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Christiane Schmullius is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany and has a significant research record primarily in Environmental Science. Their scholarly output includes 88 publications in this main field, with notable contributions spanning the subfields of Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Aerospace Engineering.

The scientist's research prominently focuses on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, with 42 publications addressing these technologies. Other core topics include Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Forest Ecology and Management, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques, Landslides and Related Hazards, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Dam Engineering and Safety.

Christiane Schmullius has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Jussi Baade (18 collaborations), Clémence Dubois (17 collaborations), Marcel Urban (11 collaborations), Jannik Jänichen (10 collaborations), and Katja Last (8 collaborations).

The scientist's work has been published mostly in the journal Remote Sensing, with 21 papers appearing there. Other publication venues featuring their research include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with four publications, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology and Koedoe with two publications each, and the International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, also with two publications.

Among the notable papers authored or coauthored are:

  • Linking the Remote Sensing of Geodiversity and Traits Relevant to Biodiversity-Part II: Geomorphology, Terrain and Surfaces (2020) published in Remote Sensing
  • Accuracy Assessment of GEDI Terrain Elevation and Canopy Height Estimates in European Temperate Forests: Influence of Environmental and Acquisition Parameters (2020) published in Remote Sensing
  • Predicting Forest Cover in Distinct Ecosystems: The Potential of Multi-Source Sentinel-1 and -2 Data Fusion (2020) published in Remote Sensing
  • Assessment of terrain elevation estimates from ICESat-2 and GEDI spaceborne LiDAR missions across different land cover and forest types (2022) published in Science of Remote Sensing
  • Terrestrial Laser Scanning for Vegetation Analyses with a Special Focus on Savannas (2021) published in Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Some challenges in global land cover mapping : An assessment of agreement and accuracy in existing 1 km datasets

    M. Herold;P. Mayaux;C.E. Woodcock;A. Baccini

  • Model–data synthesis in terrestrial carbon observation: methods, data requirements and data uncertainty specifications

    M. R. Raupach;P. J. Rayner;D. J. Barrett;R. S. DeFries

  • Carbon stock and density of northern boreal and temperate forests

    Martin Thurner;Christian Beer;Maurizio Santoro;Nuno Carvalhais

  • Spatio-temporal analysis of the relationship between 2D/3D urban site characteristics and land surface temperature

    C. Berger;J. Rosentreter;M. Voltersen;C. Baumgart

  • Capabilities and limitations of Landsat and land cover data for aboveground woody biomass estimation of Uganda

    Valerio Avitabile;Alessandro Baccini;Mark A. Friedl;Christiane Schmullius

  • Retrieval of growing stock volume in boreal forest using hyper-temporal series of Envisat ASAR ScanSAR backscatter measurements

    Maurizio Santoro;Christian Beer;Oliver Cartus;Christiane Schmullius

  • Linking the Remote Sensing of Geodiversity and Traits Relevant to Biodiversity—Part II: Geomorphology, Terrain and Surfaces

    Angela Lausch;Angela Lausch;Michael E. Schaepman;Andrew K. Skidmore;Sina C. Truckenbrodt

  • A joint initiative for harmonization and validation of land cover datasets

    M. Herold;C.E. Woodcock;Antonio di Gregorio;P. Mayaux

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

    Heiko Balzter;Beth Cole;Christian Thiel;Christiane Schmullius

  • Global biomass mapping for an improved understanding of the CO2 balance—the Earth observation mission Carbon-3D

    S. Hese;W. Lucht;C. Schmullius;M. Barnsley

  • Forest growing stock volume of the northern hemisphere: Spatially explicit estimates for 2010 derived from Envisat ASAR

    Maurizio Santoro;André Beaudoin;Christian Beer;Oliver Cartus

  • Large-scale mapping of boreal forest in SIBERIA using ERS tandem coherence and JERS backscatter data

    Wolfgang Wagner;Adrian Luckman;Jan Vietmeier;Kevin Tansey

  • Overview of results of Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C, X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR)

    E.R. Stofan;D.L. Evans;C. Schmullius;B. Holt

  • Estimation of forest aboveground biomass and uncertainties by integration of field measurements, airborne LiDAR, and SAR and optical satellite data in Mexico

    Mikhail Urbazaev;Mikhail Urbazaev;Christian Thiel;Felix Cremer;Ralph Dubayah

  • Assessment of stand-wise stem volume retrieval in boreal forest from JERS-1 L-band SAR backscatter

    M. Santoro;Leif E.B. Eriksson;Jan Askne;C. Schmullius

  • Accuracy Assessment of GEDI Terrain Elevation and Canopy Height Estimates in European Temperate Forests: Influence of Environmental and Acquisition Parameters

    Markus Adam;Mikhail Urbazaev;Clémence Dubois;Christiane Schmullius

  • Comparison of UAV photograph-based and airborne lidar-based point clouds over forest from a forestry application perspective

    Christian Thiel;Christiane Schmullius

  • Evolving standards in land cover characterization

    M. Herold;J. S. Latham;A. Di Gregorio;C. C. Schmullius

  • Comparison of four global FAPAR datasets over Northern Eurasia for the year 2000

    Ian McCallum;Wolfgang Wagner;Christiane Schmullius;Anatoly Shvidenko

  • Influence of Surface Topography on ICESat/GLAS Forest Height Estimation and Waveform Shape

    Claudia Hilbert;Christiane Schmullius

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

    Heiko Balzter;Charles T. George;Clare S. Rowland

Frequent Co-Authors

Maurizio Santoro
Maurizio Santoro Gamma Remote Sensing (Switzerland)
Martin Herold
Martin Herold Wageningen University & Research
Anatoly Shvidenko
Anatoly Shvidenko International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Christian Beer
Christian Beer Stockholm University
Izak P.J. Smit
Izak P.J. Smit South African National Parks
Ian McCallum
Ian McCallum International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Shaun Quegan
Shaun Quegan University of Sheffield
Heiko Balzter
Heiko Balzter University of Leicester
Irena Hajnsek
Irena Hajnsek German Aerospace Center

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