List of works by Heiko Balzter

A Machine-Learning Approach to PolInSAR and LiDAR Data Fusion for Improved Tropical Forest Canopy Height Estimation Using NASA AfriSAR Campaign Data

scientific article published on 20 September 2018

A Trend Analysis of Leaf Area Index and Land Surface Temperature and Their Relationship from Global to Local Scale

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

A conceptual model for assessing rainfall and vegetation trends in sub-Saharan Africa from satellite data

scholarly article by A. Hoscilo et al published 16 December 2014 in International Journal of Climatology

A statistical model linking Siberian forest fire scars with early summer rainfall anomalies

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Accuracy assessment of a large-scale forest cover map of central Siberia from synthetic aperture radar

Airborne SAR monitoring of tree growth in a coniferous plantation

An environmental assessment of land cover and land use change in Central Siberia using quantified conceptual overlaps to reconcile inconsistent data sets

Analysing forest recovery after wildfire disturbance in boreal Siberia using remotely sensed vegetation indices

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Assessment of ecophysiology of lake shore reed vegetation based on chlorophyll fluorescence, field spectroscopy and hyperspectral airborne imagery

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Assimilation of land surface temperature into the land surface model JULES with an ensemble Kalman filter

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Carbon Dynamics in a Human-Modified Tropical Forest: A Case Study Using Multi-Temporal LiDAR Data

scientific article published on 29 January 2020

Cellular automata models for vegetation dynamics

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Changes in vegetation and rainfall patterns in sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade observed by satellites - a national and sub-national synthesis

scholarly article published July 2011

Characterizing bi-temporal patterns of land surface temperature using landscape metrics based on sub-pixel classifications from Landsat TM/ETM+

Characterizing fractional vegetation cover and land surface temperature based on sub-pixel fractional impervious surfaces from Landsat TM/ETM+

Classification of forest volume resources using ERS tandem coherence and JERS backscatter data

Climate, vegetation phenology and forest fires in Siberia

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Climatic and geographic patterns of river runoff formation in Northern Eurasia

Coupling of Vegetation Growing Season Anomalies and Fire Activity with Hemispheric and Regional-Scale Climate Patterns in Central and East Siberia

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Data Fusion for Reconstruction of a DTM, Under a Woodland Canopy, From Airborne L-band InSAR

Data assimilation into land surface models: the implications for climate feedbacks

Detecting phenological changes in plant functional types over West African savannah dominated landscape

scientific article published on 18 November 2020

Detecting the effects of hydrocarbon pollution in the Amazon forest using hyperspectral satellite images

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Diurnal and Seasonal Variation of Surface Urban Cool and Heat Islands in the Semi-Arid City of Erbil, Iraq

Dynamic Landscapes in the UK Driven by Pressures from Energy Production and Forestry—Results of the CORINE Land Cover Map 2018

scientific article published in 2022

Earth observation: a revolutionary leap into the future

Estimating Daily Reference Evapotranspiration in a Semi-Arid Region Using Remote Sensing Data

scientific article published in 2017

Estimating carbon emissions from African wildfires

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Estimating fractional cover of plant functional types in African savannah from harmonic analysis of MODIS time-series data

scientific article published in 2018

Estimation of tree growth in a conifer plantation over 19 years from multi-satellite L-band SAR

scientific article published in 2003

Evaluating Sentinel-2 for Lakeshore Habitat Mapping Based on Airborne Hyperspectral Data

scientific article

Forest fire scar detection in the boreal forest with multitemporal spot-vegetation data

Forest mapping and monitoring with interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)

Forest woody biomass classification with satellite-based radar coherence over 900 000 km2 in Central Siberia

scientific article published in 2003

Harmonic analysis of Lake Balaton phytoplankton blooms using 9 years of MERIS-derived chlorophyll-A

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Impact of the Arctic Oscillation pattern on interannual forest fire variability in Central Siberia

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Introduction to the special issue: Satellite Remote Sensing in the Service of Regional and Local Authorities

