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Compton J. Tucker's
Selected Publications
2004
Imhoff ML, Bounoua L, DeFries R, Lawrence WT, Stutzer D, Tucker CJ, Ricketts T, "The consequences of urban land transformation on net primary productivity in the United States", Remote Sensing of Environment, 89 (4): 434-443, FEB 29 2004.
Tucker CJ, Grant DM, Dykstra JD, "NASA's global orthorectified landsat data set", Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 70 (3): 313-322, MAR 2004.
Zhou LM, Dickinson RE, Tian YH, Fang JY, Li QX, Kaufmann RK, Tucker CJ, Myneni RB, "Evidence for a significant urbanization effect on climate in China", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101 (26): 9540-9544, JUN 29 2004.
2003
Anyamba, A., C. O. Justice, C. J. Tucker, and R. Mahoney, "Seasonal to interannual variability of vegetation and fires at SAFARI 2000 sites inferred from advanced very high resolution radiometer time series data", Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 108 (D13): Art. No. 8507, 2003.
Buermann, W., B. Anderson, C. J. Tucker, R. E. Dickinson, W. Lucht, C. S. Potter, and R. B. Myneni, "Interannual covariability in Northern Hemisphere air temperatures and greenness associated with El Nino-Southern Oscillation and the Arctic Oscillation", Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 108 (D13): Art. No. 4396, 2003.
Dye, D. G., and C. J. Tucker, "Seasonality and trends of snow-cover, vegetation index, and temperature in northern Eurasia", Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (7): Art. No. 1405, 2003.
Privette, J.L., G.P. Asner, J. Conel, K.F. Huemmrich, R. Olson, A. Rango, A.F. Rahman, K. Thome and E.A. Walter-Shea (2000), The Prototype Validation Exercise (PROVE) at Jornada: Overview and Lessons Learned, Remote Sens. Environ., 74(1):1-12.
Hicke, J. A., G. P. Asner, E. S. Kasischke, N. H. F. French, J. T. Randerson, G. J. Collatz, B. J. Stocks, C. J. Tucker, S. O. Los, and C. B. Filed, "Postfire response of North American boreal forest net primary productivity analyzed with satellite observations", Global Change Biology, 9 (8), 1145-1157, 2003.
Kaufmann, R. K., L. Zhou, C. J. Tucker, D. Slayback, N. V. Shabanov, and R. B. Myneni, Reply to comment by M. Lanfredi et al. to "Variations in northern vegetation activity inferred from satellite data of vegetation index during 1981 to 1999" by L. Zhou et al., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 108 (D12): Art. No. 4347, 2003.
Kaufmann, R. K., L. Zhou, R. B. Myneni, C. J. Tucker, D. Slayback, N. V. Shabanov, and J. Pinzon, "The effect of vegetation on surface temperature: A statistical analysis of NDVI and climate data", Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (22): Art. No. 2147, 2003.
2002
Anyamba, A., K. J. Linthicum, R. Mahoney, and C. J. Tucker, "Mapping Potential Risk of Rift Valley fever outbreaks in African Savannas using Vegetation Index Time Series Data", Photogrammetic Engr. & Remote Sensing, 68, No. 2, 137-145, 2002.
Anyamba, A., C. J. Tucker, and R. Mahoney, "From El Niño to La Niña: Vegetation response patterns over East and Southern Africa during 1997-2000 period", J. Climate, 15, 3096-3103, 2002.
Bogaert J., Zhou L., Tucker C. J., Myneni R. B., and Ceulemans R., "Evidence for a persistent and extensive greening trend in Eurasia inferred from satellite vegetation index data", J. Geophys. Research-Atmospheres, 107(D11): DOI 10. 1029/2001JD001075, 2002.
Hicke J. A., Asner G. P., Randerson J. T., Tucker C. J., Los S. O., Birdsey R., Jenkins J. C., Field C., Holland E., "Satellite-derived increases in net primary productivity across North America, 1982-1998", Geophysical Research Letters, 29(10):10. 1029 2001GL013578, 2002.
Hicke J. A., Asner G. P., Randerson J. T., Tucker C. J., Los S. O., Birdsey R., Jenkins J. C., Field C., "Trends in North American net primary productivity derived from satellite observations, 1982-1998", Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 16(2):10. 1029/2001GB001550, 2002.
Lobell, D. B., Hicke J. A., Asner G. P., Field C. B., Tucker C. J., Los S. O., "Satellite estimates of productivity and light use efficiency in United States agriculture, 1982-98", Global Change Biology, 8(8):722-735, 2002.
Los, S. O., C. J. Tucker, A. Anyamba, M. Cherlet, G. J. Collatz, L. Giglio, F. G. Hall, and J. Kendall, "The Biosphere: A Global Perspective", Chapter 5, In A. K. Skidmore (Editor), Environmental Modelling with GIS and Remote Sensing, pp. 70-96, Taylor & Francis, New York, 2002.
