Dirk Pflugmacher

Dr. Dirk Pflugmacher


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Academic Career Length

20Years (2007-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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18 June 2014 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
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RKRobert E Kennedy
Robert E Kennedy
SASerge Andréfouët
Serge Andréfouët
WCWarren B Cohen
Warren B Cohen
Cristina GomezCristina Gomez
Cristina Gomez
PGPatrick Griffiths
Patrick Griffiths
Zhe ZhuZhe Zhu
Zhe Zhu

20 May 2019 in Remote Sensing
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EGEwa Grabska-Szwagrzyk
Ewa Grabska-Szwagrzyk
PHPatrick Hostert
Patrick Hostert
DPDirk Pflugmacher
Dirk Pflugmacher
Katarzyna Anna OstapowiczKatarzyna Anna Ostapowicz
Katarzyna Anna Ostapowicz
Accurate information regarding forest tree species composition is useful for a wide range of applications, both for forest management and scientific research. Remote sensing is an efficient tool for collecting spatially explicit information on forest attributes. With the launch of the Sentinel-2 mission, new opportunities have arisen for mapping tree species owing to its spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution. The short revisit cycle (five days) is crucial in vegetation mapping because of the reflectance changes caused by phenological phases. In our study, we evaluated the utility of the Sentinel-2 time series for mapping tree species in the complex, mixed forests of the Polish Carpathian Mountains. We mapped the following nine tree species: common beech, silver birch, common hornbeam, silver fir, sycamore maple, European larch, grey alder, Scots pine, and Norway spruce. We used the Sentinel-2 time series from 2018, with 18 images included in the study. Different combinations of Sentinel-2 imagery were selected based on mean decrease accuracy (MDA) and mean decrease Gini (MDG) measures, in addition to temporal phonological pattern analysis. Tree species discrimination was performed using the Random Forest classification algorithm. Our results showed that the use of the Sentinel-2 time series instead of single date imagery significantly improved forest tree species mapping, by approximately 5–10% of overall accuracy. In particular, combining images from spring and autumn resulted in better species discrimination.

1 January 2018 in Remote Sensing of Environment
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HYHe Yin
He Yin
DPDirk Pflugmacher
Dirk Pflugmacher
ALAng Li
Ang Li
ZLZhengguo Li
Zhengguo Li
PHPatrick Hostert
Patrick Hostert

1 July 2012 in Remote Sensing of Environment
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DPDirk Pflugmacher
Dirk Pflugmacher
WCWarren B. Cohen
Warren B. Cohen
RKRobert E. Kennedy
Robert E. Kennedy

1 February 2019 in Remote Sensing of Environment
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DPDirk Pflugmacher
Dirk Pflugmacher
ARAndreas Rabe
Andreas Rabe
MPMathias Peters
Mathias Peters
PHPatrick Hostert
Patrick Hostert

1 August 2014 in Remote Sensing of Environment
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DPDirk Pflugmacher
Dirk Pflugmacher
WCWarren B. Cohen
Warren B. Cohen
RKRobert E. Kennedy
Robert E. Kennedy
ZYZhiqiang Yang
Zhiqiang Yang