2 December 2022
Editorial Board Members from Remote Sensing Featured among the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2022

The list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2022 was released by scientists at Stanford on 10 October 2022 to recognize influential scholars around the world. According to the statistics, 220 Remote Sensing Editorial Board Members from different research fields have been selected for the list, which recognizes them for their high-quality research results and outstanding contributions in their fields of expertise.

For the details of the listed scholars, please see the full list below:

Name Affiliation
Prof. Dr. Adrian Stern Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Dr. Akram Al-Hourani RMIT University, Australia
Dr. Alemu Gonsamo McMaster University, Canada
Dr. Alessandro Matese 1. Institute of BioEconomy, National Research Council (CNR-IBE), Italy; 2. Geosystems Research Institute, Mississippi State University, USA
Prof. Dr. Alexander Brenning Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Dr. Alexander Kokhanovsky German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany
Prof. Dr. Alfredo Huete University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Dr. Amin Beiranvand Pour Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Malaysia
Dr. Ana I. de Castro Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria, Spain
Prof. Dr. Anatoly Gitelson 1. Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; 2. University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
Prof. Dr. Andrea Garzelli University of Siena, Italy
Prof. Dr. Andreas Reigber German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Prof. Dr. Andrew Skidmore University of Twente, the Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Andrzej Stateczny Gdansk Technical University, Poland
Dr. Anup Basu University of Alberta, Canada
Dr. Arko Lucieer University of Tasmania, Australia
Prof. Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa University of Alberta, Canada
Dr. Ashraf Dewan Curtin University, Australia
Prof. Dr. Assefa M. Melesse Florida International University, USA
Prof. Dr. Atul Jain University of Illinois, USA
Dr. Augusto Getirana 1. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA; 2. Science Applications International Corporation, USA
Dr. Bailang Yu East China Normal University, China
Prof. Dr. Long Xiao China University of Geosciences, China
Prof. Dr. Bas van Wesemael Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Bisheng Yang Wuhan University, China
Dr. Bo Du Wuhan University, China
Dr. Brian Alan Johnson Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan
Dr. Bruno Aiazzi Institute of Applied Physics "Nello Carrara", National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Prof. Dr. Bruno Basso Michigan State University, USA
Dr. Carlos Alberto Silva University of Florida, USA
Prof. Dr. Carmine Serio University of Basilicata, Italy
Dr. Chandra Giri United States Environmental Protection Agency, USA
Prof. Dr. Changshan Wu University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Prof. Dr. Chaowei Yang George Mason University, USA
Dr. Chengbin Deng State University of New York at Binghamton, USA
Dr. Chris Roelfsema The University of Queensland, Australia
Prof. Dr. Christian Wöhler TU Dortmund University, Germany
Dr. Christopher D. Elvidge NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, USA
Prof. Dr. Christopher Small Columbia University, USA
Dr. Claudia Kuenzer German Aerospace Center, DLR, Germany
Dr. Claudio Persello University of Twente, the Netherlands
Dr. Clement Albergel ESA - European Space Agency, UK
Dr. Clement Atzberger University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
Prof. Dr. Conghe Song University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Prof. Dr. Costas Varotsos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Prof. Dr. Danfeng Hong The Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Dr. Danilo Orlando Università degli Studi “Niccolò Cusano”, Italy
Prof. Dr. Danlin Yu Montclair State University, USA
Dr. Dar Roberts University of California, USA
Dr. David M. Johnson USDA / National Agricultural Statistics Service, USA
Prof. Dr. David Skole Michigan State University, USA
Dr. David W. Johnston Duke University, USA
Prof. Dr. Debra F. Laefer 1. New York University, USA; 2. University College Dublin, Ireland
Prof. Dr. Dehua Mao Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Dr. Dengsheng Lu Fujian Normal University, China
Dr. Dino Ienco French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, Department of Territories, France
Dr. Dominik Seidel  University of Göttingen, Germany
Dr. Dominique Arrouays INRAE, InfoSol Unit, France
Dr. Edoardo Pasolli University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Dr. Eileen H. Helmer United States Department of Agriculture, USA
Prof. Dr. Eric Small University of Colorado, USA
Dr. Eric Vermote NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Dr. Eugenio Sansosti Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell’Ambiente (IREA), National Research Council (CNR) of Italy, Italy
Dr. Eyal Ben-Dor Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel
Prof. Dr. Filippo Catani University of Florence, Italy
Prof. Dr. Francesco Martellotta Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Dr. Francesco Mattia National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA), Italy
