David Frantz#

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2024#

  1. Vu-Dong Pham, Gideon Tetteh, Fabian Thiel, Stefan Erasmi, Marcel Schwieder, David Frantz, and Sebastian van der Linden (2024): Temporally transferable crop mapping with temporal encoding and deep learning augmentations. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 129, 103867. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2024.103867, Open Access ✔️.

  2. Florian Schintke, Khalid Belhajjame, Ninon De Mecquenem, David Frantz, Vanessa Emanuela Guarino, Marcus Hilbrich, Fabian Lehmann, Paolo Missier, Rebecca Sattler, Jan Arne Sparka, Daniel T. Speckhard, Hermann Stolte, Anh Duc Vu, and Ulf Leser (2024): Validity constraints for data analysis workflows. Future Generation Computer Systems, 157, 82–97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.03.037, Open Access ✔️.

  3. Dominik Wiedenhofer, Franz Schug, Hannes Gauch, Maud Lanau, Michal Drewniok, André Baumgart, Doris Virág, Harry Watt, André Cabrera Serrenho, Danielle Densley Tingley, Helmut Haberl, and David Frantz (2024): Mapping material stocks of buildings and mobility infrastructure in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 206, 107630. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107630, Open Access ✔️.

2023#

  1. Georgia Doxani, Eric Vermote, Jean-Claude Roger, Sergii Skakun, Ferran Gascon, Alan Collison, Liesbeth De Keukelaere, Camille Desjardins, David Frantz, Olivier Hagolle, Minsu Kim, Jérôme Louis, Fabio Pacifici, Bringfried Pflug, Hervé Poilvé, Didier Ramon, Rudolf Richter, and Feng Yin (2023): Atmospheric Correction Inter-comparison eXercise, ACIX-II Land: An assessment of atmospheric correction processors for Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 over land. Remote Sensing of Environment, 285, 113412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113412, Open Access ✔️.

  2. David Frantz, Philippe Rufin, Andreas Janz, Stefan Ernst, Dirk Pflugmacher, Franz Schug, and Patrick Hostert (2023): Understanding the robustness of spectral-temporal metrics across the global Landsat archive from 1984 to 2019 – a quantitative evaluation. Remote Sensing of Environment, 298, 113823. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113823, Open Access ✔️.

  3. David Frantz, Franz Schug, Dominik Wiedenhofer, André Baumgart, Doris Virág, Sam Cooper, Camila Gómez-Medina, Fabian Lehmann, Thomas Udelhoven, Sebastian van der Linden, Patrick Hostert, and Helmut Haberl (2023): Unveiling patterns in human dominated landscapes through mapping the mass of US built structures. Nature Communications, 14(1), 8014. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43755-5, Dataset 📈, Code 📟, Web Map 🗺, Open Access ✔️.

  4. Franz Schug, David Frantz, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Helmut Haberl, Doris Virág, Sebastian van der Linden, and Patrick Hostert (2023): High-resolution mapping of 33 years of material stock and population growth in Germany using Earth Observation data. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 27(1), 110–124. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13343, Open Access ✔️.

  5. Franz Schug, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Helmut Haberl, David Frantz, Doris Virág, Sebastian van der Linden, and Patrick Hostert (2023): High-resolution data and maps of material stock, population, and employment in Austria from 1985 to 2018. Data in Brief, 47, 108997. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.108997, Open Access ✔️.

  6. J. Antonio Guzmán Q., Jesús N. Pinto-Ledezma, David Frantz, Philip Townsend, Jennifer Juzwik, and Jeannine Cavender-Bares (2023): Mapping oak wilt disease from space using land surface phenology. Remote Sensing of Environment, 298, 113794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113794.

2022#

  1. David Frantz, Patrick Hostert, Philippe Rufin, Stefan Ernst, Achim Röder, and Sebastian van der Linden (2022): Revisiting the Past: Replicability of a Historic Long-Term Vegetation Dynamics Assessment in the Era of Big Data Analytics. Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14030597, Open Access ✔️.

