Mariana Belgiu

9.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
54 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Mariana Belgiu is a scholar working on Ecology, Media Technology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Mariana Belgiu has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Ecology, 18 papers in Media Technology and 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Mariana Belgiu's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (25 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (17 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 papers). Mariana Belgiu is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (25 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (17 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 papers). Mariana Belgiu collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Austria and Italy. Mariana Belgiu's co-authors include Lucian Drăguţ, Ovidiu Csillik, Alfred Stein, W. Bijker, Josef Strobl, Thomas J. Lampoltshammer, Thomas Blaschke, Maggi Kelly, S. K. Srivastav and Gregory P. Asner and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Remote Sensing of Environment and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

Mariana Belgiu

53 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Random forest in remote sensing: A review of applications and future directions

2016 4.8k citations Mariana Belgiu, Lucian Drăguţ ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing profile →
Sentinel-2 cropland mapping using pixel-based and object-based time-weighted dynamic time warping analysis

2017 714 citations Mariana Belgiu, Ovidiu Csillik Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mariana Belgiu Netherlands	18	3.5k	2.3k	2.1k	1.4k	1.3k	54	6.8k
Sergii Skakun United States	37	3.7k 1.0×	2.5k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	144	6.3k
Lucian Drăguţ Romania	19	3.6k 1.0×	2.5k 1.1×	2.7k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	46	7.8k
Mahesh Pal India	38	2.7k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	2.1k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	117	8.1k
Kun Tan China	52	2.5k 0.7×	3.6k 1.6×	1.4k 0.6×	2.0k 1.4×	2.6k 2.0×	267	13.0k
John Rogan United States	39	3.7k 1.0×	3.7k 1.6×	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	122	7.4k
Víctor Rodríguez‐Galiano Spain	26	2.2k 0.6×	1.9k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	836 0.6×	59	6.0k
Timothy A. Warner United States	35	2.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	892 0.7×	110	4.9k
Giorgos Mountrakis United States	26	2.6k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	68	5.1k
Jordi Muñoz-Marı́ Spain	31	2.8k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	2.3k 1.6×	1.7k 1.3×	106	5.9k
Zheng Niu China	44	4.3k 1.2×	2.8k 1.3×	2.7k 1.3×	610 0.4×	1.4k 1.0×	287	7.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mariana Belgiu

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20 of 20 papers shown

Belgiu, Mariana, et al.. (2025). Food production and intra-household dietary diversity: evidence from agroecologically diverse rural households in Ethiopia. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. 50(4). 831–857. 1 indexed citations

Belgiu, Mariana, et al.. (2025). The impact of spatiotemporal variability of environmental conditions on wheat yield forecasting using remote sensing data and machine learning. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 136. 104367–104367. 2 indexed citations

Gao, Xiang, Danfeng Sun, Mariana Belgiu, et al.. (2025). Improved mapping of perennial crop types based on intra-annual biophysical changing patterns of spectral endmembers. Remote Sensing of Environment. 331. 115059–115059. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Xin, et al.. (2024). A robust method for mapping soybean by phenological aligning of Sentinel-2 time series. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 218. 1–18. 8 indexed citations

Belgiu, Mariana, Aliny Aparecida dos Reis, J. F. G. Antunes, et al.. (2024). Mapping Integrated Crop–Livestock Systems Using Fused Sentinel-2 and PlanetScope Time Series and Deep Learning. Remote Sensing. 16(8). 1421–1421. 3 indexed citations

Belgiu, Mariana, et al.. (2024). A source-free unsupervised domain adaptation method for cross-regional and cross-time crop mapping from satellite image time series. Remote Sensing of Environment. 314. 114385–114385. 9 indexed citations

Li, Mengmeng, et al.. (2024). Mapping tobacco planting areas in smallholder farmlands using Phenological-Spatial-Temporal LSTM from time-series Sentinel-1 SAR images. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 129. 103826–103826. 5 indexed citations

Laamrani, Ahmed, et al.. (2024). Design and Use of a Stratum-Based Yield Predictions to Address Challenges Associated with Spatial Heterogeneity and Sample Clustering in Agricultural Fields Using Remote Sensing Data. Sustainability. 16(21). 9196–9196. 2 indexed citations

Belgiu, Mariana, et al.. (2023). Examining energy and nutrient production across the different agroecological zones in rural Ethiopia using statistical methods. Food Science & Nutrition. 11(12). 7565–7580. 5 indexed citations

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Belgiu, Mariana, et al.. (2023). Improvement in crop mapping from satellite image time series by effectively supervising deep neural networks. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 198. 272–283. 24 indexed citations

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Duan, Chenxi, Mariana Belgiu, & Alfred Stein. (2023). Feature enhancement network for cloud removal in optical images by fusing with SAR images. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 45(1). 51–67. 2 indexed citations

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Lemmens, Rob, Florian Albrecht, Stefan Lang, et al.. (2022). Updating and using the EO4GEO Body of Knowledge for (AI) concept annotation. University of Twente Research Information. 3. 1–6. 1 indexed citations

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Gupta, Prasun Kumar, et al.. (2021). Assessing the Effect of Training Sampling Design on the Performance of Machine Learning Classifiers for Land Cover Mapping Using Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Data and Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing. 13(8). 1433–1433. 84 indexed citations

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Csillik, Ovidiu & Mariana Belgiu. (2017). Cropland mapping from Sentinel-2 time series data using object-based image analysis. 25 indexed citations

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Belgiu, Mariana & Lucian Drăguţ. (2016). Random forest in remote sensing: A review of applications and future directions. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 114. 24–31. 4763 indexed citations breakdown →

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Belgiu, Mariana, Josef Strobl, & Gudrun Wallentin. (2015). Open Geospatial Education. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 4(2). 697–710. 14 indexed citations

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Belgiu, Mariana, et al.. (2014). Ontology-Based Classification of Building Types Detected from Airborne Laser Scanning Data. Remote Sensing. 6(2). 1347–1366. 102 indexed citations

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Belgiu, Mariana, Thomas J. Lampoltshammer, & Barbara Hofer. (2013). An Extension of an Ontology-Based Land Cover Designation Approach for Fuzzy Rules. 59–70. 6 indexed citations

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Belgiu, Mariana, Lucian Drăguţ, & Josef Strobl. (2013). Quantitative evaluation of variations in rule-based classifications of land cover in urban neighbourhoods using WorldView-2 imagery. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 87(100). 205–215. 91 indexed citations

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Belgiu, Mariana, et al.. (2012). Recommender-based enhancement of discovery in Geoportals. 7. 441–463. 3 indexed citations

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