Jan Dirk Wegner

8.6k citations

128 papers · 5.4k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 39

Impact in

Geology top 0.1%
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
Environmental Engineering top 0.2%
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications

Papers in

Geology 19
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage 19
Environmental Engineering 45
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications 42

Co-authors: Konrad Schindler Timo Häckel Nico Lang Uwe Stilla Mihai Datcu Dimitrios Marmanis Silvano Galliani P. W. Theiler
Journals: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (15 papers)Remote Sensing of Environment (4 papers)ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (3 papers)Frontiers in Plant Science (2 papers)IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2 papers)
Partner nations: Switzerland Germany United States

In The Last Decade

Jan Dirk Wegner

122 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

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A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth 2023 · 273 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Nature Ecology & Evolution
2019 The Perfect Match: 3D Point Cloud Matching With Smoothed Densities
2018 arXiv (Cornell University)
2013 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

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1	FlorID – A nationwide identification service for plants from photos and habitat information Environmental Modelling & Software ·Philipp Brun, Lucienne de Witte, Manuel Richard Popp, Damaris Zurell, Dirk Nikolaus Karger, Patrice Descombes, Riccardo de Lutio, Jan Dirk Wegner, Christophe N. Bornand, Stefan Eggenberg, Tasko Olevski, Niklaus E. Zimmermann	2025	0
2	Stability and transferability of broadly trained phenology models in a changing climate Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Lynsay Spafford, J. Jelle Lever, Arthur Geßler, Roman Zweifel, Barbara Pietragalla, Jan Dirk Wegner, Vivien Sainte Fare Garnot, Christian Sigg, Yann Vitasse	2025	1
3	Deep learning meets tree phenology modelling: PhenoFormer versus process‐based models Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Vivien Sainte Fare Garnot, Lynsay Spafford, J. Jelle Lever, Christian Sigg, Barbara Pietragalla, Yann Vitasse, Arthur Geßler, Jan Dirk Wegner	2025	2
4	Mapping drivers of tropical forest loss with satellite image time series and machine learning Environmental Research Letters ·Jan Pišl, Marc Rußwurm, Lloyd Haydn Hughes, Gaston Lenczner, Linda See, Jan Dirk Wegner, Devis Tuia	2024	3
5	Flood Water Depth Prediction with Convolutional Temporal Attention Networks Water ·Priyanka Chaudhary, João P. Leitão, Konrad Schindler, Jan Dirk Wegner	2024	6
6	Point2Building: Reconstructing buildings from airborne LiDAR point clouds ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ·Yujia Liu, Anton Obukhov, Jan Dirk Wegner, Konrad Schindler	2024	7
7	Digital innovations for monitoring sustainability in food systems Nature Food ·Eva‐Marie Meemken, Inbal Becker‐Reshef, Laurens Klerkx, Sanneke Kloppenburg, Jan Dirk Wegner, Robert Finger	2024	15
8	Street-level imagery analytics and applications ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ·Fan Zhang, Jan Dirk Wegner, Bisheng Yang, Yu Liu	2023	5
9	Avalanche size estimation and avalanche outline determination by experts: reliability and implications for practice Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·Elisabeth D. Hafner, Frank Techel, Rodrigo Caye Daudt, Jan Dirk Wegner, Konrad Schindler, Yves Bühler	2023	6
10	Urban Change Forecasting from Satellite Images PFG – Journal of Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science ·Nando Metzger, Mehmet Özgür Türkoglu, Rodrigo Caye Daudt, Jan Dirk Wegner, Konrad Schindler	2023	2
11	DEFORESTATION DETECTION IN THE AMAZON WITH SENTINEL-1 SAR IMAGE TIME SERIES SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Kaan Karaman, Vivien Sainte Fare Garnot, Jan Dirk Wegner	2023	3
12	Snow depth estimation at country-scale with high spatial and temporal resolution ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ·Rodrigo Caye Daudt, Hendrik Wulf, Elisabeth D. Hafner, Yves Bühler, Konrad Schindler, Jan Dirk Wegner	2023	21
13	Country-wide retrieval of forest structure from optical and SAR satellite imagery with deep ensembles ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ·Alexander Becker, Stefania Russo, Stefano Puliti, Nico Lang, Konrad Schindler, Jan Dirk Wegner	2022	35
14	Global canopy height regression and uncertainty estimation from GEDI LIDAR waveforms with deep ensembles Remote Sensing of Environment ·Nico Lang, Nikolai Kalischek, John Armston, Konrad Schindler, Ralph Dubayah, Jan Dirk Wegner	2021	151
15	GRAINet: mapping grain size distributions in river beds from UAV images with convolutional neural networks Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Nico Lang, Andrea Irniger, Agnieszka Rozniak, Roni Hunziker, Jan Dirk Wegner, Konrad Schindler	2021	41
16	H3D: Benchmark on Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution 3D Point Clouds and textured Meshes from UAV LiDAR and Multi-View-Stereo arXiv (Cornell University) ·Michael Kölle, D. Laupheimer, Stefan Schmohl, Norbert Haala, Franz Rottensteiner, Jan Dirk Wegner, Hugo Ledoux	2021	1
17	Country-wide high-resolution vegetation height mapping with Sentinel-2 Remote Sensing of Environment ·Nico Lang, Konrad Schindler, Jan Dirk Wegner	2019	141
18	Classification with an edge: Improving semantic image segmentation \nwith boundary detection arXiv (Cornell University) ·Dimitrios Marmanis, Konrad Schindler, Jan Dirk Wegner, Silvano Galliani, Mihai Datcu, Uwe Stilla Hit paper breakdown →	2018	505
19	Comparison of land cover classification using high-resolution TerraSAR-X and optical imagery Jan Dirk Wegner, Shoaib Nezam, Soenke Mueller, Uwe Soergel	2010	2
20	IP Addressing and Subnetting, Including IPv6 Jan Dirk Wegner, R. James Rockwell	1999	7

About Jan Dirk Wegner

Jan Dirk Wegner is a scholar working on Geology, Environmental Engineering, Media Technology, Ecological Modeling and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, having authored 128 papers that have together received 5.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (42 papers), Automated Road and Building Extraction (22 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (21 papers), 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage (19 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (18 papers), Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (16 papers), Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (14 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Geology (1.5k citations), Environmental Engineering (2.5k citations), Media Technology (951 citations), Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (1.5k citations) and Ocean Engineering (892 citations). Jan Dirk Wegner has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Frequent co-authors include Konrad Schindler, Timo Häckel, Nico Lang, Uwe Stilla, Mihai Datcu, Dimitrios Marmanis, Silvano Galliani, P. W. Theiler, Caifa Zhou and Žan Gojčič. Their work appears in journals such as ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Frontiers in Plant Science and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

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