Dr. Francesco Nex University of Twente, the Netherlands
Dr. Francesco Soldovieri National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA), Italy
Dr. Frédéric Frappart INRAE, Université de Bordeaux, France
Prof. Dr. Fumio Yamazaki 1. Chiba University, Japan; 2. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Japan
Dr. Gabriel B. Senay USGS EROS Center, North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, USA
Dr. Gemine Vivone Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, CNR-IMAA, Italy
Dr. Geoffrey Parker Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, USA
Dr. George P. Petropoulos Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Dr. George Xian USGS Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science, USA
Dr. Gianpaolo Balsamo European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts, UK
Dr. Gianpaolo Coro National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Information Science and Technologies "Alessandro Faedo" (ISTI-CNR), Italy
Prof. Dr. Giles Foody University of Nottingham, UK
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Modica Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Prof. Dr. Greg Okin University of California, USA
Dr. Guillaume Ramillien Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, CNRS/IRD/UPS, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, France
Dr. Guoqing Zhou 1. Guilin Iniversity of Technology, China; 2. Tianjin University, China
Dr. Gwanggil Jeon Incheon National University, South Korea
Dr. Hamish D. Pritchard British Antarctic Survey, UK
Prof. Dr. Hongtao Duan Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Dr. Hubert Hasenauer BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
Prof. Dr. Ignacio A. Ciampitti Kansas State University, USA
Prof. Dr. Inge Sandholt Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Dr. Ira Leifer Bubbleology Research International, USA
Prof. Dr. Isabel Trigo (IPMA) EUMETSAT Land Surface Analysis - Satellite Application, Facility Project Manager Rua C ao Aeroporto, Portugal
Prof. Dr. Ismail Gultepe Ontario Technical University, Canada
Prof. Dr. James Campbell Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), USA
Prof. Dr. James Carton University of Maryland, USA
Prof. Dr. Janet E. Nichol University of Sussex, UK
Dr. Janne Heiskanen University of Helsinki, Finland
Prof. Dr. Jan-Peter Muller UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UK
Dr. Jean-Christophe Calvet CNRM, Meteo-France, France
Dr. Jean-Louis Roujean CESBIO, Toulouse, France
Prof. Dr. Jeffrey F. Kelly Plains Institute, University of Oklahoma, USA
Prof. Dr. Jianghui Geng Wuhan University, China
Prof. Dr. Jianxi Huang China Agricultural University, China
Prof. Dr. Jie Shan Purdue University, USA
Dr. Jin Wu The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Dr. Jochem Verrelst University of Valencia, Spain
Prof. Dr. Jörg Bendix Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing, Phillips- University of Marburg, Germany
Prof. Dr. Jose Moreno Universitat de València, Spain
Prof. Dr. Josep Peñuelas Global Ecology Unit CREAF‐CSIC‐UAB, Spain
Prof. Dr. Juha Hyyppä Finish Geospatial Research Institute, Finland
Prof. Dr. Jungho Im Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Prof. Dr. Junjun Jiang  Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Dr. Junshi Xia Geoinformatics Unit, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Japan
Dr. Justin Morgenroth University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Prof. Dr. Kaicun Wang Peking University, China
Dr. Kim Calders Ghent University, Belgium
Dr. Kohei Arai Saga University, Japan
Dr. Konstantinos Topouzelis University of the Aegean, Greece
Dr. Konstantinos X. Soulis Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Dr. Krzysztof Stereńczak Forest Research Institute, Poland
Prof. Dr. Lalit Kumar East Coast Geospatial Consultants, Australia
Prof. Dr. Lefei Zhang Wuhan University, China
Dr. Leonor Calvo Universidad de León, Spain
Prof. Dr. Liping Di George Mason University, USA
Prof. Dr. Lizhe Wang Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr. Luca Brocca National Research Council, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, Italy
Prof. Dr. Lunche Wang China University of Geosciences, China
Prof. Dr. Marco Scaioni Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Dr. Martin Mlynczak NASA Langley Research Center, USA
Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Pieraccini University of Florence, Italy
Prof. Dr. Massimo Menenti Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, China
Dr. Matthew Clarke Sonoma State University, USA
Prof. Dr. Matthew McCabe King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Mauro Dalla Mura GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Dr. Mehrez Zribi Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Italy
Prof. Dr. Miaogen Shen Beijing Normal University, China
Dr. Michael H. F. Wilkinson University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Michael Lefsky Colorado State University, USA
Prof. Dr. Michael Vohland Leipzig University, Germany
Dr. Michele Meroni European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Directorate D – Sustainable Resources, Food Security Unit, Italy
Dr. Mohammad Awrangjeb Griffith University, Australia