  2. Daniel Scheffler and David Frantz (2022): Improved burn severity estimation by using Land Surface Phenology metrics and red edge information estimated from Landsat. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 115, 103126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.103126, Open Access ✔️.

  3. Franz Schug, David Frantz, Akpona Okujeni, and Patrick Hostert (2022): Sub-pixel building area mapping based on synthetic training data and regression-based unmixing using Sentinel-1 and -2 data. Remote Sensing Letters, 13(8), 822–832. https://doi.org/10.1080/2150704X.2022.2088253, Open Access ✔️.

  4. Marcel Schwieder, Maximilian Wesemeyer, David Frantz, Kira Pfoch, Stefan Erasmi, Jürgen Pickert, Claas Nendel, and Patrick Hostert (2022): Mapping grassland mowing events across Germany based on combined Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 time series. Remote Sensing of Environment, 269, 112795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112795, Open Access ✔️.

  5. Sergii Skakun, Jan Wevers, Carsten Brockmann, Georgia Doxani, Matej Aleksandrov, Matej Batič, David Frantz, Ferran Gascon, Luis Gómez-Chova, Olivier Hagolle, Dan López-Puigdollers, Jérôme Louis, Matic Lubej, Gonzalo Mateo-García, Julien Osman, Devis Peressutti, Bringfried Pflug, Jernej Puc, Rudolf Richter, Jean-Claude Roger, Pat Scaramuzza, Eric Vermote, Nejc Vesel, Anže Zupanc, and Lojze Žust (2022): Cloud Mask Intercomparison eXercise (CMIX): An evaluation of cloud masking algorithms for Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2. Remote Sensing of Environment, 274, 112990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.112990, Open Access ✔️.

  6. He Yin, Bin Tan, David Frantz, and Volker Radeloff (2022): Integrated topographic corrections improve forest mapping using Landsat imagery. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 108, 102716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.102716, Open Access ✔️.

2021#

  1. David Frantz, Franz Schug, Akpona Okujeni, Claudio Navacchi, Wolfgang Wagner, Sebastian van der Linden, and Patrick Hostert (2021): National-scale mapping of building height using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time series. Remote Sensing of Environment, 252, 112128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112128, Dataset 📈, Code 📟, Web Map 🗺, Open Access ✔️.

  2. Helmut Haberl, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Franz Schug, David Frantz, Doris Virág, Christoph Plutzar, Karin Gruhler, Jakob Lederer, Georg Schiller, Tomer Fishman, Maud Lanau, Andreas Gattringer, Thomas Kemper, Gang Liu, Hiroki Tanikawa, Sebastian van der Linden, and Patrick Hostert (2021): High-Resolution Maps of Material Stocks in Buildings and Infrastructures in Austria and Germany. Environmental Science & Technology. 10.1021/acs.est.0c05642, Open Access ✔️.

  3. Fabian Lehmann, David Frantz, Sören Becker, Ulf Leser, and Patrick Hostert. FORCE on Nextflow: Scalable Analysis of Earth Observation Data on Commodity Clusters. In Gao Cong and Maya Ramanath, editors, Proceedings of the CIKM 2021 Workshops, volume 3052 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, 2021. Open Access ✔️.

  4. Akpona Okujeni, Clemens Jänicke, Sam Cooper, Patrick Hostert, Matthew Clark, Karl Segl, Sebastian van der Linden, and David Frantz (2021): Multi-season unmixing of vegetation class fractions across diverse Californian ecoregions using simulated spaceborne imaging spectroscopy data: Seeing deforestation in Zambia - On the discrepancy between biophysical land-use changes and social perception. Remote Sensing of Environment, 317–323. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112558, Open Access ✔️.

  5. Philippe Rufin, David Frantz, Lin Yan, and Patrick Hostert (2021): Operational Coregistration of the Sentinel-2A/B Image Archive Using Multitemporal Landsat Spectral Averages. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 18, 712–716. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2020.2982245, Open Access ✔️.

