Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gerardo Arturo Sánchez-Azofeifa is a full professor at the University of Alberta, the director of the university's Center for Earth Observation Sciences, and the director of Tropi-Dry, a research group focusing on land use/policy studies in tropical dry regions of the Americas. His research is related to the study of impacts of land use/cover change on biodiversity loss and habitat fragmentation in tropical dry forest environments.
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa's Published Works
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Published Works
- Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests (2016) (709)
- Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics (2016) (402)
- Countryside Biogeography of Neotropical Mammals: Conservation Opportunities in Agricultural Landscapes of Costa Rica (2003) (381)
- Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests (2019) (254)
- Intra- and inter-class spectral variability of tropical tree species at La Selva, Costa Rica: Implications for species identification using HYDICE imagery (2006) (205)
- Using phenocams to monitor our changing Earth: toward a global phenocam network (2016) (182)
- Deforestation and forest restoration in Guanacaste, Costa Rica: Putting conservation policies in context (2009) (158)
- ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station (2015) (151)
- Continuous wavelets for the improved use of spectral libraries and hyperspectral data (2008) (134)
- Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time (2019) (103)
- Deriving leaf mass per area (LMA) from foliar reflectance across a variety of plant species using continuous wavelet analysis (2014) (98)
- PAPER FOR NBER S.I. ON ONE OF THE TWO POLICIES FOR WHICH RESULTS WILL BE PRESENTED (THE OTHER IS PARKS, ALSO COSTA RICAN: IMPACTS IN AND OUTSIDE OF PARKS’ BOUNDARIES) Payments for Environmental Services: empirical analysis for Costa Rica (2007) (98)
- Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests (2018) (97)
- The role of tropical dry forests for biodiversity, carbon and water conservation in the neotropics: lessons learned and opportunities for its sustainable management (2015) (83)
- Predicting leaf gravimetric water content from foliar reflectance across a range of plant species using continuous wavelet analysis. (2012) (83)
- Relationships between endophyte diversity and leaf optical properties (2012) (82)
- Ecological Applications of Remote Sensing at Multiple Scales (2007) (74)
- Inferring sedimentary chlorophyll concentrations with reflectance spectroscopy: a novel approach to reconstructing historical changes in the trophic status of mountain lakes (2005) (65)
- Spectral unmixing of normalized reflectance data for the deconvolution of lichen and rock mixtures (2005) (65)
- Successional and Seasonal Changes in a Community of Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) in a Brazilian Tropical Dry Forest (2010) (64)
- Spectral properties of foliose and crustose lichens based on laboratory experiments (2002) (59)
- Tropical dry forests in the Americas: ecology, conservation, and management. (2013) (57)
- On Line Validation Exercise (OLIVE): A Web Based Service for the Validation of Medium Resolution Land Products. Application to FAPAR Products (2014) (57)
- Aboveground biomass density models for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission (2022) (57)
- Tree Species Composition, Breeding Systems, and Pollination and Dispersal Syndromes in Three Forest Successional Stages in a Tropical Dry Forest in Mesoamerica (2015) (52)
- Gall inducing arthropods from a seasonally dry tropical forest in Serra do Cipó, Brazil (2009) (50)
- Estimating Forest Biomass Dynamics by Integrating Multi-Temporal Landsat Satellite Images with Ground and Airborne LiDAR Data in the Coal Valley Mine, Alberta, Canada (2015) (45)
- Patterns of Leaf Biochemical and Structural Properties of Cerrado Life Forms: Implications for Remote Sensing (2015) (43)
- Tropical Dry Forest Diversity, Climatic Response, and Resilience in a Changing Climate (2019) (42)
