Publications

Franz Schug, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Helmut Haberl, David Frantz, Doris Virág, Sebastian van der Linden, Patrick Hostert (2023). High-resolution data and maps of material stock, population, and employment in Austria from 1985 to 2018. Data in Brief.

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Georgia Doxani, Eric Vermote, Jean-Claude Roger, Sergii Skakun, Ferran Gascon, Alan Collison, Liesbeth De Keukelaere, Camille Desjardins, David Frantz, Olivier Hagolle, Minsu Kim, Jérôme Louis, Fabio Pacifici, Bringfried Pflug, Hervé Poilvé, Didier Ramon, Rudolf Richter, Feng Yin (2023). Atmospheric Correction Inter-comparison eXercise, ACIX-II Land: An assessment of atmospheric correction processors for Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 over land. Remote Sensing of Environment.

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Daniel Scheffler, David Frantz (2022). Improved burn severity estimation by using Land Surface Phenology metrics and red edge information estimated from Landsat. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.

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Franz Schug, David Frantz, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Helmut Haberl, Doris Virág, Sebastian van der Linden, Patrick Hostert (2022). High-resolution mapping of 33 years of material stock and population growth in Germany using Earth Observation data. Journal of Industrial Ecology.

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Franz Schug, David Frantz, Akpona Okujeni, Patrick Hostert (2022). Sub-pixel building area mapping based on synthetic training data and regression-based unmixing using Sentinel-1 and -2 data. Remote Sensing Letters.

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Sergii Skakun, Jan Wevers, Carsten Brockmann, Georgia Doxani, Matej Aleksandrov, Matej Batič, David Frantz, Ferran Gascon, Luis Gómez-Chova, Olivier Hagolle, Dan López-Puigdollers, Jérôme Louis, Matic Lubej, Gonzalo Mateo-García, Julien Osman, Devis Peressutti, Bringfried Pflug, Jernej Puc, Rudolf Richter, Jean-Claude Roger, Pat Scaramuzza, Eric Vermote, Nejc Vesel, Anže Zupanc, Lojze Žust (2022). Cloud Mask Intercomparison eXercise (CMIX): An evaluation of cloud masking algorithms for Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2. Remote Sensing of Environment.

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He Yin, Bin Tan, David Frantz, Volker Radeloff (2022). Integrated topographic corrections improve forest mapping using Landsat imagery. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.

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David Frantz, Patrick Hostert, Philippe Rufin, Stefan Ernst, Achim Röder, Sebastian van der Linden (2022). Revisiting the past: Replicability of a historic long-term vegetation dynamics assessment in the era of big data analytics. Remote Sensing.

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Marcel Schwieder, Maximilian Wesemeyer, David Frantz, Kira Pfoch, Stefan Erasmi, Jürgen Pickert, Claas Nendel, Patrick Hostert (2021). Mapping grassland mowing events across Germany based on combined Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 time series. Remote Sensing of Environment.

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Fabian Lehmann, David Frantz, Sören Becker, Ulf Leser, Patrick Hostert (2021). FORCE on Nextflow: Scalable Analysis of Earth Observation data on Commodity Clusters. Proceedings of the CIKM 2021 Workshops.

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Akpona Okujeni, Clemens Jänicke, Sam Cooper, David Frantz, Patrick Hostert, Matthew Clark, Karl Segl, Sebastian van der Linden (2021). Multi-season unmixing of vegetation class fractions across diverse Californian ecoregions using simulated spaceborne imaging spectroscopy data.. Remote Sensing of Environment.

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Philippe Rufin, David Frantz, Lin Yan, Patrick Hostert (2021). Operational Coregistration of the Sentinel-2A/B Image Archive Using Multitemporal Landsat Spectral Averages. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.

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Franz Schug, David Frantz, Sebastian van der Linden, Patrick Hostert (2021). Gridded population mapping for Germany based on building density, height and type from Earth Observation data using census disaggregation and bottom-up estimates. PLOS ONE.

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Helmut Haberl, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Franz Schug, David Frantz, Doris Virág, Christoph Plutzar, Karin Gruhler, Jakob Lederer, Georg Schiller, Tomer Fishman, Maud Lanau, Andreas Gattringer, Thomas Kemper, Gang Liu, Hiroki Tanikawa, Sebastian van der Linden, Patrick Hostert (2021). High-Resolution Maps of Material Stocks in Buildings and Infrastructures in Austria and Germany. Environmental Science & Technology.

