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List of works by Rasmus Fensholt

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 Review of the Application of Optical and Radar Remote Sensing Data Fusion to Land Use Mapping and Monitoring

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A physiology-based Earth observation model indicate stagnation in the global gross primary production during recent decades

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

Acceleration of global vegetation greenup from combined effects of climate change and human land management

scientific article published on 17 July 2018

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

Approaching the potential of model-data comparisons of global land carbon storage

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Assessing Future Vegetation Trends and Restoration Prospects in the Karst Regions of Southwest China

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

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Assessment of MODIS sun-sensor geometry variations effect on observed NDVI using MSG SEVIRI geostationary data

scientific article published on 10 December 2010

Assimilation of SMOS-derived soil moisture in a fully integrated hydrological and soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer model in Western Denmark

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Author Correction: The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

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Beyond tree cover: Characterizing southern China's forests using deep learning

scientific article published in 2022

Changes in rainfall distribution promote woody foliage production in the Sahel

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management

scientific article published on 11 February 2019

Combining the triangle method with thermal inertia to estimate regional evapotranspiration — Applied to MSG-SEVIRI data in the Senegal River basin

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Comparisons of Compositing Period Length for Vegetation Index Data from Polar-orbiting and Geostationary Satellites for the Cloud-prone Region of West Africa

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Contrasting responses of woody and herbaceous vegetation to altered rainfall characteristics in the Sahel

scientific article published in 2021

Coupling of ecosystem-scale plant water storage and leaf phenology observed by satellite

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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

Decline of woody vegetation in a saline landscape in the Groundnut Basin, Senegal

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Deep learning enables image-based tree counting, crown segmentation, and height prediction at national scale

Deriving seasonal dynamics in ecosystem properties of semi-arid savanna grasslands from in situ-based hyperspectral reflectance

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Do afforestation projects increase core forests? Evidence from the Chinese Loess Plateau

scientific article published in 2020

Drought footprint on European ecosystems between 1999 and 2010 assessed by remotely sensed vegetation phenology and productivity.

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Dryland Vegetation Functional Response to Altered Rainfall Amounts and Variability Derived from Satellite Time Series Data

scientific article published on 16 December 2016

Dynamics in carbon exchange fluxes for a grazed semi-arid savanna ecosystem in West Africa

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Ecological restoration enhances ecosystem health in the karst regions of southwest China

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Economic Valuation of Mangroves for Comparison with Commercial Aquaculture in South Sulawesi, Indonesia

scholarly article by Abdul Malik et al published 31 August 2015 in Forests

Ecosystem properties of semiarid savanna grassland in West Africa and its relationship with environmental variability

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Ecosystem structural changes controlled by altered rainfall climatology in tropical savannas

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Effect of climate dataset selection on simulations of terrestrial GPP: Highest uncertainty for tropical regions.

scientific article published on 21 June 2018

Environmental change in the Sahel: reconciling contrasting evidence and interpretations

Estimation of diurnal air temperature using MSG SEVIRI data in West Africa

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Evaluating MODIS, MERIS, and VEGETATION vegetation indices using in situ measurements in a semiarid environment

Evaluating the quality of AVHRR Pathfinder NDVI data for the African continent using SPOT-4 Vegetation data

Evaluation of AVHRR PAL and GIMMS 10‐day composite NDVI time series products using SPOT‐4 vegetation data for the African continent

Evaluation of fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation products for different canopy radiation transfer regimes: Methodology and results using Joint Research Center products derived from SeaWiFS against ground-based estimations

scientific article published in 2006

Evaluation of satellite based primary production modelling in the semi-arid Sahel

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Fodder Biomass Monitoring in Sahelian Rangelands Using Phenological Metrics from FAPAR Time Series

Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

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

Geographic Object Based Image Analysis of WorldView-3 Imagery for Urban Hydrologic Modelling at the Catchment Scale

Global-scale assessment and inter-comparison of recently developed/reprocessed microwave satellite vegetation optical depth products

scientific article published in 2021

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

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Ground- and satellite-based evidence of the biophysical mechanisms behind the greening Sahel

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Human population growth offsets climate-driven increase in woody vegetation in sub-Saharan Africa

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Impacts of the seasonal distribution of rainfall on vegetation productivity across the Sahel

scientific article published on 02 January 2021

Increased vegetation growth and carbon stock in China karst via ecological engineering

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Inter-comparison of energy balance and hydrological models for land surface energy flux estimation over a whole river catchment

Leaf phenology of thirteen African origins of baobab (Adansonia digitata (L.)) as influenced by daylength and water availability

scientific article published on 26 October 2018

Major forest increase on the Loess Plateau, China (2001-2016)

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Mangrove exploitation effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services

scholarly article by Abdul Malik et al published 15 October 2015 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Mapping dynamics of deforestation and forest degradation in tropical forests using radar satellite data

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Mapping gains and losses in woody vegetation across global tropical drylands.

