Pontus Olofsson

8.5k citations

59 papers · 6.2k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 33

Co-authors: Curtis E. Woodcock Stephen V. Stehman Giles M. Foody Martin Herold Michael A. Wulder Zhe Zhu Eric L. Bullock Paulo Arévalo
Topics: Remote Sensing in Agriculture (39 papers)Land Use and Ecosystem Services (25 papers)Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (18 papers)
Cited by: Global and Planetary Change Ecology Environmental Engineering
Journals: SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaPLoS ONE The Science of The Total Environment
Partner nations: United States Sweden Germany

In The Last Decade

Pontus Olofsson

55 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change

2014 2.2k citations Pontus Olofsson, Martin Herold et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Making better use of accuracy data in land change studies: Estimating accuracy and area and quantifying uncertainty using stratified estimation

2012 789 citations Pontus Olofsson, Curtis E. Woodcock et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Early Deforestation Detection in the Tropics using L-band SAR and Optical multi-sensor data and Bayesian Statistics 2025 ·International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation ·Africa I. Flores-Anderson,Jeffrey A. Cardille,Josef Kellndorfer,Franz J. Meyer,Pontus Olofsson	0
2	TIF: A time-series-based image fusion algorithm 2025 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·(unknown),Zhe Zhu,Shi Qiu,Pontus Olofsson,C. S. R. Neigh,Junchang Ju,Qiang Zhou	1
3	Review of drivers of forest degradation and deforestation in Southeast Asia 2023 ·Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment ·Shijuan Chen,Curtis E. Woodcock,Luofan Dong,(unknown),(unknown),Pontus Olofsson	20
4	Near real-time monitoring of tropical forest disturbance by fusion of Landsat, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-1 data 2023 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Xiaojing Tang,(unknown),(unknown),Eric L. Bullock,Pontus Olofsson,Curtis E. Woodcock	31
5	Satellite data reveals a recent increase in shifting cultivation and associated carbon emissions in Laos 2023 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Shijuan Chen,Curtis E. Woodcock,(unknown),Pontus Olofsson	3
6	Continuous mapping of aboveground biomass using Landsat time series 2023 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Paulo Arévalo,Alessandro Baccini,Curtis E. Woodcock,Pontus Olofsson,Wayne Walker	32
7	The impact of conflict-driven cropland abandonment on food insecurity in South Sudan revealed using satellite remote sensing 2021 ·Nature Food ·(unknown),Rasmus Fensholt,Pontus Olofsson,Rogério Bonifácio,Van Butsic,(unknown),D. K. Ray,Alexander V. Prishchepov	83
8	Spatiotemporal tracking of carbon emissions and uptake using time series analysis of Landsat data: A spatially explicit carbon bookkeeping model 2020 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Xiaojing Tang,Lucy R. Hutyra,Paulo Arévalo,Alessandro Baccini,Curtis E. Woodcock,Pontus Olofsson	24
9	Global Land Cover mapping and Estimation (GLanCE): a multitemporal Landsat-based data record of 21st century global land cover, land use and land cover change 2019 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·(unknown),M. A. Friedl,Curtis E. Woodcock,Pontus Olofsson,(unknown),(unknown),Thomas R. Loveland,Eric L. Bullock,Paulo Arévalo,Christopher E. Holden,Valerie J. Pasquarella,(unknown)	1
10	Near real-time monitoring of tropical forest disturbance: New algorithms and assessment framework 2019 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Xiaojing Tang,Eric L. Bullock,Pontus Olofsson,Stephan Estel,Curtis E. Woodcock	75
11	Seasonal change of leaf and woody area profiles in a midlatitude deciduous forest canopy from classified dual-wavelength terrestrial lidar point clouds 2018 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Zhan Li,Alan H. Strahler,Crystal Schaaf,David L.B. Jupp,(unknown),Pontus Olofsson	21
12	Forest loss in New England: A projection of recent trends 2017 ·PLoS ONE ·Jonathan R. Thompson,(unknown),Pontus Olofsson,Christopher E. Holden,Matthew J. Duveneck	22
13	Assessing the global warming potential of human settlement expansion in a mesic temperate landscape from 2005 to 2050 2016 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Andrew B. Reinmann,Lucy R. Hutyra,Andrew Trlica,Pontus Olofsson	27
14	Optimizing selection of training and auxiliary data for operational land cover classification for the LCMAP initiative 2016 ·ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ·Zhe Zhu,Alisa L. Gallant,Curtis E. Woodcock,Bruce W. Pengra,Pontus Olofsson,Thomas R. Loveland,Suming Jin,Devendra Dahal,Limin Yang,Roger F. Auch	151
15	グローバルな土地被覆検証データセット,第一部:基本設計原理 2012 ·International Journal of Remote Sensing ·Pontus Olofsson,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown)	41
16	Post-Soviet farmland abandonment, forest recovery, and carbon storage potential in Ukraine 2010 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Pontus Olofsson,Tobias Kuemmerle,Matthias Baumann,Volker C. Radeloff,Curtis E. Woodcock,Patrick Hostert	1
17	Designing a reference validation database for accuracy assessment of land cover 2010 ·Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling ·S. V. Stehman,Pontus Olofsson,Curtis E. Woodcock,(unknown),Adam Sibley,(unknown),Damien Sulla‐Menashe,Martin Herold	1
18	Implications of land use change on the national terrestrial carbon budget of Georgia 2010 ·Carbon Balance and Management ·Pontus Olofsson,(unknown),Curtis E. Woodcock,Alessandro Baccini,R. A. Houghton,Mutlu Özdoğan,Feng Zhao,Xiaoyuan Yang	22
19	Towards operational remote sensing of forest carbon balance across Northern Europe 2008 ·Biogeosciences ·Pontus Olofsson,Fredrik Lagergren,Anders Lindroth,Johan Lindström,Leif Klemedtsson,Werner L. Kutsch,Lars Eklundh	53
20	Estimation of absorbed PAR across Scandinavia from satellite measurements 2007 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Pontus Olofsson,P.E. van Laake,Lars Eklundh	43

About Pontus Olofsson

Pontus Olofsson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Ecology, having authored 59 papers that have together received 6.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (39 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (25 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (4.2k citations), Ecology (4.0k citations) and Environmental Engineering (2.0k citations). Pontus Olofsson has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Curtis E. Woodcock, Stephen V. Stehman, Giles M. Foody, Martin Herold, Michael A. Wulder, Zhe Zhu, Eric L. Bullock, Paulo Arévalo, Lars Eklundh and Xiaojing Tang. Their work appears in journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

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