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Viktoria Zekoll, Magdalena Main-Knorn, Jerome Louis, David Frantz, Rudolf Richter, Bringfried Pflug (2021). Comparison of Masking Algorithms for Sentinel-2 Imagery. Remote Sensing.

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David Frantz, Franz Schug, Akpona Okujeni, Claudio Navacchi, Wolfgang Wagner, Sebastian van der Linden, Patrick Hostert (2021). National-scale mapping of building height using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time series. Remote Sensing of Environment.

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Ewa Grabska, David Frantz, Katarzyna Ostapowicz (2020). Evaluation of machine learning algorithms for forest stand species mapping using Sentinel-2 imagery and environmental data in the Polish Carpathians. Remote Sensing of Environment.

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Johanna Buchner, He Yin, David Frantz, Tobias Kuemmerle, Elshad Askerov, Tamar Bakuradze, Benjamin Bleyhl, Nodar Elizbarashvili, Anna Komarova, Katarzyna Lewińska, Afag Rizayeva, Hovik Sayadyan, Bin Tan, Garegin Tepanosyan, Nugzar Zazanashvili, Volker Radeloff (2020). Land-cover change in the Caucasus Mountains since 1987 based on the topographic correction of multi-temporal Landsat composites. Remote Sensing of Environment.

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Franz Schug, David Frantz, Akpona Okujeni, Sebastian van der Linden, Patrick Hostert (2020). Mapping urban-rural gradients of settlements and vegetation at national scale using Sentinel-2 spectral-temporal metrics and regression-based unmixing with synthetic training data. Remote Sensing of Environment.

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Daniel Scheffler, David Frantz, Karl Segl (2020). Spectral harmonization and red edge prediction of Landsat-8 to Sentinel-2 using land cover optimized multivariate regressors. Remote Sensing of Environment.

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Benjamin Jakimow, Sebastian van der Linden, Fabian Thiel, David Frantz, Patrick Hostert (2020). Visualizing and labeling dense multi-sensor earth observation time series: The EO Time Series Viewer. Environmental Modelling & Software.

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Sascha Nink, Joachim Hill, Johannes Stoffels, Henning Buddenbaum, David Frantz, Joachim Langshausen (2019). Using Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data for the Generation of Continuously Updated Forest Type Information Layers in a Cross-Border Region. Remote Sensing.

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Philippe Rufin, David Frantz, Stefan Ernst, Andreas Rabe, Patrick Griffiths, Mutlu Özdoğan, Patrick Hostert (2019). Mapping Cropping Practices on a National Scale Using Intra-Annual Landsat Time Series Binning. Remote Sensing.

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Karen Lebek, Cornelius Senf, David Frantz, José Monteiro, Tobias Krueger (2019). Interdependent effects of climate variability and forest cover change on streamflow dynamics: a case study in the Upper Umvoti River Basin, South Africa. Regional Environmental Change.

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David Frantz (2019). FORCE—Landsat + Sentinel-2 Analysis Ready Data and Beyond. Remote Sensing.

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David Frantz, Marion Stellmes, Patrick Hostert (2019). A Global MODIS Water Vapor Database for the Operational Atmospheric Correction of Historic and Recent Landsat Imagery. Remote Sensing.

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David Parduhn, David Frantz (2018). Seeing deforestation in Zambia - On the discrepancy between biophysical land-use changes and social perception. Biodiversity & Ecology 6 - Climate change and adaptive landmanagement in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions.

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Achim Röder, Marion Stellmes, David Frantz, Joachim Hill (2018). Remote sensing-based environmental assessment and monitoring – generation of operational baseline and enhanced experimental products in southern Africa. Biodiversity & Ecology 6 - Climate change and adaptive landmanagement in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions.

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Anne Schneibel, Achim Röder, Marion Stellmes, David Frantz (2018). Long-term land use change analysis in south-central Angola. Assessing the trade-off between major ecosystem services with remote sensing data. Biodiversity & Ecology 6 - Climate change and adaptive landmanagement in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions.

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David Frantz, Erik Haß, Andreas Uhl, Johannes Stoffels, Joachim Hill (2018). Improvement of the Fmask algorithm for Sentinel-2 images: Separating clouds from bright surfaces based on parallax effects. Remote Sensing of Environment.