- Species Classification of Tropical Tree Leaf Reflectance and Dependence on Selection of Spectral Bands (2008) (42)
- Contribution of lianas to plant area index and canopy structure in a Panamanian forest. (2016) (41)
- Progress and opportunities for monitoring greenhouse gases fluxes in Mexican ecosystems: the MexFlux network (2013) (41)
- Radiometric calibration assessments for UAS-borne multispectral cameras: Laboratory and field protocols (2019) (40)
- Classification of tree species based on longwave hyperspectral data from leaves, a case study for a tropical dry forest (2018) (39)
- Twenty‐first century remote sensing technologies are revolutionizing the study of tropical forests (2017) (37)
- LIDAR remote sensing for secondary Tropical Dry Forest identification (2012) (36)
- Litterfall dynamics along a successional gradient in a Brazilian tropical dry forest (2019) (35)
- Brazilian Tropical Dry Forest on Basalt and Limestone Outcrops: Status of Knowledge and Perspectives (2013) (33)
- A relict species restricted to a quartzitic mountain in tropical America: an example of microrefugium? (2015) (33)
- Mapping tropical dry forest succession using multiple criteria spectral mixture analysis (2015) (29)
- Phenological Patterns of Tropical Dry Forests along Latitudinal and Successional Gradients in the Neotropics (2013) (28)
- Assessing the accuracy of detected breaks in Landsat time series as predictors of small scale deforestation in tropical dry forests of Mexico and Costa Rica (2019) (28)
- Assessing ecosystem services in Neotropical dry forests: a systematic review (2016) (28)
- Responses of Great Horned Owls (Bubo virginianus), Barred Owls (Strix varia), and Northern Saw-whet Owls (Aegolius acadicus) to forest cover and configuration in an agricultural landscape in Alberta, Canada (2008) (25)
- The longwave infrared (3–14μm) spectral properties of rock encrusting lichens based on laboratory spectra and airborne SEBASS imagery (2013) (25)
- Tropical Dry Forests in the Americas: The Tropi-Dry Endeavor (2013) (24)
- Hail impact on leaves and endophytes of the endemic threatened Coccoloba cereifera (Polygonaceae) (2011) (23)
- Manual of methods: human, ecological and biophysical dimensions of tropical dry forests. (2008) (23)
- Building a Regionally Connected Reserve Network in a Changing and Uncertain World (2010) (22)
- Neotropical Seasonally Dry Forests (2013) (21)
- Validation of Sentinel-2 fAPAR products using ground observations across three forest ecosystems (2019) (21)
- Floristic composition and structure of a tropical dry forest at different successional stages in the Espinhaço mountains, southeastern Brazil (2012) (21)
- Identifying tropical dry forests extent and succession via the use of machine learning techniques (2017) (21)
- Quantifying tropical dry forest succession in the Americas using CHRIS/PROBA (2014) (20)
- Using VEGNET In-Situ Monitoring LiDAR (IML) to Capture Dynamics of Plant Area Index, Structure and Phenology in Aspen Parkland Forests in Alberta, Canada (2014) (19)
- Monitoring deforestation with MODIS Active Fires in Neotropical dry forests: An analysis of local-scale assessments in Mexico, Brazil and Bolivia (2013) (19)
- Land cover dynamics in Osa Region, Costa Rica: secondary forest is here to stay (2015) (19)
- Associations between Woodland Caribou telemetry data and Landsat TM spectral reflectance (2004) (18)
- A Review of Remote Sensing of Tropical Dry Forests (2013) (18)
- Deforestation and secondary growth in Costa Rica along the path of development (2018) (17)
- Modeling seasonal surface temperature variations in secondary tropical dry forests (2017) (16)
- Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests (2021) (16)
- Tropical Dry Climates (2013) (16)
- Fuzzy power management for environmental monitoring systems in tropical regions (2014) (15)
- Capability of Spaceborne Hyperspectral EnMAP Mission for Mapping Fractional Cover for Soil Erosion Modeling (2015) (15)
- On the estimation of tree mortality and liana infestation using a deep self-encoding network (2018) (14)
