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Predicting plant biomass and species richness in temperate grasslands across regions, time, and land management with remote sensing and deep learning

Predicting Vegetation Attributes with Neural Networks and Sentinel-1 & 2

Predicting Species and Structural Diversity of Temperate Forests with Satellite Remote Sensing and Deep Learning
Publications 2021:

The use of remote sensing to derive maize sowing dates for large-scale crop yield simulations

Drought risk for agricultural systems in South Africa: Drivers, spatial patterns, and implications for drought risk management Science of The Total Environment

Land-use change in Northern Ukraine: patterns and dynamics of illegal amber mining during 1986-2016

Crop harvested area, not yield drives variability in crop production in Iran

Assessment of Land Degradation in Semiarid Tanzania - Using Multiscale Remote Sensing Datasets to Support Sustainable Development Goal 15.3

The Potential of Sentinel-1 Insar Coherence for Grasslands Monitoring in Eastern Cape, South Africa. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 98
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Publications 2025
Weiwei Liu, Matti Mõttus, Zbyněk Malenovský, Shengwei Shi, Luis Alonso, Jon Atherton, Albert Porcar-Castell. An in situ approach for validation of canopy chlorophyll fluorescence radiative transfer models using the full emission spectrum, Remote Sensing of Environment Volume 316, 2025, 114490, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.1144901
Juliane Bendig, Zbynĕk Malenovský, Bastian Siegmann, Julie Krämer, Uwe Rascher. Comparing methods for solar-induced fluorescence efficiency estimation using radiative transfer modelling and airborne diurnal measurements of barley crops. Remote Sensing of Environment Volume 317, 2025, 114521, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.1145212
Publications 2024
Emiliano Cimoli, Arko Lucieer, Zbyněk Malenovský, William Woodgate, Růžena Janoutová, Darren Turner, Ryan S. Haynes, Stuart Phinn. Mapping functional diversity of canopy physiological traits using UAS imaging spectroscopy. Volume 302, 2024, 113958, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.1139584
Aarne Hovi, Růžena Janoutová, Zbyněk Malenovský, Daniel Schraik, Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry, Nicolas Lauret, Jan Novotný, Miina Rautiainen, Physically based modelling of spectral transmittance through forest canopies. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.144025
Javier Pacheco-Labrador, M.Pilar Cendrero-Mateo, Shari Van Wittenberghe, Itza Hernandez-Sequeira, Gerbrand Koren, Egor Prikaziuk, Szilvia Fóti, Enrico Tomelleri, Kadmiel Maseyk, Nataša Čereković, Rosario Gonzalez-Cascon, Zbyněk Malenovský, Mar Albert-Saiz, Michal Antala, János Balogh, Henning Buddenbaum, Mohammad Hossain Dehghan-Shoar, Joseph T. Fennell, Jean-Baptiste Féret, Hamadou Balde, Miriam Machwitz, Ádám Mészáros, Guofang Miao, Miguel Morata, Paul Naethe, Zoltán Nagy, Krisztina Pintér, R. Reddy Pullanagari, Anshu Rastogi, Bastian Siegmann, Sheng Wang, Chenhui Zhang & Daniel Kopkáně, Ecophysiological variables retrieval and early stress detection: insights from a synthetic spatial scaling exercise, International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 46, 2025 - Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2024.24144356
Publications 2023
Weiwei Liu, Jon Atherton, Matti Mõttus, Zbyněk Malenovský, Shezhou Luo, Yongguang Zhang, Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry, Analysing far-red SIF directional anisotropy of three structurally contrasting forest canopies towards improved GPP estimation, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Volume 338, 2023, 109531, ISSN 0168-1923, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.10953116
Publications 2022
Javier Muro, Anja Linstädter, Paul Magdon, Stephan Wöllauer, Florian A. Männer, Lisa-Maricia Schwarz, Gohar Ghazaryan, Johannes Schultz, Zbyněk Malenovský, Olena Dubovyk: Predicting plant biomass and species richness in temperate grasslands across regions, time, and land management with remote sensing and deep learning. Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 282, 2022, 113262, ISSN 0034-4257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.1132628
Muro, J., Linstädter, A., Männer, F. A., Schwarz, L.-M., Hoffmann, J., and Dubovyk, O.: Predicting Vegetation Attributes with Neural Networks and Sentinel-1 & 2, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLIII-B3-2022, 945–950, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B3-2022-945-2022
