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Heiko Balzter
Professor
EO Data-Model Evaluation
Research interests
Forest biomass, carbon cycle, forest disturbances, forest alerts
Recent publications
Due diligence for deforestation-free supply chainswith Sentinel-2 imagery from the Copernicus DataSpace Ecosystem . 2025-01-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-21708
Impact of Land Use and Land Cover Change on Soil Erosion in Dondor Watershed, Blue Nile Basin, Northwestern Ethiopia. 2024-11-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su162310421
Evaluating Flood Damage to Paddy Rice Fields Using PlanetScope and Sentinel-1 Data in North-Western Nigeria: Towards Potential Climate Adaptation Strategies. 2024-09-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16193657
The African Regional Greenhouse Gases Budget (2010–2019). 2024-04
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB008016
Due Diligence for Deforestation-Free Supply Chains with Copernicus Sentinel-2 Imagery and Machine Learning. 2024-03-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/f15040617
Drivers of Forest Loss in a Megadiverse Hotspot on the Pacific Coast of Colombia. 2020-04-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12081235
Impact of Soil Reflectance Variation Correction on Woody Cover Estimation in Kruger National Park Using MODIS Data. 2019-04-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11080898
Applying Built-Up and Bare-Soil Indices from Landsat 8 to Cities in Dry Climates. 2018-07-04
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land7030081
Relationships of S-Band Radar Backscatter and Forest Aboveground Biomass in Different Forest Types. 2017-11-02
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9111116
A Review on Remote Sensing of Urban Heat and Cool Islands. 2017-06-09
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land6020038
Multi-Criteria Assessment of Land Cover Dynamic Changes in Halgurd Sakran National Park (HSNP), Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Using Remote Sensing and GIS. 2017-03-07
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land6010018
Individual Tree Crown Delineation from Airborne Laser Scanning for Diseased Larch Forest Stands. 2017-03-03
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9030231
Diurnal and Seasonal Variation of Surface Urban Cool and Heat Islands in the Semi-Arid City of Erbil, Iraq. 2016-09
http://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/4/3/42
Airborne S-Band SAR for Forest Biophysical Retrieval in Temperate Mixed Forests of the UK. 2016-07-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8070609
Mapping Forest Cover and Forest Cover Change with Airborne S-Band Radar. 2016-07-08
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8070577
Magnitude, spatial distribution and uncertainty of forest biomass stocks in Mexico. 2016
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84980400102&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Mapping regional patterns of large forest fires in Wildland-Urban Interface areas in Europe. 2016
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84959018782&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Methods to quantify regional differences in land cover change. 2016
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84962577866&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Predictive models of primary tropical forest structure from geomorphometric variables based on SRTM in the Tapajo's region, Brazilian Amazon. 2016
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84964687159&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Use of penetrating GNSS signals for measuring soil moisture. 2016
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84988535519&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Validation of the TanDEM-X Intermediate Digital Elevation Model with Airborne LiDAR and Differential GNSS in Kruger National Park. 2016
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84970897369&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Non-Parametric Retrieval of Aboveground Biomass in Siberian Boreal Forests with ALOS PALSAR Interferometric Coherence and Backscatter Intensity. 2015-12-25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging2010001
Multi-Scale Entropy Analysis as a Method for Time-Series Analysis of Climate Data. 2015-03-06
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/cli3010227
A conceptual model for assessing rainfall and vegetation trends in sub-Saharan Africa from satellite data. 2015
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84943374347&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Assessment of ecophysiology of lake shore reed vegetation based on chlorophyll fluorescence, field spectroscopy and hyperspectral airborne imagery. 2015
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84920181442&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Characterizing bi-temporal patterns of land surface temperature using landscape metrics based on sub-pixel classifications from Landsat TM/ETM+. 2015
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84943643313&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Characterizing fractional vegetation cover and land surface temperature based on sub-pixel fractional impervious surfaces from Landsat TM/ETM+. 2015
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84940039077&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Detecting the effects of hydrocarbon pollution in the Amazon forest using hyperspectral satellite images. 2015
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84930960463&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Evaluating sentinel-2 for lakeshore habitat mapping based on airborne hyperspectral data. 2015
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84941366654&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Harmonic analysis of Lake Balaton phytoplankton blooms using 9 years of MERIS-derived chlorophyll-A. 2015
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84962504640&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Land degradation assessment using residual trend analysis of GIMMS NDVI3g, soil moisture and rainfall in Sub-Saharan West Africa from 1982 to 2012. 2015
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84930027151&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Mapping CORINE land cover from Sentinel-1A SAR and SRTM digital elevation model data using random forests. 2015
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84950132986&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Remote sensing and GIS for habitat quality monitoring: New approaches and future research. 2015
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84933520316&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Satellite remote sensing of phytoplankton phenology in Lake Balaton using 10years of MERIS observations. 2015
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84921273696&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Spatial variation of the daytime Surface Urban Cool Island during the dry season in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, from Landsat 8. 2015
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84947461304&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Validation of Envisat MERIS algorithms for chlorophyll retrieval in a large, turbid and optically-complex shallow lake. 2015
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85028164681&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Spatial-Temporal Variation and Prediction of Rainfall in Northeastern Nigeria. 2014-09-17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/cli2030206
Mapping tree species in coastal portugal using statistically segmented principal component analysis and other methods. 2014
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84908432838&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Wildfires in boreal ecoregions: Evaluating the power law assumption and intra-annual and interannual variations. 2014
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84897008925&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Retrieval of savanna vegetation canopy height from ICESat-GLAS spaceborne LiDAR with terrain correction. 2013
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84886600449&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Spatial-temporal patterns of urban anthropogenic heat discharge in Fuzhou, China, observed from sensible heat flux using Landsat TM/ETM+ data. 2013
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84867602840&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Sustainability: Choose satellites to monitor deforestation. 2013
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84876249324&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Ultraviolet fluorescence LiDAR (UFL) as a measurement tool for water quality parameters in turbid lake conditions. 2013
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84884686532&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Airborne X-HH incidence angle impact on canopy height retreival: Implications for spaceborne X-HH Tandem-X global canopy height model. 2012
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84924352693&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Earth observation: A revolutionary leap into the future. 2012
