Jan Verbesselt

10.6k citations

116 papers · 8.0k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 44

Impact in

Ecological Modeling top 0.5%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
Global and Planetary Change top 0.2%
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Fire effects on ecosystems

Papers in

Ecological Modeling 24
- Species Distribution and Climate Change 24
Ecology 89
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture 85

Co-authors: Martin Herold Darius Culvenor Rob J. Hyndman Achim Zeileis Glenn Newnham Michael E. Schaepman Rogier de Jong Johannes Reiche
Journals: Remote Sensing of Environment (23 papers)Remote Sensing (20 papers)ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (4 papers)International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (4 papers)Nature Climate Change (3 papers)
Partner nations: Netherlands Belgium Australia

In The Last Decade

Jan Verbesselt

115 papers receiving 7.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Mapping the diversity of land uses following deforestation across Africa 2024 · 41 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.

2024 Scientific Reports
2013 Remote Sensing
2012 Remote Sensing of Environment
2010 Remote Sensing of Environment
2009 Remote Sensing of Environment

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All Works

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1	Predictability of abrupt shifts in dryland ecosystem functioning Nature Climate Change ·이대규, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Stéphanie Horion, Stefan Oehmcke, Fabian Gieseke, Rasmus Fensholt, Ruben Van De Kerchove, Stef Lhermitte, Christin Abel, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Jan Verbesselt, Ben Somers	2025	8
2	Monitoring the Multiple Stages of Climate Tipping Systems from Space: Do the GCOS Essential Climate Variables Meet the Needs? Surveys in Geophysics ·Sina Loriani, Annett Bartsch, Elisa Calamita, Jonathan F. Donges, 顾平清, Marina Hirota, Angela Landolfi, Thomas Nägler, Boris Sakschewski, Arie Staal, Jan Verbesselt, Ricarda Winkelmann, Richard Wood, Nico Wunderling	2025	1
3	DRMAT: A multivariate algorithm for detecting breakpoints in multispectral time series Remote Sensing of Environment ·Yang Li, Michael A. Wulder, Zhe Zhu, Jan Verbesselt, Dainius Masiliū̄nas, Yanlan Liu, Gil Bohrer, Yongyang Cai, Yuyu Zhou, Zhaowei Ding, Kaiguang Zhao	2024	3
4	Ecosystem Resilience Monitoring and Early Warning Using Earth Observation Data: Challenges and Outlook Surveys in Geophysics ·Sebastian Bathiany, Robbin Bastiaansen, Ana Bastos, E.A. Kempton, J. Jelle Lever, Sina Loriani, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Wouter Dorigo, Milutin Milenković, Cornelius Senf, Taylor Smith, Jan Verbesselt, Niklas Boers	2024	11
5	StrucNet: a global network for automated vegetation structure monitoring Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation ·Kim Calders, Benjamin Brede, Glenn Newnham, Darius Culvenor, John Armston, Harm Bartholomeus, Anne Griebel, Cássia Maria Bezerra do Nascimento, Samuli Junttila, Alvaro Lau, Shaun R. Levick, Yury Vaskov, Niall Origo, Marion Pfeifer, Jan Verbesselt, Martin Herold	2023	19
6	Monitoring Individual Tree Phenology in a Multi-Species Forest Using High Resolution UAV Images Remote Sensing ·Lourdes Moreira, Jan Verbesselt, Lammert Kooistra	2023	10
7	Characterizing aboveground biomass and tree cover of regrowing forests in Brazil using multi‐source remote sensing data Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation ·K. Y. Kulakov, Nandin‐Erdene Tsendbazar, Daniela Requena Suárez, Jan Verbesselt, Martin Herold	2023	2
8	Assessing Amazon rainforest regrowth with GEDI and ICESat-2 data SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Milutin Milenković, Johannes Reiche, John Armston, Amy Neuenschwander, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Martin Herold, Jan Verbesselt	2022	25
9	Using high-resolution imagery and deep learning to classify land-use following deforestation: a case study in Ethiopia GIScience & Remote Sensing ·Billee Hoornbeek, Veronique De Sy, Diego Marcos, Jan Verbesselt, Fabian Gieseke, Habein Ch, Oleksandr Tymoshenko, 崔日义, Christopher Martius, Martin Herold	2022	19