Rogers, D. J, Myers, M. F., Tucker, C. J., Smith, P. F., White, D. J., Backenson, P. B., Eidson, M., Kramer, L. D., Baaker, B., and Hay, S., "Predicting the distribution of West Nile Fever in North America using satellite sensor data", Photogram. Eng. Remote Sens., 68:112-136, 2002.
Sabol, D. E., Gillespie, A. R., Adams, J. B., Smith, M. O., and Tucker, C. J., "Structural stage in Pacific Northwest forests estimated using simple mixing models of multispectral images", Remote Sens. Environ., 80:1-16, 2002.
Tucker, C. J., Wilson, J. M., Mahoney, R., Anyamba, A., Linthicum, K. J., and Myers, M., 2002. "Climatic and Ecological Context of Ebola Outbreaks". Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, (2002)68, N0. 2, 147-152.
2001
Anyamba, A., Tucker, C. J., Eastman, J. R, "NDVI Anomaly
Patterns over Africa during the 1997/98 ENSO Warm Event", International Journal
of Remote Sensing, 22, 1847-1859, JUL 10 2001.
Anyamba, A., Linthicum, R and Tucker, C. J., (2001) Climate-disease
connections: Rift Valley fever in Kenya. Cadernos de Saúde Pública
(Reports in Public Health), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. Vol. 17, 133-140.
Los S. O., Collatz G. J., Bounoua L., Sellers P. J., Tucker C. J., (2001) "Global interannual variations in sea surface temperature and land surface vegetation, air temperature and precipitation", Journal of Climate, 14: (7) 1535-1549.
Myneni, R. B., Dong, J., Tucker, C. J., Kaupi, P. E., Lisk, J., Kaufman, R. B., Zhou, L., Alexeyev, U. E., and M. K. Hughes "Evidence for a larger carbon sink in the woody biomass of Eurasian forests", Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 98, 14784-14789, 2001.
Pinheiro, A. C., C. J. Tucker, D. Entekhabi, J. L. Privette
and J. A. Berry (2001), "Assessing the relationship between surface temperature
and soil moisture in southern Africa", Remote Sensing and Hydrology 2000,
IAHS Publ. #267, pp 296-301.
Pimm, S. L.,. C. J. Tucker and others, 2001, "Can we defy natures
end?", Science, 293, 2207-2208.
Pinzon, J. E., Pierce, J. F., Tucker, C. J., and Brown, M. "Evaluating
coherence of natural images by smoothness membership in Besov spaces",
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 39, 1879-1889.
Steininger M.K., Tucker C.J., Townshend J.R.G., Killeen
T.J., Desch A., Bell V., Ersts P., "Tropical deforestation in the Bolivian
Amazon", 2001. Environ. Cons. 28:127-134.
Steininger M.K., Tucker C.J., Ersts P., Killeen T.J., Villegas Z.,
Hecht S.B., "Clearance and fragmentation of tropical deciduous forest
in the Tierras Bajas, Santa Cruz, Bolivia", 2001. Cons. Bio. 15:856-866.
Tucker, C. J., Slayback, D. A., Pinzon, J. E., Los, S. O., Myneni, R. B., and Taylor, M. G. "Higher northern latitude photosynthetic and growing season trends from 1982 to 1999. Int. J. Biometeorology, 45, 184-190, 2001.
2000
Bounoua L, Collatz GJ, Los SO, Sellers PJ, Dazlich DA, Tucker CJ, Randall DA, "Sensitivity of climate to changes in NDVI", Journal of Climate, 13 (13): 2277-2292, JUL 1 2000.
Imhoff, M. L., C. J. Tucker, W. T. Lawrence, D. Stutzer, and R. Rusin. 2000. The Use of Multi-source Satellite and Geospatial Data to Study the Effect of Urbanization on Primary Productivity in the United States, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 38, No. 6 November 2000, pp. 2549-2556.
Kaufmann RK, Zhou LM, Knyazikhin Y, Shabanov NV, Myneni RB, Tucker CJ, "Effect of orbital drift and sensor changes on the time series of AVHRR vegetation index data", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 38 (6): 2584-2597, NOV 2000.
Los S. O., Collatz G. J., Sellers P. J, Malmstrom C. M., Pollack N. H., DeFries R. S., Bounoua L., Parris M. T., Tucker C. J., Dazlich D. A., "A global 9-yr biophysical land surface dataset from NOAA AVHRR data", Journal of Hydrometeorology, 1 (2): 183-199, APR 2000.
Tucker CJ, Townshend JRG, "Strategies for monitoring tropical deforestation using satellite data", International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21 (6-7): 1461-1471, APR 15 2000.
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