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Sebastian Schmidtlein is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, encompassing 68 publications. Within this broad field, their work focuses on several subfields including Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Themes central to their research include:

  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Schmidtlein has contributed to various scientific journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
  • Applied Vegetation Science
  • European Journal of Remote Sensing

Their recent papers include:

  • Mapping forest tree species in high resolution UAV-based RGB-imagery by means of convolutional neural networks (2020) - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Convolutional Neural Networks accurately predict cover fractions of plant species and communities in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle imagery (2020) - Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
  • About the link between biodiversity and spectral variation (2022) - Applied Vegetation Science
  • The retrieval of plant functional traits from canopy spectra through RTM-inversions and statistical models are both critically affected by plant phenology (2020) - Ecological Indicators
  • Deep learning and citizen science enable automated plant trait predictions from photographs (2021) - Scientific Reports

Throughout their career, Schmidtlein has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Teja Kattenborn
  • Fabian Ewald Fassnacht
  • Felix Schiefer
  • Hannes Feilhauer
  • Milan Chytrý

Best Publications

  • Will remote sensing shape the next generation of species distribution models

    Kate S. He;Bethany A. Bradley;Anna F. Cord;Duccio Rocchini

  • Mapping forest tree species in high resolution UAV-based RGB-imagery by means of convolutional neural networks

    Felix Schiefer;Teja Kattenborn;Teja Kattenborn;Annett Frick;Julian Frey

  • Mapping of continuous floristic gradients in grasslands using hyperspectral imagery

    Sebastian Schmidtlein;Julia Sassin

  • Alien invasive slider turtle in unpredicted habitat: a matter of niche shift or of predictors studied?

    Dennis Rödder;Sebastian Schmidtlein;Michael Veith;Stefan Lötters

  • Linking earth observation and taxonomic, structural and functional biodiversity: local to ecosystem perspectives

    Angela Lausch;L Bannehr;Michael Beckmann;Christoph Boehm

  • Global Amphibian Extinction Risk Assessment for the Panzootic Chytrid Fungus

    Dennis Rödder;Jos Kielgast;Jon Bielby;Sebastian Schmidtlein

  • A comparative framework for broad‐scale plot‐based vegetation classification

    Miquel De Cáceres;Milan Chytrý;Emiliano Agrillo;Fabio Attorre

  • Brightness-normalized Partial Least Squares Regression for hyperspectral data

    Hannes Feilhauer;Hannes Feilhauer;Gregory P. Asner;Roberta E. Martin;Sebastian Schmidtlein

  • Mapping plant strategy types using remote sensing

    Sebastian Schmidtlein;Hannes Feilhauer;Helge Bruelheide

  • Uncertainty in ecosystem mapping by remote sensing

    Duccio Rocchini;Giles M. Foody;Harini Nagendra;Carlo Ricotta

  • Convolutional Neural Networks accurately predict cover fractions of plant species and communities in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle imagery

    Teja Kattenborn;Jana Eichel;Susan Wiser;Larry Burrows

  • Measuring β-diversity by remote sensing: A challenge for biodiversity monitoring

    Duccio Rocchini;Duccio Rocchini;Sandra Luque;Nathalie Pettorelli;Lucy Bastin

  • Mapping the floristic continuum : Ordination space position estimated from imaging spectroscopy

    Sebastian Schmidtlein;P. Zimmermann;Ralf Schüpferling;Carola Weiß

  • About the link between biodiversity and spectral variation

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  • Imaging spectroscopy as a tool for mapping Ellenberg indicator values

    Sebastian Schmidtlein

  • A brute-force approach to vegetation classification

    Sebastian Schmidtlein;Lubomír Tichý;Hannes Feilhauer;Ulrike Faude

  • Invasion by the Alien Tree Prunus serotina Alters Ecosystem Functions in a Temperate Deciduous Forest

    Raf Aerts;Michael Ewald;Manuel Nicolas;Jérôme Piat

  • Calculating landscape diversity with information-theory based indices: A GRASS GIS solution

    Duccio Rocchini;Luca Delucchi;Giovanni Bacaro;Paolo Cavallini

  • The spectral variability hypothesis does not hold across landscapes

    Sebastian Schmidtlein;Fabian Ewald Fassnacht

  • Differentiating plant functional types using reflectance: which traits make the difference?

    Teja Kattenborn;Fabian Ewald Fassnacht;Sebastian Schmidtlein

  • The link between rapid enigmatic amphibian decline and the globally emerging chytrid fungus.

    Stefan Lötters;Jos Kielgast;Jon Bielby;Sebastian Schmidtlein

  • Assessing floristic composition with multispectral sensors—A comparison based on monotemporal and multiseasonal field spectra

    Hannes Feilhauer;Hannes Feilhauer;Frank Thonfeld;Ulrike Faude;Kate S. He

  • Combining Isomap ordination and imaging spectroscopy to map continuous floristic gradients in a heterogeneous landscape

    Hannes Feilhauer;Ulrike Faude;Sebastian Schmidtlein

Frequent Co-Authors

Duccio Rocchini
Duccio Rocchini University of Bologna
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne
Raf Aerts
Raf Aerts KU Leuven
Ben Somers
Ben Somers KU Leuven
Angela Lausch
Angela Lausch Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Martin Wegmann
Martin Wegmann University of Würzburg
Giles M. Foody
Giles M. Foody University of Nottingham
Harini Nagendra
Harini Nagendra Azim Premji University
Carlo Ricotta
Carlo Ricotta Sapienza University of Rome

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