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Tiit Kutser 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 Tiit Kutser sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 152 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tiit Kutser 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 Tiit Kutser sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Tiit Kutser is affiliated with the University of Tartu in Estonia and specializes in environmental science with a strong focus on earth and planetary sciences. Their research covers several subfields, including oceanography, ecology, environmental chemistry, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and water science and technology.

The scientist's work extensively addresses topics related to marine and coastal ecosystems, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, water quality monitoring and analysis, isotope analysis in ecology, marine and coastal plant biology, remote sensing in agriculture, and water quality monitoring technologies.

Tiit Kutser has published multiple papers in notable scientific journals. Some of their recent publications include:

  • Remote sensing of shallow waters - A 50 year retrospective and future directions, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Validation and Comparison of Water Quality Products in Baltic Lakes Using Sentinel-2 MSI and Sentinel-3 OLCI Data, 2020, Sensors
  • Global divergent trends of algal blooms detected by satellite during 1982-2018, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Predicting lake dissolved organic carbon at a global scale, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Harmful algal blooms in inland waters, 2024, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Frequent coauthors with whom Tiit Kutser has collaborated include Kaire Toming, Ele Vahtmäe, Tuuli Soomets, Birgot Paavel, and Hongtao Duan. These collaborations have contributed to a breadth of research outputs primarily in aquatic and environmental sciences.

The scientist commonly publishes in several academic venues, with the most frequent being Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment, the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, and Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • Lakes and reservoirs as regulators of carbon cycling and climate

    Lars J. Tranvik;John A. Downing;James B. Cotner;Steven A. Loiselle

  • A global inventory of lakes based on high‐resolution satellite imagery

    Charles Verpoorter;Charles Verpoorter;Tiit Kutser;Tiit Kutser;David A. Seekell;David A. Seekell;Lars J. Tranvik

  • Remote sensing of inland waters: challenges, progress and future directions

    Stephanie C.J. Palmer;Tiit Kutser;Peter D. Hunter

  • First Experiences in Mapping Lake Water Quality Parameters with Sentinel-2 MSI Imagery

    Kaire Toming;Tiit Kutser;Alo Laas;Margot Sepp

  • Quantitative detection of chlorophyll in cyanobacterial blooms by satellite remote sensing

    Tiit Kutser

  • Monitoring cyanobacterial blooms by satellite remote sensing

    Tiit Kutser;Liisa Metsamaa;Niklas Strömbeck;Ele Vahtmäe

  • Mapping lake CDOM by satellite remote sensing

    Tiit Kutser;Donald C. Pierson;Kari Y. Kallio;Anu Reinart

  • Optical types of inland and coastal waters

    Evangelos Spyrakos;Ruth O'Donnell;Peter D. Hunter;Claire Miller

  • Retrieval of water quality from airborne imaging spectrometry of various lake types in different seasons.

    K. Kallio;T. Kutser;T. Hannonen;S. Koponen

  • Remote sensing of shallow waters – A 50 year retrospective and future directions

    Tiit Kutser;John Hedley;Claudia Giardino;Chris Roelfsema

  • Passive optical remote sensing of cyanobacteria and other intense phytoplankton blooms in coastal and inland waters

    Tiit Kutser

  • Coral reef applications of Sentinel-2: Coverage, characteristics, bathymetry and benthic mapping with comparison to Landsat 8

    John D. Hedley;Chris Roelfsema;Vittorio Brando;Claudia Giardino

  • Automated mapping of water bodies using Landsat multispectral data

    Charles Verpoorter;Tiit Kutser;Tiit Kutser;Lars J. Tranvik

  • Comparison of different satellite sensors in detecting cyanobacterial bloom events in the Baltic Sea

    Anu Reinart;Anu Reinart;Tiit Kutser;Tiit Kutser

  • Remote Sensing of Black Lakes and Using 810 nm Reflectance Peak for Retrieving Water Quality Parameters of Optically Complex Waters

    Tiit Kutser;Birgot Paavel;Charles Verpoorter;Martin Ligi

  • Mapping coral reef benthic substrates using hyperspectral space-borne images and spectral libraries

    Tiit Kutser;Ian Miller;David L.B. Jupp

  • The possibility of using the Landsat image archive for monitoring long time trends in coloured dissolved organic matter concentration in lake waters

    Tiit Kutser;Tiit Kutser

  • Using Satellite Remote Sensing to Estimate the Colored Dissolved Organic Matter Absorption Coefficient in Lakes

    Tiit Kutser;Donald C. Pierson;L.J. Tranvik;Anu Reinart

  • Modeling spectral discrimination of Great Barrier Reef benthic communities by remote sensing instruments

    Tiit Kutser;Arnold G. Dekker;William Skirving

  • Global divergent trends of algal blooms detected by satellite during 1982–2018

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  • Imaging Spectrometry of Water

    Arnold G. Dekker;Vittorio E. Brando;Janet M. Anstee;Nicole Pinnel

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonne Kotta
Jonne Kotta University of Tartu
Lars J. Tranvik
Lars J. Tranvik Uppsala University
Chris Roelfsema
Chris Roelfsema University of Queensland
Alfred Wüest
Alfred Wüest Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Arnold G. Dekker
Arnold G. Dekker Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Tiina Nõges
Tiina Nõges Estonian University of Life Sciences
Claudia Giardino
Claudia Giardino National Research Council (CNR)
Donald C. Pierson
Donald C. Pierson Uppsala University
Sebastian Sobek
Sebastian Sobek Uppsala University
Vittorio E. Brando
Vittorio E. Brando National Research Council (CNR)

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