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Jochem Verrelst

Jochem Verrelst

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
62
Citations
14392
World Ranking
2594
National Ranking
62

Jochem Verrelst publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jochem Verrelst sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 232 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Jochem Verrelst D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jochem Verrelst sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jochem Verrelst is affiliated with the University of Valencia in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a specialization in several subfields and topics related to remote sensing and agricultural monitoring.

Their work spans multiple subfields of environmental science, including:

  • Ecology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Plant Science
  • Analytical Chemistry

Key research topics covered by Verrelst include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
  • Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Verrelst has contributed to a number of papers published in leading journals. Recent publications include:

  • Crop nitrogen monitoring: Recent progress and principal developments in the context of imaging spectroscopy missions, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Multi-sensor spectral synergies for crop stress detection and monitoring in the optical domain: A review, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Retrieval of aboveground crop nitrogen content with a hybrid machine learning method, 2020, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • Mapping landscape canopy nitrogen content from space using PRISMA data, 2021, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Hybrid retrieval of crop traits from multi-temporal PRISMA hyperspectral imagery, 2022, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Verrelst frequently collaborates with other researchers in this field. Notable co-authors include:

  • Katja Berger
  • Juan Pablo Rivera
  • Santiago Belda
  • Pablo Reyes-Muñoz
  • Luca Pipia

The majority of Verrelst's publications appear in several key scientific journals and venues, including:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Optical remote sensing and the retrieval of terrestrial vegetation bio-geophysical properties - A review

    Jochem Verrelst;Gustau Camps-Valls;Jordi Muñoz-Marí;Juan Pablo Rivera

  • Evaluation of Sentinel-2 red-edge bands for empirical estimation of green LAI and chlorophyll content.

    Jesús Delegido;Jochem Verrelst;Luis Alonso;José F. Moreno

  • Machine learning regression algorithms for biophysical parameter retrieval: Opportunities for Sentinel-2 and -3

    Jochem Verrelst;Jordi Muñoz;Luis Alonso;Jesús Delegido

  • Quantifying Vegetation Biophysical Variables from Imaging Spectroscopy Data: A Review on Retrieval Methods

    Jochem Verrelst;Zbynek Malenovsky;Zbynek Malenovsky;Christiaan van der Tol;Gustau Camps-Valls

  • Experimental Sentinel-2 LAI estimation using parametric, non-parametric and physical retrieval methods - A comparison

    Jochem Verrelst;Juan Pablo Rivera;Frank Veroustraete;Jordi Muñoz-Marí

  • Remote sensing algorithms for estimation of fractional vegetation cover using pure vegetation index values: A review

    Lin Gao;Xiaofei Wang;Xiaofei Wang;Brian Alan Johnson;Qingjiu Tian

  • Earth system science related imaging spectroscopy — an assessment

    Michael E. Schaepman;Michael E. Schaepman;Susan L. Ustin;Antonio J. Plaza;Thomas H. Painter

  • Crop nitrogen monitoring: Recent progress and principal developments in the context of imaging spectroscopy missions

    Katja Berger;Jochem Verrelst;Jean-Baptiste Féret;Zhihui Wang

  • Angular sensitivity analysis of vegetation indices derived from CHRIS/PROBA data

    J Verrelst;Michael E Schaepman;B Koetz;M Kneubühler

  • A red-edge spectral index for remote sensing estimation of green LAI over agroecosystems

    J. Delegido;J. Verrelst;C.M. Meza;J.P. Rivera

  • Multioutput Support Vector Regression for Remote Sensing Biophysical Parameter Estimation

    D. Tuia;J. Verrelst;L. Alonso;F. Perez-Cruz

  • Sun-induced fluorescence - a new probe of photosynthesis: First maps from the imaging spectrometer HyPlant.

    Uwe Rascher;L Alonso;Andreas Burkart;C Cilia;C Cilia

  • Global sensitivity analysis of the SCOPE model: What drives simulated canopy-leaving sun-induced fluorescence?

    Jochem Verrelst;Juan Pablo Rivera;Christiaan van der Tol;Federico Magnani

  • Retrieval of Vegetation Biophysical Parameters Using Gaussian Process Techniques

    J. Verrelst;L. Alonso;G. Camps-Valls;J. Delegido

  • Multi-sensor spectral synergies for crop stress detection and monitoring in the optical domain: A review

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  • A Survey on Gaussian Processes for Earth-Observation Data Analysis: A Comprehensive Investigation

    Gustau Camps-Valls;Jochem Verrelst;Jordi Munoz-Mari;Valero Laparra

  • Spectral band selection for vegetation properties retrieval using Gaussian processes regression

    Jochem Verrelst;Juan Pablo Rivera;Juan Pablo Rivera;Anatoly A. Gitelson;Jesús Delegido

  • Capturing the fugitive: Applying remote sensing to terrestrial animal distribution and diversity

    Euridice Leyequien;Jochem Verrelst;Martijn Slot;Gabriela Schaepman-Strub

  • Gaussian processes uncertainty estimates in experimental Sentinel-2 LAI and leaf chlorophyll content retrieval

    Jochem Verrelst;Juan Pablo Rivera;José Moreno;Gustavo Camps-Valls

  • Retrieval of aboveground crop nitrogen content with a hybrid machine learning method

    Katja Berger;Jochem Verrelst;Jean-Baptiste Féret;Tobias Hank

  • Toward a Semiautomatic Machine Learning Retrieval of Biophysical Parameters

    Juan Pablo Rivera Caicedo;Jochem Verrelst;Jordi Munoz-Mari;Jose Moreno

  • Evaluating the predictive power of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence to estimate net photosynthesis of vegetation canopies: A SCOPE modeling study

    Jochem Verrelst;Christiaan van der Tol;Federico Magnani;Neus Sabater

Frequent Co-Authors

Jose Moreno
Jose Moreno University of Valencia
Luis Alonso
Luis Alonso Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Gustau Camps-Valls
Gustau Camps-Valls University of Valencia
Jordi Muñoz-Marí
Jordi Muñoz-Marí University of Valencia
Michael E. Schaepman
Michael E. Schaepman University of Zurich
Uwe Rascher
Uwe Rascher Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jan G. P. W. Clevers
Jan G. P. W. Clevers Wageningen University & Research
Christiaan van der Tol
Christiaan van der Tol University of Twente
Roberto Colombo
Roberto Colombo University of Milano-Bicocca
Matthias Drusch
Matthias Drusch European Space Agency

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