Johannes Balling

571 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 395 citations indexed

About

Johannes Balling is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Johannes Balling has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 395 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Environmental Engineering, 5 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Johannes Balling's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (6 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (5 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (2 papers). Johannes Balling is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (6 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (5 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (2 papers). Johannes Balling collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and Italy. Johannes Balling's co-authors include Johannes Reiche, Bart Slagter, Yaqing Gou, Adugna Mullissa, Noel Gorelick, Andreas Vollrath, Gaia Vaglio Laurin, Piermaria Corona, Dario Papale and Marcel Urban and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing, Environmental Research Letters and International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.

In The Last Decade

Johannes Balling

7 papers receiving 383 citations

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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.

Sentinel-1 SAR Backscatter Analysis Ready Data Preparation in Google Earth Engine

2021 232 citations Adugna Mullissa, Andreas Vollrath et al. Remote Sensing profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Johannes Balling Netherlands	6	243	213	150	87	58	7	395
Jiří Prošek Czechia	11	216 0.9×	231 1.1×	101 0.7×	48 0.6×	72 1.2×	13	396
Marcel Urban Germany	10	262 1.1×	290 1.4×	173 1.2×	131 1.5×	92 1.6×	25	477
Jan Komárek Czechia	13	320 1.3×	271 1.3×	143 1.0×	43 0.5×	61 1.1×	24	523
Mir Mustafizur Rahman Canada	12	201 0.8×	157 0.7×	142 0.9×	55 0.6×	39 0.7×	17	379
R. Denham Australia	11	272 1.1×	228 1.1×	154 1.0×	56 0.6×	86 1.5×	18	475
Sergio Sánchez-Ruíz Spain	12	236 1.0×	236 1.1×	204 1.4×	144 1.7×	31 0.5×	27	459
Sujit Madhab Ghosh India	9	302 1.2×	269 1.3×	129 0.9×	57 0.7×	117 2.0×	13	426
Haotian You China	16	359 1.5×	267 1.3×	321 2.1×	86 1.0×	64 1.1×	50	613
Bart Slagter Netherlands	8	348 1.4×	282 1.3×	333 2.2×	124 1.4×	35 0.6×	10	615
Sam Gillingham New Zealand	7	259 1.1×	162 0.8×	141 0.9×	54 0.6×	28 0.5×	12	351

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Johannes Balling

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Balling, Johannes, et al.. (2024). ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 ScanSAR and Sentinel-1 data for timely tropical forest disturbance mapping: A case study for Sumatra, Indonesia. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 132. 103994–103994. 2 indexed citations

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Reiche, Johannes, Johannes Balling, Amy Pickens, et al.. (2024). Integrating satellite-based forest disturbance alerts improves detection timeliness and confidence. Environmental Research Letters. 19(5). 54011–54011. 9 indexed citations

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Balling, Johannes, Martin Herold, & Johannes Reiche. (2023). How textural features can improve SAR-based tropical forest disturbance mapping. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 124. 103492–103492. 14 indexed citations

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Gou, Yaqing, Johannes Balling, Veronique De Sy, et al.. (2022). Intra-annual relationship between precipitation and forest disturbance in the African rainforest. Environmental Research Letters. 17(4). 44044–44044. 10 indexed citations

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Balling, Johannes, Jan Verbesselt, Veronique De Sy, Martin Herold, & Johannes Reiche. (2021). Exploring Archetypes of Tropical Fire-Related Forest Disturbances Based on Dense Optical and Radar Satellite Data and Active Fire Alerts. Forests. 12(4). 456–456. 13 indexed citations

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Mullissa, Adugna, Andreas Vollrath, Bart Slagter, et al.. (2021). Sentinel-1 SAR Backscatter Analysis Ready Data Preparation in Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing. 13(10). 1954–1954. 232 indexed citations breakdown →

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Laurin, Gaia Vaglio, Johannes Balling, Piermaria Corona, et al.. (2018). Above-ground biomass prediction by Sentinel-1 multitemporal data in central Italy with integration of ALOS2 and Sentinel-2 data. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. 12(1). 1–1. 115 indexed citations

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