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Dirk Pflugmacher is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a substantial focus on subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's main topics of work cover Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Fire Effects on Ecosystems.

Dirk Pflugmacher has contributed a number of recent papers published in several well-known venues. Some of these papers include:

  • "Mapping of crop types and crop sequences with combined time series of Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 data for Germany," 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Mapping temperate forest tree species using dense Sentinel-2 time series," 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Green growth? On the relation between population density, land use and vegetation cover fractions in a city using a 30-years Landsat time series," 2020, Landscape and Urban Planning
  • "Characterizing spring phenology of temperate broadleaf forests using Landsat and Sentinel-2 time series," 2020, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • "Characterizing forest disturbances across the Argentine Dry Chaco based on Landsat time series," 2021, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Their frequent collaborators include Patrick Hostert with 18 joint publications, Franz Schug and Philippe Rufin both with 8, Marcel Schwieder with 6, and David Frantz with 5.

Dirk Pflugmacher's work is often published in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Remote Sensing of Environment, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Landscape and Urban Planning, and Journal of Ecology.

Best Publications

  • Mapping of crop types and crop sequences with combined time series of Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 data for Germany

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  • Bringing an ecological view of change to Landsat‐based remote sensing

    Robert E Kennedy;Serge Andréfouët;Warren B Cohen;Cristina Gómez

  • Canopy mortality has doubled in Europe's temperate forests over the last three decades.

    Cornelius Senf;Dirk Pflugmacher;Yang Zhiqiang;Julius Sebald

  • Using Landsat-derived disturbance history (1972-2010) to predict current forest structure

    Dirk Pflugmacher;Warren B. Cohen;Robert E. Kennedy

  • Forest stand species mapping using the Sentinel-2 time series.

    Ewa Grabska;Patrick Hostert;Dirk Pflugmacher;Katarzyna Ostapowicz

  • Using Landsat-derived disturbance and recovery history and lidar to map forest biomass dynamics

    Dirk Pflugmacher;Warren B. Cohen;Robert E. Kennedy;Zhiqiang Yang

  • Virtual constellations for global terrestrial monitoring

    Michael A. Wulder;Thomas Hilker;Joanne C. White;Nicholas C. Coops

  • Land use and land cover change in Inner Mongolia - understanding the effects of China's re-vegetation programs

    He Yin;Dirk Pflugmacher;Ang Li;Zhengguo Li

  • Mapping pan-European land cover using Landsat spectral-temporal metrics and the European LUCAS survey

    Dirk Pflugmacher;Andreas Rabe;Mathias Peters;Patrick Hostert

  • Mapping land cover in complex Mediterranean landscapes using Landsat: Improved classification accuracies from integrating multi-seasonal and synthetic imagery

    Cornelius Senf;Pedro J. Leitão;Dirk Pflugmacher;Sebastian van der Linden

  • MODIS land cover and LAI collection 4 product quality across nine sites in the western hemisphere

    W.B. Cohen;T.K. Maiersperger;D.P. Turner;W.D. Ritts

  • Mapping the timing of cropland abandonment and recultivation in northern Kazakhstan using annual Landsat time series

    Andrey Dara;Andrey Dara;Matthias Baumann;Tobias Kuemmerle;Dirk Pflugmacher

  • Mapping temperate forest tree species using dense Sentinel-2 time series

    Jan Hemmerling;Dirk Pflugmacher;Patrick Hostert

  • Distinguishing between live and dead standing tree biomass on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, USA using small-footprint lidar data

    Yunsuk Kim;Zhiqiang Yang;Warren B. Cohen;Dirk Pflugmacher

  • Regime shifts limit the predictability of land-system change

    Daniel Müller;Daniel Müller;Zhanli Sun;Thoumthone Vongvisouk;Thoumthone Vongvisouk;Dirk Pflugmacher

  • Monitoring coniferous forest biomass change using a Landsat trajectory-based approach

    Magdalena Main-Knorn;Warren B. Cohen;Robert E. Kennedy;Wojciech Grodzki

  • Characterizing spectral-temporal patterns of defoliator and bark beetle disturbances using Landsat time series

    Cornelius Senf;Dirk Pflugmacher;Michael A. Wulder;Patrick Hostert

  • Mapping Rubber Plantations and Natural Forests in Xishuangbanna (Southwest China) Using Multi-Spectral Phenological Metrics from MODIS Time Series

    Cornelius Senf;Dirk Pflugmacher;Sebastian van der Linden;Patrick Hostert

  • How Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) Trendsfrom Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and Système Probatoire d’Observation de la Terre VEGETATION (SPOT VGT) Time Series Differ in Agricultural Areas: An Inner Mongolian Case Study

    He Yin;Thomas Udelhoven;Rasmus Fensholt;Dirk Pflugmacher

  • Green growth? On the relation between population density, land use and vegetation cover fractions in a city using a 30-years Landsat time series

    Thilo Wellmann;Thilo Wellmann;Franz Schug;Dagmar Haase;Dagmar Haase;Dirk Pflugmacher

  • The forgotten D: challenges of addressing forest degradation in complex mosaic landscapes under REDD+

    O. Mertz;D. Muller;T. Sikor;C. Hett

  • Cross-border forest disturbance and the role of natural rubber in mainland Southeast Asia using annual Landsat time series

    Kenneth Grogan;Kenneth Grogan;Dirk Pflugmacher;Patrick Hostert;Robert Kennedy

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Hostert
Patrick Hostert Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Warren B. Cohen
Warren B. Cohen Oregon State University
Robert E. Kennedy
Robert E. Kennedy Oregon State University
Marco Heurich
Marco Heurich University of Freiburg
Daniel Müller
Daniel Müller Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Rupert Seidl
Rupert Seidl Technical University of Munich
Ole Mertz
Ole Mertz University of Copenhagen
Tobias Kuemmerle
Tobias Kuemmerle Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Rasmus Fensholt
Rasmus Fensholt University of Copenhagen
Michael A. Wulder
Michael A. Wulder Natural Resources Canada

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