Curtis E. Woodcock

About

Curtis E. Woodcock is a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment at Boston University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, obtained in 1986. His research focuses on monitoring forest change and its implications for terrestrial carbon budgets, as well as urbanization as a component of global change. He investigates the influence of forest canopy structure on canopy gap structure and radiation transmission, and works on the validation of terrestrial remote sensing products. Professor Woodcock teaches courses including EE 444/644 Digital Image Processing-Remote Sensing and EE 501 Advanced Topics in Remote Sensing. His professional contact information includes his office at CAS 436A, email at curtis@bu.edu, and phone number 617-353-5746.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Geography
• Environmental science
• Remote sensing
• Ecology
• Agroforestry
• Geology
• Forestry
• Mathematics
• Statistics

Selected publications

• Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts

  Remote Sensing of Environment · 2022 · 670 citations

  Since 1972, the Landsat program has been continually monitoring the Earth, to now provide 50 years of digital, multispectral, medium spatial resolution observations. Over this time, Landsat data were crucial for many scientific and technical advances. Prior to the Landsat program, detailed, synoptic depictions of the Earth's surface were rare, and the ability to acquire and work with large datasets was limited. The early years of the Landsat program delivered a series of technological breakthrou…

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• Satellite‐based estimates reveal widespread forest degradation in the Amazon

  Global Change Biology · 2020 · 231 citations

  , 95% confidence interval) of the original forest area has been disturbed as of 2017. Our results suggest that the area of disturbed forest in the Amazon is 44%-60% more than previously realized, indicating an unaccounted for source of carbon emissions and pervasive damage to forest ecosystems.

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• Monitoring temperate forest degradation on Google Earth Engine using Landsat time series analysis

  Remote Sensing of Environment · 2021 · 171 citations

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• Need and vision for global medium-resolution Landsat and Sentinel-2 data products

  Remote Sensing of Environment · 2023-11-27 · 142 citations

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  Global changes in climate and land use are threatening natural ecosystems, biodiversity, and the ecosystem services people rely on. This is why it is necessary to track and monitor spatiotemporal change at a level of detail that can inform science, management, and policy development. The current constellation of multiple Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellites collecting imagery at predominantly ≤30-m spatial resolution affords an opportunity for the generation of global medium- resolution products ev…

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• Mapping Forest Aboveground Biomass Using Multisource Remotely Sensed Data

  Remote Sensing · 2022 · 60 citations

  The majority of the aboveground biomass on the Earth’s land surface is stored in forests. Thus, forest biomass plays a critical role in the global carbon cycle. Yet accurate estimate of forest aboveground biomass (FAGB) remains elusive. This study proposed a new conceptual model to map FAGB using remotely sensed data from multiple sensors. The conceptual model, which provides guidance for selecting remotely sensed data, is based on the principle of estimating FAGB on the ground using allometry,…

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Frequent coauthors

• Alan H. Strahler

  Boston University

  120 shared

• Pontus Olofsson

  Marshall Space Flight Center

  71 shared

• Zhe Zhu

  Shandong Academy of Sciences

  62 shared

• Crystal Schaaf

  51 shared

• Sucharita Gopal

  Boston University

  44 shared

• Wenge Ni‐Meister

  City University of New York

  37 shared

• David L.B. Jupp

  Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

  37 shared

• M. A. Friedl

  Boston University

  35 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  1986

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