- Evaluating the utility of various drought indices to monitor meteorological drought in Tropical Dry Forests (2020) (14)
- UAV-based partially sampling system for rapid NDVI mapping in the evaluation of rice nitrogen use efficiency (2021) (14)
- Integrating proximal broad-band vegetation indices and carbon fluxes to model gross primary productivity in a tropical dry forest (2018) (12)
- Assessing the Operation Parameters of a Low-altitude UAV for the Collection of NDVI Values Over a Paddy Rice Field (2020) (11)
- Simulating Deforestation in Minas Gerais, Brazil, under Changing Government Policies and Socioeconomic Conditions (2015) (11)
- Assessing the variability and uncertainty of two-flux FAPAR measurements in a conifer-dominated forest (2019) (11)
- The Edmonton-Calgary corridor: Simulating future land cover change under potential government intervention (2017) (10)
- Focus on tropical dry forest ecosystems and ecosystem services in the face of global change (2018) (9)
- Liana optical traits increase tropical forest albedo and reduce ecosystem productivity (2021) (9)
- Lianas Abundance is Positively Related with the Avian Acoustic Community in Tropical Dry Forests (2017) (9)
- Accuracy assessment on the number of flux terms needed to estimate in situ fAPAR (2020) (9)
- Spatial Estimation of the Latent Heat Flux in a Tropical Dry Forest by Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (2020) (8)
- Quantifying Changes on Forest Succession in a Dry Tropical Forest Using Angular-Hyperspectral Remote Sensing (2018) (8)
- Climate change scenarios and projected impacts for forest productivity in Guanacaste Province (Costa Rica): lessons for tropical forest regions (2020) (8)
- Biodiversity Economics: Estimating spatial interactions in deforestation decisions (2001) (7)
- Reduced ecosystem resilience quantifies fine‐scale heterogeneity in tropical forest mortality responses to drought (2021) (7)
- Soil resistance and recovery during neotropical forest succession (2022) (7)
- Integration of remote-sensing based metrics and econometric models to assess the socio-economic contributions of carbon sequestration in unmanaged tropical dry forests (2021) (7)
- Turbulence scales for eddy covariance quality control over a tropical dry forest in complex terrain (2018) (6)
- The long-wave infrared (8-12 μm) spectral features of selected rare earth element - Bearing carbonate, phosphate and silicate minerals (2019) (6)
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Rural Communities in Areas of a Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest in Serra do Cipó, Brazil (2013) (6)
- Application of image analysis for mapping of sedimentary facies in a shallow lagoon: Case study, south sound, Grand Cayman, British West Indies (2002) (5)
- A new approach to calculate Plant Area Density (PAD) using 3D ground-based lidar (2016) (5)
- Calculation of leaf area index in a Canadian boreal forest using adaptive voxelization and terrestrial LiDAR (2019) (5)
- Tropical Dry Forests in Latin America: Analyzing the History of Land Use and Present Socio-Ecological Struggles (2013) (4)
- Tropical dry forest resilience and water use efficiency: an analysis of productivity under climate change (2021) (4)
- Testing of Automated Photochemical Reflectance Index Sensors as Proxy Measurements of Light Use Efficiency in an Aspen Forest (2018) (4)
- Unmanned Aerial System and Machine Learning Techniques Help to Detect Dead Woody Components in a Tropical Dry Forest (2020) (4)
- Linkages among Ecosystem Structure, Composition and Leaf Area Index along a Tropical Dry Forest Chronosequence in Mexico (2013) (3)
- Structural effects of liana presence in secondary tropical dry forests using ground LiDAR (2015) (3)
- Poisson Surface Reconstruction from LIDAR for Buttress Root Volume Estimation (2019) (3)
- Detection and analysis of post forest fire residuals using medium and high resolution satellite imagery (2004) (3)
- Bird Assemblage Recovery in a Chronosequence of Tropical Dry Forests in Costa Rica (2020) (3)
