| Global irrigated area map (GIAM), derived from remote sensing, for the end of the last millennium PS Thenkabail, CM Biradar, P Noojipady, V Dheeravath, Y Li, M Velpuri, ... International journal of remote sensing 30 (14), 3679-3733, 2009 | 498 | 2009 |
| A global map of rainfed cropland areas (GMRCA) at the end of last millennium using remote sensing CM Biradar, PS Thenkabail, P Noojipady, Y Li, V Dheeravath, H Turral, ... International journal of applied earth observation and geoinformation 11 (2 …, 2009 | 255 | 2009 |
| Integrating remote sensing, census and weather data for an assessment of rice yield, water consumption and water productivity in the Indo-Gangetic river basin XL Cai, BR Sharma Agricultural Water Management 97 (2), 309-316, 2010 | 151 | 2010 |
| The Indus and the Ganges: river basins under extreme pressure B Sharma, U Amarasinghe, C Xueliang, D de Condappa, T Shah, ... Water, Food and Poverty in River Basins, 30-58, 2013 | 129 | 2013 |
| Producing more food with less water in a changing world: assessment of water productivity in 10 major river basins X Cai, D Molden, M Mainuddin, B Sharma, Mobin-ud-Din Ahmad, ... Water International 36 (1), 42-62, 2011 | 127 | 2011 |
| Short-term forecasting of daily reference evapotranspiration using the Hargreaves–Samani model and temperature forecasts Y Luo, X Chang, S Peng, S Khan, W Wang, Q Zheng, X Cai Agricultural Water Management 136, 42-51, 2014 | 121 | 2014 |
| Impacts of land use and land cover changes on hydrology of the Gumara catchment, Ethiopia A Birhanu, I Masih, P Van Der Zaag, J Nyssen, X Cai Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts a/b/c 112, 165-174, 2019 | 112 | 2019 |
| Tracking annual cropland changes from 1984 to 2016 using time-series Landsat images with a change-detection and post-classification approach: Experiments from three sites in Africa Y Xu, L Yu, FR Zhao, X Cai, J Zhao, H Lu, P Gong Remote Sensing of Environment 218, 13-31, 2018 | 107 | 2018 |
| Assessing the regional variability of GCM simulations X Cai, D Wang, T Zhu, C Ringler Geophysical Research Letters 36 (2), 2009 | 72 | 2009 |
| Water productivity mapping (WPM) using Landsat ETM+ data for the irrigated croplands of the Syrdarya River basin in Central Asia A Platonov, PS Thenkabail, CM Biradar, X Cai, M Gumma, V Dheeravath, ... Sensors 8 (12), 8156-8180, 2008 | 61 | 2008 |
| Mapping irrigated areas in the Limpopo Province, South Africa X Cai, J Magidi, L Nhamo, B van Koppen International Water Management Institute (IWMI), 2017 | 57 | 2017 |
| An assessment of crop water productivity in the Indus and Ganges river basins: Current status and scope for improvement X Cai, BR Sharma, MA Matin, D Sharma, S Gunasinghe IWMI, 2010 | 55 | 2010 |
| Sub-pixel area calculation methods for estimating irrigated areas PS Thenkabail, CM Biradar, P Noojipady, X Cai, V Dheeravath, Y Li, ... Sensors 7 (11), 2519-2538, 2007 | 55 | 2007 |
| Water scarcity and food security: alternative futures for the 21st century MW Rosengrant, X Cai Water science and technology 43 (4), 61-70, 2001 | 55 | 2001 |
| Living with floods–Household perception and satellite observations in the Barotse floodplain, Zambia X Cai, AT Haile, J Magidi, E Mapedza, L Nhamo Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C 100, 278-286, 2017 | 49 | 2017 |
| Water accounting to assess use and productivity of water: evolution of a concept and new frontiers P Karimi, D Molden, WGM Bastiaanssen, X Cai Water accounting: International approaches to policy and decision-making, 76-88, 2012 | 47 | 2012 |
| Smallholder irrigation schemes in the Limpopo Province, South Africa B Van Koppen, L Nhamo, X Cai, MJ Gabriel, M Sekgala, S Shikwambana, ... International Water Management Institute (IWMI), 2017 | 45 | 2017 |
| Water productivity mapping using remote sensing data of various resolutions to support more crop per drop X Cai, PS Thenkabail, CM Biradar, A Platonov, M Gumma, V Dheeravath, ... Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 3 (1), 033557, 2009 | 43 | 2009 |
| Monitoring cropland changes along the Nile River in Egypt over past three decades (1984–2015) using remote sensing Y Xu, L Yu, Y Zhao, D Feng, Y Cheng, X Cai, P Gong International Journal of Remote Sensing 38 (15), 4459-4480, 2017 | 40 | 2017 |
| Mapping paddy rice using Landsat time series data in the Ganfu Plain irrigation system, Southern China, from 1988− 2017 J Cao, X Cai, J Tan, Y Cui, H Xie, F Liu, L Yang, Y Luo International Journal of Remote Sensing 42 (4), 1556-1576, 2021 | 38 | 2021 |
Prasad ThenkabailSenior Scientist (ST) the United States Geological Survey (USGS)Verified email at usgs.gov
