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52
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4573
National Ranking
70

Overview

Petri Pellikka is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and focuses research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their scholarly work spans a diverse range of subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's publication topics frequently engage with Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications.

Petri Pellikka has authored papers in several notable academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Remote Sensing
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Biogeosciences

Collaboration is a significant part of their work, with frequent coauthors being:

  • Janne Heiskanen
  • Matti Räsänen
  • Jouko Rikkinen
  • Eduardo Eiji Maeda
  • Temesgen Alemayehu Abera

Among recent scientific papers, the following have been published:

  • Constraints for adopting climate-smart agricultural practices among smallholder farmers in Southeast Kenya, 2021, Agricultural Systems
  • High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests, 2021, Nature
  • Open-source data-driven urban land-use mapping integrating point-line-polygon semantic objects: A case study of Chinese cities, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Primates on the farm - spatial patterns of human-wildlife conflict in forest-agricultural landscape mosaic in Taita Hills, Kenya, 2020, Applied Geography
  • The effects of climate on decomposition of cattle, sheep and goat manure in Kenyan tropical pastures, 2020, Plant and Soil

Best Publications

  • Derivation and validation of Canada-wide coarse-resolution leaf area index maps using high-resolution satellite imagery and ground measurements

    J.M Chen;G Pavlic;L Brown;J Cihlar

  • Airborne remote sensing of spatiotemporal change (1955-2004) in indigenous and exotic forest cover in the Taita Hills, Kenya.

    Petri K.E. Pellikka;Milla Lötjönen;Mika Siljander;Luc Lens

  • Remote Sensing of Glaciers : Techniques for Topographic, Spatial and Thematic Mapping of Glaciers

    Petri K. E. Pellikka;Gareth Rees

  • Constraints for adopting climate-smart agricultural practices among smallholder farmers in Southeast Kenya

    Antti Autio;Tino Johansson;Lilian Motaroki;Paola Minoia

  • Impact of land cover change on aboveground carbon stocks in Afromontane landscape in Kenya

    P.K.E. Pellikka;V. Heikinheimo;J. Hietanen;E. Schäfer

  • Potential impacts of agricultural expansion and climate change on soil erosion in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Kenya

    Eduardo Eiji Maeda;Petri K.E. Pellikka;Mika Siljander;Barnaby J.F. Clark

  • Estimating reference evapotranspiration using remote sensing and empirical models in a region with limited ground data availability in Kenya

    Eduardo Eiji Maeda;David A. Wiberg;Petri K.E. Pellikka

  • High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests

    Aida Cuni-Sanchez;Aida Cuni-Sanchez;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Philip J. Platts;Philip J. Platts;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Delimiting tropical mountain ecoregions for conservation

    Philip J. Platts;Neil D. Burgess;Roy E. Gereau;Jon C. Lovett

  • Photographic measurement of leaf angles in field crops

    Xiaochen Zou;Matti Mõttus;Priit Tammeorg;Clara Lizarazo Torres

  • Auxiliary datasets improve accuracy of object-based land use/land cover classification in heterogeneous savanna landscapes

    Pekka Hurskainen;Pekka Hurskainen;Hari Adhikari;Mika Siljander;Petri Pellikka

  • Open-source data-driven urban land-use mapping integrating point-line-polygon semantic objects: A case study of Chinese cities

    Yanfei Zhong;Yu Su;Siqi Wu;Zhendong Zheng

  • The computation of foliage clumping index using hemispherical photography

    Alemu Gonsamo;Petri Pellikka

  • Mapping tree species diversity of a tropical montane forest by unsupervised clustering of airborne imaging spectroscopy data

    Elisa Amanda Schäfer;Janne Hermanni Heiskanen;Vuokko Vilhelmiina Heikinheimo;Petri Kauko Emil Pellikka

  • Dynamic modeling of forest conversion: Simulation of past and future scenarios of rural activities expansion in the fringes of the Xingu National Park, Brazilian Amazon

    Eduardo Eiji Maeda;Cláudia Maria de Almeida;Arimatéa de Carvalho Ximenes;Antônio Roberto Formaggio

  • Agricultural Expansion and Its Consequences in the Taita Hills, Kenya

    Petri Pellikka;Barnaby Clark;Alemu Gonsamo Gosa;Nina Himberg

  • Methodology comparison for slope correction in canopy leaf area index estimation using hemispherical photography

    Alemu Gonsamo;Petri Pellikka

  • Application of hyperspectral remote sensing for flower mapping in African savannas

    Tobias Landmann;Rami Piiroinen;David M. Makori;David M. Makori;Elfatih M. Abdel-Rahman;Elfatih M. Abdel-Rahman

  • Tree species diversity, richness, and similarity between exotic and indigenous forests in the cloud forests of Eastern Arc Mountains, Taita Hills, Kenya

    Loice M.A. Omoro;Petri K.E. Pellikka;Paul C. Rogers

  • Application note: CIMES: A package of programs for determining canopy geometry and solar radiation regimes through hemispherical photographs

    Alemu Gonsamo;Jean-Michel N. Walter;Petri Pellikka

Frequent Co-Authors

Janne Heiskanen
Janne Heiskanen University of Helsinki
Alemu Gonsamo
Alemu Gonsamo McMaster University
Lutz Merbold
Lutz Merbold Agroscope
Matti Mõttus
Matti Mõttus VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Luc Lens
Luc Lens Ghent University
Rob Marchant
Rob Marchant University of York
Markku Kulmala
Markku Kulmala University of Helsinki
Andrew R. Marshall
Andrew R. Marshall University of the Sunshine Coast
Janne Rinne
Janne Rinne Lund University
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki

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