Michael E. Schaepman

28.5k total citations · 9 hit papers
398 papers, 17.7k citations indexed

About

Michael E. Schaepman is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael E. Schaepman has authored 398 papers receiving a total of 17.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 239 papers in Ecology, 173 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 128 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Michael E. Schaepman's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (221 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (95 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (80 papers). Michael E. Schaepman is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (221 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (95 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (80 papers). Michael E. Schaepman collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Netherlands and United States. Michael E. Schaepman's co-authors include Rogier de Jong, J.G.P.W. Clevers, Sytze de Bruin, David Dent, Mathias Kneubühler, Felix Morsdorf, Gabriela Schaepman‐Strub, Zbyněk Malenovský, Allard de Wit and R. Zurita‐Milla and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Michael E. Schaepman

380 papers receiving 17.1k citations

Hit Papers

Reflectance quantities in optical remote sensing—definiti... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 2008 2011 2010 2009 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Reflectance quantities in optical remote sensing—definitions and case studies
    2006 927 citations Gabriela Schaepman‐Strub, Michael E. Schaepman et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  2. Proxy global assessment of land degradation
    2008 656 citations Michael E. Schaepman et al. profile →
  3. The use of remote sensing in soil and terrain mapping — A review
    2011 599 citations Michael E. Schaepman et al. profile →
  4. Analysis of monotonic greening and browning trends from global NDVI time-series
    2010 566 citations Michael E. Schaepman et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  5. Retrieval of foliar information about plant pigment systems from high resolution spectroscopy
    2009 562 citations Michael E. Schaepman et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  6. A review on reflective remote sensing and data assimilation techniques for enhanced agroecosystem modeling
    2006 502 citations R. Zurita‐Milla, Jason Brazile et al. profile →
  7. Sentinels for science: Potential of Sentinel-1, -2, and -3 missions for scientific observations of ocean, cryosphere, and land
    2012 445 citations Michael E. Schaepman et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  8. Review of constituent retrieval in optically deep and complex waters from satellite imagery
    2011 403 citations Michael E. Schaepman et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  9. Environmental science: Agree on biodiversity metrics to track from space
    2015 302 citations Michael E. Schaepman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael E. Schaepman Switzerland 63 10.7k 7.5k 5.9k 2.6k 2.5k 398 17.7k
Susan L. Ustin United States 77 14.7k 1.4× 9.0k 1.2× 6.9k 1.2× 2.7k 1.0× 2.5k 1.0× 329 21.1k
Dar A. Roberts United States 73 10.7k 1.0× 10.3k 1.4× 6.6k 1.1× 3.7k 1.5× 1.9k 0.7× 306 20.3k
Onisimo Mutanga South Africa 57 9.1k 0.9× 4.8k 0.6× 5.2k 0.9× 1.5k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 383 13.5k
Russell G. Congalton United States 39 10.5k 1.0× 9.0k 1.2× 5.4k 0.9× 3.3k 1.3× 1.2k 0.5× 131 18.3k
Patrick Hostert Germany 67 7.8k 0.7× 8.4k 1.1× 3.8k 0.6× 2.2k 0.9× 1.3k 0.5× 201 14.6k
M. A. Friedl United States 74 15.9k 1.5× 16.8k 2.2× 8.7k 1.5× 6.1k 2.3× 4.2k 1.7× 176 26.5k
J. R. Townshend United States 37 11.1k 1.0× 11.8k 1.6× 5.3k 0.9× 4.4k 1.7× 2.2k 0.9× 85 20.6k
Alan H. Strahler United States 73 13.5k 1.3× 11.6k 1.5× 9.9k 1.7× 5.6k 2.2× 2.0k 0.8× 228 21.4k
Feng Gao United States 69 13.6k 1.3× 13.0k 1.7× 8.6k 1.5× 5.7k 2.2× 1.8k 0.7× 270 22.8k
Warren B. Cohen United States 75 15.1k 1.4× 13.1k 1.8× 11.2k 1.9× 2.8k 1.1× 2.1k 0.8× 176 23.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hueni, Andreas, S. Geier, J. Lahaye, et al.. (2025). The AVIRIS-4 Airborne Imaging Spectrometer. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 22. 1–5. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Heng, Rosetta C. Blackman, Reinhard Furrer, et al.. (2025). Terrestrial land cover shapes fish diversity in a major subtropical river catchment. Communications Biology. 8(1). 1113–1113.
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Kükenbrink, Daniel, Fabian Schneider, Bernhard Schmid, et al.. (2020). Modelling of three-dimensional, diurnal light extinction in two contrasting forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 296. 108230–108230. 34 indexed citations