Hoffmann, J., Muro, J., Dubovyk, O., Predicting Species and Structural Diversity of Temperate Forests with Satellite Remote Sensing and Deep Learning. Remote Sens. 2022, 14 (7), 1631. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs1407163117
Publications 2021
Rezai, E.E., Ghazaryan, G., Gonalez, J. et al. The use of remote sensing to derive maize sowing dates for large-scale crop yield simulations. Int J Biometeorol 65, 565-576 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-020-02050-411
Meza, I., Rezaei, E.E., Siebert, S., Ghazaryan, G., Nouri, H., Dubovyk, O., Gerdener, H., Herbert, C., Kusche, j., Popart, E., Rhyner, J., Jordaan, A., Walz, Y., Hagenlocher, M. Drought risk for agricultural systems in South Africa: Drivers, spatial patterns, and implications for drought risk management Science of The Total Environment, 799, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-021-09317-212
Smaliychuk, A., Ghazaryan, G. & Dubovyk, O. Land-use change in Northern Ukraine: patterns and dynamics of illegal amber mining during 1986-2016. Environ Monit Assess 193, 502(2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-021-09317-212
Rezaei, E.E., Ghazaryan, G., Moradi, R., Dubovyk, O., Siebert, S. Crop harvested area, not yield drives variability in crop production in Iran. Environmental Research 2021. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abfe29
Reith, J., Ghazaryan, G., Muthoni, F., Dubovyk, O. Assessment of Land Degradation in Semiarid Tanzania - Using Multiscale Remote Sensing Datasets to Support Sustainable Development Goal 15.3. Remote Sensing 2021,13, 1754. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs1309175418
Abdel-Hamid, A., Dubovyk, O., Greve, K.: (2021): The Potential of Sentinel-1 Insar Coherence for Grasslands Monitoring in Eastern Cape, South Africa. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2021.10230619
Cisneros-Araujo, P., Ramirez-Lopez, M., Juffe-Bignoli, D., Fensholt, R., Muro, J., C. Mateo-Sanchez, M., Burgess, N.D.: (2021): Remote sensing of wildlife connectivity networks and priority locations for conservation in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor (SAGCOT) in Tanzania. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.19915
Publications 2020
Ghazaryan, G., König, S., Eyshi Rezaei, E., Siebert, S., Dubovyk, O. (2020): Analysis of Drought Impact on Croplands from Global to Regional Scale: A Remote Sensing Approach. Remote Sensing 12, 4030. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs1224403020
Schreier, J., Ghazaryan, G., Dubovyk, O. (2020): Crop-specific phenomapping by fusing Landsat and Sentinel data with MODIS time series. European Journal of Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.1080/22797254.2020.183196921
Muro, J., Varea, A., Strauch, A., Guelmami, A., Fitoka, E., Thonfeld, F., Diekkrüger, B., Waske, B. (2020): Multitemporal optical and radar metrics for wetland mapping at national level in Albania. Heliyon, 6, e04496. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e0449622
Muro, J., Zurita-Arthos, L., Jara, J., Calderón, E., Resl, R., Rienow, A., Graw, V. (2020): Earth Observation for Settlement Mapping of Amazonian Indigenous Populations to Support SDG7. Resources 9, 97. https://doi.org/10.3390/resources908009723
Thonfeld, F., Steinbach, S., Muro, J., Hentze, K., Games, I., Näschen, K., Kauzeni, P.F. (2020): The impact of anthropogenic land use change on the protected areas of the Kilombero catchment, Tanzania. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 168, 41-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.07.01924
Weise, K., Höfer, R., Franke, J., Guelmami, A., Simonson, W., Muro, J., O'Connor, B., Strauch, A., Flink, S., Eberle, J., Mino, E., Thulin, S., Philipson, P., van Valkengoed, E., Truckenbrodt, J., Zander, F., Sánchez, A., Schröder, C., Thonfeld, F., Fitoka, E., Scott, E., Ling, M., Schwarz, M., Kunz, I., Thürmer, G., Plasmeijer, A., Hilarides, L. (2020): Wetland extend tools for SDG 6.6.2 reporting from the Satellite-based Wetland Observation Service (SWOS). Remote Sensing of Environment 247, 111892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.11189225
Ghazaryan, G., Dubovyk, O., Graw, V., Kussul, N. & J. Schellberg (2020): Local-scale agricultural drought monitoring with satellite-based multi-sensor time-series. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2020.177833226
Akinyemi, F.O., Ghazaryan, G., Dubovyk, O. (2020): Assessing Un Indicators Of Land Degradation Neutrality And Proportion Of Degraded Land Over Botswana Using Remote Sensing Based National Level Metrics. Land Degradation & Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.369527