Dr. Nancy E. Grulke USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, USA
Dr. Nicolas Baghdadi University of Montpellier, France
Prof. Dr. Noam Levin The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Dr. Okan Yurduseven Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Dr. Oleg Dubovik Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, CNRS/Universite Lille, France
Dr. Olivier Merlin CESBIO, Université de Toulouse, France
Dr. Pamela Nagler U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, USA
Dr. Parth Sarathi Roy Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration, World Resources Institute India, India
Dr. Paul Honeine LITIS Lab, Université de Rouen Normandie, France
Prof. Dr. Paul Scheunders Vision Lab, University of Antwerp (CDE), Belgium
Dr. Paulo Pereira Environmental Management Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
Prof. Dr. L. Monika Moskal University of Washington (UW), USA
Dr. Peng Fu Harrisburg University, USA
Prof. Dr. Peng Jia Wuhan University, China
Prof. Dr. Pinliang Dong University of North Texas, USA
Prof. Dr. Piotr Samczynski Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Dr. Prem Prakash Jayaraman Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Prof. Dr. Qi Wang Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Dr. Qiangqiang Yuan Wuhan University, China
Prof. Dr. Qihao Weng Indiana State University, USA
Prof. Dr. Qile Zhao Wuhan University, China
Dr. Qinghua Guo State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Dr. Qiuhong Tang Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr. Qiusheng Wu University of Tennessee, USA
Dr. Ralph R. Ferraro NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), USA
Prof. Dr. Raphael M. Kudela University of California, USA
Dr. Robert Brewin University of Exeter (Penryn Campus), UK
Dr. Robert Treuhaft Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA
Dr. Ronald C. Estoque Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Japan
Dr. Ronan Fablet Institut Mines-Télécom, Telecom-Bretagne, France
Dr. Rosa Lasaponara CNR-IMAA (Institute of Environmental Analysis), Italy
Prof. Dr. Ruiliang Pu University of South Florida, USA
Prof. Dr. Salah Bourennane Ecole Centrale de Marseille, France
Dr. Sandra Eckert University of Bern, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Sébastien Lefèvre IRISA, Université Bretagne Sud, Campus de Tohannic, France
Dr. Seyed Amir Naghibi Lund University, Sweden
Dr. Shawn P. Serbin Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Prof. Dr. Shuanggen Jin Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr. Shubha Sathyendranath Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Prof. Dr. Shuguang Liu Central South University of Forestry and Technology, China
Prof. Dr. Shunichi Koshimura Tohoku University, Japan
Prof. Dr. Simon Jones RMIT University, Australia
Prof. Dr. Soe W. Myint Arizona State University, USA
Dr. Soo Chin Liew National University of Singapore, Singapore
Prof. Dr. Stefania Bonafoni University of Perugia, Italy
Dr. Stefano Mattoccia University of Bologna, Italy
Dr. Stefano Tebaldini Politecnico di Milano, Department of Information, Electronics, and Bioengineering, Italy
Prof. Dr. Stuart Phinn University of Queensland, Australia
Prof. Dr. Tamas Sziranyi Machine Perception Research Laboratory, Hungary
Dr. Tao Lei Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, China
Prof. Dr. Thomas Udelhoven University of Trier, Germany
Prof. Dr. Toby N. Carlson Pennsylvania State University, USA
Dr. Tomoaki Miura University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA
Prof. Dr. Valerio Tramutoli University of Basilicata, Italy
Dr. W. Gareth Rees University of Cambridge, UK
Prof. Dr. Weiqi Zhou State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Dr. Wenge Ni-meister Hunter College The City University of New York, USA
Prof. Dr. Wenhui Kuang Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr. Wenjiang Huang Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr. Xia Yao Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Dr. Xian Sun Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Dr. Xiangrong Zhang Xidian University, China
Prof. Dr. Xiaohua Tong Tongji University, China
Dr. Xiaoxiong Xiong Sciences and Exploration Directorate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Dr. Xin Li Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr. Xuecao Li China Agricultural University, China
Prof. Dr. Yanfei Zhong Wuhan University, China
Prof. Dr. Yang Hong University of Oklahoma, USA
Prof. Dr. Yongjiu Dai Sun Yat-sen University, China
Dr. Yongxiang Hu NASA Langley Research Center, USA
Dr. Yoshio Inoue University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Yuanwei Qin University of Oklahoma, USA
Prof. Dr. Yuji Murayama University of Tsukuba, Japan
Prof. Dr. Yunlin Zhang Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr. Yuwei Chen Finnish Geospatial Research Institute, Finland
Dr. Yuxin Miao University of Minnesota, USA
Dr. Zhe Zhu University of Connecticut, USA
Prof. Dr. Zhenhong Li Chang’an University, China
Prof. Dr. Zhenwei Shi Beihang University, China
Prof. Dr. Zhong Lu Southern Methodist University, USA

Congratulations to the scholars again!

Source: September 2022 data update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4.

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