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Marleen de Blécourt, Achim Röder, Alexander Gröngröft, Stephan Baumann, David Frantz, Annette Eschenbach (2018). Deforestation for agricultural expansion in SW Zambia and NE Namibia and the impacts on soil fertility, soil organic carbon- and nutrient levels. Biodiversity & Ecology 6 - Climate change and adaptive landmanagement in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions.

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Georgia Doxani, Eric Vermote, Jean-Claude Roger, Ferran Gascon, Stefan Adriaensen, David Frantz, Olivier Hagolle, André Hollstein, Grit Kirches, Fuqin Li, Jérôme Louis, Antoine Mangin, Nima Pahlevan, Bringfried Pflug, Quinten Vanhellemont (2018). Atmospheric Correction Inter-Comparison Exercise. Remote Sensing.

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Anne Schneibel, David Frantz, Achim Röder, Marion Stellmes, Kim Fischer, Joachim Hill (2017). Using Annual Landsat Time Series for the Detection of Dry Forest Degradation Processes in South-Central Angola. Remote Sensing.

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David Frantz, Achim Röder, Marion Stellmes, Joachim Hill (2017). Phenology-adaptive pixel-based compositing using optical earth observation imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment.

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Erik Haß, David Frantz, Sebastian Mader, Joachim Hill (2017). Global Analysis of the Differences Between the MODIS Vegetation Index Compositing Date and the Actual Acquisition Date. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.

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Anne Schneibel, Marion Stellmes, Achim Röder, David Frantz, Benjamin Kowalski, Erik Haß, Joachim Hill (2017). Assessment of spatio-temporal changes of smallholder cultivation patterns in the Angolan Miombo belt using segmentation of Landsat time series. Remote Sensing of Environment.

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Rasmus Revermann, Manfred Finckh, Marion Stellmes, Ben Strohbach, David Frantz, Jens Oldeland (2016). Linking Land Surface Phenology and Vegetation-Plot Databases to Model Terrestrial Plant α-Diversity of the Okavango Basin. Remote Sensing.

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David Frantz, Marion Stellmes, Achim Röder, Thomas Udelhoven, Sebastian Mader, Joachim Hill (2016). Improving the Spatial Resolution of Land Surface Phenology by Fusing Medium- and Coarse-Resolution Inputs. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

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David Frantz, Achim Röder, Thomas Udelhoven, Michael Schmidt (2016). Forest Disturbance Mapping Using Dense Synthetic Landsat/MODIS Time-Series and Permutation-Based Disturbance Index Detection. Remote Sensing.

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David Frantz, Marion Stellmes, Achim Röder, Joachim Hill (2016). Fire spread from MODIS burned area data: obtaining fire dynamics information for every single fire. International Journal of Wildland Fire.

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Anne Schneibel, Marion Stellmes, Achim Röder, Manfred Finckh, Rasmus Revermann, David Frantz, Joachim Hill (2016). Evaluating the Trade-Off Between Food and Timber Resulting from the Conversion of Miombo Forests to Agricultural Land in Angola Using Multi-Temporal Landsat Data. Science of The Total Environment.

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David Frantz, Achim Röder, Marion Stellmes, Joachim Hill (2016). An Operational Radiometric Landsat Preprocessing Framework for Large-Area Time Series Applications. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

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David Frantz, Achim Röder, Marion Stellmes, Joachim Hill (2015). On the Derivation of a Spatially Distributed Aerosol Climatology for its Incorporation in a Radiometric Landsat Preprocessing Framework. Remote Sensing Letters.

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David Frantz, Achim Röder, Thomas Udelhoven, Michael Schmidt (2015). Enhancing the Detectability of Clouds and Their Shadows in Multitemporal Dryland Landsat Imagery: Extending Fmask. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.

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Miriam Machwitz, Laura Giustarini, Christian Bossung, David Frantz, Martin Schlerf, Holger Lilienthal, Loise Wandera, Patrick Matgen, Lucien Hoffmann, Thomas Udelhoven (2014). Enhanced biomass prediction by assimilating satellite data into a crop growth model. Environmental Modelling & Software.

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Marion Stellmes, David Frantz, Manfred Finckh, Rasmus Revermann, Achim Röder, Joachim Hill (2013). Fire Frequency, Fire Seasonality and Fire Intensity within the Okavango Region Derived from MODIS Fire Products. Biodiversity & Ecology 5 - Special Volume: Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region.

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