Liu, D., Chen, W., Menz, G., Dubovyk, O. (2020): Development of integrated wetland change detection approach: In case of Erdos Larus Relictus National Nature Reserve, China. Science of The Total Environment 731, 139166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.13916628
Abdel-Hamid, A., Dubovyk, O., Graw, V., Greve, K. (2020): Assessing the impact of drought stress on grasslands using multi-temporal SAR data of Sentinel-1: a case study in Eastern Cape, South Africa. European Journal of Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.1080/22797254.2020.176251429
Akinyemi, F.O., Ikanyeng, M., Muro, J. (2020): Land cover change effects on land surface temperature trends in an African urbanizing dryland region. City and Environment Interactions, 100029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cacint.2020.10002930
Heinemann, S., Siegmann, B., Thonfeld, F., Muro, J., Jedmowski, C., Kemna, A., Kraska, T., Muller, O., Schultz, J., Udelhoven, T., Wilke, N., Rascher, U. (2020): Land Surface Temperature Retrieval for Agricultural Areas Using a Novel UAV Platform Equipped with a Thermal Infrared and Multispectral Sensor. Remote Sensing 12, 1075. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs1207107531
Thonfeld, F., Steinbach, S., Muro, J., Kirimi, F. (2020): Long-term land use/land cover change assessment of the Kilombero catchment in Tanzania using random forest classification and robust change vector analysis. Remote sensing, 12, 1057. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs1207105732
König, S., Schultz, J., Dubovyk, O., Thonfeld, F. (2020): Assessment of Drought Effects on Forests using Non-Parametric Methods and Satellite Imagery In: Kersten, T.P. (Ed.): 40. Wissenschaftlich-Technische Jahrestagung Der DGPF in Stuttgart (Publikationen der DGPF 29), 1–12. ResearchGate.
Graw, V., Ghazaryan, G., Schreier, J., Gonzalez, J., Abdel-Hamid, A., Walz, Y., Dall, K., Post, J., Jordaan, A., Dubovyk, O. (2020):Timing is Everything–Drought Classification for Risk Assessment. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 13, 428-433. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2019.296357633
Landmann, T., Dubovyk, O., Ghazaryan, G., Kimani, J., Abdel-Rahman, E.M. (2020): Wide-area invasive species propagation mapping is possible using phenometric trends. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 159, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2019.10.01634
Publications 2019
Schultz, J., Hartmann, M., Heinemann, S., Janke, J., Jürgens, C., Oertel, D., Rücker, G., Thonfeld, F., Rienow, A. (2019): DIEGO: A Multispectral Thermal Mission for Earth Observation on the International Space Station. European Journal of Remote Sensing, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/22797254.2019.169831835
Dubovyk, O., Ghazaryan, G., Löw, F., Graw, V., Schreier, J. (2019): Drought hazard in Kazakhstan in 2000-2016: a remote sensing perspective. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 191, 510. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-019-7620-z36
Dimov, D., Löw, F., Uhl, J., Kenjabaev, S., Dubovyk, O., Ibrakhimov, M., Chandrashekhar, B. (2019): A Framework for Agricultural Productivity Assessment based on MODIS multitemporal data. Applied Remote Sensing 13, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.13.02550137
König, S., Schultz, J.A., Schoch, A., Blöthe, J., Schrott, L., Thonfeld. F. (2019): Mountain Permafrost Distribution Modeling - A Geomorphometry-Remote Sensing Approach for the Hohe Tauern National Park, Austria. In: Kersten, T.P. (Ed.): Dreiländertagung der OVG, DGPF und SGPF. Phtotogrammetrie - Fernerkundung - Geoinformation - 2019 (Publikationen der DGPF 28). Pp. 675-685. ResearchGate.
Graw, V., Dubovyk, O., Duguru, M., Heid, P., Ghazaryan, G., Villagrán de León, J.C., Post, J., Szarzynski, J., Tsegai, D., Walz, Y. (2019): Chapter 9 - Assessment, monitoring, and early warning of droughts: the potential for satellite remote sensing and beyond, in: Mapedza, E., Tsegai, D., Bruntrup, M., and McLeman, R. (Eds.), Current Directions in Water Scarcity Research. Elsevier, pp. 115-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-814820-4.00009-238
Muro, J., A. Strauch, E. Fitoka, M. Tompoulidou, Thonfeld, F. (2019): Mapping Wetland Dynamics With SAR-Based Change Detection in the Cloud. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2019.290359639
