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D-Index
86
Citations
28334
World Ranking
714
National Ranking
45

Patrick Hostert 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 Patrick Hostert sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 254 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Patrick Hostert 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 Patrick Hostert sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 86 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Patrick Hostert is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their work primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's research covers a variety of topics, with significant emphasis on Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Remote-Sensing Image Classification, and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology.

Patrick Hostert has contributed to numerous publications with notable recent papers including:

  • Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts (2022), Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Ten facts about land systems for sustainability (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Mapping of crop types and crop sequences with combined time series of Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 data for Germany (2021), Remote Sensing of Environment
  • National-scale mapping of building height using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time series (2020), Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Mapping temperate forest tree species using dense Sentinel-2 time series (2021), Remote Sensing of Environment

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Remote Sensing of Environment, SSRN Electronic Journal, Preprints.org, and the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.

Collaborations have been established with several frequent co-authors, including David Frantz, Franz Schug, Sebastian van der Linden, Helmut Haberl, and Dominik Wiedenhofer.

Best Publications

  • Landsat-8: Science and Product Vision for Terrestrial Global Change Research

    David P. Roy;M.A. Wulder;Thomas R. Loveland;C.E. Woodcock

  • Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications

    Michael A. Wulder;Thomas R. Loveland;David P. Roy;Christopher J. Crawford

  • The EnMAP Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy Mission for Earth Observation

    Luis Guanter;Hermann Kaufmann;Karl Segl;Saskia Foerster

  • Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts

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  • A review of the application of optical and radar remote sensing data fusion to land use mapping and monitoring

    Neha P. Joshi;Matthias Baumann;Andrea Ehammer;Rasmus Fensholt

  • Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective

    Peter H. Verburg;Neville Crossman;Erle C. Ellis;Andreas Heinimann

  • Mapping farmland abandonment and recultivation across Europe using MODIS NDVI time series.

    Stephan Estel;Tobias Kuemmerle;Tobias Kuemmerle;Camilo Alcántara;Christian Levers

  • Intra-annual reflectance composites from Sentinel-2 and Landsat for national-scale crop and land cover mapping

    Patrick Griffiths;Patrick Griffiths;Claas Nendel;Patrick Hostert

  • Patterns and drivers of post-socialist farmland abandonment in Western Ukraine

    Matthias Baumann;Tobias Kuemmerle;Tobias Kuemmerle;Marine Elbakidze;Marine Elbakidze;Mutlu Ozdogan

  • Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

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  • Pixel-Based Image Compositing for Large-Area Dense Time Series Applications and Science

    J. C. White;M. A. Wulder;G. W. Hobart;J. E. Luther

  • Benefits of the free and open Landsat data policy

    Zhe Zhu;Michael A. Wulder;David P. Roy;Curtis E. Woodcock

  • Mapping of crop types and crop sequences with combined time series of Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 data for Germany

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  • Bringing an ecological view of change to Landsat‐based remote sensing

    Robert E Kennedy;Serge Andréfouët;Warren B Cohen;Cristina Gómez

  • Challenges and opportunities in mapping land use intensity globally

    Tobias Kuemmerle;Tobias Kuemmerle;Karlheinz Erb;Patrick Meyfroidt;Daniel Müller;Daniel Müller

  • Cross-border Comparison of Post-socialist Farmland Abandonment in the Carpathians

    Tobias Kuemmerle;Patrick Hostert;Volker C. Radeloff;Sebastian van der Linden

  • A Pixel-Based Landsat Compositing Algorithm for Large Area Land Cover Mapping

    Patrick Griffiths;Sebastian van der Linden;Tobias Kuemmerle;Patrick Hostert

  • Sensitivity of Support Vector Machines to Random Feature Selection in Classification of Hyperspectral Data

    Björn Waske;Sebastian van der Linden;Jón Atli Benediktsson;Andreas Rabe

  • Land cover mapping of large areas using chain classification of neighboring Landsat satellite images

    Jan Knorn;Andreas Rabe;Volker C. Radeloff;Tobias Kuemmerle;Tobias Kuemmerle

  • Canopy mortality has doubled in Europe's temperate forests over the last three decades.

    Cornelius Senf;Dirk Pflugmacher;Yang Zhiqiang;Julius Sebald

  • Forest disturbances, forest recovery, and changes in forest types across the Carpathian ecoregion from 1985 to 2010 based on Landsat image composites

    Patrick Griffiths;Tobias Kuemmerle;Matthias Baumann;Volker C. Radeloff

  • Remote sensing of sun-induced fluorescence to improve modeling of diurnal courses of gross primary production (GPP)

    Alexander Damm;Jan Elbers;André Erler;Beniamino Gioli

  • Mapping the extent of abandoned farmland in Central and Eastern Europe using MODIS time series satellite data

    Camilo Alcantara;Tobias Kuemmerle;Matthias Baumann;Eugenia V Bragina;Eugenia V Bragina

  • Forest cover change and illegal logging in the Ukrainian Carpathians in the transition period from 1988 to 2007

    Tobias Kuemmerle;Tobias Kuemmerle;Oleh Chaskovskyy;Jan Knorn;Volker C. Radeloff

Frequent Co-Authors

Tobias Kuemmerle
Tobias Kuemmerle Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Daniel Müller
Daniel Müller Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Dirk Pflugmacher
Dirk Pflugmacher Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Volker C. Radeloff
Volker C. Radeloff University of Wisconsin–Madison
Helmut Haberl
Helmut Haberl BOKU University
Alexander Damm
Alexander Damm University of Zurich
Joachim Hill
Joachim Hill University of Trier
Michael A. Wulder
Michael A. Wulder Natural Resources Canada
Alexander V. Prishchepov
Alexander V. Prishchepov University of Copenhagen
Hermann Kaufmann
Hermann Kaufmann Shandong University

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