Paul Curran
British geographer, President of City University London
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir Paul James Curran was president of City, University of London between August 2010 and June 2021. Sir Paul is now professor emeritus. Following a period of significant progress, City joined the University of London Federation in September 2016. He served previously as vice-chancellor of Bournemouth University and deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Southampton, where he is currently a visiting professor. As a member of the senior management team at Southampton, progressing from head of geography to dean of science, Curran was credited with high-profile leadership as head of the Winchester School of Art, part of the University of Southampton.
Paul Curran 's Published Works
Published Works
- Remote sensing of foliar chemistry (1989) (1342)
- The MERIS terrestrial chlorophyll index (2004) (796)
- Exploring the relationship between reflectance red edge and chlorophyll content in slash pine. (1990) (544)
- The semivariogram in remote sensing: An introduction (1988) (517)
- Estimating the foliar biochemical concentration of leaves with reflectance spectrometry: Testing the Kokaly and Clark methodologies (2001) (468)
- A new technique for interpolating the reflectance red edge position (1998) (418)
- Principles of remote sensing (1984) (401)
- LIBERTY—Modeling the Effects of Leaf Biochemical Concentration on Reflectance Spectra (1998) (351)
- Reflectance spectroscopy of fresh whole leaves for the estimation of chemical concentration (1992) (286)
- Geostatistics and remote sensing (1998) (254)
- Multispectral remote sensing of vegetation amount (1980) (251)
- Area, shape and isolation of tropical forest fragments: effects on tree species diversity and implications for conservation (2003) (246)
- The effect of a red leaf pigment on the relationship between red edge and chlorophyll concentration (1991) (236)
- Multispectral remote sensing for the estimation of green leaf area index (1983) (232)
- Dynamics of Canopy Structure and Light Interception in Pinus Elliottii Stands, North Florida (1991) (225)
- Identifying terrestrial carbon sinks: Classification of successional stages in regenerating tropical forest from Landsat TM data (1996) (221)
- The Relationship Between Suspended Sediment Concentration and Remotely Sensed Spectral Radiance: A Review (1988) (213)
- The integration of spectral and textural information using neural networks for land cover mapping in the Mediterranean (2000) (213)
- Exploring the relationship between reflectance red edge and chlorophyll concentration in slash pine leaves. (1995) (212)
- Seasonal LAI in slash pine estimated with landsat TM (1992) (199)
- Estimating Canopy Chlorophyll Concentration from Field and Airborne Spectra (1999) (188)
- The importance of measurement error for certain procedures in remote sensing at optical wavelengths (1986) (181)
- Non-linear mixture modelling without end-members using an artificial neural network (1997) (172)
- Estimation of signal-to-noise: a new procedure applied to AVIRIS data (1989) (163)
- Fine Spatial Resolution Simulated Satellite Sensor Imagery for Land Cover Mapping in the United Kingdom (1999) (162)
- Choosing an appropriate spatial resolution for remote sensing investigations (1997) (158)
- Evaluation of the MERIS terrestrial chlorophyll index (2004) (158)
- The Propagation of Foliar Biochemical Absorption Features in Forest Canopy Reflectance (1999) (148)
- Technical Note Grass chlorophyll and the reflectance red edge (1996) (133)
- Relating SAR image texture to the biomass of regenerating tropical forests (2005) (133)
- Forest regeneration on abandoned clearances in central Amazonia (2002) (131)
- Simple size for ground and remotely sensed data (1986) (126)
- Factors affecting the remotely sensed response of coniferous forest plantations (1993) (125)
- Remote sensing using partially polarized light (1986) (123)
- The effect of sediment type on the relationship between reflectance and suspended sediment concentration (1989) (122)
- Imaging spectrometry (1994) (122)
- Mapping the regional extent of tropical forest regeneration stages in the Brazilian Legal Amazon using NOAA AVHRR data (2000) (121)
- Factors influencing the amount and distribution of leaf area of pine stands (1994) (120)
- Scaling-up : from cell to landscape (1997) (115)
- Defining an optimal size of support for remote sensing investigations (1995) (112)
- Estimation of tropical forest extent and regenerative stage using remotely sensed data (1994) (112)
- Characterizing tropical secondary forests using multi-temporal Landsat sensor imagery (1993) (112)
- Fine spatial resolution satellite sensors for the next decade (1997) (110)
