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Heiko Balzter
Professor
EO Data-Model Evaluation
Research interests
Forest biomass, carbon cycle, forest disturbances, forest alerts
Recent publications
Upscaling CO2 fluxes from agricultural drained lowland peatlands in England using remote sensing and machine learning. 2025-11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2025.101728
Photo-interpretation in LUCAS alters temporal trends of woody and wetland grazing extents. 2025-05-01
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adc8bf
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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