- Cloud Cover throughout All the Paddy Rice Fields in Guangdong, China: Impacts on Sentinel 2 MSI and Landsat 8 OLI Optical Observations (2021) (3)
- Assessing the Temporal Response of Tropical Dry Forests to Meteorological Drought (2020) (3)
- Rock-type identification in a simulated underground environment using second-derivative thermal infrared reflectance spectra (2004) (2)
- Intra- and interspecific variations on plant functional traits along a successional gradient in a Brazilian tropical dry forest (2021) (2)
- Why can we detect lianas from space? (2021) (2)
- Edge Influence on Canopy Openness and Understory Microclimate in Two Neotropical Dry Forest Fragments (2013) (2)
- Hyperspectral and Full-Waveform LiDAR Improve Mapping of Tropical Dry Forest's Successional Stages (2021) (2)
- Percolation in neutral landscapes: landscape metric sensitivity to critical thresholds and a new class division index (1999) (2)
- 'Growing together': transnational policy networks and environmental policy change in Costa Rica (2015) (2)
- Financial stability in response to climate change in a northern temperate economy (2021) (1)
- The future of Southeast Asian forests and their species (2009) (1)
- Endophyte Diversity Mediates Leaf Optical Properties (2011) (1)
- Mapping Urban Land Cover Using Multiple Criteria Spectral Mixture Analysis: A Case Study in Chengdu, China (2018) (1)
- Monitoring the Water Stress of an Indoor Living Wall System Using the “Triangle Method” (2020) (1)
- Quantifying landscape pattern and fragmentation: a transect analysis approach in Alberta (2008) (1)
- Fractional Vegetation Cover Derived from UAV and Sentinel-2 Imagery as a Proxy for In Situ FAPAR in a Dense Mixed-Coniferous Forest? (2022) (1)
- Identification of spectral features in the longwave infrared (LWIR) spectra of leaves for the discrimination of tropical dry forest tree species (2021) (1)
- Evaluating the Farmland Use Intensity and Its Patterns in a Farming - Pastoral Ecotone of Northern China (2021) (1)
- Environmental Drivers of Gross Primary Productivity and Light Use Efficiency of a Temperate Spruce Forest (2023) (0)
- Drone based estimation of actual evapotranspiration over different forest types (2017) (0)
- Assessing the spatial and temporal variability of fAPAR 2-flux estimates in a temperate mixed coniferous forest (2016) (0)
- Interactive comment on “ Structural effects of liana presence in secondary tropical dry forests using ground LiDAR ” by A . Sánchez-Azofeifa et al (2016) (0)
- Real-time monitoring of water fluxes using Enviro-Net and IBM Streams® analytics (2019) (0)
- Assessment of the response of tropical dry forests to El Niño southern oscillation (2021) (0)
- How to link the Sentinl-2 FAPAR product to FAPAR ground measurements in a mixed coniferous forest considering different scales (2018) (0)
- Tropi-dry: Remote sensing and sensor network for tropical dry forest ecosystems (2013) (0)
- Calibration of Co-Located Identical PAR Sensors Using Wireless Sensor Networks and Characterization of the In Situ fPAR Variability in a Tropical Dry Forest (2022) (0)
- Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time (2019) (0)
- Estimation of above ground biomass in boreal forest using ground-based Lidar (2017) (0)
- Book review (2009) (0)
- Characterizing Transitions between Successional Stages in a Tropical Dry Forest Using LiDAR Techniques (2023) (0)
- Assessment of soil degredation in Costa Rica using hyperspectral airborne and simulated EnMAP satellite hyperspectral imagery (2015) (0)
- Relationships between endophyte diversity and leaf optical properties (2011) (0)
- Carbon Dioxide Enrichment Effects in the Spectral Signature of Lianas and Tree Species from Tropical Dry Forests (2013) (0)
- Sustainability of Costa Rica’s water supply under climate change scenarios (2022) (0)
- Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests (2018) (0)
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- Geospatial surveillance of urban influence on the green gold of federal capital of Pakistan using contemporary ordination and remote sensing-based approaches (2022) (0)
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