  6. Franz Schug, David Frantz, Sebastian van der Linden, and Patrick Hostert (2021): Gridded population mapping for Germany based on building density, height and type from Earth Observation data using census disaggregation and bottom-up estimates. PLOS ONE, 16(3), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249044, Open Access ✔️.

  7. Viktoria Zekoll, Magdalena Main-Knorn, Jérôme Louis, David Frantz, Rudolf Richter, and Bringfried Pflug (2021): Comparison of Masking Algorithms for Sentinel-2 Imagery. Remote Sensing, 13(1), 21. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13010137, Open Access ✔️.

2020#

  1. Johanna Buchner, He Yin, David Frantz, Tobias Kuemmerle, Elshad Askerov, Tamar Bakuradze, Benjamin Bleyhl, Nodar Elizbarashvili, Anna Komarova, Katarzyna Lewińska, Afag Rizayeva, Hovik Sayadyan, Bin Tan, Garegin Tepanosyan, Nugzar Zazanashvili, and Volker Radeloff (2020): Land-cover change in the Caucasus Mountains since 1987 based on the topographic correction of multi-temporal Landsat composites. Remote Sensing of Environment, 248, 111967. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111967, Open Access ✔️.

  2. Ewa Grabska, David Frantz, and Katarzyna Ostapowicz (2020): Evaluation of machine learning algorithms for forest stand species mapping using Sentinel-2 imagery and environmental data in the Polish Carpathians: High-Resolution Maps of Material Stocks in Buildings and Infrastructures in Austria and Germany. Remote Sensing of Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112103.

  3. Benjamin Jakimow, Sebastian van der Linden, Fabian Thiel, David Frantz, and Patrick Hostert (2020): Visualizing and labeling dense multi-sensor earth observation time series: The EO Time Series Viewer. Environmental Modelling & Software. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104631.

  4. Daniel Scheffler, David Frantz, and Karl Segl (2020): Spectral harmonization and red edge prediction of Landsat-8 to Sentinel-2 using land cover optimized multivariate regressors. Remote Sensing of Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111723, Open Access ✔️.

  5. Franz Schug, David Frantz, Akpona Okujeni, Sebastian van der Linden, and Patrick Hostert (2020): Mapping urban-rural gradients of settlements and vegetation at national scale using Sentinel-2 spectral-temporal metrics and regression-based unmixing with synthetic training data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 246(111810), 13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111810, Open Access ✔️.

2019#

  1. David Frantz (2019): FORCE—Landsat + Sentinel-2 Analysis Ready Data and Beyond. Remote Sensing, 11(9), 1124. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11091124, Open Access ✔️.

  2. David Frantz, Marion Stellmes, and Patrick Hostert (2019): A Global MODIS Water Vapor Database for the Operational Atmospheric Correction of Historic and Recent Landsat Imagery. Remote Sensing, 11(3), 257. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11030257, Open Access ✔️.

  3. Karen Lebek, Cornelius Senf, David Frantz, José Monteiro, and Tobias Krueger (2019): Interdependent effects of climate variability and forest cover change on streamflow dynamics: a case study in the Upper Umvoti River Basin, South Africa. Regional Environmental Change. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-019-01521-8.

  4. Sascha Nink, Joachim Hill, Johannes Stoffels, Henning Buddenbaum, David Frantz, and Joachim Langshausen (2019): Using Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data for the Generation of Continuously Updated Forest Type Information Layers in a Cross-Border Region. Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11202337, Open Access ✔️.

  5. Philippe Rufin, David Frantz, Stefan Ernst, Andreas Rabe, Patrick Griffiths, Mutlu Özdoğan, and Patrick Hostert (2019): Mapping Cropping Practices on a National Scale Using Intra-Annual Landsat Time Series Binning. Remote Sensing, 11(3), 232–268. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11030232, Open Access ✔️.