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Schläpfer, Daniel, et al.. (2020). About the Transferability of Topographic Correction Methods From Spaceborne to Airborne Optical Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 14. 1348–1362. 10 indexed citations
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Schaepman, Michael E., et al.. (2019). Optimal Timing Assessment for Crop Separation Using Multispectral Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Data and Textural Features. Remote Sensing. 11(15). 1780–1780. 12 indexed citations
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Meier, Erich, et al.. (2018). A Multisquint Framework for Change Detection in High-Resolution Multitemporal SAR Images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 56(6). 3611–3623. 19 indexed citations
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Naegeli, Kathrin, Alexander Damm, Matthias Huss, et al.. (2016). Cross-Comparison of Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 Albedo Products for Glacier Surfaces. AGUFM. 2016. 1 indexed citations
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Kükenbrink, Daniel, Fabian Schneider, Reik Leiterer, Michael E. Schaepman, & Felix Morsdorf. (2016). Quantification of hidden canopy volume of airborne laser scanning data using a voxel traversal algorithm. Remote Sensing of Environment. 194. 424–436. 83 indexed citations
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Petchey, Owen L., Mikael Pontarp, Thomas M. Massie, et al.. (2015). The ecological forecast horizon, and examples of its uses and determinants. Ecology Letters. 18(7). 597–611. 207 indexed citations
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Schneider, Fabian, Reik Leiterer, Michael E. Schaepman, & Felix Morsdorf. (2015). Canopy height and plant area index changes in a temperate forest between 2010–2014 using airborne laser scanning. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 156–158. 2 indexed citations
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Morsdorf, Felix, et al.. (2014). Fusing imaging spectrometry and airborne laser scanning data for tree species discrimination. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 1253–1256. 7 indexed citations
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Schaepman‐Strub, Gabriela, et al.. (2009). Towards spatial assessment of carbon sequestration in peatlands: spectroscopy based estimation of fractional cover of three plant functional types. Biogeosciences. 6(2). 275–284. 28 indexed citations
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Kneubühler, Mathias, Benjamin Koetz, S. Huber, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, & Michael E. Schaepman. (2008). Space-based spectrodirectional measurements for the improved estimation of ecosystem variables. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 34(3). 192–205. 14 indexed citations
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Kneubühler, Mathias, et al.. (2005). Geometric and radiometric pre-processing of CHRIS/PROBA data over mountainous terrain. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 25 indexed citations
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Schaepman, Michael E., R. Zurita‐Milla, M. Kneubuehler, J.G.P.W. Clevers, & Steven Delwart. (2004). Assessment of long-term vicarious calibration efforts of MERIS on land product quality. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5570. 363–363. 3 indexed citations
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Brazile, Jason, Michael E. Schaepman, & Daniel Schläpfer. (2003). A Beowulf-Style Cluster Processing Concept for Large Volume Imaging Spectroscopy Data. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 21(4). 536–50. 3 indexed citations
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Menenti, Massimo, M. Rast, Frédéric Baret, et al.. (2003). Understanding Vegetation Response to Climate Variability From Space: Recent Advances Towards the SPECTRA Mission. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 2004. 193–206. 1 indexed citations
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Schweitzer, Wolf, et al.. (2003). Geometrie von virtuellen Oberflächer: Darstellung der Passgenauigkeit durch Berechnung einer farbkodierten Fehleroberfläche. Rechtsmedizin. 13(4). 259–259.
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Kneubühler, Mathias, et al.. (2003). Calibration and Validation of Envisat MERIS Part 1: Vicarious Calibration at Rail Road Valley Playa (NV). ESA Special Publication. 531. 5 indexed citations
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Schaepman, Michael E., et al.. (1997). Ground Spectroradiometric Measurements In Support Of The Validation Of The Calibration Of Digital Airborne Imaging Spectrometer (dais 7915) Data. 2 indexed citations

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