Christian Thiel

2.3k total citations
58 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Christian Thiel is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Thiel has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Environmental Engineering, 29 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 20 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Christian Thiel's work include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (26 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (25 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (15 papers). Christian Thiel is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (26 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (25 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (15 papers). Christian Thiel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Christian Thiel's co-authors include Christiane Schmullius, Heiko Balzter, Mikhail Urbazaev, Beth Cole, Mirco Migliavacca, Markus Reichstein, C. Schmullius, Ferdinando Giacco, Ralph Dubayah and Christian Berger and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Remote Sensing of Environment and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Christian Thiel

55 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christian Thiel Germany 18 757 599 292 271 262 58 1.3k
Erxue Chen China 20 913 1.2× 821 1.4× 258 0.9× 363 1.3× 130 0.5× 134 1.4k
Mika Karjalainen Finland 22 1.2k 1.5× 605 1.0× 323 1.1× 281 1.0× 122 0.5× 62 1.7k
Yrjö Rauste Finland 19 819 1.1× 548 0.9× 558 1.9× 356 1.3× 188 0.7× 81 1.4k
Tuomas Häme Finland 23 1.1k 1.4× 1.0k 1.7× 372 1.3× 574 2.1× 287 1.1× 82 1.8k
Jan van Aardt United States 23 1.1k 1.4× 1.2k 2.0× 127 0.4× 442 1.6× 281 1.1× 107 2.1k
Kirsi Karila Finland 16 529 0.7× 340 0.6× 129 0.4× 136 0.5× 160 0.6× 32 839
Yuchu Qin China 19 573 0.8× 526 0.9× 70 0.2× 336 1.2× 108 0.4× 31 1.2k
Craig A. Coburn Canada 18 534 0.7× 853 1.4× 92 0.3× 415 1.5× 217 0.8× 47 1.3k
Mathias Schardt Austria 17 555 0.7× 416 0.7× 146 0.5× 319 1.2× 94 0.4× 53 903
Xin Tian China 20 544 0.7× 494 0.8× 185 0.6× 504 1.9× 50 0.2× 115 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Thiel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Thiel

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All Works

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Bachmann, Felix, et al.. (2023). Tree Stem Detection and Crown Delineation in a Structurally Diverse Deciduous Forest Combining Leaf-On and Leaf-Off UAV-SfM Data. Remote Sensing. 15(18). 4366–4366. 9 indexed citations
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Hese, Sören, et al.. (2023). Novel UAV Flight Designs for Accuracy Optimization of Structure from Motion Data Products. Remote Sensing. 15(17). 4308–4308. 10 indexed citations
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Dubois, Clémence, Christian Thiel, Marius Rüetschi, et al.. (2023). Accounting for Deciduous Forest Structure and Viewing Geometry Effects Improves Sentinel-1 Time Series Image Consistency. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 61. 1–13. 3 indexed citations
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Urbazaev, Mikhail, et al.. (2020). Potential of Recurrence Metrics from Sentinel-1 Time Series for Deforestation Mapping. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 13. 5233–5240. 7 indexed citations
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Truckenbrodt, J, C. L. Williams, T. W. Jones, et al.. (2019). Towards Sentinel-1 SAR Analysis-Ready Data: A Best Practices Assessment on Preparing Backscatter Data for the Cube. Data. 4(3). 93–93. 65 indexed citations
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Thiel, Christian, et al.. (2016). Retrieval of Aboveground Biomass Using Multi-Frequency SAR. 740. 194. 4 indexed citations
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Thiel, Christian & Christiane Schmullius. (2016). Derivation of Forest Parameters from Stereographic UAV Data- A Comparison with Airborne Lidar Data. 740. 189. 6 indexed citations
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Urbazaev, Mikhail, Christian Thiel, Mirco Migliavacca, et al.. (2016). Improved Multi-Sensor Satellite-Based Aboveground Biomass Estimation by Selecting Temporally Stable Forest Inventory Plots Using NDVI Time Series. Forests. 7(8). 169–169. 16 indexed citations
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Balzter, Heiko, Beth Cole, Christian Thiel, & Christiane Schmullius. (2015). Mapping CORINE Land Cover from Sentinel-1A SAR and SRTM Digital Elevation Model Data using Random Forests. Remote Sensing. 7(11). 14876–14898. 146 indexed citations
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Fiorello, Davide, et al.. (2014). Innovative survey of car drivers' mobility in six European countries: some results and methodological lessons. 1 indexed citations
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Eckardt, R. C., Nicole Richter, Stefan Auer, et al.. (2013). SAR-EDU - An education initiative for applied Synthetic Aperture Radar remote sensing. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations
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Thiel, Christian & Christiane Schmullius. (2013). Investigating ALOS PALSAR interferometric coherence in central Siberia at unfrozen and frozen conditions: implications for forest growing stock volume estimation. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 39(3). 232–250. 10 indexed citations
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Thiel, Christian. (2012). Moral Money - The action guiding Impact of Complementary Currencies. Open access LMU (Ludwid Maxmilian's Universitat Munchen).
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Thiel, Christian, et al.. (2010). Potential of Fusion of SAR and Optical Satellite Imagery for Biomass Estimation in Temperate Forested Areas. 686. 43. 5 indexed citations
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Thiel, Christian, et al.. (2010). Assessment of Potentiality of L-Band Quadpol Radar for the Retrieval of Growing Stock Volume and Forest Structural Parameters in Central Siberia. 686. 35. 1 indexed citations
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Leiterer, Reik, Jan Kropáček, Christian Thiel, et al.. (2010). Object oriented extraction of wetlands based on synergistic use of multispectral and microwave remote sensing data. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 686. 191.
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Cartus, Oliver, et al.. (2008). Sentinel-1 Land Applications based on Multi-temporal Data Acquisitions. 1–2. 1 indexed citations
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Thiel, Christian, et al.. (2007). Analysis of ASAR and PALSAR data for optimizing forest cover mapping - A GSE Forest Monitoring study. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 2 indexed citations
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Schmullius, Christiane, et al.. (2002). Influence of diurnal variations of surface wetness on classification of agricultural crops using multi-parametric E-SAR data with respect to future TerraSAR applications. ESASP. 475. 285–289. 1 indexed citations
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Hochschild, Volker, et al.. (2002). Derivation of land cover and soil moisture from airborne polarimetric SAR-data. 475. 355–358. 1 indexed citations

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