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Modelling spatial and temporal dynamics of GPP in the Sahel from earth observation based photosynthetic capacity and quantum efficiency

scholarly article by Torbern Tagesson et al published 29 September 2016 in Biogeosciences Discussions

Modelling spatial and temporal dynamics of gross primary production in the Sahel from earth-observation-based photosynthetic capacity and quantum efficiency

scholarly article by Torbern Tagesson et al published 17 March 2017 in Biogeosciences

Monitoring Agricultural Expansion in Burkina Faso over 14 Years with 30 m Resolution Time Series: The Role of Population Growth and Implications for the Environment

scientific article published in 2017

Nation-wide mapping of tree-level aboveground carbon stocks in Rwanda

scientific article published in 2022

Nonlinear dynamics of fires in Africa over recent decades controlled by precipitation

scientific article published on 23 May 2020

Quantifying the effectiveness of ecological restoration projects on long-term vegetation dynamics in the karst regions of Southwest China

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Recent divergence in the contributions of tropical and boreal forests to the terrestrial carbon sink

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

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

scientific article published on 16 April 2018

Reforestation policies around 2000 in southern China led to forest densification and expansion in the 2010s

scientific article published in 2023

Relation between Seasonally Detrended Shortwave Infrared Reflectance Data and Land Surface Moisture in Semi‑Arid Sahel

Remote sensing of vegetation dynamics in drylands: Evaluating vegetation optical depth (VOD) using AVHRR NDVI and in situ green biomass data over West African Sahel

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Revealing turning points in ecosystem functioning over the Northern Eurasian agricultural frontier.

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Revisiting the coupling between NDVI trends and cropland changes in the Sahel drylands: A case study in western Niger

scholarly article by Xiaoye Tong et al published March 2017 in Remote Sensing of Environment

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

scientific article published in 2018

Satellite-Observed Major Greening and Biomass Increase in South China Karst During Recent Decade

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Satellite-observed pantropical carbon dynamics

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Snow cover and snow albedo changes in the central Andes of Chile and Argentina from daily MODIS observations (2000–2016)

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Spatiotemporal variability in carbon exchange fluxes across the Sahel

scholarly article by Torbern Tagesson et al published October 2016 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

scientific article published on 09 July 2020

The confounding effect of snow cover on assessing spring phenology from space: A new look at trends on the Tibetan Plateau

scientific article published on 21 November 2020

The forgotten D: challenges of addressing forest degradation in complex mosaic landscapes under REDD+

The human–environment nexus and vegetation–rainfall sensitivity in tropical drylands

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

The overlooked contribution of trees outside forests to tree cover and woody biomass across Europe

scientific article published on 15 September 2023

Thirty Years of Land Cover and Fraction Cover Changes over the Sudano-Sahel Using Landsat Time Series

Tracking Sustainable Restoration in Agro-Pastoral Ecotone of Northwest China

scientific article published on 13 December 2021

Trends in Global Vegetation Activity and Climatic Drivers Indicate a Decoupled Response to Climate Change

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Tropical forests did not recover from the strong 2015-2016 El Niño event

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Uncertainty in establishing forest reference levels and predicting future forest-based carbon stocks for REDD+

Uncovering Dryland Woody Dynamics Using Optical, Microwave, and Field Data—Prolonged Above-Average Rainfall Paradoxically Contributes to Woody Plant Die-Off in the Western Sahel

scientific article published in 2020

Understanding 'saturation' of radar signals over forests.

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Unravelling the link between global rubber price and tropical deforestation in Cambodia

scientific article published on 31 December 2018

Using long-term daily satellite based rainfall data (1983–2015) to analyze spatio-temporal changes in the sahelian rainfall regime

article by Wenmin Zhang et al published July 2017 in Journal of Hydrology

Vietnam's forest transition in retrospect: demonstrating weaknesses in business-as-usual scenarios for REDD.

scientific article published on 15 January 2015

Woody Vegetation Die off and Regeneration in Response to Rainfall Variability in the West African Sahel

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Woody plant cover estimation in drylands from Earth Observation based seasonal metrics

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