2026 Martin Herold: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	104	284	263	12	10	478	43969

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Netherlands Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Martin Herold is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a substantial body of work spanning several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Engineering, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work covers numerous topics related to forest ecology and management, remote sensing applications, and land use. Key topics in their research include:

Forest ecology and management
Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
Remote Sensing in Agriculture
Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Herold has been involved in several recent publications relating to land use, forest carbon fluxes, and remote sensing technology. Notable recent papers include:

Global land use changes are four times greater than previously estimated, 2021, Nature Communications
Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes, 2021, Nature Climate Change
Copernicus Global Land Cover Layers-Collection 2, 2020, Remote Sensing
ESA WorldCover 10 m 2020 v100, 2021, Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications (Wageningen University & Research)
Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation, 2022, Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with this researcher include:

Sytze de Bruin
Carmelo Bonannella
Tomislav Hengl
Leandro Parente
Johannes Heisig

Their work has been published extensively in various academic venues. High-frequency publication venues include:

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

In addition to journal articles, Herold has contributed to book publications, including the work "Aboveground Woody Biomass Product Validation Good Practices Protocol," published by Ghent University in 2021.

Best Publications

Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change

Pontus Olofsson;Giles M. Foody;Martin Herold;Stephen V. Stehman

2959
Citations
An assessment of deforestation and forest degradation drivers in developing countries

Noriko Hosonuma;Martin Herold;Veronique De Sy;Ruth S De Fries

1630
Citations
The spatiotemporal form of urban growth: measurement, analysis and modeling

Martin Herold;Noah C. Goldstein;Keith C. Clarke

1476
Citations
Global land use changes are four times greater than previously estimated

Karina Winkler;Karina Winkler;Richard Fuchs;Mark Rounsevell;Mark Rounsevell;Martin Herold

1263
Citations
Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes

Nancy L. Harris;David A. Gibbs;Alessandro Baccini;Richard A. Birdsey

1066
Citations
The role of spatial metrics in the analysis and modeling of urban land use change

Martin Herold;Helen Couclelis;Keith C. Clarke

903
Citations
The use of remote sensing and landscape metrics to describe structures and changes in urban land uses

Martin Herold;Joseph Scepan;Keith C Clarke

835
Citations
Copernicus global land cover layers-collection 2

Marcel Buchhorn;Myroslava Lesiv;Nandin Erdene Tsendbazar;Martin Herold

798
Citations
Monitoring, reporting and verification for national REDD + programmes: two proposals

Martin Herold;Margaret Skutsch

777
Citations
An integrated pan‐tropical biomass map using multiple reference datasets

Valerio Avitabile;Martin Herold;Gerard B.M. Heuvelink;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

728
Citations
Nondestructive estimates of above‐ground biomass using terrestrial laser scanning

Kim Calders;Glenn Newnham;Andrew Burt;Simon Murphy

719
Citations
Drivers of deforestation and forest degradation: A synthesis report for REDD+ policymakers

G.M. Kissinger;M. Herold;V. de Sy

719
Citations
Landsat continuity: Issues and opportunities for land cover monitoring

Michael A. Wulder;Joanne C. White;Samuel N. Goward;Jeffrey G. Masek

702
Citations
Some challenges in global land cover mapping : An assessment of agreement and accuracy in existing 1 km datasets

M. Herold;P. Mayaux;C.E. Woodcock;A. Baccini

699
Citations
Near real-time disturbance detection using satellite image time series

Jan Verbesselt;Achim Zeileis;Martin Herold

662
Citations
Exploiting synergies of global land cover products for carbon cycle modeling

Martin Jung;Kathrin Henkel;Martin Herold;Galina Churkina

602
Citations
Spatial Metrics and Image Texture for Mapping Urban Land Use

Martin Herold;XiaoHang Liu;Keith C. Clarke

582
Citations
Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation

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552
Citations
Spectrometry for urban area remote sensing—Development and analysis of a spectral library from 350 to 2400 nm

Martin Herold;Dar A Roberts;Margaret E Gardner;Philip E Dennison

548
Citations
ESA WorldCover 10 m 2020 v100

Daniele Zanaga;Ruben Van De Kerchove;Wanda De Keersmaecker;Niels Souverijns

494
Citations
Earth observations for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries

Ruth DeFries;Frédéric Achard;Sandra Brown;Martin Herold

466
Citations
Spectral resolution requirements for mapping urban areas

M. Herold;M.E. Gardner;D.A. Roberts

441
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Verbesselt Wageningen University & Research

Louis V. Verchot Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical

Kim Calders Ghent University

Lammert Kooistra Wageningen University & Research

Harm Bartholomeus Wageningen University & Research

Christopher Martius Center for International Forestry Research, Germany

Jan G. P. W. Clevers Wageningen University & Research

Christiane Schmullius Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Mathias Disney University College London

Nuno Carvalhais Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

External Links

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