Land Degradation Assessment Using Residual Trend Analysis of GIMMS NDVI3g, Soil Moisture and Rainfall in Sub-Saharan West Africa from 1982 to 2012

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Loss and Damage from Climate Change: Knowledge Gaps and Interdisciplinary Approaches

scientific article published in 2023

Magnitude, spatial distribution and uncertainty of forest biomass stocks in Mexico

scholarly article

Mapping CORINE Land Cover from Sentinel-1A SAR and SRTM Digital Elevation Model Data using Random Forests

scholarly article

Mapping Tree Species in Coastal Portugal Using Statistically Segmented Principal Component Analysis and Other Methods

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Mapping regional patterns of large forest fires in Wildland-Urban Interface areas in Europe

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Markov chain models for vegetation dynamics

scientific article published in 2000

Methods to Quantify Regional Differences in Land Cover Change

Modelling relationships between birds and vegetation structure using airborne LiDAR data: a review with case studies from agricultural and woodland environments

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Non-Parametric Retrieval of Aboveground Biomass in Siberian Boreal Forests with ALOS PALSAR Interferometric Coherence and Backscatter Intensity

Observations of forest stand top height and mean height from interferometric SAR and LiDAR over a conifer plantation at Thetford Forest, UK

article by Heiko Balzter et al published 15 March 2007 in International Journal of Remote Sensing

Post-War Land Cover Changes and Fragmentation in Halgurd Sakran National Park (HSNP), Kurdistan Region of Iraq

scientific article published in 2018

Post-fire vegetation phenology in Siberian burn scars

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Predictive Models of Primary Tropical Forest Structure from Geomorphometric Variables Based on SRTM in the Tapajós Region, Brazilian Amazon

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Pyeo: A Python package for near-real-time forest cover change detection from Earth observation using machine learning

scientific article published in 2022

Remote Sensing and Earth Observation

Remote Sensing and GIS for Habitat Quality Monitoring: New Approaches and Future Research

Retrieval of Savanna Vegetation Canopy Height from ICESat-GLAS Spaceborne LiDAR With Terrain Correction

article by Ehsan Khalefa et al published November 2013 in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Retrieval of timber volume and snow water equivalent over a Finnish boreal forest from airborne polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar

Retrospective mapping of burnt areas in Central Siberia using a modification of the normalised difference water index

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Satellite remote sensing of phytoplankton phenology in Lake Balaton using 10years of MERIS observations

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Soil surface CO 2 flux increases with successional time in a fire scar chronosequence of Canadian boreal jack pine forest

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Spatial variation of the daytime Surface Urban Cool Island during the dry season in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, from Landsat 8

scholarly article by Azad Rasul et al published December 2015 in Urban Climate

Spatial–temporal patterns of urban anthropogenic heat discharge in Fuzhou, China, observed from sensible heat flux using Landsat TM/ETM+ data

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Studying the change in fAPAR after forest fires in Siberia using MODIS

Sustainability: Choose satellites to monitor deforestation

scientific article published on April 2013

The BIOMASS mission: Mapping global forest biomass to better understand the terrestrial carbon cycle

scientific article published in 2011

The influence of regional surface soil moisture anomalies on forest fires in Siberia observed from satellites

Ultraviolet Fluorescence LiDAR (UFL) as a Measurement Tool for Water Quality Parameters in Turbid Lake Conditions

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Uncertainties of a Regional Terrestrial Biota Full Carbon Account: A Systems Analysis

Uncertainties of a Regional Terrestrial Biota Full Carbon Account: A Systems Analysis

Validation of Envisat MERIS algorithms for chlorophyll retrieval in a large, turbid and optically-complex shallow lake

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Validation of the TanDEM-X Intermediate Digital Elevation Model With Airborne LiDAR and Differential GNSS in Kruger National Park

Wildfires in boreal ecoregions: Evaluating the power law assumption and intra-annual and interannual variations

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Woody Aboveground Biomass Mapping of the Brazilian Savanna with a Multi-Sensor and Machine Learning Approach

scientific article published on 20 August 2020