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Douglas C. Morton
Researcher at Goddard Space Flight Center
Publications - 136
Citations - 17238
Douglas C. Morton is an academic researcher from Goddard Space Flight Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Deforestation & Amazon rainforest. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 124 publications receiving 14076 citations. Previous affiliations of Douglas C. Morton include University of Maryland, College Park & National Institute for Space Research.
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Soy expansion in Brazil's Cerrado
Lisa Rausch,Holly K. Gibbs,Ian Schelly,Amintas Brandão,Douglas C. Morton,Arnaldo Carneiro Filho,Bernardo B. N. Strassburg,Nathalie F. Walker,Praveen Noojipady,Paulo Barreto,Daniel Meyer +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed Cerrado conversion to soy using over 580,000 property boundaries, covering 77% of the biome that is eligible for commercial land use, and using microwatersheds, to cover 100% of eligible areas.
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Structural Dynamics of Tropical Moist Forest Gaps
M. O. Hunter,Michael Keller,Douglas C. Morton,Bruce D. Cook,Michael A. Lefsky,Mark J. Ducey,Scott R. Saleska,Raimundo Cosme de Oliveira,Juliana Schietti +8 more
TL;DR: A new definition of a forest gap is offered that is driven by forest dynamics and consistent with precise ranging measurements from airborne lidar data and tall, multi-layered tropical forest structure.
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Bidirectional effects in Landsat reflectance estimates: Is there a problem to solve?
Jyoteshwar Nagol,Joseph O. Sexton,Do-Hyung Kim,Anupam Anand,Douglas C. Morton,Eric Vermote,John R. Townshend +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the MODIS reflectance and bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) parameters derived from daily Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) reflectance estimates and the sun-target-sensor geometry of the Landsat-5 orbit.
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Effects of topography on tropical forest structure depend on climate context
Robert Muscarella,Robert Muscarella,Samira Kolyaie,Douglas C. Morton,Jess K. Zimmerman,María Uriarte +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, an increasing number of studies have demonstrated biological consequences of topography on the structure, function, and dynamics of ecological communities, including the influence of topology on ecology.
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Satellite-based assessment of climate controls on US burned area
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted the first national assessment of climate controls on US fire activity using two satellite-based estimates of monthly burned area (BA), the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED, 1997-2010) and Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS, 1984-2009) BA products.