Frank Thonfeld

1.9k total citations
49 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Frank Thonfeld is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank Thonfeld has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 28 papers in Ecology and 20 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Frank Thonfeld's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (25 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (15 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (12 papers). Frank Thonfeld is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (25 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (15 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (12 papers). Frank Thonfeld collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United States. Frank Thonfeld's co-authors include Gunter Menz, Stefanie Steinbach, Javier Muro, Bernd Diekkrüger, Kristian Näschen, Hannes Feilhauer, Adrian Strauch, Claudia Kuenzer, Ursula Geßner and Matthias Braun and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Landscape and Urban Planning.

In The Last Decade

Frank Thonfeld

47 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Frank Thonfeld Germany 22 745 597 408 283 212 49 1.4k
Darius Phiri Zambia 15 727 1.0× 636 1.1× 372 0.9× 282 1.0× 268 1.3× 47 1.4k
M. Joseph Hughes United States 6 706 0.9× 791 1.3× 439 1.1× 247 0.9× 230 1.1× 8 1.3k
Nathan Torbick United States 23 748 1.0× 910 1.5× 579 1.4× 312 1.1× 172 0.8× 52 1.8k
Abdulhakim M. Abdi Sweden 19 723 1.0× 552 0.9× 225 0.6× 326 1.2× 169 0.8× 39 1.3k
Elhadi Adam South Africa 22 516 0.7× 879 1.5× 468 1.1× 225 0.8× 250 1.2× 83 1.6k
Laurence Hubert‐Moy France 21 615 0.8× 818 1.4× 430 1.1× 193 0.7× 187 0.9× 80 1.5k
Haifa Tamiminia Canada 7 597 0.8× 567 0.9× 384 0.9× 198 0.7× 109 0.5× 13 1.1k
Muhammad Hasan Ali Baig China 16 826 1.1× 610 1.0× 427 1.0× 310 1.1× 98 0.5× 36 1.3k
H.K. Zhang United States 5 782 1.0× 900 1.5× 462 1.1× 286 1.0× 156 0.7× 7 1.4k
Céline Lamarche Belgium 11 789 1.1× 529 0.9× 293 0.7× 291 1.0× 126 0.6× 27 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Frank Thonfeld

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Fields of papers citing papers by Frank Thonfeld

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frank Thonfeld

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Frank Thonfeld. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Frank Thonfeld based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Frank Thonfeld. Frank Thonfeld is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Thonfeld, Frank, et al.. (2026). Forest canopy cover loss dynamics in Germany between 2017 and 2024: Revealing regional differences. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 146. 105157–105157.
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Geßner, Ursula, Christopher R. Hakkenberg, Stefanie Holzwarth, et al.. (2025). Characterizing local forest structural complexity based on multi-platform and -sensor derived indicators. Ecological Indicators. 170. 113085–113085. 2 indexed citations
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Holzwarth, Stefanie, Frank Thonfeld, Sahra Abdullahi, et al.. (2023). Earth-Observation-Based Monitoring of Forests in Germany—Recent Progress and Research Frontiers: A Review. Remote Sensing. 15(17). 4234–4234. 15 indexed citations
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Thonfeld, Frank, et al.. (2023). Forest Structure Characterization in Germany: Novel Products and Analysis Based on GEDI, Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data. Remote Sensing. 15(8). 1969–1969. 28 indexed citations
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Näschen, Kristian, Bernd Diekkrüger, Mariele Evers, et al.. (2020). The impact of climate change and land use/land cover change on water resources in a data-scarce catchment in Tanzania. 1 indexed citations
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Muro, Javier, Adrian Strauch, Anis Guelmami, et al.. (2020). Multitemporal optical and radar metrics for wetland mapping at national level in Albania. Heliyon. 6(8). e04496–e04496. 16 indexed citations
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Holzwarth, Stefanie, Frank Thonfeld, Sahra Abdullahi, et al.. (2020). Earth Observation Based Monitoring of Forests in Germany: A Review. Remote Sensing. 12(21). 3570–3570. 65 indexed citations
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Muro, Javier, et al.. (2019). Mapping Wetland Dynamics With SAR-Based Change Detection in the Cloud. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 16(10). 1536–1539. 19 indexed citations
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Näschen, Kristian, Bernd Diekkrüger, Constanze Leemhuis, et al.. (2018). Hydrological Modeling in Data-Scarce Catchments: The Kilombero Floodplain in Tanzania. Water. 10(5). 599–599. 51 indexed citations
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Gabiri, Geofrey, Constanze Leemhuis, Bernd Diekkrüger, et al.. (2018). Modelling the impact of land use management on water resources in a tropical inland valley catchment of central Uganda, East Africa. The Science of The Total Environment. 653. 1052–1066. 21 indexed citations
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Gabiri, Geofrey, et al.. (2018). Assessing seasonal land cover dynamics in the tropical Kilombero floodplain of East Africa. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. 12(2). 1–1. 11 indexed citations
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Thonfeld, Frank, et al.. (2017). Beyond trend analysis: How a modified breakpoint analysis enhances knowledge of agricultural production after Zimbabwe's fast track land reform. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 62. 78–87. 9 indexed citations
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Menz, Gunter, et al.. (2016). Assessing Leaf Area Index from High Resolution Satellite Datasets for Maize in Trans Nzoia County, Kenya. ESASP. 740. 169. 1 indexed citations
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Thonfeld, Frank, et al.. (2016). Evaluating Crop Area Mapping from MODIS Time-Series as an Assessment Tool for Zimbabwe’s “Fast Track Land Reform Programme”. PLoS ONE. 11(6). e0156630–e0156630. 31 indexed citations
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Thonfeld, Frank, Hannes Feilhauer, Matthias Braun, & Gunter Menz. (2016). Robust Change Vector Analysis (RCVA) for multi-sensor very high resolution optical satellite data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 50. 131–140. 102 indexed citations
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Locher‐Krause, Karla E., Martin Völk, Björn Waske, Frank Thonfeld, & Sven Lautenbach. (2016). Expanding temporal resolution in landscape transformations: Insights from a landsat-based case study in Southern Chile. Ecological Indicators. 75. 132–144. 17 indexed citations
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Kleusberg, Alfred, et al.. (2015). Separability of Dominant Crop Cultures in Southern Germany Using TerraSAR-X Data. 4(2). 97–107. 3 indexed citations
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Thonfeld, Frank, et al.. (2010). From Algorithms to Processing Chains: A Review of Land Cover and Land Use Change Detection Methodologies. 686. 478. 1 indexed citations

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