- Corrections To "remote Sensing The Biochemical Composition Of A Slash Pine Canopy" (1997) (110)
- The effect of sampling on the species-area curve (1994) (108)
- Texture classification of Mediterranean land cover (2007) (107)
- The accuracy of ground data used in remote-sensing investigations (1985) (104)
- The relationship between red edge and chlorophyll concentration in the Broadbalk winter wheat experiment at Rothamsted (1994) (104)
- Environmental Remote Sensing From Regional to Global Scales (1995) (104)
- Species composition in fragmented forests: Conservation implications of changing forest area (2001) (101)
- Monitoring urban growth on the European side of the Istanbul metropolitan area: A case study (2003) (95)
- Forest ecosystem chlorophyll content: Implications for remotely sensed estimates of net primary productivity (2003) (92)
- An assessment of radiance in Landsat TM middle and thermal infrared wavebands for the detection of tropical forest regeneration (1996) (92)
- A comparison of texture measures for the per-field classification of Mediterranean land cover (2004) (92)
- Linking remote sensing, land cover and disease. (2000) (87)
- The relationship between the biomass of Cameroonian tropical forests and radiation reflected in middle infrared wavelengths (3.0-5.0 mu m) (1999) (86)
- Derivative Reflectance Spectroscopy to Estimate Suspended Sediment Concentration (1992) (86)
- The effect of viewing geometry and wavelength on the relationship between reflectance and suspended sediment concentration (1989) (86)
- Cokriging with ground-based radiometry (1992) (81)
- The relationship between ERS-2 SAR backscatter and soil moisture: Generalization from a humid to semi-arid transect (2000) (80)
- Cokriging with airborne MSS imagery (1994) (76)
- Spatial correlation in reflected radiation from the ground and its implications for sampling and mapping by ground-based radiometry (1989) (74)
- Observations on the relationship between SIR-C radar backscatter and the biomass of regenerating tropical forests (1997) (66)
- Multispectral remote sensing of nearshore suspended sediments: a pilot study (1987) (65)
- Integrating spatial statistics and remote sensing (1998) (65)
- The biochemical decomposition of slash pine needles from reflectance spectra using neural networks (1998) (65)
- MERIS: the re‐branding of an ocean sensor (2005) (60)
- Use of Semivariograms to Identify Earthquake Damage in an Urban Area (2007) (58)
- Land cover classification using multi‐temporal MERIS vegetation indices (2007) (57)
- Per-field classification: an example using SPOT HRV imagery (1991) (56)
- JERS-1/SAR backscatter and its relationship with biomass of regenerating forests (2000) (56)
- MERIS potential for land applications (1999) (55)
- The form of the relationship between suspended sediment concentration and spectral reflectance: its implications for the use of Daedalus 1268 data (1991) (54)
- Estimating the stem carbon production of a coniferous forest using an ecosystem simulation model driven by the remotely sensed red edge (2000) (53)
- A photographic method for the recording of polarised visible light for soil surface moisture indications (1978) (53)
- An evaluation of fuzzy and texture-based classification approaches for mapping regenerating tropical forest classes from Landsat-TM data (1995) (51)
- Biochemical and reflectance variation throughout a Sitka spruce canopy (2002) (50)
- Imaging spectrometry for ecological applications (2001) (50)
- Phenology of vegetation in Southern England from Envisat MERIS terrestrial chlorophyll index (MTCI) data (2011) (45)
- The relationships between the chlorophyll concentration, LAI and reflectance of a simple vegetation canopy (1983) (45)
- Decoupling effects of the canopy and foliar biochemicals in AVIRIS spectra (1995) (44)
- Issues of scale and optimal pixel size (1999) (43)
- Validating the MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index (MTCI) with ground chlorophyll content data at MERIS spatial resolution (2010) (42)
- Polarized visible light as an aid to vegetation classification (1982) (42)
- Remote sensing: Using the spatial domain (2001) (41)
- Using remote sensing to reduce uncertainties in the global carbon budget: The potential of radiation acquired in middle infrared wavelengths (1998) (41)
- Assessing the ground data requirements for regional scale remote sensing of tropical forest biophysical properties (2000) (39)
- Use of middle infrared radiation to estimate the leaf area index of a boreal forest. (2000) (39)
- Relations between tropical forest biophysical properties and data acquired in AVHRR channels 1–5 (1996) (38)
- Mapping tropical forest fractional cover from coarse spatial resolution remote sensing imagery (1997) (37)
- The relationship between polarized visible light and vegetation amount (1981) (37)
