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Overview

Konrad J Wessels is affiliated with George Mason University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to subfields such as global and planetary change, ecology, environmental engineering, nature and landscape conservation, and media technology.

Their work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Advanced Image Fusion Techniques
  • Image and Signal Denoising Methods
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Konrad J Wessels has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications in known venues. These include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (5 publications)
  • Remote Sensing of Environment (2 publications)
  • Science (1 publication)
  • African Journal of Range and Forage Science (1 publication)
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (1 publication)

Recent papers associated with Wessels include:

  • "First validation of GEDI canopy heights in African savannas," published in 2022 in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Recent droughts in the Kruger National Park as reflected in the extreme climate index," published in 2020 in African Journal of Range and Forage Science
  • "Quantifying the sensitivity of L-Band SAR to a decade of vegetation structure changes in savannas," published in 2022 in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Riesz-Quincunx-UNet Variational Autoencoder for Unsupervised Satellite Image Denoising," published in 2023 in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • "Spatial resolution for forest carbon maps," published in 2025 in Science

Frequent collaborators include Xiaoxuan Li, John Armston, Renaud Mathieu, Russell Main, and Laven Naidoo, reflecting a network of co-authors with multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Greenness in semi-arid areas across the globe 1981–2007 — an Earth Observing Satellite based analysis of trends and drivers

    Rasmus Fensholt;Tobias Langanke;Kjeld Rasmussen;Anette Reenberg

  • Can human-induced land degradation be distinguished from the effects of rainfall variability? A case study in South Africa

    K.J. Wessels;S.D. Prince;J. Malherbe;J. Small

  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission

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  • Assessing the effects of human-induced land degradation in the former homelands of northern South Africa with a 1 km AVHRR NDVI time-series

    Konrad J Wessels;SD Prince;PE Frost;D Van Zyl

  • Vulnerability of South African animal taxa to climate change

    Barend F. N. Erasmus;Albert S. Van Jaarsveld;Steven L. Chown;Mrigesh Kshatriya

  • Limits to detectability of land degradation by trend analysis of vegetation index data

    Konrad J Wessels;Konrad J Wessels;F Van den Bergh;RJ Scholes

  • Mapping tree species composition in South African savannas using an integrated airborne spectral and LiDAR system

    Moses Azong Cho;Renaud Mathieu;Gregory P. Asner;Laven Naidoo

  • Desertification in the Sahel: a reinterpretation of a reinterpretation

    Stephen D. Prince;Konrad J. Wessels;Compton J. Tucker;Sharon E. Nicholson

  • Mapping regional land cover with MODIS data for biological conservation: Examples from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, USA and Pará State, Brazil

    K.J Wessels;R.S De Fries;J Dempewolf;L.O Anderson

  • Flooding Patterns of the Okavango Wetland in Botswana between 1972 and 2000

    Jenny M. McCarthy;Thomas Gumbricht;Terence McCarthy;Philip Frost

  • Relationship between herbaceous biomass and 1-km 2 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) NDVI in Kruger National Park, South Africa

    Konrad J Wessels;SD Prince;N Zambatis;S Macfadyen

  • The use of land facets as biodiversity surrogates during reserve selection at a local scale

    K.J. Wessels;S. Freitag;A.S. van Jaarsveld

  • Mapping land degradation by comparison of vegetation production to spatially derived estimates of potential production

    K.J. Wessels;K.J. Wessels;S.D. Prince;I. Reshef

  • RELEVANCE OF RANGELAND DEGRADATION IN SEMIARID NORTHEASTERN SOUTH AFRICA TO THE NONEQUILIBRIUM THEORY

    Konrad J Wessels;Konrad J Wessels;A Stephen D Prince;Mark Carroll;Johan Malherbe

  • An evaluation of the gradsect biological survey method

    K. J. Wessels;A. S. Van Jaarsveld;J. D. Grimbeek;M. J. Van Der Linde

  • Rapid land cover map updates using change detection and robust random forest classifiers

    Konrad J. Wessels;Frans Van den Bergh;David P. Roy;Brian P. Salmon

  • Remotely sensed vegetation phenology for describing and predicting the biomes of South Africa

    Konrad Wessels;Karen Steenkamp;Graham von Maltitz;Sally Archibald

  • Savannah woody structure modelling and mapping using multi-frequency (X-, C- and L-band) synthetic aperture radar data

    Laven Naidoo;Laven Naidoo;Renaud Mathieu;Renaud Mathieu;Russell Main;Russell Main;Waldo Kleynhans;Waldo Kleynhans

  • Impact of communal land use and conservation on woody vegetation structure in the Lowveld savannas of South Africa

    K.J. Wessels;R. Mathieu;B.F.N. Erasmus;G.P. Asner

  • Toward structural assessment of semi-arid African savannahs and woodlands: The potential of multitemporal polarimetric RADARSAT-2 fine beam images

    Renaud Mathieu;Laven Naidoo;Moses A. Cho;Brigitte Leblon

  • Incorporating land cover information into regional biodiversity assessments in South Africa

    K. J. Wessels;B. Reyers;A. S. Van Jaarsveld

  • Impact of communal land use and conservation on woody vegetation structure in the Lowveld savannas o

    Konrad J. Wessels;Renaud Mathieu;Barend Erasmus;Gregory P. Asner

Frequent Co-Authors

Renaud Mathieu
Renaud Mathieu International Rice Research Institute
Gregory P. Asner
Gregory P. Asner Arizona State University
Stephen D. Prince
Stephen D. Prince University of Maryland, College Park
Ed T.F. Witkowski
Ed T.F. Witkowski University of the Witwatersrand
Sally Archibald
Sally Archibald University of the Witwatersrand
David E. Knapp
David E. Knapp Arizona State University
Izak P.J. Smit
Izak P.J. Smit South African National Parks
Moses Azong Cho
Moses Azong Cho Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
A. S. van Jaarsveld
A. S. van Jaarsveld University of Pretoria
Robert J. Scholes
Robert J. Scholes University of the Witwatersrand

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