Andreas Hirner

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 640 citations indexed

About

Andreas Hirner is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Media Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Andreas Hirner has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 640 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Ecology, 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Media Technology. Recurrent topics in Andreas Hirner's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (9 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers) and Remote-Sensing Image Classification (5 papers). Andreas Hirner is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (9 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers) and Remote-Sensing Image Classification (5 papers). Andreas Hirner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Czechia and South Africa. Andreas Hirner's co-authors include Thomas Esch, Julian Zeidler, Mattia Marconcini, Stefan Dech, Wieke Heldens, Achim Roth, Manfred Keil, Emanuele Strano, Claudia Kuenzer and Felix Bachofer and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Remote Sensing of Environment and Sustainability.

In The Last Decade

Andreas Hirner

26 papers receiving 611 citations

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Breaking new ground in mapping human settlements from space – The Global Urban Footprint

2017 295 citations Thomas Esch, Wieke Heldens et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andreas Hirner Germany	10	389	189	148	110	101	31	640
Filip Sabo Italy	11	319 0.8×	140 0.7×	125 0.8×	89 0.8×	85 0.8×	30	560
Ferri Stefano Italy	10	531 1.4×	161 0.9×	124 0.8×	156 1.4×	187 1.9×	24	768
Klaus Steinnocher Austria	15	308 0.8×	141 0.7×	212 1.4×	142 1.3×	172 1.7×	48	648
Panagiotis Politis Italy	10	345 0.9×	146 0.8×	98 0.7×	93 0.8×	73 0.7×	28	561
Stefan Adriaensen Belgium	11	279 0.7×	175 0.9×	291 2.0×	164 1.5×	110 1.1×	23	702
Manchun Li China	17	260 0.7×	254 1.3×	148 1.0×	398 3.6×	83 0.8×	67	893
Christoph Aubrecht Austria	16	568 1.5×	205 1.1×	186 1.3×	117 1.1×	52 0.5×	50	1.0k
Junmei Tang United States	18	535 1.4×	280 1.5×	306 2.1×	216 2.0×	154 1.5×	43	974
Emanuele Angiuli Italy	8	232 0.6×	153 0.8×	153 1.0×	143 1.3×	112 1.1×	15	490
Ram C. Sharma Japan	13	294 0.8×	268 1.4×	248 1.7×	125 1.1×	82 0.8×	40	581

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andreas Hirner

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20 of 20 papers shown

Eisfelder, Christina, Sarah Asam, Andreas Hirner, et al.. (2025). Thirty-Year Analyses of Seasonal NDVI and Climatic Drivers Across Different Land Cover Types and Biogeographical Regions in Europe. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18. 11225–11249.

Geßner, Ursula, et al.. (2025). Combining Machine Learning and Spatiotemporal Filtering to Map Crop Types of Germany for Seven Years. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 22. 1–5.

Klein, Igor, et al.. (2024). Global WaterPack - The development of global surface water over the past 20 years at daily temporal resolution. Scientific Data. 11(1). 472–472. 7 indexed citations

Eisfelder, Christina, Sarah Asam, Andreas Hirner, et al.. (2023). Seasonal Vegetation Trends for Europe over 30 Years from a Novel Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) Time-Series—The TIMELINE NDVI Product. Remote Sensing. 15(14). 3616–3616. 34 indexed citations

Asam, Sarah, et al.. (2023). AVHRR NDVI Compositing Method Comparison and Generation of Multi-Decadal Time Series—A TIMELINE Thematic Processor. Remote Sensing. 15(6). 1631–1631. 13 indexed citations

Hirner, Andreas, et al.. (2021). Fusing Sentinel-1 and -2 to Model GEDI-Derived Vegetation Structure Characteristics in GEE for the Paraguayan Chaco. Remote Sensing. 13(24). 5105–5105. 35 indexed citations

Palacios‐Lopez, Daniela, Felix Bachofer, Thomas Esch, et al.. (2019). New Perspectives for Mapping Global Population Distribution Using World Settlement Footprint Products. Sustainability. 11(21). 6056–6056. 35 indexed citations

Esch, Thomas, Julian Zeidler, Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini, et al.. (2018). Exploiting big earth data from space – first experiences with the timescan processing chain. Big Earth Data. 2(1). 36–55. 32 indexed citations

Esch, Thomas, Felix Bachofer, Wieke Heldens, et al.. (2018). Where We Live—A Summary of the Achievements and Planned Evolution of the Global Urban Footprint. Remote Sensing. 10(6). 895–895. 75 indexed citations

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Esch, Thomas, Wieke Heldens, & Andreas Hirner. (2018). The Global Urban Footprint. elib (German Aerospace Center). 2 indexed citations

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Esch, Thomas, Mattia Marconcini, Julian Zeidler, et al.. (2017). Exploiting Big Data from Earth Observation - The TimeScan Framework. 1 indexed citations

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Olusegun, Christiana, Ursula Geßner, Andreas Hirner, et al.. (2017). WASCAL - West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use. elib (German Aerospace Center).

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Sannier, Christophe, Baudouin Desclée, Heinz Gallaun, et al.. (2017). Sentinel-based Evolution of Copernicus Land Services on Continental and Global Scale. elib (German Aerospace Center). 1 indexed citations

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Esch, Thomas, et al.. (2017). Earth observation-supported service platform for the development and provision of thematic information on the built environment — the TEP-Urban project. elib (German Aerospace Center). 1–4. 5 indexed citations

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Esch, Thomas, et al.. (2016). EARTH OBSERVATION-SUPPORTED SERVICE PLATFORM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROVISION OF THEMATIC INFORMATION ON THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT – THE TEP-URBAN PROJECT. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. XLI-B8. 1379–1384. 1 indexed citations

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Esch, Thomas, Martin Boettcher, Andreas Hirner, et al.. (2016). Earth observation-based service platforms - a new instrument to provide geo-information for urban and regional planning. elib (German Aerospace Center). 1774–1777. 4 indexed citations

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Kuhlbusch, Thomas A. J., et al.. (2008). Ermittlung des Beitrages von Reifen-, Kupplungs-, Brems- und Fahrbahnabrieb an den PM10-Emissionen von Strassen / Determining the contribution of tyre, clutch, brake and wearing course abrasion to the PM10 emissions of roads. 3 indexed citations

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Künzer, Claudia, et al.. (2008). Multitemporal in-situ mapping of the Wuda coal fires from 2000 to 2005 – assessing coal fire dynamics. elib (German Aerospace Center). 16 indexed citations

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Poujol, Marc, Andreas Hirner, Richard A. Armstrong, & C.R. Anhaeusser. (2008). U-Pb SHRIMP data for the Madibe greenstone belt: implications for crustal growth on the western margin of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa. South African Journal of Geology. 111(1). 67–78. 10 indexed citations

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Künzer, Claudia, Jianzhong Zhang, & Andreas Hirner. (2005). Multitemporal coal fire dynamics – combining thermal remote sensing analysis and temperature field mappings to assess coal fire development in Wuda coal mining area. elib (German Aerospace Center). 8 indexed citations

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