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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
71
Citations
15837
World Ranking
1619
National Ranking
113

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Stefan Dech is affiliated with the German Aerospace Center in Germany and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Transportation, Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Ecology.

Their research covers several main topics, including:

  • Impact of Light on Environment and Health
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation

Stefan Dech has contributed to a number of scientific papers, some of which include the following recent publications:

  • "Potential and Challenges of Harmonizing 40 Years of AVHRR Data: The TIMELINE Experience," 2021, Remote Sensing
  • "High-Resolution Gridded Population Datasets: Exploring the Capabilities of the World Settlement Footprint 2019 Imperviousness Layer for the African Continent," 2021, Remote Sensing
  • "Towards a Large-Scale 3D Modeling of the Built Environment-Joint Analysis of TanDEM-X, Sentinel-2 and Open Street Map Data," 2020, Remote Sensing
  • "Biological Earth observation with animal sensors," 2022, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "World Settlement Footprint 3D - A first three-dimensional survey of the global building stock," 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment

Their frequent collaborators include Thomas Esch, Daniela Palacios-Lopez, Mattia Marconcini, Julian Zeidler, and Doris Klein. These partnerships have often resulted in multiple co-authored works.

Stefan Dech regularly publishes in venues such as:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Environmental Health
  • Journal of Transport and Land Use

Best Publications

  • Remote Sensing of Mangrove Ecosystems: A Review

    Claudia Kuenzer;Andrea Bluemel;Steffen Gebhardt;Tuan Vo Quoc

  • Monitoring urbanization in mega cities from space

    Hannes Taubenböck;Thomas Esch;Andreas Felbier;Michael Wiesner

  • Remote sensing of snow – a review of available methods

    Andreas Juergen Dietz;Claudia Kuenzer;Ursula Gessner;Stefan Dech

  • Free and open-access satellite data are key to biodiversity conservation

    Woody Turner;Carlo Rondinini;Nathalie Pettorelli;Brice Mora

  • Urbanization in India – Spatiotemporal analysis using remote sensing data

    Hannes Taubenböck;Martin Wegmann;Achim Roth;Harald Mehl

  • Breaking new ground in mapping human settlements from space – The Global Urban Footprint

    Thomas Esch;Thomas Esch;Wieke Heldens;Andreas Hirner;Manfred Keil

  • Urban Footprint Processor—Fully Automated Processing Chain Generating Settlement Masks From Global Data of the TanDEM-X Mission

    T. Esch;M. Marconcini;A. Felbier;A. Roth

  • Impact of feature selection on the accuracy and spatial uncertainty of per-field crop classification using Support Vector Machines

    F. Löw;U. Michel;S. Dech;S. Dech;C. Conrad

  • The relationship between precipitation anomalies and satellite-derived vegetation activity in Central Asia

    Ursula Gessner;Vahid Naeimi;Igor Klein;Claudia Kuenzer

  • Flood Mapping and Flood Dynamics of the Mekong Delta: ENVISAT-ASAR-WSM Based Time Series Analyses

    Claudia Kuenzer;Huadong Guo;Juliane Huth;Patrick Leinenkugel

  • World Settlement Footprint 3D - A first three-dimensional survey of the global building stock

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  • Derivation of biomass information for semi-arid areas using remote-sensing data

    Christina Eisfelder;Claudia Kuenzer;Stefan Dech

  • Understanding the impact of hydropower developments in the context of upstream–downstream relations in the Mekong river basin

    Claudia Kuenzer;Ian Charles Campbell;Ian Charles Campbell;Marthe Roch;Patrick Leinenkugel

  • Per-Field Irrigated Crop Classification in Arid Central Asia Using SPOT and ASTER Data

    Christopher Conrad;Sebastian Fritsch;Julian Zeidler;Gerd Rücker

  • Earth observation satellite sensors for biodiversity monitoring: potentials and bottlenecks

    Claudia Kuenzer;Marco Ottinger;Martin Wegmann;Huadong Guo

  • Delineation of Urban Footprints From TerraSAR-X Data by Analyzing Speckle Characteristics and Intensity Information

    T. Esch;M. Thiel;A. Schenk;A. Roth

  • New dimensions of urban landscapes: The spatio-temporal evolution from a polynuclei area to a mega-region based on remote sensing data

    Hannes Taubenböck;Michael Wiesner;Andreas Felbier;Mattia Marconcini

  • TanDEM-X mission—new perspectives for the inventory and monitoring of global settlement patterns

    Thomas Esch;Hannes Taubenböck;Achim Roth;Wieke Heldens

  • A conceptual vulnerability and risk framework as outline to identify capabilities of remote sensing

    Hannes Taubenböck;Joachim Post;Achim Roth;Kai Zosseder

  • Tsunami risk assessment in Indonesia

    G. Strunz;J. Post;K. Zosseder;S. Wegscheider

  • Mapping and assessing water use in a Central Asian irrigation system by utilizing MODIS remote sensing products

    Christopher Conrad;Christopher Conrad;Stefan W. Dech;Stefan W. Dech;Mohsin Hafeez;John Lamers

  • Measuring vulnerability to promote disaster resilient societies : conceptual frameworks and definitions

    Joern Birkmann;Stefan Dech;Gerd Hirzinger;Reinhard Klein

Frequent Co-Authors

Hannes Taubenböck
Hannes Taubenböck German Aerospace Center
Claudia Kuenzer
Claudia Kuenzer German Aerospace Center
Martin Wegmann
Martin Wegmann University of Würzburg
Anna F. Cord
Anna F. Cord Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
John P. A. Lamers
John P. A. Lamers University of Bonn
Joern Birkmann
Joern Birkmann University of Stuttgart
Diego Loyola
Diego Loyola German Aerospace Center
Florian Siegert
Florian Siegert Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Kai Nagel
Kai Nagel Technical University of Berlin
Huadong Guo
Huadong Guo Chinese Academy of Sciences

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