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Sorin C. Popescu is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States and specializes in environmental science with a significant focus on remote sensing applications. Their research covers multiple subfields, including environmental engineering, ecology, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and plant science.

Their work extensively embraces various applications of remote sensing and LiDAR technologies, particularly in the context of forest ecology, management, and agricultural environments. Main topics addressed in their research include remote sensing and LiDAR applications, remote sensing in agriculture, forest ecology and management, fire effects on ecosystems, smart agriculture and artificial intelligence, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, and research related to cotton cultivation.

Recent published papers by Sorin C. Popescu include:

  • Using ICESat-2 to Estimate and Map Forest Aboveground Biomass: A First Example, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Assessing the agreement of ICESat-2 terrain and canopy height with airborne lidar over US ecozones, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Use of synthetic images for training a deep learning model for weed detection and biomass estimation in cotton, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Aboveground biomass mapping by integrating ICESat-2, SENTINEL-1, SENTINEL-2, ALOS2/PALSAR2, and topographic information in Mediterranean forests, 2022, GIScience & Remote Sensing
  • Estimation of biomass burning emissions by integrating ICESat-2, Landsat 8, and Sentinel-1 data, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sorin C. Popescu are:

  • Lonesome Malambo
  • Pappu Kumar Yadav
  • J. Alex Thomasson
  • Robert G. Hardin
  • Stephen W. Searcy

The scholar's research is most often published in venues such as:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • MATEC Web of Conferences

Best Publications

  • The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2): Science requirements, concept, and implementation

    Thorsten Markus;Tom Neumann;Anthony Martino;Waleed Abdalati

  • Measuring individual tree crown diameter with lidar and assessing its influence on estimating forest volume and biomass

    Sorin C Popescu;Randolph H Wynne;Ross F Nelson

  • Seeing the Trees in the Forest: Using Lidar and Multispectral Data Fusion with Local Filtering and Variable Window Size for Estimating Tree Height

    Sorin C. Popescu;Randolph H. Wynne

  • Estimating biomass of individual pine trees using airborne lidar

    Sorin C. Popescu

  • Fusion of small footprint LiDAR and multispectral data to estimate plot-level volume and biomass in deciduous and pine forests in Virginia, USA

    Sorin C. Popescu;Randolph H. Wynne;John A. Scrivani

  • An International Comparison of Individual Tree Detection and Extraction Using Airborne Laser Scanning

    Harri Kaartinen;Juha Hyyppä;Xiaowei Yu;Mikko Vastaranta

  • Estimating plot-level tree heights with lidar: local filtering with a canopy-height based variable window size

    Sorin C Popescu;Randolph H Wynne;Ross F Nelson

  • Lidar remote sensing of forest biomass : A scale-invariant estimation approach using airborne lasers

    Kaiguang Zhao;Sorin Popescu;Ross Nelson

  • A voxel-based lidar method for estimating crown base height for deciduous and pine trees

    Sorin C. Popescu;Kaiguang Zhao

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for High-Throughput Phenotyping and Agronomic Research

    Yeyin Shi;J. Alex Thomasson;Seth C. Murray;N. Ace Pugh

  • Mapping surface fuel models using lidar and multispectral data fusion for fire behavior

    Muge Mutlu;Sorin C. Popescu;Curt Stripling;Tom Spencer

  • Lidar-based mapping of leaf area index and its use for validating GLOBCARBON satellite LAI product in a temperate forest of the southern USA

    Kaiguang Zhao;Sorin Popescu

  • Satellite lidar vs. small footprint airborne lidar: Comparing the accuracy of aboveground biomass estimates and forest structure metrics at footprint level

    Sorin C. Popescu;Kaiguang Zhao;Amy L Neuenschwander;Chinsu Lin

  • Multitemporal field-based plant height estimation using 3D point clouds generated from small unmanned aerial systems high-resolution imagery

    L. Malambo;S.C. Popescu;S.C. Murray;E. Putman

  • Characterizing forest canopy structure with lidar composite metrics and machine learning

    Kaiguang Zhao;Sorin Popescu;Xuelian Meng;Yong Pang

  • Photon counting LiDAR: an adaptive ground and canopy height retrieval algorithm for ICESat-2 data.

    S.C. Popescu;T. Zhou;R. Nelson;A. Neuenschwander

  • Terrestrial laser scanning as an effective tool to retrieve tree level height, crown width, and stem diameter.

    Shruthi Srinivasan;Sorin C. Popescu;Marian Eriksson;Ryan D. Sheridan

  • Hyperspectral remote sensing of plant biochemistry using Bayesian model averaging with variable and band selection

    Kaiguang Zhao;Denis Valle;Sorin Popescu;Xuesong Zhang

  • Estimating aboveground biomass and forest canopy cover with simulated ICESat-2 data

    Lana L. Narine;Sorin Popescu;Amy Neuenschwander;Tan Zhou

  • Multi-temporal terrestrial laser scanning for modeling tree biomass change

    Shruthi Srinivasan;Sorin C. Popescu;Marian Eriksson;Ryan D. Sheridan

Frequent Co-Authors

Kaiguang Zhao
Kaiguang Zhao The Ohio State University
William L. Rooney
William L. Rooney Texas A&M University
Ross Nelson
Ross Nelson Goddard Space Flight Center
Randolph H. Wynne
Randolph H. Wynne Virginia Tech
Bradford P. Wilcox
Bradford P. Wilcox Texas A&M University
Michael P. Bishop
Michael P. Bishop Texas A&M University
Thorsten Markus
Thorsten Markus Goddard Space Flight Center
David Riaño
David Riaño Spanish National Research Council
John Valasek
John Valasek Texas A&M University
David D. Baltensperger
David D. Baltensperger Texas A&M University

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