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Heiko Balzter is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields with a focus on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Pollution, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad spectrum related to remote sensing and environmental monitoring. Key areas of work include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Remote-Sensing Image Classification
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Heiko Balzter has contributed to a variety of academic journals, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • Remote Sensing (13 publications)
  • Sustainability (6 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (4 publications)
  • Land (3 publications)
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (3 publications)

Their recent notable papers include:

  • The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations (2021, Earth system science data)
  • Tropical forest canopy height estimation from combined polarimetric SAR and LiDAR using machine-learning (2020, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing)
  • Woody Aboveground Biomass Mapping of the Brazilian Savanna with a Multi-Sensor and Machine Learning Approach (2020, Remote Sensing)
  • Environmental sustainability and resilience in a polluted ecosystem via phytoremediation of heavy metals and plant physiological adaptations (2022, Journal of Cleaner Production)
  • Influence of Impervious Surface Area and Fractional Vegetation Cover on Seasonal Urban Surface Heating/Cooling Rates (2021, Remote Sensing)

Heiko Balzter frequently collaborates with:

  • Polyanna da Conceição Bispo
  • Pedro Rodríguez-Veiga
  • Huiyu Zhou
  • Kevin Tansey
  • Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Best Publications

  • The BIOMASS mission: Mapping global forest biomass to better understand the terrestrial carbon cycle

    T. Le Toan;S. Quegan;M.W.J. Davidson;Heiko Balzter

  • Cellular automata models for vegetation dynamics

    Heiko Balzter;Paul W. Braun;Wolfgang Köhler

  • Predicting Land Use/Land Cover Changes Using a CA-Markov Model under Two Different Scenarios

    Rahel Hamad;Heiko Balzter;Kamal Kolo

  • Markov chain models for vegetation dynamics

    Heiko Balzter

  • The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations

    Maurizio Santoro;Oliver Cartus;Nuno Carvalhais;Nuno Carvalhais;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal

  • Applying Built-Up and Bare-Soil Indices from Landsat 8 to Cities in Dry Climates

    Azad Rasul;Heiko Balzter;Gaylan R. Faqe Ibrahim;Hasan M. Hameed

  • Modelling relationships between birds and vegetation structure using airborne LiDAR data: a review with case studies from agricultural and woodland environments

    Richard B. Bradbury;Ross A. Hill;David C. Mason;Shelley A. Hinsley

  • Spatial variation of the daytime Surface Urban Cool Island during the dry season in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, from Landsat 8

    Azad Rasul;Azad Rasul;Heiko Balzter;Claire Smith

  • Mapping regional patterns of large forest fires in Wildland–Urban Interface areas in Europe

    Sirio Modugno;Sirio Modugno;Heiko Balzter;Beth Cole;Pasquale Borrelli

  • Land Degradation Assessment Using Residual Trend Analysis of GIMMS NDVI3g, Soil Moisture and Rainfall in Sub-Saharan West Africa from 1982 to 2012

    Yahaya Z. Ibrahim;Heiko Balzter;Jörg Kaduk;Compton J. Tucker

  • Connecting Earth observation to high-throughput biodiversity data

    Alex Bush;Alex Bush;Alex Bush;Rahel Sollmann;Andreas Wilting;Kristine Bohmann;Kristine Bohmann

  • 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

  • Detecting the effects of hydrocarbon pollution in the Amazon forest using hyperspectral satellite images

    Paul Arellano;Paul Arellano;Kevin Tansey;Heiko Balzter;Doreen S. Boyd

  • Forest canopy height and carbon estimation at Monks Wood National Nature Reserve, UK, using dual-wavelength SAR interferometry

    Heiko Balzter;Clare S. Rowland;P. Saich

  • Forest mapping and monitoring with interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)

    Heiko Balzter

  • Analysing forest recovery after wildfire disturbance in Boreal Siberia using remotely sensed vegetation indices

    María Cuevas-González;Heiko Balzter;David Riaño;David Riaño

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

    Wolfgang Wagner;Adrian Luckman;Jan Vietmeier;Kevin Tansey

  • Quantifying forest biomass carbon stocks from space

    Pedro Rodríguez-Veiga;James Wheeler;Valentin Louis;Kevin Tansey

  • Assimilation of land surface temperature into the land surface model JULES with an ensemble Kalman filter

    D. Ghent;J. Kaduk;J. Remedios;J. Ardo

  • A Review on Remote Sensing of Urban Heat and Cool Islands

    Azad Rasul;Heiko Balzter;Claire Smith;John Remedios

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Tansey
Kevin Tansey University of Leicester
Adrian Luckman
Adrian Luckman Swansea University
Shaun Quegan
Shaun Quegan University of Sheffield
Susan Page
Susan Page University of Leicester
Anatoly Shvidenko
Anatoly Shvidenko International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Sassan Saatchi
Sassan Saatchi California Institute of Technology
Christiane Schmullius
Christiane Schmullius Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Ian McCallum
Ian McCallum International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Sten Nilsson
Sten Nilsson International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Nuno Carvalhais
Nuno Carvalhais Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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