Nico Lang

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 866 citations indexed

About

Nico Lang is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Nico Lang has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 866 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Ecology, 7 papers in Environmental Engineering and 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Nico Lang's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (7 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (7 papers) and Forest ecology and management (2 papers). Nico Lang is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (7 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (7 papers) and Forest ecology and management (2 papers). Nico Lang collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Denmark. Nico Lang's co-authors include Jan Dirk Wegner, Konrad Schindler, Walter Jetz, Nikolai Kalischek, Ralph Dubayah, John Armston, D. Hall, Pietro Perona, Steve Branson and Stefania Russo and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Science Advances and ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Nico Lang

13 papers receiving 842 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.

A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth

2023 273 citations Nico Lang, Walter Jetz et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nico Lang United States	9	536	469	317	217	80	13	866
Mark Finco United States	10	515 1.0×	619 1.3×	637 2.0×	332 1.5×	143 1.8×	25	1.2k
Cici Alexander United Kingdom	13	536 1.0×	292 0.6×	246 0.8×	151 0.7×	107 1.3×	18	732
Kotaro Iizuka Japan	14	321 0.6×	263 0.6×	329 1.0×	99 0.5×	90 1.1×	27	694
Karin Reinke Australia	17	369 0.7×	385 0.8×	559 1.8×	126 0.6×	97 1.2×	70	915
Ronghai Hu China	19	666 1.2×	872 1.9×	569 1.8×	222 1.0×	200 2.5×	53	1.3k
Surajit Ghosh India	15	315 0.6×	328 0.7×	346 1.1×	148 0.7×	95 1.2×	53	709
Nicolas Lauret France	17	874 1.6×	907 1.9×	575 1.8×	163 0.8×	146 1.8×	50	1.3k
L. Spaete United States	13	419 0.8×	379 0.8×	268 0.8×	151 0.7×	125 1.6×	24	676
Weishu Gong United States	11	323 0.6×	351 0.7×	360 1.1×	102 0.5×	99 1.2×	25	717
Saverio Francini Italy	17	441 0.8×	468 1.0×	420 1.3×	203 0.9×	76 0.9×	53	805

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nico Lang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nico Lang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nico Lang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nico Lang based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nico Lang. Nico Lang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Lang, Nico, et al.. (2024). From Coarse to Fine-Grained Open-Set Recognition. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 17804–17814. 2 indexed citations

2.

Kalischek, Nikolai, Nico Lang, Rodrigo Caye Daudt, et al.. (2023). Cocoa plantations are associated with deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Nature Food. 4(5). 384–393. 48 indexed citations

3.

Lang, Nico, Walter Jetz, Konrad Schindler, & Jan Dirk Wegner. (2023). A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(11). 1778–1789. 273 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brandt, Martin, Thomas Nord‐Larsen, Jérôme Chave, et al.. (2023). The overlooked contribution of trees outside forests to tree cover and woody biomass across Europe. Science Advances. 9(37). eadh4097–eadh4097. 54 indexed citations

5.

Liu, Siyu, Martin Brandt, Thomas Nord‐Larsen, et al.. (2023). Canopy height and biomass map for Europe. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Lang, Nico, Konrad Schindler, & Jan Dirk Wegner. (2023). ESA WorldCover 10 m 2020 v100 reprojected to the Sentinel-2 UTM Tiling Grid. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Russo, Stefania, et al.. (2022). Country-wide retrieval of forest structure from optical and SAR satellite imagery with deep ensembles. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 195. 269–286. 35 indexed citations

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Lang, Nico, Nikolai Kalischek, John Armston, et al.. (2021). Global canopy height regression and uncertainty estimation from GEDI LIDAR waveforms with deep ensembles. Remote Sensing of Environment. 268. 112760–112760. 151 indexed citations

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Lang, Nico, et al.. (2021). GRAINet: mapping grain size distributions in river beds from UAV images with convolutional neural networks. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(5). 2567–2597. 41 indexed citations

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Lang, Nico, Konrad Schindler, & Jan Dirk Wegner. (2019). Country-wide high-resolution vegetation height mapping with Sentinel-2. Remote Sensing of Environment. 233. 111347–111347. 141 indexed citations

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Lang, Nico, et al.. (2019). Defoliation estimation of forest trees from ground-level images. Remote Sensing of Environment. 223. 143–153. 22 indexed citations

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Branson, Steve, Jan Dirk Wegner, D. Hall, et al.. (2017). From Google Maps to a fine-grained catalog of street trees. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 135. 13–30. 96 indexed citations

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Lang, Nico, et al.. (1999). 647 Aerial Mapping of Grapes for Analysis of Environmental Stress and Blackleaf Patterns. HortScience. 34(3). 559C–559. 1 indexed citations

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