| Linear mixing and the estimation of ground cover proportions JJ Settle, NA Drake International Journal of Remote Sensing 14 (6), 1159-1177, 1993 | 1256 | 1993 |
| Ancient watercourses and biogeography of the Sahara explain the peopling of the desert NA Drake, RM Blench, SJ Armitage, CS Bristow, KH White Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (2), 458-462, 2011 | 513 | 2011 |
| Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and why does it matter? EML Scerri, MG Thomas, A Manica, P Gunz, JT Stock, C Stringer, M Grove, ... Trends in ecology & evolution 33 (8), 582-594, 2018 | 470 | 2018 |
| Monitoring desertification and land degradation over sub-Saharan Africa E Symeonakis, N Drake International Journal of remote sensing 25 (3), 573-592, 2004 | 370 | 2004 |
| Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa HS Groucutt, MD Petraglia, G Bailey, EML Scerri, A Parton, ... Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 24 (4), 149-164, 2015 | 338 | 2015 |
| Subpixel measurement of tropical forest cover using AVHRR data AM Cross, JJ Settle, NA Drake, RTM Paivinen International Journal of Remote Sensing 12 (5), 1119-1129, 1991 | 280 | 1991 |
| Retrieval of biomass combustion rates and totals from fire radiative power observations: Application to southern Africa using geostationary SEVIRI imagery G Roberts, MJ Wooster, GLW Perry, N Drake, LM Rebelo, F Dipotso Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 110 (D21), 2005 | 249 | 2005 |
| Testing the potential of multi-spectral remote sensing for retrospectively estimating fire severity in African Savannahs AMS Smith, MJ Wooster, NA Drake, FM Dipotso, MJ Falkowski, AT Hudak Remote sensing of environment 97 (1), 92-115, 2005 | 238 | 2005 |
| Comparison of slope estimates from low resolution DEMs: Scaling issues and a fractal method for their solution X Zhang, NA Drake, J Wainwright, M Mulligan Earth Surface Processes and Landforms: The Journal of the British …, 1999 | 233 | 1999 |
| Production of Landsat ETM+ reference imagery of burned areas within Southern African savannahs: comparison of methods and application to MODIS AMS Smith, NA Drake, MJ Wooster, AT Hudak, ZA Holden, CJ Gibbons International Journal of Remote Sensing 28 (12), 2753-2775, 2007 | 223 | 2007 |
| Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago HS Groucutt, R Grün, IAS Zalmout, NA Drake, SJ Armitage, I Candy, ... Nature ecology & evolution 2 (5), 800-809, 2018 | 207 | 2018 |
| Preferential dust sources: A geomorphological classification designed for use in global dust‐cycle models JE Bullard, SP Harrison, MC Baddock, N Drake, TE Gill, G McTainsh, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 116 (F4), 2011 | 207 | 2011 |
| Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the ‘long’4th millennium BC: A comparative study of environmental and archaeological evidence J Clarke, N Brooks, EB Banning, M Bar-Matthews, S Campbell, L Clare, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 136, 96-121, 2016 | 197 | 2016 |
| Shorelines in the Sahara: geomorphological evidence for an enhanced monsoon from palaeolake Megachad N Drake, C Bristow The Holocene 16 (6), 901-911, 2006 | 189 | 2006 |
| Interactions between river flows and colonizing vegetation on a braided river: exploring spatial and temporal dynamics in riparian vegetation cover using satellite data W Bertoldi, NA Drake, AM Gurnell Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 36 (11), 1474-1486, 2011 | 181 | 2011 |
| The topographic signature of vegetation development along a braided river: Results of a combined analysis of airborne lidar, color air photographs, and ground measurements W Bertoldi, AM Gurnell, NA Drake Water Resources Research 47 (6), 2011 | 179 | 2011 |
| West African monsoon dynamics inferred from abrupt fluctuations of Lake Mega-Chad SJ Armitage, CS Bristow, NA Drake Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (28), 8543-8548, 2015 | 175 | 2015 |
| Island dynamics in a braided river from analysis of historical maps and air photographs L Zanoni, A Gurnell, N Drake, N Surian River Research and Applications 24 (8), 1141-1159, 2008 | 172 | 2008 |
| Earliest evidence for the structure of Homo sapiens populations in Africa EML Scerri, NA Drake, R Jennings, HS Groucutt Quaternary Science Reviews 101, 207-216, 2014 | 163 | 2014 |
| Mapping vegetation, soils, and geology in semiarid shrublands using spectral matching and mixture modeling of SWIR AVIRIS imagery NA Drake, S Mackin, JJ Settle Remote Sensing of Environment 68 (1), 12-25, 1999 | 158 | 1999 |
Michael PetragliaDirector, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith UniversityVerified email at griffith.edu.au