- Multi‐temporal airborne synthetic aperture radar data for crop classification (1989) (36)
- Forest ecosystem simulation modelling: the role of remote sensing (1999) (36)
- Fragment shape and tree species composition in tropical forests: a landscape level investigation (2005) (35)
- Modelling the current and future spatial distribution of NPP in a Mediterranean watershed (2011) (35)
- Post‐earthquake building collapse: a comparison of government statistics and estimates derived from SPOT HRVIR data (2005) (34)
- Satellite oceanography. An introduction for oceanographers and remote sensing scientists, I. S. Robinson, Ellis Horwood Ltd., 1985. Price: £42.50 (1985) (34)
- The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) required for the estimation of foliar biochemical concentrations (1996) (33)
- Airborne MSS data to estimate GLAI (1987) (33)
- The use of polarized panchromatic and false-color infrared film in the monitoring of soil surface moisture (1979) (31)
- Remote Sensing of Soils and Vegetation in the USSR (1990) (30)
- Aerial photography for the assessment of crop condition: a review (1985) (29)
- Relative reflectance data from preprocessed multispectral photography (1980) (29)
- The estimation of green-leaf-area index from remotely sensed airborne multispectral scanner data (1984) (28)
- Utilizing image texture to detect land-cover change in Mediterranean coastal wetlands (2010) (28)
- Polygon-based aggregation of remotely sensed data for regional ecological analyses (2002) (28)
- Characterizing tropical forest regeneration in Cameroon using NOAA AVHRR data (2000) (28)
- Methodologies and Uncertainties in the Use of the Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index for the Sentinel-3 Mission (2012) (25)
- Relationship between green leaf biomass volumetric density and ERS-2 SAR backscatter of four vegetation formations in the semi-arid zone of Israel (2001) (25)
- Indian Ocean tsunami: The use of MERIS (MTCI) data to infer salt stress in coastal vegetation (2007) (24)
- Estimation of the Areal Extent of Land Cover Classes that Only Occur at a Sub-Pixel Level (1996) (23)
- SPOT HRV data to discriminate grassland quality (1990) (22)
- Evaluation of Envisat MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index-Based Models for the Estimation of Terrestrial Gross Primary Productivity (2012) (21)
- Global composites of the MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index (2007) (20)
- Selecting a spatial resolution for estimation of per-field green leaf area index (1988) (20)
- The relation between reflected radiation and yield on the Broadbalk winter wheat experiment (1990) (20)
- Merging spectral and textural information for classifying remotely sensed images (2004) (19)
- Review Article Remote sensing methodologies and geography (1987) (19)
- Imaging Spectrqmetry - Its Present And Future RÔLe In Environmental Research (1994) (18)
- Relationship between herbicide concentration during the 1960s and 1970s and the contemporary MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index (MTCI) for southern Vietnam (2006) (18)
- Sampling remotely sensed imagery for storage, retrieval and reconstruction (1990) (18)
- The Estimation of Foliar Biochemical Content of a Slash Pine Canopy from AVIRIS Imagery (1995) (17)
- Assessing Leaf Area and Canopy Biochemistry of Florida Pine Plantations Using Remote Sensing (1997) (16)
- Problems with using models to predict regional crop production. (1997) (16)
- MTCI: THE MERIS TERRESTRIAL CHLOROPHYLL INDEX (2003) (15)
- Crop Classification With Multi-temporal X-band Sar Data (1988) (15)
- Tackling large-scale problems by scaling-up (1997) (14)
- Estimating the green leaf area index of grassland with airborne multispectral scanner data (1987) (13)
- Scaling-Up@@@Scaling-Up: From Cell to Landscape (1999) (13)
- Relating SAR image texture and backscatter to tropical forest biomass (2003) (11)
- Estimating terrestrial gross primary productivity with the Envisat Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index (MTCI) (2010) (10)
- Relationship between the meris vegetation indices and crop yield for the state of South Dakota, USA (2007) (10)
- Coupling remotely sensed data to an ecosystem simulation model - an example involving a coniferous plantation in upland Wales (1996) (10)
- Temporal analysis of JERS-1/SAR images over regenerating forests in Brazilian Amazonia (1999) (10)
- MTCI: a new MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index (2004) (10)
- Remote sensing: the use of polarized visible light (PVL) to estimate surface soil moisture (1981) (9)
- Land-Cover Mapping from Synthetic Aperture Radar: The Importance of Radiometric Correction (1986) (9)
- The estimation of the surface moisture of a vegetated soil using aerial infrared photography (1981) (9)
