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| Global land cover classification at 1 km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach MC Hansen, RS DeFries, JRG Townshend, R Sohlberg International journal of remote sensing 21 (6-7), 1331-1364, 2000 | 2609 | 2000 |
| Classifying drivers of global forest loss PG Curtis, CM Slay, NL Harris, A Tyukavina, MC Hansen Science 361 (6407), 1108-1111, 2018 | 1821 | 2018 |
| Global land change from 1982 to 2016 XP Song, MC Hansen, SV Stehman, PV Potapov, A Tyukavina, ... Nature 560 (7720), 639-643, 2018 | 1668 | 2018 |
| An ecoregion-based approach to protecting half the terrestrial realm E Dinerstein, D Olson, A Joshi, C Vynne, ND Burgess, E Wikramanayake, ... BioScience 67 (6), 534-545, 2017 | 1655 | 2017 |
| Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century RS DeFries, T Rudel, M Uriarte, M Hansen Nature Geoscience 3 (3), 178-181, 2010 | 1655 | 2010 |
| Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains D Nepstad, D McGrath, C Stickler, A Alencar, A Azevedo, B Swette, ... science 344 (6188), 1118-1123, 2014 | 1288 | 2014 |
| Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change RA Houghton, JI House, J Pongratz, GR Van Der Werf, RS Defries, ... Biogeosciences 9 (12), 5125-5142, 2012 | 1240 | 2012 |
| Global percent tree cover at a spatial resolution of 500 meters: First results of the MODIS vegetation continuous fields algorithm MC Hansen, RS DeFries, JRG Townshend, M Carroll, C Dimiceli, ... Earth Interactions 7 (10), 1-15, 2003 | 1235 | 2003 |
| Primary forest cover loss in Indonesia over 2000–2012 BA Margono, PV Potapov, S Turubanova, F Stolle, MC Hansen Nature climate change 4 (8), 730-735, 2014 | 1232 | 2014 |
| A review of large area monitoring of land cover change using Landsat data MC Hansen, TR Loveland Remote sensing of Environment 122, 66-74, 2012 | 1175 | 2012 |
| Quantification of global gross forest cover loss MC Hansen, SV Stehman, PV Potapov Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (19), 8650-8655, 2010 | 1044 | 2010 |
| Increasing isolation of protected areas in tropical forests over the past twenty years R DeFries, A Hansen, AC Newton, MC Hansen Ecological applications 15 (1), 19-26, 2005 | 911 | 2005 |
| Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation and regrowth based on satellite observations for the 1980s and 1990s RS DeFries, RA Houghton, MC Hansen, CB Field, D Skole, J Townshend Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (22), 14256-14261, 2002 | 909 | 2002 |
| Global land cover classifications at 8 km spatial resolution: The use of training data derived from Landsat imagery in decision tree classifiers RS De Fries, M Hansen, JRG Townshend, R Sohlberg International Journal of Remote Sensing 19 (16), 3141-3168, 1998 | 844 | 1998 |
| Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified by using multitemporal and multiresolution remotely sensed data MC Hansen, SV Stehman, PV Potapov, TR Loveland, JRG Townshend, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (27), 9439-9444, 2008 | 829 | 2008 |
| Baseline map of carbon emissions from deforestation in tropical regions NL Harris, S Brown, SC Hagen, SS Saatchi, S Petrova, W Salas, ... Science 336 (6088), 1573-1576, 2012 | 819 | 2012 |
| The last frontiers of wilderness: Tracking loss of intact forest landscapes from 2000 to 2013 P Potapov, MC Hansen, L Laestadius, S Turubanova, A Yaroshenko, ... Science advances 3 (1), e1600821, 2017 | 775 | 2017 |
| The political economy of deforestation in the tropics R Burgess, M Hansen, BA Olken, P Potapov, S Sieber The Quarterly journal of economics 127 (4), 1707-1754, 2012 | 730 | 2012 |
| The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation: High-resolution laser ranging of the Earth’s forests and topography R Dubayah, JB Blair, S Goetz, L Fatoyinbo, M Hansen, S Healey, ... Science of remote sensing 1, 100002, 2020 | 652 | 2020 |
