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Wouter Verhoef 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 Wouter Verhoef sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 179 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Wouter Verhoef 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 Wouter Verhoef sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Wouter Verhoef is affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands and focuses their research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work encompasses several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Oceanography, and Emergency Medicine.

The scientist's research topics span a diverse range related to environmental monitoring and dynamics. Key areas of work include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Verhoef has contributed to multiple research publications, often collaborating with coauthors such as Peiqi Yang, Christiaan van der Tol, Egor Prikaziuk, Behnaz Arabi, and Mhd. Suhyb Salama.

Their recent papers cover environmental modeling, satellite observation integration, and atmospheric correction techniques for remote sensing. Notable works include:

  • SCOPE 2.0: a model to simulate vegetated land surface fluxes and satellite signals, 2021, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Integration of in-situ and multi-sensor satellite observations for long-term water quality monitoring in coastal areas, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • The SPART model: A soil-plant-atmosphere radiative transfer model for satellite measurements in the solar spectrum, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Improved retrieval of land surface biophysical variables from time series of Sentinel-3 OLCI TOA spectral observations by considering the temporal autocorrelation of surface and atmospheric properties, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Towards operational atmospheric correction of airborne hyperspectral imaging spectroscopy: Algorithm evaluation, key parameter analysis, and machine learning emulators, 2023, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Verhoef's publications appear frequently in prominent venues related to remote sensing and environmental modeling. The most common journals for their work include:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Light scattering by leaf layers with application to canopy reflectance modeling: The SAIL model

    W. Verhoef

  • PROSPECT+SAIL models: A review of use for vegetation characterization

    Stéphane Jacquemoud;Wout Verhoef;Frédéric Baret;Cédric Bacour

  • Reconstructing cloudfree NDVI composites using Fourier analysis of time series

    G.J. Roerink;M. Menenti;W. Verhoef

  • An integrated model of soil-canopy spectral radiances, photosynthesis, fluorescence, temperature and energy balance

    C. van der Tol;W. Verhoef;J. Timmermans;A. Verhoef

  • Remote sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) in vegetation: 50 years of progress.

    Gina H. Mohammed;Roberto Colombo;Elizabeth M. Middleton;Uwe Rascher

  • Coupled soil–leaf-canopy and atmosphere radiative transfer modeling to simulate hyperspectral multi-angular surface reflectance and TOA radiance data

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  • Earth observation modeling based on layer scattering matrices

    W. Verhoef

  • Unified Optical-Thermal Four-Stream Radiative Transfer Theory for Homogeneous Vegetation Canopies

    W. Verhoef;Li Jia;Qing Xiao;Z. Su

  • The FLuorescence EXplorer Mission Concept—ESA’s Earth Explorer 8

    Matthias Drusch;Jose Moreno;Umberto Del Bello;Raffaella Franco

  • Simulation of hyperspectral and directional radiance images using coupled biophysical and atmospheric radiative transfer models

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  • Changes in land surface temperatures and NDVI values over Europe between 1982 and 1999

    Yves Julien;José A. Sobrino;Wout Verhoef

  • Third Radiation Transfer Model Intercomparison (RAMI) exercise: Documenting progress in canopy reflectance models

    Jean-Luc Widlowski;Malcolm Taberner;Bernard Pinty;Véronique Bruniquel-Pinel

  • Mapping agroecological zones and time lag in vegetation growth by means of Fourier analysis of time series of NDVI images

    M. Menenti;S. Azzali;W. Verhoef;R. van Swol

  • Theory of radiative transfer models applied in optical remote sensing of vegetation canopies

    W. Verhoef

  • A model for chlorophyll fluorescence and photosynthesis at leaf scale

    C. van der Tol;W. Verhoef;A. Rosema

  • Radiation Transfer Model Intercomparison (RAMI) exercise: Results from the second phase

    B. Pinty;J.-L. Widlowski;M. Taberner;N. Gobron

  • A colour composite of NOAA-AVHRR-NDVI based on time series analysis (1981-1992)

    W. Verhoef;M. Menenti;S. Azzali

  • Performance of spectral fitting methods for vegetation fluorescence quantification

    M. Meroni;L. Busetto;R. Colombo;L. Guanter

  • Canopy spectral invariants for remote sensing and model applications

    Dong Huang;Yuri Knyazikhin;Robert Earl Dickinson;Miina Rautiainen

  • Integration of soil moisture in SEBS for improving evapotranspiration estimation under water stress conditions

    M D Gokmen;Z Vekerdy;Anne Verhoef;W Verhoef

  • Fluspect-B: a model for leaf fluorescence, reflectance and transmittance spectra.

    Nastassia Vilfan;Christiaan van der Tol;Onno Muller;Uwe Rascher

  • Modeling the impact of spectral sensor configurations on the FLD retrieval accuracy of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

    Alexander Damm;André Erler;Walter Hillen;Michele Meroni

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhongbo Su
Zhongbo Su University of Twente
Christiaan van der Tol
Christiaan van der Tol University of Twente
Massimo Menenti
Massimo Menenti Delft University of Technology
Uwe Rascher
Uwe Rascher Forschungszentrum Jülich
Roberto Colombo
Roberto Colombo University of Milano-Bicocca
Jose Moreno
Jose Moreno University of Valencia
Alexander Damm
Alexander Damm University of Zurich
Matthias Drusch
Matthias Drusch European Space Agency
Okke Batelaan
Okke Batelaan Flinders University
Elizabeth M. Middleton
Elizabeth M. Middleton Goddard Space Flight Center

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