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Barbara Koch is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany and specializes in Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their research extensively covers several key topics including:

  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life

Barbara Koch has published numerous articles in scientific journals, contributing to a range of fields related to remote sensing and environmental studies. Frequent venues for these publications include:

  • Remote Sensing
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • International Journal of Global Warming
  • Energies

The scientist's recent papers are as follows:

  • Mapping forest tree species in high resolution UAV-based RGB-imagery by means of convolutional neural networks, 2020, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of retention forestry to enhance biodiversity in production forests of Central Europe using an interdisciplinary, multi-scale approach, 2020, Ecology and Evolution
  • Mapping tree species diversity in temperate montane forests using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery and topography data, 2023, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Individual Tree Crown Segmentation of a Larch Plantation Using Airborne Laser Scanning Data Based on Region Growing and Canopy Morphology Features, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Comprehensive assessments and related interventions to enhance the long-term outcomes of child, adolescent and young adult cancer survivors - presentation of the CARE for CAYA-Program study protocol and associated literature review, 2020, BMC Cancer

Barbara Koch has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Julian Frey
  • Christopher Voglstätter
  • Tom Smolinka
  • Pawan Datta
  • Friedrich Mendler

Best Publications

  • Detection of individual tree crowns in airborne lidar data

    Barbara Koch;Ursula Heyder;Holger Weinacker

  • Agricultural land abandonment and natural forest re-growth in the Swiss mountains: A spatially explicit economic analysis

    Mario Gellrich;Priska Baur;Barbara Koch;Niklaus E. Zimmermann

  • Importance of sample size, data type and prediction method for remote sensing-based estimations of aboveground forest biomass

    F.E. Fassnacht;F.E. Fassnacht;F. Hartig;H. Latifi;C. Berger

  • Comparative testing of single-tree detection algorithms under different types of forest

    Jari Vauhkonen;Liviu Ene;Sandeep Gupta;Johannes Heinzel

  • Status and future of laser scanning, synthetic aperture radar and hyperspectral remote sensing data for forest biomass assessment

    Barbara Koch

  • A framework for mapping tree species combining Hyperspectral and LiDAR data: role of selected classifiers and sensor across three spatial scales

    Aniruddha Ghosh;Fabian Ewald Fassnacht;Pawan Kumar Joshi;Barbara Koch

  • Mapping forest tree species in high resolution UAV-based RGB-imagery by means of convolutional neural networks

    Felix Schiefer;Teja Kattenborn;Teja Kattenborn;Annett Frick;Julian Frey

  • Non-parametric prediction and mapping of standing timber volume and biomass in a temperate forest: application of multiple optical/LiDAR-derived predictors

    Hooman Latifi;Arne Nothdurft;Barbara Koch

  • Exploring full-waveform LiDAR parameters for tree species classification

    Johannes Heinzel;Barbara Koch

  • A Lidar Point Cloud Based Procedure for Vertical Canopy Structure Analysis And 3D Single Tree Modelling in Forest

    Yunsheng Wang;Holger Weinacker;Barbara Koch

  • Comparison of Feature Reduction Algorithms for Classifying Tree Species With Hyperspectral Data on Three Central European Test Sites

    Fabian Ewald Fassnacht;Carsten Neumann;Michael Förster;Henning Buddenbaum

  • UAV-BASED PHOTOGRAMMETRIC POINT CLOUDS – TREE STEM MAPPING IN OPEN STANDS IN COMPARISON TO TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNER POINT CLOUDS

    A. Fritz;T. Kattenborn;B. Koch

  • Investigating multiple data sources for tree species classification in temperate forest and use for single tree delineation

    Johannes Heinzel;Barbara Koch

  • Forest biodiversity and its assessment by remote sensing

    John L. Innes;Barbara Koch

  • Assessing the potential of hyperspectral imagery to map bark beetle-induced tree mortality

    Fabian Ewald Fassnacht;Hooman Latifi;Aniruddha Ghosh;Pawan Kumar Joshi

  • Forest structure modeling with combined airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR data

    Hooman Latifi;Fabian Ewald Fassnacht;Barbara Koch

  • UAV Photogrammetry of Forests as a Vulnerable Process. A Sensitivity Analysis for a Structure from Motion RGB-Image Pipeline

    Julian Frey;Kyle Kovach;Simon Stemmler;Barbara Koch

  • Comparative Analysis of Clustering-Based Approaches for 3-D Single Tree Detection Using Airborne Fullwave Lidar Data

    Sandeep Gupta;Holger Weinacker;Barbara Koch

  • HIGH-SCAN: The first European-wide attempt to derive single-tree information from laserscanner data

    Juha Hyyppä;Mathias Schardt;Henrik Haggrén;Barbara Koch

  • Stratified aboveground forest biomass estimation by remote sensing data.

    Hooman Latifi;Fabian Ewald Fassnacht;Fabian Ewald Fassnacht;Florian Hartig;Christian Berger

  • Automatic Single Tree Detection in Plantations using UAV-based Photogrammetric Point clouds

    Teja Kattenborn;M. Sperlich;K. Bataua;Barbara Koch

Frequent Co-Authors

Pawan Kumar Joshi
Pawan Kumar Joshi Jawaharlal Nehru University
Thomas Blaschke
Thomas Blaschke University of Salzburg
Terje Gobakken
Terje Gobakken Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Ian McCallum
Ian McCallum International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Steffen Fritz
Steffen Fritz International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Svein Solberg
Svein Solberg Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
Erik Næsset
Erik Næsset Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Christiane Schmullius
Christiane Schmullius Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Matti Maltamo
Matti Maltamo University of Eastern Finland
Peter Schall
Peter Schall University of Göttingen

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