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Florian Siegert is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany, focusing on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research encompasses multiple subfields, including ecology, global and planetary change, environmental engineering, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, as well as management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The scientist's primary research topics address:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Remote sensing and LiDAR applications
  • Remote sensing in agriculture
  • Fire detection and safety systems
  • Microplastics and plastic pollution
  • Recycling and waste management techniques
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Their publication record includes a variety of research articles in established scholarly journals. Key papers authored or coauthored by them are:

  • Burned Area Detection and Mapping: Intercomparison of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Based Algorithms over Tropical Africa, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Can Water Constituents Be Used as Proxy to Map Microplastic Dispersal Within Transitional and Coastal Waters?, 2020, Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Analyzing glacier retreat and mass balances using aerial and UAV photogrammetry in the Ötztal Alps, Austria, 2021, The Cryosphere
  • The Potential of ICESat-2 to Identify Carbon-Rich Peatlands in Indonesia, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Satellite-based multi-annual yield models for major food crops at the household field level for nutrition and health research: A case study from the Nouna HDSS, Burkina Faso, 2023, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Florian Siegert frequently publishes in several scientific venues, including:

  • Remote Sensing
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • The Cryosphere
  • Earth Surface Dynamics

The scientist collaborates regularly with other researchers, with frequent coauthors being:

  • Juilson Jubanski
  • Jonas Franke
  • Ulrich Münzer
  • Maximilian Schwarz
  • Yajin Xu

Best Publications

  • The amount of carbon released from peat and forest fires in Indonesia during 1997

    Susan E. Page;Florian Siegert;John O. Rieley;Hans-Dieter V. Boehm

  • Increased damage from fires in logged forests during droughts caused by El Niño

    F. Siegert;G. Ruecker;A. Hinrichs;A. A. Hoffmann

  • Land cover change 2002–2005 in Borneo and the role of fire derived from MODIS imagery

    Andreas Langner;Jukka Miettinen;Florian Siegert

  • Aboveground biomass retrieval in tropical forests — The potential of combined X- and L-band SAR data use

    S. Englhart;V. Keuck;F. Siegert

  • Determination of the amount of carbon stored in Indonesian peatlands.

    J. Jaenicke;J.O. Rieley;C. Mott;P. Kimman

  • Periodic phenomena in Proteus mirabilis swarm colony development.

    Oliver Rauprich;Mitsugu Matsushita;Cornelis J. Weijer;Florian Siegert

  • Spatiotemporal fire occurrence in Borneo over a period of 10 years.

    Andreas Langner;Andreas Langner;Florian Siegert

  • Derivation of burn scar depths and estimation of carbon emissions with LIDAR in Indonesian peatlands

    Uwe Ballhorn;Florian Siegert;Mike Mason;Suwido Limin

  • Biomass burning fuel consumption rates: a field measurement database

    T.T. van Leeuwen;T.T. van Leeuwen;G.R. van der Werf;A.A. Hoffmann;R.G. Detmers;R.G. Detmers

  • The 1998 Forest Fires in East Kalimantan (Indonesia): A Quantitative Evaluation Using High Resolution, Multitemporal ERS-2 SAR Images and NOAA-AVHRR Hotspot Data

    Florian Siegert;Anja A Hoffmann

  • Glacier and glacial lake changes and their relationship in the context of climate change, Central Tibetan Plateau 1972–2010

    Xu Wang;Xu Wang;Florian Siegert;Ai-guo Zhou;Jonas Franke

  • Tropical peatland fires in Southeast Asia

    Susan Page;Agata Hoscilo;Andreas Langner;Kevin Tansey

  • Variable carbon losses from recurrent fires in drained tropical peatlands

    Kristina Konecny;Uwe Ballhorn;Peter Navratil;Juilson Jubanski

  • Assessment of grassland use intensity by remote sensing to support conservation schemes

    Jonas Franke;Vanessa Keuck;Florian Siegert

  • Coastal accumulation of microplastic particles emitted from the Po River, Northern Italy: Comparing remote sensing and hydrodynamic modelling with in situ sample collections

    Elizabeth C. Atwood;Francesco M. Falcieri;Sarah Piehl;Mathias Bochow

  • Planning hydrological restoration of peatlands in Indonesia to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions

    Julia Jaenicke;Henk Wösten;Arif Budiman;Florian Siegert

  • Land cover classification optimized to detect areas at risk of desertification in North China based on SPOT VEGETATION imagery

    S. Huang;F. Siegert

  • Above ground biomass estimation across forest types at different degradation levels in Central Kalimantan using LiDAR data

    Karin Kronseder;Uwe Ballhorn;Viktor Böhm;Florian Siegert

  • "Last-Mile" preparation for a potential disaster – Interdisciplinary approach towards tsunami early warning and an evacuation information system for the coastal city of Padang, Indonesia

    Hannes Taubenböck;Nils Goseberg;Neysa J. Setiadi;Gregor Lämmel

  • A sourcebook of methods and procedures for monitoring and reporting anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and removals associated with deforestation, gains and losses of carbon stocks in forests remaining forests, and forestation.: GOFC-GOLD Report version COP18-1

    Frederic Achard;Sandra Brown;Michael Brady;Ruth DeFries

  • Measuring vulnerability to promote disaster resilient societies : conceptual frameworks and definitions

    Joern Birkmann;Stefan Dech;Gerd Hirzinger;Reinhard Klein

Frequent Co-Authors

Cornelis J. Weijer
Cornelis J. Weijer University of Dundee
Susan Page
Susan Page University of Leicester
Stefan Dech
Stefan Dech German Aerospace Center
Kai Nagel
Kai Nagel Technical University of Berlin
Reinhard Klein
Reinhard Klein University of Bonn
Joern Birkmann
Joern Birkmann University of Stuttgart
Hannes Taubenböck
Hannes Taubenböck German Aerospace Center
Johannes W. Kaiser
Johannes W. Kaiser German Meteorological Service
Kevin Tansey
Kevin Tansey University of Leicester
Florian Pappenberger
Florian Pappenberger European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

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