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84861524954&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Introduction to the special issue: Satellite remote sensing in the service of regional and local authorities. 2012
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84870309407&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Changes in vegetation and rainfall patterns in sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade observed by satellites – A national and sub-national synthesis. 2011
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80955159979&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Data assimilation into land surface models: The implications for climate feedbacks. 2011
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79952399808&partnerID=MN8TOARS
The BIOMASS mission: Mapping global forest biomass to better understand the terrestrial carbon cycle. 2011
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80052618174&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Assimilation of land surface temperature into the land surface model JULES with an ensemble Kalman filter. 2010
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77958133598&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Assimilation of remote sensing data into land-surface models: The importance of uncertainty estimation to the filter performance. 2010
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84975744229&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Soil surface CO<inf>2</inf> flux increases with successional time in a fire scar chronosequence of Canadian boreal jack pine forest. 2010
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77952000060&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Analysing forest recovery after wildfire disturbance in boreal Siberia using remotely sensed vegetation indices. 2009
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-59849083015&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Comparison of X/C-HH InSAR and L-PolInSAR for canopy height estimation in a Lodgepole pine forest. 2009
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-76449094836&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Estimating carbon emissions from African wildfires. 2009
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70749155229&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Relationships between tropical, temperate and boreal forest variables and palsar data. 2009
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77955176492&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Remote Sensing and Earth Observation. 2009
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84889959378&partnerID=MN8TOARS
The influence of regional surface soil moisture anomalies on forest fires in Siberia observed from satellites. 2009
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70749132289&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Airborne SAR monitoring of tree growth in a coniferous plantation. 2008
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-46349088930&partnerID=MN8TOARS
An environmental assessment of land cover and land use change in Central Siberia using quantified conceptual overlaps to reconcile inconsistent data sets. 2008
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-57049109994&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Studying the change in fAPAR after forest fires in Siberia using MODIS. 2008
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-56049122184&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Climate, vegetation phenology and forest fires in Siberia. 2007
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-82355186672&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Coupling of vegetation growing season anomalies and fire activity with hemispheric and regional-scale climate patterns in central and east Siberia. 2007
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34548142600&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Data fusion for reconstruction of a DTM, under a woodland canopy, from airborne L-band InSAR. 2007
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34247510752&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Estimated daily carbon emissions from boreal forest fires for Siberia and Canada. 2007
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84880030178&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Post-fire vegetation phenology in Siberian burn scars. 2007
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-82355169960&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Uncertainties of a regional terrestrial biota full carbon account: A systems analysis. 2007
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84885813513&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Uncertainties of a regional terrestrial biota full carbon account: A systems analysis. 2007
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34547288961&partnerID=MN8TOARS
The application of lidar in woodland bird ecology: Climate, canopy structure, and habitat quality. 2006
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33845380366&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Siberia-II: Monitoring forest cover changes in Siberia by means of spaceborne data. 2005
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-23844505009&partnerID=MN8TOARS
The use of MODIS-derived fire radiative power to characterise Siberian boreal forest fires. 2005
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84879733838&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Afforestation, Re-, and Deforestation Monitoring in Siberia – Accuracy Requirements and First Results. 2003
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0242456765&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Biomass estimation of Thetford forest from L-band SAR data: Potential and limitations. 2003
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0242541309&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Digital elevation model (DEM) generation from SAR interferometry. 2003
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-1642559265&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Disturbances in the Siberian Boreal Forest – Mapping Fire-scars using a Multi-temporal, Multi-sensor Approach. 2003
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0242459672&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Forest canopy height mapping from dual-wavelength SAR interferometry. 2003
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-1642477605&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Forest woody biomass classification with satellite-based radar coherence over 900 000 km<sup>2</sup> in Central Siberia. 2003
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0037450763&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Potential of Polarimetric SAR Interferometry for Forest Carbon Accounting. 2003
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0242626783&partnerID=MN8TOARS
The CORSAR project: Can polarimateric SAR interferometry improve forest biomass estimation?. 2003
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-1642559281&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Accuracy assessment of a large-scale forest cover map of central siberia from synthetic aperture radar. 2002
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0013006373&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Forest stand structure from airborne polarimetric InSAR. 2002
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0036179468&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Deriving forest characteristics using polarimetric InSAR measurements and models. 2001
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0035570886&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Forest mapping and monitoring with interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR). 2001
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0034757196&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Mapping siberian forests. 2001
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0035134505&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Accuracy assessment issues in the SIBERIA project. 2000
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0346730922&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Combining unsupervised and knowledge-based methods in large-scale forest classification. 2000
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0034539381&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Global forest classification using JERS and tandem ERS data. 2000
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0347991639&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Markov chain models for vegetation dynamics. 2000
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0034724075&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Use of coherence information from ERS Tandem pairs for determining forest stock volume in SIBERIA. 2000
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0034542083&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Mapping deforestation in Amazon with ERS SAR interferometry. 1999
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0033337523&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Cellular automata models for vegetation dynamics. 1998
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