Aitor Bastarrika

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

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Aitor Bastarrika is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Aitor Bastarrika has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 14 papers in Ecology and 9 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Aitor Bastarrika's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (16 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (14 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (9 papers). Aitor Bastarrika is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (16 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (14 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (9 papers). Aitor Bastarrika collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and United States. Aitor Bastarrika's co-authors include Emilio Chuvieco, Ekhi Roteta, M. Pilar Martín, Marc Padilla, Rubén Ramo, Javier Salas, Guido R. van der Werf, Ioannis Bistinas, Dave van Wees and Alicia Palacios‐Orueta and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Remote Sensing of Environment and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Aitor Bastarrika

18 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Development of a Sentinel-2 burned area algorithm: Generation of a small fire database for sub-Saharan Africa

2018 299 citations Ekhi Roteta, Aitor Bastarrika et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
African burned area and fire carbon emissions are strongly impacted by small fires undetected by coarse resolution satellite data

2021 194 citations Rubén Ramo, Ekhi Roteta et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aitor Bastarrika Spain	12	1.2k	834	420	197	161	18	1.4k
Rubén Ramo Spain	9	1.0k 0.8×	640 0.8×	215 0.5×	173 0.9×	196 1.2×	14	1.1k
Alfonso Fernández–Manso Spain	24	1.5k 1.2×	1.3k 1.6×	636 1.5×	178 0.9×	213 1.3×	59	2.0k
José Manuel Fernández‐Guisuraga Spain	20	871 0.7×	615 0.7×	342 0.8×	106 0.5×	120 0.7×	61	1.1k
J. Ju United States	6	761 0.6×	644 0.8×	286 0.7×	59 0.3×	257 1.6×	9	1.1k
Karin Reinke Australia	17	559 0.5×	385 0.5×	369 0.9×	114 0.6×	97 0.6×	70	915
M. Lucrecia Pettinari Spain	15	894 0.7×	405 0.5×	157 0.4×	134 0.7×	136 0.8×	19	981
Tim Danaher Australia	13	740 0.6×	583 0.7×	454 1.1×	32 0.2×	138 0.9×	20	1.1k
Neil Sims Australia	15	702 0.6×	497 0.6×	177 0.4×	87 0.4×	118 0.7×	34	1.1k
Ana C. L. Sá Portugal	18	750 0.6×	315 0.4×	166 0.4×	119 0.6×	123 0.8×	29	831
George Mitri Lebanon	16	599 0.5×	399 0.5×	224 0.5×	85 0.4×	83 0.5×	34	819

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18 of 18 papers shown

Bastarrika, Aitor, et al.. (2025). The Paramo Fire Atlas: quantifying burned area and trends across the Tropical Andes. Environmental Research Letters. 20(5). 54019–54019. 1 indexed citations

Bastarrika, Aitor, Ekhi Roteta, Stijn Hantson, et al.. (2024). An automatic procedure for mapping burned areas globally using Sentinel-2 and VIIRS/MODIS active fires in Google Earth Engine. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 218. 232–245. 9 indexed citations

Franquesa, Magí, et al.. (2024). Sentinel-2 Reference Fire Perimeters for the Assessment of Burned Area Products over Latin America and the Caribbean for the Year 2019. Remote Sensing. 16(7). 1166–1166. 4 indexed citations

Roteta, Ekhi, Aitor Bastarrika, Askoa Ibisate, & Emilio Chuvieco. (2021). A Preliminary Global Automatic Burned-Area Algorithm at Medium Resolution in Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing. 13(21). 4298–4298. 27 indexed citations

Roteta, Ekhi, Aitor Bastarrika, Magí Franquesa, & Emilio Chuvieco. (2021). Landsat and Sentinel-2 Based Burned Area Mapping Tools in Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing. 13(4). 816–816. 61 indexed citations

Bastarrika, Aitor, et al.. (2021). Above-ground biomass estimation from LiDAR data using random forest algorithms. Journal of Computational Science. 58. 101517–101517. 79 indexed citations

Ramo, Rubén, Ekhi Roteta, Ioannis Bistinas, et al.. (2021). African burned area and fire carbon emissions are strongly impacted by small fires undetected by coarse resolution satellite data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(9). 194 indexed citations breakdown →

Tanase, Mihai A., Ekhi Roteta, Aitor Bastarrika, et al.. (2020). Burned Area Detection and Mapping: Intercomparison of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Based Algorithms over Tropical Africa. Remote Sensing. 12(2). 334–334. 48 indexed citations

Bastarrika, Aitor, et al.. (2019). Prediction of Aboveground Biomass from Low-Density LiDAR Data: Validation over P. radiata Data from a Region North of Spain. Forests. 10(9). 819–819. 11 indexed citations

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Roteta, Ekhi, et al.. (2018). Development of a Sentinel-2 burned area algorithm: Generation of a small fire database for sub-Saharan Africa. Remote Sensing of Environment. 222. 1–17. 299 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bastarrika, Aitor, et al.. (2014). BAMS: A Tool for Supervised Burned Area Mapping Using Landsat Data. Remote Sensing. 6(12). 12360–12380. 87 indexed citations

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Bastarrika, Aitor, et al.. (2013). Live fuel moisture content and ignition probability in the Iberian Peninsular territory of Spain. GeoFocus Revista Internacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Información Geográfica. 13(13). 25–40. 1 indexed citations

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Chuvieco, Emilio, Inmaculada Aguado, Sara Jurdao, et al.. (2012). Integrating geospatial information into fire risk assessment. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 23(5). 606–619. 167 indexed citations

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Bastarrika, Aitor, Emilio Chuvieco, & M. Pilar Martín. (2011). Automatic Burned Land Mapping From MODIS Time Series Images: Assessment in Mediterranean Ecosystems. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 49(9). 3401–3413. 29 indexed citations

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Bastarrika, Aitor, Emilio Chuvieco, & M. Pilar Martín. (2011). Mapping burned areas from Landsat TM/ETM+ data with a two-phase algorithm: Balancing omission and commission errors. Remote Sensing of Environment. 115(4). 1003–1012. 210 indexed citations

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Chuvieco, Emilio, Héctor Del Valle, Jesús A. Anaya, et al.. (2008). GLOBAL BURNED-LAND ESTIMATION IN LATIN AMERICA USING MODIS COMPOSITE DATA. Ecological Applications. 18(1). 64–79. 79 indexed citations

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Bastarrika, Aitor & Emilio Chuvieco. (2006). CARTOGRAFÍA DEL ÁREA QUEMADA MEDIANTE CRECIMIENTO DE REGIONES: APLICACIÓN EN ENTORNOS MEDITERRÁNEOS CON IMÁGENES TM y ETM+. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 182–204. 5 indexed citations

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Riaño, David, Emilio Chuvieco, Javier Salas, Alicia Palacios‐Orueta, & Aitor Bastarrika. (2002). Generation of fuel type maps from Landsat TM images and ancillary data in Mediterranean ecosystems. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 32(8). 1301–1315. 106 indexed citations

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