- Flipping forests: Estimating future carbon sequestration of the boreal forest using remotely sensed data (2003) (8)
- AVIRIS spectra correlated with the chlorophyll concentration of a forest canopy (1993) (8)
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture: An Introductory Review (1987) (8)
- Remote sensing of terrestrial chlorophyll content (2009) (8)
- ERS-2 SAR soil moisture and herbaceous biomass monitoring across a semi-arid transect in Israel (1998) (8)
- The science of scaling: a perspective on future challenges. (1997) (7)
- Remote sensing terminology (1983) (7)
- Radiometric leaf area index (1988) (7)
- The science of scaling: a perspective on future challenges. (1997) (7)
- The use of geostatistical methods to identify severe earthquake damage in an urban area (2007) (7)
- Signal-to-noise ratio for MTCI and NDVI time series data (2008) (7)
- The effect of specular reflectance on the relationship between reflectance and vegetation amount (1992) (6)
- Exploring the remote sensing of foliar biochemical concentrations with AVIRIS data (1992) (6)
- The form of the relationship between suspended sediment concentration and reflectance (1990) (6)
- A comparison between two photographic methods for the determination of relative bidirectional reflectance (1981) (5)
- A comparison of two phenological variables derived from vegetation NDVI and MERIS MTCI: A feasibility study in the context of global monitoring for environment and security (GMES) (2008) (4)
- The application of Gower's maximal predictive classification to vegetation data (1981) (4)
- Zones of information in the AVIRIS spectra (1988) (4)
- Displaying earthquake damage in an urban area using a vegetation – impervious – soil model and remotely sensed data (2004) (4)
- Landsat MSS Imagery to Estimate Residential Heat-Load Density (1987) (4)
- A Review of: “Statistical Methods in Soil and Land Resource Survey” (1993) (3)
- Causal correlation of foliar biochemical concentrations with AVIRIS spectra using forced entry linear regression (1995) (3)
- Specular and anisotropic reflectance effects on the relationship between remotely sensed data and wheat canopy chlorophyll concentration. (2000) (3)
- The effect of signal noise on the remote sensing of Foliar biochemical concentration (1993) (3)
- Investigating the factors affecting the relationship between the Envisat MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index and chlorophyll content: preliminary findings (2007) (3)
- An image recorded by the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) (1990) (3)
- Estimating texture independently of tone in simulated images of forest canopies (2003) (3)
- A polar platform for the remote sensing needs of ecology and agriculture A view from the U.K. (1987) (3)
- The response of UK vegetation to elevated temperatures in 2006: coupling envisat MERIS terrestrial chlorophyll index (MTCI) and mean air temperature, (2007) (3)
- The mystery of the missing carbon (1996) (2)
- Utilising texture measures in an artificial neural network for the per-field classification of agricultural land cover in the Mediterranean. (2000) (2)
- Estimating the signal-to-noise ratio of AVIRIS data (1988) (2)
- The effect of spatial resolution on the maximum detectable shift in the red edge position of plant reflectance (1998) (2)
- Estimating biophysical properties of tropical forests using radiation reflected in middle infrared wavelengths (3.0-5.0 /spl mu/m) (1998) (2)
- Identifying missing field boundaries to increase the accuracy of per-field classification of fine spatial resolution satellite sensor imagery (1988) (2)
- The effect of mixing overstory and understory grassland spectra on vegetation indices explored using a combined leaf and canopy model (2001) (2)
- Remote sensing in secondary school geography: the place of Landsat MSS (1985) (2)
- Developing a Radiometric Leaf Area Index (1988) (2)
- Weather in Mauritius (1988) (1)
- [Report on] Algorithm theoretical basis document: chlorophyll index (2004) (1)
- Phenological Trends of Vegetation in Southern England from Envisat MERIS Terrestrial Chlorphyll Index (MTCI) Data (2010) (1)
- Satellite Systems: Principles and technologies, Bruno Pattan, Van Nostrand Reinhold (New York), 1993, No. of Pages: x + 406. Price: £58.00. ISBN 0–442–01357–4 (1995) (1)
- Multi-scale analysis and validation of the Envisat MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index (MTCI) in woodland (2008) (1)
- The use of satellite data in rainfall monitoring. E. C. Barrett and W. M. Martin, Academic Press, London, 1981. No. of pages: 340. Price: £27.80 (1982) (1)
- Remote sensing and geostatistics (1998) (1)
- Not to be Overlooked (1991) (1)
