Benjamin Brede

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Brede is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Brede has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Environmental Engineering, 17 papers in Ecology and 12 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Brede's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (26 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (17 papers) and Forest ecology and management (12 papers). Benjamin Brede is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (26 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (17 papers) and Forest ecology and management (12 papers). Benjamin Brede collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United Kingdom. Benjamin Brede's co-authors include Harm Bartholomeus, Alvaro Lau, Lammert Kooistra, Martin Herold, Kim Calders, Mathias Disney, J.G.P.W. Clevers, Andrew Burt, Phil Wilkes and Juha Suomalainen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Brede

29 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Data acquisition considerations for Terrestrial Laser Scanning of forest plots

2017 269 citations Phil Wilkes, Alvaro Lau et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Brede Netherlands	16	1.1k	609	584	318	284	33	1.3k
Juan Carlos Pinilla Suárez United Kingdom	20	1.1k 1.0×	729 1.2×	691 1.2×	278 0.9×	388 1.4×	74	1.5k
Rachel Gaulton United Kingdom	24	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.8×	573 1.0×	258 0.8×	549 1.9×	49	1.9k
Topi Tanhuanpää Finland	17	902 0.9×	574 0.9×	428 0.7×	341 1.1×	284 1.0×	33	1.2k
Sakari Tuominen Finland	25	1.6k 1.5×	1.1k 1.8×	817 1.4×	424 1.3×	475 1.7×	71	2.1k
Grant D. Pearse New Zealand	18	776 0.7×	653 1.1×	241 0.4×	226 0.7×	221 0.8×	32	1.1k
Francesca Giannetti Italy	24	990 0.9×	723 1.2×	556 1.0×	306 1.0×	605 2.1×	69	1.7k
Xin Shen China	17	815 0.8×	562 0.9×	316 0.5×	203 0.6×	177 0.6×	48	1.0k
Jonathan P. Dash New Zealand	17	699 0.7×	586 1.0×	282 0.5×	196 0.6×	240 0.8×	24	1.1k
Sylvie Durrieu France	18	1.2k 1.1×	790 1.3×	680 1.2×	367 1.2×	383 1.3×	39	1.5k
Eva Lindberg Sweden	23	1.4k 1.4×	883 1.4×	896 1.5×	649 2.0×	345 1.2×	58	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Brede

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20 of 20 papers shown

Maeda, Eduardo Eiji, Benjamin Brede, Kim Calders, et al.. (2025). Expanding forest research with terrestrial LiDAR technology. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8853–8853.

Calders, Kim, Martin Herold, Jennifer Adams, et al.. (2025). Realistic virtual forests for understanding forest disturbances and recovery from space. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 227. 501–507.

Śmigaj, Magdalena, et al.. (2024). Optimizing UAV-based uncooled thermal cameras in field conditions for precision agriculture. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 134. 104184–104184.

Franceschini, Marston H. D., et al.. (2024). Detection of a vascular wilt disease in potato (‘Blackleg’) based on UAV hyperspectral imagery: Can structural features from LiDAR or SfM improve plant-wise classification accuracy?. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 227. 109527–109527. 3 indexed citations

Tebaldini, Stefano, et al.. (2024). Evaluating Phase Histograms for Remote Sensing of Forested Areas Using L-Band SAR: Theoretical Modeling and Experimental Results. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–17. 3 indexed citations

Zhao, Jiayan, et al.. (2023). Advancing Forest Monitoring and Assessment Through Immersive Virtual Reality. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 4. 1–12. 3 indexed citations

Wilkes, Phil, Mathias Disney, John Armston, et al.. (2023). TLS2trees : A scalable tree segmentation pipeline for TLS data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(12). 3083–3099. 19 indexed citations

Calders, Kim, Benjamin Brede, Glenn Newnham, et al.. (2023). StrucNet: a global network for automated vegetation structure monitoring. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 9(5). 587–598. 19 indexed citations

Vincent, Grégoire, et al.. (2023). Multi-sensor airborne lidar requires intercalibration for consistent estimation of light attenuation and plant area density. Remote Sensing of Environment. 286. 113442–113442. 7 indexed citations

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Brede, Benjamin, Harm Bartholomeus, Nicolas Barbier, et al.. (2022). Peering through the thicket: Effects of UAV LiDAR scanner settings and flight planning on canopy volume discovery. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 114. 103056–103056. 20 indexed citations

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Brede, Benjamin, Louise Terryn, Nicolas Barbier, et al.. (2022). Non-destructive estimation of individual tree biomass: Allometric models, terrestrial and UAV laser scanning. Remote Sensing of Environment. 280. 113180–113180. 85 indexed citations

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Brede, Benjamin, et al.. (2021). Factors Influencing Temperature Measurements from Miniaturized Thermal Infrared (TIR) Cameras: A Laboratory-Based Approach. Sensors. 21(24). 8466–8466. 31 indexed citations

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Brede, Benjamin, Jochem Verrelst, Jean‐Philippe Gastellu‐Etchegorry, et al.. (2020). Assessment of Workflow Feature Selection on Forest LAI Prediction with Sentinel-2A MSI, Landsat 7 ETM+ and Landsat 8 OLI. Remote Sensing. 12(6). 915–915. 44 indexed citations

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Decuyper, Mathieu, Benjamin Brede, Lammert Kooistra, et al.. (2019). Linking Terrestrial LiDAR Scanner and Conventional Forest Structure Measurements with Multi-Modal Satellite Data. Forests. 10(3). 291–291. 18 indexed citations

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Brede, Benjamin, Jean‐Philippe Gastellu‐Etchegorry, Nicolas Lauret, et al.. (2018). Monitoring Forest Phenology and Leaf Area Index with the Autonomous, Low-Cost Transmittance Sensor PASTiS-57. Remote Sensing. 10(7). 1032–1032. 15 indexed citations

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Decuyper, Mathieu, Benjamin Brede, Kim Calders, et al.. (2018). Assessing the structural differences between tropical forest types using Terrestrial Laser Scanning. Forest Ecology and Management. 429. 327–335. 23 indexed citations

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Wilkes, Phil, Alvaro Lau, Mathias Disney, et al.. (2017). Data acquisition considerations for Terrestrial Laser Scanning of forest plots. Remote Sensing of Environment. 196. 140–153. 269 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brede, Benjamin, Boris Thies, Jörg Bendix, & Uwe Feister. (2017). Spatiotemporal High-Resolution Cloud Mapping with a Ground-Based IR Scanner. Advances in Meteorology. 2017. 1–11. 2 indexed citations

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Brede, Benjamin, Harm Bartholomeus, Juha Suomalainen, et al.. (2016). The Speulderbos fiducial reference site for continuous monitoring of forest biophysical variables. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 740. 191. 4 indexed citations

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Blaustein, Albert P., et al.. (1977). Independence Documents of the World, Volume 1.

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