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71
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24

Pierre Defourny 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 Pierre Defourny sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 410 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Pierre Defourny 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 Pierre Defourny sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Pierre Defourny is affiliated with Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with contributions spanning both fields.

The main subfields of study covered in their work include ecology, global and planetary change, environmental engineering, plant science, and atmospheric science. This multidisciplinary approach intersects with various aspects of remote sensing and its applications in agriculture and environmental monitoring.

The key topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Remote sensing in agriculture
  • Land use and ecosystem services
  • Remote sensing and land use
  • Remote sensing and LiDAR applications
  • Smart agriculture and AI
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Defourny are:

  • Mathilde De Vroey
  • Julien Radoux
  • Viviane Planchón
  • Yannick Curnel
  • Jean-Pierre Goffart

Defourny's work has been published in multiple venues, often contributing to the following journals:

  • Remote Sensing
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Data
  • Potato Research

Recent publications demonstrate a focus on remote sensing applications for crop and grassland monitoring. Some examples are:

  • "Grassland Mowing Detection Using Sentinel-1 Time Series: Potential and Limitations," 2021, Remote Sensing
  • "Radiative transfer model inversion using high-resolution hyperspectral airborne imagery - Retrieving maize LAI to access biomass and grain yield," 2022, Field Crops Research
  • "Sentinel-1 Time Series for Crop Identification in the Framework of the Future CAP Monitoring," 2021, Remote Sensing
  • "Mowing detection using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time series for large scale grassland monitoring," 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Crop Phenology Modelling Using Proximal and Satellite Sensor Data," 2023, Remote Sensing

These publications reflect Defourny's engagement with satellite data and advanced imaging techniques in agricultural monitoring, including the use of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellite time series for detecting mowing events and crop identification. The research often integrates remote sensing data with plant phenology and biomass estimation for agricultural management.

Best Publications

  • Forest change detection by statistical object-based method

    Baudouin Desclée;Patrick Bogaert;Pierre Defourny

  • The ESA Climate Change Initiative: Satellite Data Records for Essential Climate Variables

    R Hollmann;CJ Merchant;RA Saunders;C Downy

  • Retrieving forest structure variables based on image texture analysis and IKONOS-2 imagery

    François Kayitakire;C Hamel;Pierre Defourny

  • Assessment of an Operational System for Crop Type Map Production Using High Temporal and Spatial Resolution Satellite Optical Imagery

    Jordi Inglada;Marcela Arias;Benjamin Tardy;Olivier Hagolle

  • Near real-time agriculture monitoring at national scale at parcel resolution: Performance assessment of the Sen2-Agri automated system in various cropping systems around the world

    Pierre Defourny;Sophie Bontemps;Nicolas Bellemans;Cosmin Cara

  • Deforestation in Central Africa: Estimates at regional, national and landscape levels by advanced processing of systematically-distributed Landsat extracts

    Gregory Duveiller;Pierre Defourny;Baudouin Desclée;P. Mayaux

  • Global Land Cover Map for 2009 (GlobCover 2009)

    Olivier Arino;Jose Julio Ramos Perez;Vasileios Kalogirou;Sophie Bontemps

  • Efficiency of crop identification based on optical and SAR image time series

    Xavier Blaes;Laurent Vanhalle;Pierre Defourny

  • GlobCover: ESA service for global land cover from MERIS

    O. Arino;D. Gross;F. Ranera;L. Bourg

  • A new, global, multi‐annual (2000–2007) burnt area product at 1 km resolution

    Kevin Tansey;Jean-Marie Grégoire;Pierre Defourny;Roland Leigh

  • Survey of Hyperspectral Earth Observation Applications from Space in the Sentinel-2 Context

    Julie Transon;Raphaël d'Andrimont;Alexandre Maugnard;Pierre Defourny

  • Gross and net land cover changes in the main plant functional types derived from the annual ESA CCI land cover maps (1992–2015)

    Wei Li;Natasha MacBean;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Defourny

  • Plant functional type classification for earth system models: results from the European Space Agency's Land Cover Climate Change Initiative

    Ben Poulter;Ben Poulter;Natasha MacBean;Andrew Hartley;Iryna Khlystova

  • A conceptual framework to define the spatial resolution requirements for agricultural monitoring using remote sensing

    Grégory Duveiller;Pierre Defourny

  • The Anopheles dirus complex: spatial distribution and environmental drivers.

    Valérie Obsomer;Valérie Obsomer;Pierre Defourny;Marc Coosemans

  • Les Forêts du Bassin du Congo : Etat des forêts 2010

    Carlos De Wasseige;P. de Marcken;N. Bayol;F. Hiol Hiol

  • Automated annual cropland mapping using knowledge-based temporal features

    François Waldner;Guadalupe Sepulcre Canto;Pierre Defourny

  • Estimating smallholder crops production at village level from Sentinel-2 time series in Mali's cotton belt

    Marie Julie Lambert;Pierre C.Sibiry Traoré;Xavier Blaes;Philippe Baret

  • An object-based change detection method accounting for temporal dependences in time series with medium to coarse spatial resolution

    Sophie Bontemps;Patrick Bogaert;Nicolas Titeux;Pierre Defourny

  • The Forests of the Congo Basin: State of the Forest 2010

    C. de Wasseige;P. de Marcken;N. Bayol;F Hiol-Hiol

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory Duveiller
Gregory Duveiller Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Philippe Mayaux
Philippe Mayaux European Commission
Frédéric Baret
Frédéric Baret INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Martin Herold
Martin Herold Wageningen University & Research
Olivier Hagolle
Olivier Hagolle Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales
Bruno Gérard
Bruno Gérard Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
Quentin Ponette
Quentin Ponette Université Catholique de Louvain
Frédéric Achard
Frédéric Achard Joint Research Centre
Jordi Inglada
Jordi Inglada Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère
Hans Verbeeck
Hans Verbeeck Ghent University

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