2018#

  1. Marleen de Blécourt, Achim Röder, Alexander Gröngröft, Stephan Baumann, David Frantz, and Annette Eschenbach. Deforestation for agricultural expansion in SW Zambia and NE Namibia and the impacts on soil fertility, soil organic carbon- and nutrient levels. In R. Revermann, K. M. Krewenka, U. Schmiedel, J. M. Olwoch, J. Helmschrot, and N. Jürgens, editors, Biodiversity & Ecology 6 - Climate change and adaptive landmanagement in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions, Biodiversity & Ecology, pages 242–250. University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7809/b-e.00330, Open Access ✔️.

  2. Georgia Doxani, Eric Vermote, Jean-Claude Roger, Ferran Gascon, Stefan Adriaensen, David Frantz, Olivier Hagolle, André Hollstein, Grit Kirches, Fuqin Li, Jérôme Louis, Antoine Mangin, Nima Pahlevan, Bringfried Pflug, and Quinten Vanhellemont (2018): Atmospheric Correction Inter-Comparison Exercise. Remote Sensing, 10(2), 352. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10020352, Open Access ✔️.

  3. David Frantz, Erik Haß, Andreas Uhl, Johannes Stoffels, and Joachim Hill (2018): Improvement of the Fmask algorithm for Sentinel-2 images: Separating clouds from bright surfaces based on parallax effects. Remote Sensing of Environment, 215, 471–481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.046, Open Access ✔️.

  4. David Parduhn and David Frantz. Seeing deforestation in Zambia - On the discrepancy between biophysical land-use changes and social perception. In R. Revermann, K. M. Krewenka, U. Schmiedel, J. M. Olwoch, J. Helmschrot, and N. Jürgens, editors, Biodiversity & Ecology 6 - Climate change and adaptive landmanagement in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions, Biodiversity & Ecology, pages 317–323. University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7809/b-e.00339, Open Access ✔️.

  5. Achim Röder, Marion Stellmes, David Frantz, and Joachim Hill. Remote sensing-based environmental assessment and monitoring – generation of operational baseline and enhanced experimental products in southern Africa. In R. Revermann, K. M. Krewenka, U. Schmiedel, J. M. Olwoch, J. Helmschrot, and N. Jürgens, editors, Biodiversity & Ecology 6 - Climate change and adaptive landmanagement in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions, Biodiversity & Ecology, pages 344–354. University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7809/b-e.00344, Open Access ✔️.

  6. Anne Schneibel, Achim Röder, Marion Stellmes, and David Frantz. Long-term land use change analysis in south-central Angola. Assessing the trade-off between major ecosystem services with remote sensing data. In R. Revermann, K. M. Krewenka, U. Schmiedel, J. M. Olwoch, J. Helmschrot, and N. Jürgens, editors, Biodiversity & Ecology 6 - Climate change and adaptive landmanagement in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions, Biodiversity & Ecology, pages 360–367. University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7809/b-e.00346, Open Access ✔️.

2017#

  1. David Frantz, Achim Röder, Marion Stellmes, and Joachim Hill (2017): Phenology-adaptive pixel-based compositing using optical earth observation imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 190, 331–347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.01.002, Open Access ✔️.

  2. Erik Haß, David Frantz, Sebastian Mader, and Joachim Hill (2017): Global Analysis of the Differences Between the MODIS Vegetation Index Compositing Date and the Actual Acquisition Date. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 14(6), 866–870. https://doi.org/10.1109/lgrs.2017.2684195.

  3. Anne Schneibel, David Frantz, Achim Röder, Marion Stellmes, Kim Fischer, and Joachim Hill (2017): Using Annual Landsat Time Series for the Detection of Dry Forest Degradation Processes in South-Central Angola. Remote Sensing, 9, 905–919. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9090905, Open Access ✔️.

