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List of works by Compton J. Tucker

50 years of woody vegetation changes in the Ferlo (Senegal) assessed by high-resolution imagery and field surveys

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

A Revised Land Surface Parameterization (SiB2) for Atmospheric GCMS. Part II: The Generation of Global Fields of Terrestrial Biophysical Parameters from Satellite Data

scientific article (publication date: April 1996)

A Rift Valley fever risk surveillance system for Africa using remotely sensed data: potential for use on other continents

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A three dimensional model of atmospheric CO2 transport based on observed winds: 3. Seasonal cycle and synoptic time scale variations

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An extended AVHRR 8‐km NDVI dataset compatible with MODIS and SPOT vegetation NDVI data

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An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Analysing NDVI for the African continent using the geostationary meteosat second generation SEVIRI sensor

article by Rasmus Fensholt et al published March 2006 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Assessing woody vegetation trends in Sahelian drylands using MODIS based seasonal metrics

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Assessment of Paraguay's forest cover change using Landsat observations

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Association of temperature and historical dynamics of malaria in the Republic of Korea, including reemergence in 1993.

scientific article published on July 2014

Author Correction: Global disease outbreaks associated with the 2015-2016 El Niño Event

scientific article published on 15 October 2020

Carbon Cycle Observations: Gaps Threaten Climate Mitigation Policies

Changes in rainfall distribution promote woody foliage production in the Sahel

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

Circumpolar Arctic Tundra Vegetation Change Is Linked to Sea Ice Decline

article by Uma S. Bhatt et al published August 2010 in Earth Interactions

Climate Teleconnections and Recent Patterns of Human and Animal Disease Outbreaks

scientific article published on January 24, 2012

Climate drivers of Arctic tundra variability and change using an indicators framework

scientific article published in 2021

Climate-driven increases in global terrestrial net primary production from 1982 to 1999.

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DOES GRAZING CAUSE LAND DEGRADATION? EVIDENCE FROM THE SANDY FERLO IN NORTHERN SENEGAL

scholarly article by Kjeld Rasmussen et al published 17 September 2018 in Land Degradation and Development

Data assimilation of photosynthetic light-use efficiency using multi-angular satellite data: II Model implementation and validation

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Developing global climate anomalies suggest potential disease risks for 2006-2007

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Drought-associated chikungunya emergence along coastal East Africa

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Environmental Biosurveillance for Epidemic Prediction: Experience with Rift Valley Fever

Estimation of Terrestrial Global Gross Primary Production (GPP) with Satellite Data-Driven Models and Eddy Covariance Flux Data

Evidence for a significant urbanization effect on climate in China

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From woody cover to woody canopies: How Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data advance the mapping of woody plants in savannas

scientific article published on 14 October 2019

Global Disease Outbreaks Associated with the 2015-2016 El Niño Event

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Global climate anomalies and potential infectious disease risks: 2014-2015.

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Greenness in semi-arid areas across the globe 1981–2007 — an Earth Observing Satellite based analysis of trends and drivers

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In Memorium: Thomas Hilker

Inferring terrestrial photosynthetic light use efficiency of temperate ecosystems from space

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Interannual covariability in Northern Hemisphere air temperatures and greenness associated with El Niño-Southern Oscillation and the Arctic Oscillation

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Large-scale variations in the vegetation growing season and annual cycle of atmospheric CO2 at high northern latitudes from 1950 to 2011.

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Long-term surveillance data and patterns of invasion by Aedes albopictus in Florida

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Mapping the land surface for global atmosphere-biosphere models: Toward continuous distributions of vegetation's functional properties

scientific article published on 04 February 2004

Multi-angle implementation of atmospheric correction for MODIS (MAIAC): 3. Atmospheric correction

scientific article published in 2012

Northern hemisphere photosynthetic trends 1982-99

scholarly article by Daniel Slayback et al published January 2003 in Global Change Biology

On the measurability of change in Amazon vegetation from MODIS

scholarly article by Thomas Hilker et al published September 2015 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Postfire response of North American boreal forest net primary productivity analyzed with satellite observations

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Precipitation patterns alter growth of temperate vegetation

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Prediction of a Rift Valley fever outbreak

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Prediction, Assessment of the Rift Valley Fever Activity in East and Southern Africa 2006–2008 and Possible Vector Control Strategies

scientific article published on August 1, 2010

Rapid loss of Paraguay's Atlantic forest and the status of protected areas — A Landsat assessment

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Reanalysis of the 2000 Rift Valley fever outbreak in Southwestern Arabia

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Recent Declines in Warming and Vegetation Greening Trends over Pan-Arctic Tundra

scientific article published on 29 August 2013

Recent change of vegetation growth trend in China

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Recent shift in Eurasian boreal forest greening response may be associated with warmer and drier summers

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Recent weather extremes and impacts on agricultural production and vector-borne disease outbreak patterns

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Reduction of tree cover in West African woodlands and promotion in semi-arid farmlands

scientific article published on 16 April 2018

Remote sensing estimates of boreal and temperate forest woody biomass: carbon pools, sources, and sinks

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Remote sensing of transpiration and heat fluxes using multi-angle observations

scientific article published in 2013

Remote sensing of tropical ecosystems: Atmospheric correction and cloud masking matter

article by Thomas Hilker et al published December 2012 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Reply to Gonsamo et al.: Effect of the Eastern Atlantic-West Russia pattern on Amazon vegetation has not been demonstrated

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Rift Valley Fever potential, Arabian Peninsula

scientific article published on March 2006

Rift Valley fever risk map model and seroprevalence in selected wild ungulates and camels from Kenya

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Satellite passive microwaves reveal recent climate-induced carbon losses in African drylands

scientific article published in 2018

Satellite vegetation index data as a tool to forecast population dynamics of medically important mosquitoes at military installations in the continental United States

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Satellite-based identification of linked vegetation index and sea surface temperature Anomaly areas from 1982-1990 for Africa, Australia and South America

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Satellite-derived increases in net primary productivity across North America, 1982-1998

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Sub-continental-scale carbon stocks of individual trees in African drylands

scientific article published in March 2023

Temperature and snow-mediated moisture controls of summer photosynthetic activity in northern terrestrial ecosystems between 1982 and 2011

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The AFHSC-Division of GEIS Operations Predictive Surveillance Program: a multidisciplinary approach for the early detection and response to disease outbreaks

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The Role of Global Climate Patterns in the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Vector-Borne Disease

The changing carbon cycle at Mauna Loa Observatory

scientific article (publication date: 13 March 2007)

Trigger events: enviroclimatic coupling of Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreaks

scientific article published on November 2004

Using the satellite-derived NDVI to assess ecological responses to environmental change

scientific article published on 9 June 2005

Variations in northern vegetation activity inferred from satellite data of vegetation index during 1981 to 1999

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Vegetation dynamics and rainfall sensitivity of the Amazon

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