- RSS 95, remote sensing in action : proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Remote Sensing Society, 11-14 September 1995 [University of Southampton] (1995) (1)
- Predicting potential Lyme disease risk in the New Forest, UK (2003) (1)
- The relationship between the meris terrestrial chlorophyll index and chlorophyll content (2007) (1)
- Spatial autocorrelation: Odland, J. London: Sage, 1988. 88 pp. £14.95 hardback; £7.95 paperback (1989) (1)
- The biosphere: a decadal vision (2003) (1)
- Remote sensing for chemical monitoring (1996) (1)
- Cover SAR image of the Thames valley (1985) (1)
- Imaging spectrometry for the study of vegetation canopies (2001) (1)
- Using the spectral properties of fine spatial resolution satelite sensor imagery for national alnd cover and land use mapping (1997) (1)
- A review of: “The Role of Terrestrial Vegetation the Global Carbon Cycle: Measurements by Remote Sensing”. By G. M. WOODWELL (Chichester and New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1984.) [Pp. 245.] Price £27·50. (1985) (0)
- Optimal multi-variable sampling schemes for remote sensing investigations. (1989) (0)
- Integrating fine spatial resolution satelite sensor imagery and digital vector data for per-field cover mapping (1997) (0)
- MTCI: A new MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index. [Contribution to ESA Earth Observation Principal Investigator Portal] (2003) (0)
- Image classification and mineral mapping with spectral unmixing applied to LANDSAT thematic mapper data (1995) (0)
- Biodiversity and conservation of tropical forest fragments: A case study of Ghana, West Africa (2009) (0)
- A review of “ Proceedings of the Third United Nations International Training Course on Remote Sensing Applications to Geological Sciences. ” Edited by P. Bankwitz and F. K. List (Berlin: Selbstuerlag Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, 1990) [ Pp. 155] (1994) (0)
- Evaluation of the performance of vegetation indices to estimate canopy chlorophyll content for change in soil backgrounds and viewing geometries (2008) (0)
- Relating texture of SAR images with biomass of regenerating tropical forests (2003) (0)
- Reflections on the scientific life and legacy of Professor Ted Milton (10 April 1954 – 8 June 2021) (2021) (0)
- Optimal sampling and estimation for image storage and retrieval. (1988) (0)
- Review of: “Recueil de Terminologie SpatialejA Glossary of Space Terms”. By Y. Taillefer. (Noordwijk, The Netherlands: ESA Scientific and Technical Publications Branch, ESA SP-1011. 1982.) [Pp. 432.] Price £17.00. (1984) (0)
- Book reviews : Barrett, E.C. and Curtis, L.F. 1982: Introduction to environmental remote sensing, second edition. London: Chapman and Hall. x + 352 pp. £25.00 cloth, £12.95 paper (1984) (0)
- Global change and remote sensing (1989) (0)
- Book reviews: Barry, R. G. and Chorley, R. J. 1971: Atmosphere, weather and climate. London: Methuen. (379 pp.) (1981) (0)
- Classification Of Land Cover From Airborne MSS Data (1992) (0)
- Progress in hyperspectral remote sensing of terrestrial chlorophyll content (2006) (0)
- The effect of the support on the precision of cokriging from remotely sensed data (1994) (0)
- THE A. I. VOEIKOV MAIN GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY, LENINGRAD, USSR (1985) (0)
- Estimating The SNR Of AVIRIS Data (1991) (0)
- Towards the development of a global land chlorophyll content map (2010) (0)
- Relation between yield and reflected radiation on the Broadbalk winter wheat experiment at Rothamsted. (1988) (0)
- Developments in remote sensing: radiometers and crop monitoring (1983) (0)
- A review of: “The British Isles: A View from Space.” D. Carter. (A collection of slides by Focal Point Audio Visual Ltd., 251 Copnor Road, Portsmouth, Hants., 1980.) Price £11·75+VAT and postage and package. (1981) (0)
- Combining fuzzy and per-parcel classification techniques to map urban land cover from fine spatial resolution satelite sensor imagery (1998) (0)
- OBLIQUE FALSE‐COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH OF FOG IN CHEDDAR GORGE (1978) (0)
- Validation Procedure for the MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index (mtci) (2006) (0)
- Remote sensing, land cover and lyme disease in the New Forest, UK (2001) (0)
- MERIS for terrestrial remote sensing (2002) (0)
- Leaf Areas And Spectral Properties Of Slash Pine (1993) (0)
- THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to signify her intention of conferring the honour of Knighthood upon the undermentioned (2015) (0)
- Book reviews: Meyer, W.B. and Turner, B.L., II, editors, 1994: Changes in land use and land cover: a global perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xi + 537 pp. £35.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 521 47085 4 (1996) (0)
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