Gabiri, G., Leemhuis, C., Diekkrüger, B., Näschen, K., Steinbach, S., Thonfeld, F. (2019): Modelling the impact of land use management on water resources in a tropical inland valley catchment of central Uganda, East Africa. Science of The Total Environment 653, 1052–1066. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.43040
Publications 2018
Rienow, A., Schneevoigt, N.J., Thonfeld, F. (2018): Quantification and Prediction of Land Consumption and Its Climate Effects in the Rhineland Metropolitan Area Based on Multispectral Satellite Data and Land-Use Modelling 1975–2030, in: Rocha, J., Tenedório, J.A. (Eds.), Spatial Analysis, Modelling and Planning. IntechOpen, pp. 151–168. www.intechopen.com/books/spatial-analysis-modelling-and-planning/quantification-and-prediction-of-land-consumption-and-its-climate-effects-in-the-rhineland-metropoli41
Kirimi, F.; Thiong'o, K.; Gabiri, G.; Diekkrüger, B., Thonfeld, F. (2018): Assessing seasonal land cover dynamics in the tropical Kilombero floodplain of East Africa. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 12(2), 026027. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.12.02602742
Näschen, K.; Diekkrüger, B.; Leemhuis, C.; Steinbach, S.; Seregina, L.S.; Thonfeld, F., van der Linden, R. (2018): Hydrological Modeling in Data-Scarce Catchments: The Kilombero Floodplain in Tanzania. Water 10, 599. https://doi.org/10.3390/w1005059943.
Muro, J.; Strauch, A.; Heinemann, S.; Steinbach, S.; Thonfeld, F.; Waske, B., Diekkrüger, B. (2018): Land surface temperature trends as indicator of land use changes in wetlands. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 70, Pages 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2018.02.00244
Publications 2017
Rienow, A.; Thonfeld, F. & A. Valentin (2017): Flächenverbrauch in der Metropolregion Rheinland 1975-2030. (Springer Vieweg) Wiesbaden. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-20399-3Daniel, S.; Gabiri, G.; Kirimi, F.; Glasner, B.; Näschen, K.; Leemhuis, C.; Steinbach, S., Mtei, K. (2017): Spatial Distribution of Soil Hydrological Properties in the Kilombero Floodplain, Tanzania. Hydrology 2017, 4 (4), 57. http://www.mdpi.com/2306-5338/4/4/5745
Leemhuis, C., Thonfeld, F., Näschen, K., Steinbach, S., Muro, J., Strauch, A., López, A., Daconto, G., Games, I., Diekkrüger, B. (2017): Sustainability in the Food-Water-Ecosystem Nexus: The Role of Land Use and Land Cover Change for Water Resources and Ecosystems in the Kilombero Wetland, Tanzania. Sustainability 9, 1513. http://doi.org/10.3390/su909151346
Hentze, K., Thonfeld, F., Menz, G. (2017): Beyond trend analysis: How a modified breakpoint analysis enhances knowledge of agricultural production after Zimbabwe's fast track land reform. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Volume 62, October 2017, Pages 78-87, ISSN 0303-2434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2017.05.00747
Basukala, A. K., Oldenburg, C., Schellberg, J., Sultanov, M., Dubovyk, O. (2017): Towards improved land use mapping of irrigated croplands: performance assessment of different image classification algorithms and approaches. European Journal of Remote Sensing, 50(1), 187-201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22797254.2017.130823548
Thonfeld, F., Rienow, A., Dubovyk, O., Abdel-Hamid, A., Akpeokhai, A., Amler, E., Bareth, G., Basukala, A. K., Canty, M., Denich, M., Dobrzeniecki, T., Ferner, J., Flügel, H., Ghazaryan, G., Götz, E., Graw, V., Greve, K., Guuroh, R., Heinemann, S., Henning, T., Hentze, K., Hollberg, J. L., Kirimi, F., Kocherscheidt, S., Konermann-Krüger, B., Liu, D., Muro, J., Oldenburg, C., Ortwein, A., Piroska, R., Santos, F., Schellberg, J., Schultz, J., Schurr, U., Selg, F., Staar, K., Steinbach, S., Strauch, A., Szarzynski, J., Tewes, A., Thiong’o, K. B., Vetter, A., Wirkus, L., Rascher, U. (2017): In Memoriam: Gunter Menz. Remote Sensing 9 (3). 274. http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/9/3/27449.
Santos, F., Dubovyk, O. & Menz, G. (2017): Monitoring Forest Dynamics in the Andean Amazon: The Applicability of Breakpoint Detection Methods Using Landsat Time-Series and Genetic Algorithms. Remote Sensing 2017, 9, 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs901006850
Locher-Krause, K. E., Volk, M., Waske, B., Thonfeld, F., Lautenbach, S. (2017): Expanding temporal resolution in landscape transformations: Insights from a landsat-based case study in Southern Chile. Ecological Indicators, Volume 75, April 2017, Pages 132-144, ISSN 1470-160X. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.12.03651
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