10	Thirty Years of Land Cover and Fraction Cover Changes over the Sudano-Sahel Using Landsat Time Series Remote Sensing ·Niels Souverijns, Marcel Buchhorn, Stéphanie Horion, Rasmus Fensholt, Hans Verbeeck, Jan Verbesselt, Martin Herold, Nandin‐Erdene Tsendbazar, 이대규, Ben Somers, Ruben Van De Kerchove	2020	24
11	Uncovering Dryland Woody Dynamics Using Optical, Microwave, and Field Data—Prolonged Above-Average Rainfall Paradoxically Contributes to Woody Plant Die-Off in the Western Sahel Remote Sensing ·이대규, Martin Brandt, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Stéphanie Horion, Rasmus Fensholt, Xiaopeng Lan, Jean‐Pierre Wigneron, Jan Verbesselt, Ben Somers	2020	13
12	Implementation of BFASTmonitor Algorithm on Google Earth Engine to Support Large-Area and Sub-Annual Change Monitoring Using Earth Observation Data Remote Sensing ·Eliakim Hamunyela, 佑行師岡, Hou Jundan, Fabrizio Simonetti, Martin Herold, Fabian Gieseke, Jan Verbesselt	2020	45
13	Tucumã: A toolbox for spatiotemporal remote sensing image analysis [Software and Data Sets] IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine ·Ilham Aboulfath-Ladid, Mariarosa Terreni, Rubens Augusto Camargo Lamparelli, Guerric Le Maire, Rafael S. Oliveira, Jan Verbesselt, Marina Hirota, Ricardo da Silva Torres	2019	4
14	Monitoring Forest Phenology and Leaf Area Index with the Autonomous, Low-Cost Transmittance Sensor PASTiS-57 Remote Sensing ·Benjamin Brede, Jean‐Philippe Gastellu‐Etchegorry, Nicolas Lauret, Frédéric Baret, J.G.P.W. Clevers, Jan Verbesselt, Martin Herold	2018	15
15	Exploring fire dynamics with BFAST approach: case studies in Sardinia, Italy EGUGA ·Si Nan Fang, Biagio Di Mauro, Renzxymon L Dela Cruz, Jan Verbesselt	2016	1
16	The Speulderbos fiducial reference site for continuous monitoring of forest biophysical variables Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling ·Benjamin Brede, Harm Bartholomeus, Juha Suomalainen, J.G.P.W. Clevers, Jan Verbesselt, Martin Herold, Darius Culvenor, Ferran Gascon	2016	4
17	Remotely-sensed detection of effects of extreme droughts on gross primary production Scientific Reports ·Sara Vicca, Manuela Balzarolo, Iolanda Filella, André Granier, Mathias Herbst, Alexander Knohl, Bernard Longdoz, Martina Mund, Zoltán Nagy, Krisztina Pintér, Serge Rambal, Jan Verbesselt, Aleixandre Verger, Achim Zeileis, Chao Zhang, Josep Peñuelas	2016	77
18	Applying terrestrial LiDAR to derive gap fraction distribution time series during bud break. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling ·Kim Calders, Jan Verbesselt, Harm Bartholomeus, Martin Herold	2011	8
19	Abrupt, gradual and phenological change analysis using satellite image time series EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Jan Verbesselt, Rob J. Hyndman, Glenn Newnham, Darius Culvenor	2010	1
20	Estimation of fuel moisture content towards fire risk assessment: a review Jan Verbesselt, Stefan Fleck, Pol Coppin, D. X. Viegas	2002	19

About Jan Verbesselt

Jan Verbesselt is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Media Technology, having authored 116 papers that have together received 8.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (85 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (41 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (24 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (23 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (21 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (19 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (17 papers) and Forest ecology and management (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (1.1k citations), Global and Planetary Change (5.0k citations), Ecology (5.3k citations), Environmental Engineering (2.4k citations) and Media Technology (841 citations). Jan Verbesselt has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, Belgium and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Martin Herold, Darius Culvenor, Rob J. Hyndman, Achim Zeileis, Glenn Newnham, Michael E. Schaepman, Rogier de Jong, Johannes Reiche, Pol Coppin and Eliakim Hamunyela. Their work appears in journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Remote Sensing, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation and Nature Climate Change.

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