Franz Schug#

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2026#

  1. Kira Pfoch, Franz Schug, Heather Cox, Vu-Dong Pham, Sebastian van der Linden, and Volker Radeloff (2026): Monitoring growth of the wildland-urban interface in 2000 and 2020 in Mediterranean ecosystems with Landsat satellite imagery. Science of Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2026.100387, Open Access ✔️.

  2. Vu-Dong Pham, Franz Schug, David Frantz, and Sebastian van der Linden (2026): Mapping urban built-up types from 2000 to 2022 at 10-m resolution using super-resolution of Landsat spectral-temporal metrics and center-patch classification. Remote Sensing of Environment, 335, 115251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2026.115251, Dataset 📈, Code 📟, Open Access ✔️.

2025#

  1. Dominik Kaim, Carlos Bautista, Michael Leitner, Franz Schug, Nuria Selva, and Volker Radeloff (2025): Impact of the wildland-urban interface on large carnivore damage in the Polish Carpathians. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02201-0, Open Access ✔️.

  2. Franz Schug, Neda Kasraee, Akash Anand, MacKenzy Groth-Price, Mihai Nita, Afag Rizayeva, and Volker Radeloff (2025): Quantifying multi-decadal urban growth using Hexagon spy satellite imagery and deep learning building detection across four global cities. Landscape and Urban Planning, 264, 105500. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105500.

  3. Rohan Simkin, Barbara Han, Volker Radeloff, Shannon LaDeau, Franz Schug, and Karen Seto (2025): Zoonotic Host Richness in the Global Wildland-Urban Interface. Global change biology, 31(2), e70039. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70039, Open Access ✔️.

2024#

  1. Anna-Katharina Brenner, Willi Haas, Tobias Krüger, Sarah Matej, Helmut Haberl, Franz Schug, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Martin Behnisch, Jochen A.G. Jaeger, and Melanie Pichler (2024): What drives densification and sprawl in cities? A spatially explicit assessment for Vienna, between 1984 and 2018. Land Use Policy, 138, 107037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.107037, Open Access ✔️.

  2. Helmut Haberl, André Baumgart, Julian Zeidler, Franz Schug, David Frantz, Daniela Palacios-Lopez, Tomer Fishman, Yoav Peled, Bowen Cai, Doris Virág, Patrick Hostert, Dominik Wiedenhofer, and Thomas Esch (2024): Weighing the global built environment: High-resolution mapping and quantification of material stocks in buildings. Journal of Industrial Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13585, Open Access ✔️.

  3. Vu-Dong Pham, Fabian Thiel, David Frantz, Akpona Okujeni, Franz Schug, and Sebastian van der Linden (2024): Learning the variations in annual spectral-temporal metrics to enhance the transferability of regression models for land cover fraction monitoring. Remote Sensing of Environment, 308, 114206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114206, Open Access ✔️.

  4. Franz Schug, Kira Pfoch, Vu-Dong Pham, Sebastian van der Linden, Akpona Okujeni, David Frantz, and Volker Radeloff (2024): Land cover fraction mapping across global biomes with Landsat data, spatially generalized regression models and spectral-temporal metrics. Remote Sensing of Environment, 311, 114260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114260.

  5. 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. Avi Bar-Massada, Fermin Alcasena, Franz Schug, and Volker Radeloff (2023): The wildland – urban interface in Europe: Spatial patterns and associations with socioeconomic and demographic variables. Landscape and Urban Planning, 235, 104759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104759, 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. Volker Radeloff, Miranda Mockrin, David Helmers, Amanda Carlson, Todd Hawbaker, Sebastian Martinuzzi, Franz Schug, Patricia Alexandre, Anu Kramer, and Anna Pidgeon (2023): Rising wildfire risk to houses in the United States, especially in grasslands and shrublands. Science, 382(6671), 702–707. no, Open Access ✔️.

  5. Franz Schug, Avi Bar-Massada, Amanda Carlson, Heather Cox, Todd Hawbaker, Dave Helmers, Patrick Hostert, Dominik Kaim, Neda Kasraee, Sebastian Martinuzzi, Miranda Mockrin, Kira Pfoch, and Volker Radeloff (2023): The global wildland–urban interface. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06320-0, Open Access ✔️.

  6. 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 ✔️.

  7. 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 ✔️.

2022#

  1. 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 ✔️.

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. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c05642, Open Access ✔️.

  3. Jürgen Kreyling, Franziska Tanneberger, Florian Jansen, Sebastian van der Linden, C. Aggenbach, Volker Blüml, J. Couwenberg, Willem-Jan Emsens, Hans Joosten, Agata Klimkowska, Wiktor Kotowski, Lukasz Kozub, B. Lennartz, Yvonne Liczner, Haojie Liu, D. Michaelis, Claudia Oehmke, K. Parakenings, E. Pleyl, Arne Poyda, S. Raabe, M. Röhl, K. Rücker, A. Schneider, Joachim Schrautzer, C. Schröder, F. Schug, Elke Seeber, Fabian Thiel, S. Thiele, Bärbel Tiemeyer, T. Timmermann, Tim Urich, Rudy van Diggelen, K. Vegelin, Eric Verbruggen, Martin Wilmking, Nicole Wrage-Mönnig, Leslaw Wolejko, Dominik Zak, and Gerald Jurasinski (2021): Rewetting does not return drained fen peatlands to their old selves. Nature Communications, 12(1), 5693. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25619-y, Open Access ✔️.

  4. 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 ✔️.

2020#

  1. 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 ✔️.

  2. Thilo Wellmann, Angela Lausch, Erik Andersson, Sonja Knapp, Chiara Cortinovis, Jessica Jache, Sebastian Scheuer, Peleg Kremer, Andre Mascarenhas, Roland Kraemer, Annegret Haase, Franz Schug, and Dagmar Haase (2020): Remote sensing in urban planning: Contributions towards ecologically sound policies? Landscape and Urban Planning, 204, 103921. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103921, Open Access ✔️.

2018#

  1. Franz Schug, Akpona Okujeni, Janine Hauer, Patrick Hostert, Jonas Ö. Nielsen, and Sebastian van der Linden (2018): Mapping patterns of urban development in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, using machine learning regression modeling with bi-seasonal Landsat time series. Remote Sensing of Environment, 210, 217–228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.022.

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