  4. Anne Schneibel, Marion Stellmes, Achim Röder, David Frantz, Benjamin Kowalski, Erik Haß, and Joachim Hill (2017): Assessment of spatio-temporal changes of smallholder cultivation patterns in the Angolan Miombo belt using segmentation of Landsat time series. Remote Sensing of Environment, 195, 118–129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.04.012, Open Access ✔️.

2016#

  1. David Frantz, Achim Röder, Marion Stellmes, and Joachim Hill (2016): An Operational Radiometric Landsat Preprocessing Framework for Large-Area Time Series Applications. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 54(7), 3928–3943. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2016.2530856, Open Access ✔️.

  2. David Frantz, Achim Röder, Thomas Udelhoven, and Michael Schmidt (2016): Forest Disturbance Mapping Using Dense Synthetic Landsat/MODIS Time-Series and Permutation-Based Disturbance Index Detection. Remote Sensing, 8(4), 277. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8040277, Open Access ✔️.

  3. David Frantz, Marion Stellmes, Achim Röder, and Joachim Hill (2016): Fire spread from MODIS burned area data: obtaining fire dynamics information for every single fire. Journal of the International Association of Wildland Fire, 25(12), 1228–1237. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF16003, Open Access ✔️.

  4. David Frantz, Marion Stellmes, Achim Röder, Thomas Udelhoven, Sebastian Mader, and Joachim Hill (2016): Improving the Spatial Resolution of Land Surface Phenology by Fusing Medium- and Coarse-Resolution Inputs. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 54(7), 4153–4164. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2016.2537929, Open Access ✔️.

  5. Rasmus Revermann, Manfred Finckh, Marion Stellmes, Ben Strohbach, David Frantz, and Jens Oldeland (2016): Linking Land Surface Phenology and Vegetation-Plot Databases to Model Terrestrial Plant \textgreeka -Diversity of the Okavango Basin. Remote Sensing, 8(5), 370–389. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8050370, Open Access ✔️.

  6. Anne Schneibel, Marion Stellmes, Achim Röder, Manfred Finckh, Rasmus Revermann, David Frantz, and Joachim Hill (2016): Evaluating the Trade-Off Between Food and Timber Resulting from the Conversion of Miombo Forests to Agricultural Land in Angola Using Multi-Temporal Landsat Data. Science of The Total Environment, 548–549, 390–401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.12.137.

2015#

  1. David Frantz, Achim Röder, Marion Stellmes, and Joachim Hill (2015): On the Derivation of a Spatially Distributed Aerosol Climatology for its Incorporation in a Radiometric Landsat Preprocessing Framework. Remote Sensing Letters, 6(8), 647–656. https://doi.org/10.1080/2150704X.2015.1070314, Open Access ✔️.

  2. David Frantz, Achim Röder, Thomas Udelhoven, and Michael Schmidt (2015): Enhancing the Detectability of Clouds and Their Shadows in Multitemporal Dryland Landsat Imagery: Extending Fmask. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 12(6), 1242–1246. https://doi.org/10.1109/lgrs.2015.2390673, Open Access ✔️.

2014#

  1. Miriam Machwitz, Laura Giustarini, Christian Bossung, David Frantz, Martin Schlerf, Holger Lilienthal, Loise Wandera, Patrick Matgen, Lucien Hoffmann, and Thomas Udelhoven (2014): Enhanced biomass prediction by assimilating satellite data into a crop growth model. Environmental Modelling & Software, 62, 437–453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.08.010.

2013#

  1. Marion Stellmes, David Frantz, Manfred Finckh, Rasmus Revermann, Achim Röder, and Joachim Hill. Fire Frequency, Fire Seasonality and Fire Intensity within the Okavango Region Derived from MODIS Fire Products. In Jens Oldeland, Cynthia Erb, Manfred Finckh, and Norbert Jürgens, editors, Special Volume: Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region, Biodiversity & Ecology, pages 351–362. University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2013. https://doi.org/10.7809/b-e.00288, Open Access ✔️.