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Harm Bartholomeus is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to research in environmental and agricultural sciences. Their work mainly spans the domains of environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with particular focus on remote sensing technologies and their applications in ecology and crop monitoring.

The scientist's publication record includes numerous papers in the fields of environmental engineering, ecology, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and plant science. Their primary research topics involve remote sensing and LiDAR applications, remote sensing in agriculture, forest ecology and management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Harm Bartholomeus are the following:

  • Terrestrial laser scanning in forest ecology: Expanding the horizon (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Non-destructive estimation of individual tree biomass: Allometric models, terrestrial and UAV laser scanning (2022, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Quantifying tropical forest structure through terrestrial and UAV laser scanning fusion in Australian rainforests (2022, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Impact assessment of soil salinity on crop production in Uzbekistan and its global significance (2022, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment)
  • Diurnal variation of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence of agricultural crops observed from a point-based spectrometer on a UAV (2020, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation)

The most frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications (Wageningen University & Research)
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • Remote Sensing
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Harm Bartholomeus has collaborated closely with a number of co-authors over multiple projects and papers, including:

  • Kim Calders
  • Benjamin Brede
  • Martin Herold
  • Lammert Kooistra
  • Shaun R. Levick

In addition to journal articles, the scientist has published a book titled Aboveground Woody Biomass Product Validation Good Practices Protocol (2021) through Ghent University, contributing to the methodology and standards in biomass estimation.

Best Publications

  • A global spectral library to characterize the world’s soil

    R.A. Viscarra Rossel;T. Behrens;E. Ben-Dor;D.J. Brown

  • Global mapping of soil salinity change

    Konstantin Ivushkin;Harm Bartholomeus;Arnold K. Bregt;Alim Pulatov

  • Terrestrial laser scanning in forest ecology: Expanding the horizon

    Kim Calders;Jennifer Adams;John Armston;Harm Bartholomeus

  • Data acquisition considerations for Terrestrial Laser Scanning of forest plots

    Phil Wilkes;Alvaro Lau;Mathias Disney;Kim Calders;Kim Calders

  • Forest Inventory with Terrestrial LiDAR: A Comparison of Static and Hand-Held Mobile Laser Scanning

    Sébastien Bauwens;Harm Bartholomeus;Kim Calders;Philippe Lejeune

  • Laboratory, field and airborne spectroscopy for monitoring organic carbon content in agricultural soils

    Antoine Stevens;Bas van Wesemael;Harm Bartholomeus;Damien Rosillon

  • Estimation of above-ground biomass of large tropical trees with Terrestrial LiDAR

    Jose Gonzalez de Tanago;Jose Gonzalez de Tanago;Alvaro Lau;Alvaro Lau;Harm Bartholomeus;Martin Herold

  • Spectral reflectance based indices for soil organic carbon quantification

    H. M. Bartholomeus;M. E. Schaepman;L. Kooistra;Antoine Stevens

  • Comparing RIEGL RiCOPTER UAV LiDAR Derived Canopy Height and DBH with Terrestrial LiDAR.

    Benjamin Brede;Alvaro Lau;Alvaro Lau;Harm M. Bartholomeus;Lammert Kooistra

  • Predicting soil microplastic concentration using vis-NIR spectroscopy

    Fabio Corradini;Harm Bartholomeus;Esperanza Huerta Lwanga;Hennie Gertsen

  • Improved estimation of leaf area index and leaf chlorophyll content of a potato crop using multi-angle spectral data – potential of unmanned aerial vehicle imagery

    Peter P.J. Roosjen;Benjamin Brede;Juha M. Suomalainen;Juha M. Suomalainen;Harm M. Bartholomeus

  • The response of Arctic vegetation to the summer climate: relation between shrub cover, NDVI, surface albedo and temperature

    Daan Blok;Gabriela Schaepman-Strub;Harm Bartholomeus;Monique M P D Heijmans

  • Non-destructive tree volume estimation through quantitative structure modelling: Comparing UAV laser scanning with terrestrial LIDAR

    Benjamin Brede;Kim Calders;Alvaro Lau;Pasi Raumonen

  • A Lightweight Hyperspectral Mapping System and Photogrammetric Processing Chain for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Juha Suomalainen;Niels S. Anders;Shahzad Iqbal;Gerbert Roerink

  • Biomass and Crop Height Estimation of Different Crops Using UAV-Based Lidar

    Jelle ten Harkel;Harm M. Bartholomeus;Lammert Kooistra

  • Soil Organic Carbon mapping of partially vegetated agricultural fields with imaging spectroscopy

    Harm M. Bartholomeus;Lammert Kooistra;Antoine Stevens;Martin van Leeuwen

  • Non-destructive estimation of individual tree biomass: Allometric models, terrestrial and UAV laser scanning

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  • Quantifying branch architecture of tropical trees using terrestrial LiDAR and 3D modelling

    Alvaro Lau;Alvaro Lau;Lisa Patrick Bentley;Christopher Martius;Alexander Shenkin

  • UAV based soil salinity assessment of cropland

    Konstantin Ivushkin;Harm Bartholomeus;Arnold K. Bregt;Alim Pulatov

  • Quantifying tropical forest structure through terrestrial and UAV laser scanning fusion in Australian rainforests

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  • A satellite based crop water stress index for irrigation scheduling in sugarcane fields

    Shadman Veysi;Abd Ali Naseri;Saeid Hamzeh;Harm Bartholomeus

  • Laboratory, field and airborne spectroscopy for monitoring organic carbon content in agricultural soils

    Antoine Stevens;Bas van Wesemael;Harm Bartholomeus

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Herold
Martin Herold Wageningen University & Research
Kim Calders
Kim Calders Ghent University
Lammert Kooistra
Lammert Kooistra Wageningen University & Research
Juha Suomalainen
Juha Suomalainen Wageningen University & Research
Jan G. P. W. Clevers
Jan G. P. W. Clevers Wageningen University & Research
Michael E. Schaepman
Michael E. Schaepman University of Zurich
Mathias Disney
Mathias Disney University College London
Christopher Martius
Christopher Martius Center for International Forestry Research, Germany
Gabriela Schaepman-Strub
Gabriela Schaepman-Strub University of Zurich
Arnold K. Bregt
Arnold K. Bregt Wageningen University & Research

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