick Jantz, Stacy D. Jupiter, A Kang, Penny F. Langhammer, William F. Laurance, Susan Lieberman, M. Linkie, Yadvinder Malhi, Sean Maxwell, M. Méndez, Russell A. Mittermeier, Nicholas Murray, Hugh P. Possingham, Jeremy Radachowsky, Sassan Saatchi, C. Samper, Jacob Silverman, Aurélie Shapiro, Bernardo B. N. Strassburg, Todd O. Stevens, Emma J. Stokes, Rick S. Taylor, Tim Tear, Robert Tizard, Oscar Venter, Piero Visconti, S. Wang, James Watson - Nature Communications 2020 cited by 445

  13. Comparison of Small- and Large-Footprint Lidar Characterization of Tropical Forest Aboveground Structure and Biomass: A Case Study From Central Gabon

    Authors: Carlos Alberto Silva, Sassan Saatchi, Mariano García, Nicolas Labriere, Carine Klauberg, Antonio Ferraz, Victoria Meyer, Kathryn J. Jeffery, Katharine Abernethy, Lee J. T. White, Kaiguang Zhao, Simon L. Lewis, Andrew Todd - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens. 2018 cited by 93

  14. Lidar detection of individual tree size in tropical forests

    Authors: António Ferraz, Sassan Saatchi, Clément Mallet, Victoria Meyer - Remote Sensing of Environment 2016 cited by 223

  15. Mapping tropical forest biomass with radar and spaceborne LiDAR in Lopé National Park, Gabon: overcoming problems of high biomass and persistent cloud

    Authors: Edward T. A. Mitchard, Sassan Saatchi, Lee White, Katharine Abernethy, Kathryn J. Jeffery, Simon L. Lewis, M. Collins, M. A. Lefsky, Miguel E. Leal, Iain Woodhouse, Patrick Meir - Biogeosciences 2012 cited by 222

  16. Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration

    Authors: Xiaowei Tong, Martin Brandt, Yuemin Yue, Philippe Ciais, Martin Rudbeck Jepsen, Josep Peñuelas, Jean‐Pierre Wigneron, Xiangming Xiao, Xiao‐Peng Song, Stéphanie Horion, Kjeld Rasmussen, Sassan Saatchi, Lei Fan, Kelin Wang, Bing Zhang, Zhengchao Chen, Yuhang Wang, Xiaojun Li, Rasmus Fensholt - Nature Communications 2020 cited by 521

  17. Satellite-observed pantropical carbon dynamics

    Authors: Lei Fan, Jean‐Pierre Wigneron, Philippe Ciais, Jérôme Chave, Martin Brandt, Rasmus Fensholt, Sassan Saatchi, Ana Bastos, Amen Al‐Yaari, Koen Hufkens, Yuanwei Qin, Xiangming Xiao, Chi Chen, Ranga B. Myneni, Roberto Fernandez-Moran, Arnaud Mialon, Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández, Yann H. Kerr, Feng Tian, Josep Peñuelas - Nature Plants 2019 cited by 270

  18. Tropical forests did not recover from the strong 2015–2016 El Niño event

    Authors: Jean‐Pierre Wigneron, Lei Fan, Philippe Ciais, Ana Bastos, Martin Brandt, Jérôme Chave, Sassan Saatchi, Alessandro Baccini, Rasmus Fensholt - Science Advances 2020 cited by 241

  19. Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

    Authors: Nuno Carvalhais, Matthias Forkel, Myroslava Khomik, Jessica Bellarby, Martin Jung, Mirco Migliavacca, M. Mu, Sassan Saatchi, Maurizio Santoro, Martin Thurner, Ulrich Weber, Bernhard Ahrens, Christian Beer, Alessandro Cescatti, James T. Randerson, Markus Reichstein - Nature 2014 cited by 997

  20. The Importance of Consistent Global Forest Aboveground Biomass Product Validation

    Authors: Laura Duncanson, John Armston, Mathias Disney, Valerio Avitabile, Nicolas Barbier, Kim Calders, Sarah Carter, Jérôme Chave, Martin Herold, Thomas W. Crowther, M. J. Falkowski, James R. Kellner, Nicolas Labrière, Richard Lucas, Natasha MacBean, Ronald E. McRoberts, Victoria Meyer, Erik Næsset, Jaime Nickeson, Keryn I. Paul, Oliver L. Phillips, Maxime Réjou‐Méchain, Miguel O. Román, Stephen H. Roxburgh, Sassan Saatchi, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Klaus Scipal, Paul Siqueira, Amanda Whitehurst, M. Williams - Surveys in Geophysics 2019 cited by 203

  21. Modelling forest canopy height by integrating airborne LiDAR samples with satellite Radar and multispectral imagery

    Authors: Mariano García, Sassan Saatchi, Susan L. Ustin, Heiko Balzter - International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation 2017 cited by 107

  22. Evaluation of the Sensitivity of SMOS L-VOD to Forest Above-Ground Biomass at Global Scale

    Authors: Arnaud Mialon, Nemesio J. Rodríguez-Fernández, Maurizio Santoro, Sassan Saatchi, Stéphane Mérmoz, Emma Bousquet, Yann H. Kerr - Remote Sensing, Remote. Sens. 2020 cited by 78

  23. Greenhouse gas emissions intensity of global croplands

    Authors: Kimberly M. Carlson, James Gerber, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Mario Herrero, Graham K. MacDonald, Kate A. Brauman, Peter Havlík, Christine S. O’Connell, Justin A. Johnson, Sassan Saatchi, Paul West - Nature Climate Change 2016 cited by 724

  24. Impact of spatial variability of tropical forest structure on radar estimation of aboveground biomass

    Authors: Sassan Saatchi, Miriam E. Marlier, Robin L. Chazdon, David B. Clark, Ann E. Russell - Remote Sensing of Environment 2011 cited by 259