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Zbyněk Malenovský

Zbyněk Malenovský

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
40
Citations
8828
World Ranking
7944
National Ranking
499

Zbyněk Malenovský 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 Zbyněk Malenovský sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 116 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Zbyněk Malenovský 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 Zbyněk Malenovský sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Zbyněk Malenovský is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Environmental Engineering, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of main topics such as Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, and Urban Heat Island Mitigation.

The research output includes publications in prominent venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment (8 publications)
  • Remote Sensing (3 publications)
  • Nature Plants (1 publication)
  • in silico Plants (1 publication)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (1 publication)

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Malenovský include:

  • "Discrete anisotropic radiative transfer modelling of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence: Structural impacts in geometrically explicit vegetation canopies," 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Assessing impacts of canopy 3D structure on chlorophyll fluorescence radiance and radiative budget of deciduous forest stands using DART," 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Predicting plant biomass and species richness in temperate grasslands across regions, time, and land management with remote sensing and deep learning," 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Chlorophyll a fluorescence illuminates a path connecting plant molecular biology to Earth-system science," 2021, Nature Plants
  • "Detailed reconstruction of trees from terrestrial laser scans for remote sensing and radiative transfer modelling applications," 2021, in silico Plants

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Růžena Janoutová
  • Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry
  • Shari Van Wittenberghe
  • Jon Atherton
  • Omar Regaieg

Best Publications

  • Assessment of Forest Structure Using Two UAV Techniques: A Comparison of Airborne Laser Scanning and Structure from Motion (SfM) Point Clouds

    Luke Wallace;Arko Lucieer;Zbyněk Malenovský;Darren Turner

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

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

  • Sentinels for science: potential of Sentinel-1, -2, and -3 missions for scientific observations of ocean, cryosphere, and land

    Zbyněk Malenovský;Helmut Rott;Josef Cihlar;Michael E. Schaepman

  • Review of optical-based remote sensing for plant trait mapping

    Lucie Homolova;Lucie Homolova;Zbynek Malenovsky;Jan G. P. W Clevers;Glenda Garcia-Santos

  • Quantifying Vegetation Biophysical Variables from Imaging Spectroscopy Data: A Review on Retrieval Methods

    Jochem Verrelst;Zbynek Malenovsky;Zbynek Malenovsky;Christiaan van der Tol;Gustau Camps-Valls

  • Algorithm theoretical basis document

    S. Huber;M.E. Schaepman;J.G.P.W. Clevers;Z. Malenovsky

  • Discrete Anisotropic Radiative Transfer (DART 5) for modeling airborne and satellite spectroradiometer and LIDAR acquisitions of natural and urban landscapes

    J.P. Gastellu Etchegorry;T. Yin;N. Lauret;T. Cajgfinger

  • The fourth phase of the radiative transfer model intercomparison (RAMI) exercise: Actual canopy scenarios and conformity testing

    Jean Luc Widlowski;Corrado Mio;Mathias Disney;Jennifer Adams

  • The global distribution of leaf chlorophyll content

    H. Croft;H. Croft;J.M. Chen;R. Wang;G. Mo

  • Spatial Co-Registration of Ultra-High Resolution Visible, Multispectral and Thermal Images Acquired with a Micro-UAV over Antarctic Moss Beds

    Darren Turner;Arko Lucieer;Zbyněk Malenovský;Diana H. King

  • PROSPECT-PRO for estimating content of nitrogen-containing leaf proteins and other carbon-based constituents

    Jean-Baptiste Féret;Katja Berger;Florian de Boissieu;Zbyněk Malenovský

  • Chlorophyll a fluorescence illuminates a path connecting plant molecular biology to Earth-system science.

    Albert Porcar-Castell;Zbyněk Malenovský;Troy Magney;Shari Van Wittenberghe;Shari Van Wittenberghe

  • DART: Recent Advances in Remote Sensing Data Modeling With Atmosphere, Polarization, and Chlorophyll Fluorescence

    Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry;Nicolas Lauret;Tiangang Yin;Lucas Landier

  • HyperUAS-Imaging Spectroscopy from a Multirotor Unmanned Aircraft System

    Arko Lucieer;Zbyněk Malenovský;Tony Veness;Luke Wallace

  • Meta-analysis assessing potential of steady-state chlorophyll fluorescence for remote sensing detection of plant water, temperature and nitrogen stress

    Alexander Ač;Zbyněk Malenovský;Zbyněk Malenovský;Julie Olejníčková;Alexander Gallé;Alexander Gallé

  • Retrieval of spruce leaf chlorophyll content from airborne image data using continuum removal and radiative transfer

    Zbynek Malenovsky;Zbynek Malenovsky;Lucie Homolova;Lucie Homolova;Raul Zurita-Milla;Petr Lukes

  • Downscaling of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence from canopy level to photosystem level using a random forest model

    Xinjie Liu;Luis Guanter;Liangyun Liu;Alexander Damm;Alexander Damm

  • Scientific and technical challenges in remote sensing of plant canopy reflectance and fluorescence

    Zbyněk Malenovský;Zbyněk Malenovský;Kumud Bandhu Mishra;František Zemek;Uwe Rascher

  • Assessing Vegetation Function with Imaging Spectroscopy

    J A Gamon;J A Gamon;B Somers;Zbyněk Malenovský;Zbyněk Malenovský;E M Middleton

  • Influence of woody elements of a Norway spruce canopy on nadir reflectance simulated by the DART model at very high spatial resolution

    Zbynek Malenovsky;Zbynek Malenovsky;Emmanuel Martin;Lucie Homolova;Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry
Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Michael E. Schaepman
Michael E. Schaepman University of Zurich
Uwe Rascher
Uwe Rascher Forschungszentrum Jülich
Sharon A. Robinson
Sharon A. Robinson University of Wollongong
Arko Lucieer
Arko Lucieer University of Tasmania
Alexander Damm
Alexander Damm University of Zurich
Miina Rautiainen
Miina Rautiainen Aalto University
Christiaan van der Tol
Christiaan van der Tol University of Twente
Matti Mõttus
Matti Mõttus VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Jana Albrechtová
Jana Albrechtová Charles University

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