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Miina Rautiainen

Miina Rautiainen

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
8259
World Ranking
6695
National Ranking
100

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
42
Citations
7598
World Ranking
3424
National Ranking
30

Miina Rautiainen publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Miina Rautiainen sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 148 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Miina Rautiainen D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Miina Rautiainen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

Miina Rautiainen is affiliated with Aalto University in Finland and focuses their research primarily within Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics such as:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology

Miina Rautiainen has published extensively, frequently contributing to journals including Remote Sensing of Environment, Silva Fennica, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Ecology and Evolution, and Data in Brief.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Seasonal changes in canopy leaf area index and MODIS vegetation products for a boreal forest site in central Finland, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Hidden becomes clear: Optical remote sensing of vegetation reveals water table dynamics in northern peatlands, 2023, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • The impact of tree canopy structure on understory variation in a boreal forest, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Quantitative analysis of the links between forest structure and land surface albedo on a global scale, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • A Bibliometric Visualization Review of the MODIS LAI/FPAR Products from 1995 to 2020, 2021, Journal of Remote Sensing

Collaborative research has been conducted with several frequent co-authors including Aarne Hovi, Jussi Juola, Daniel Schraik, Iuliia Burdun, and Petri Forsström.

Best Publications

  • Validation of global moderate-resolution LAI products: a framework proposed within the CEOS land product validation subgroup

    J.T. Morisette;F. Baret;J.L. Privette;R.B. Myneni

  • Hyperspectral remote sensing of foliar nitrogen content.

    Yuri Knyazikhin;Mitchell A. Schull;Pauline Stenberg;Matti Mõttus

  • Estimation of forest canopy cover: A comparison of field measurement techniques

    Lauri Korhonen;Kari T. Korhonen;Miina Rautiainen;Pauline Stenberg

  • MODIS leaf area index products: from validation to algorithm improvement

    Wenze Yang;Bin Tan;Dong Huang;M. Rautiainen

  • Comparison of Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 in the estimation of boreal forest canopy cover and leaf area index

    Lauri Korhonen;Hadi;Petteri Packalen;Miina Rautiainen

  • The fourth phase of the radiative transfer model intercomparison (RAMI) exercise: Actual canopy scenarios and conformity testing

    Jean Luc Widlowski;Corrado Mio;Mathias Disney;Jennifer Adams

  • Mapping LAI in a Norway spruce forest using airborne laser scanning

    Svein Solberg;Andreas Brunner;Kjersti Holt Hanssen;Holger Lange

  • Reduced simple ratio better than NDVI for estimating LAI in Finnish pine and spruce stands

    Pauline Stenberg;Miina Rautiainen;Terhikki Manninen;Pekka Voipio

  • Canopy spectral invariants for remote sensing and model applications

    Dong Huang;Yuri Knyazikhin;Robert Earl Dickinson;Miina Rautiainen

  • BRDF measurement of understory vegetation in pine forests: dwarf shrubs, lichen, and moss

    Jouni I. Peltoniemi;Sanna Kaasalainen;Jyri Näränen;Jyri Näränen;Miina Rautiainen

  • Application of photon recollision probability in coniferous canopy reflectance simulations

    Miina Rautiainen;Pauline Stenberg

  • Optical properties of leaves and needles for boreal tree species in Europe

    Petr Lukeš;Pauline Stenberg;Miina Rautiainen;Matti Mõttus

  • Seasonal variation in MODIS LAI for a boreal forest area in Finland

    Janne Heiskanen;Miina Rautiainen;Pauline Stenberg;Matti Mõttus

  • A spectral analysis of 25 boreal tree species

    Aarne Hovi;Pekka Raitio;Miina Rautiainen

  • The potential of Sentinel-2 data for estimating biophysical variables in a boreal forest: a simulation study

    Titta Majasalmi;Miina Rautiainen

  • The effect of crown shape on the reflectance of coniferous stands

    Miina Rautiainen;Pauline Stenberg;Tiit Nilson;Andres Kuusk

  • Spectral Properties of Coniferous Forests: A Review of In Situ and Laboratory Measurements

    Miina Rautiainen;Petr Lukeš;Lucie Homolová;Aarne Hovi

  • Seasonal reflectance dynamics of common understory types in a northern European boreal forest

    Miina Rautiainen;Matti Mõttus;Janne Heiskanen;Anu Akujärvi

  • Estimating canopy cover in Scots pine stands

    Miina Rautiainen;Pauline Stenberg;Tiit Nilson

  • Retrieval of leaf area index for a coniferous forest by inverting a forest reflectance model

    Miina Rautiainen

Frequent Co-Authors

Pauline Stenberg
Pauline Stenberg University of Helsinki
Matti Mõttus
Matti Mõttus VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Janne Heiskanen
Janne Heiskanen University of Helsinki
Ranga B. Myneni
Ranga B. Myneni Boston University
Yuri Knyazikhin
Yuri Knyazikhin Boston University
Michael E. Schaepman
Michael E. Schaepman University of Zurich
Tiit Nilson
Tiit Nilson University of Tartu
Hideki Kobayashi
Hideki Kobayashi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Mathias Disney
Mathias Disney University College London
Sanna Kaasalainen
Sanna Kaasalainen Finnish Geospatial Research Institute

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