Rasmus Fensholt

Research interests

Publications

• Mapping global lake dynamics reveals the emerging roles of small lakes

  Nature Communications · 2022 · 10.1038/s41467-022-33239-3

• A large but transient carbon sink from urbanization and rural depopulation in China

  Nature Sustainability · 2022 · 10.1038/s41893-021-00843-y

• An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel

  Nature · 2020 · 10.1038/s41586-020-2824-5

• Tropical forests did not recover from the strong 2015–2016 El Niño event

  Science Advances · 2020 · 10.1126/sciadv.aay4603

• The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

  Scientific Data · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0534-3

• Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration

  Nature Communications · 2020 · 10.1038/s41467-019-13798-8

• Satellite-observed pantropical carbon dynamics

  Nature Plants · 2019 · 10.1038/s41477-019-0478-9

• China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management

  Nature Sustainability · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0220-7

• Satellite passive microwaves reveal recent climate-induced carbon losses in African drylands

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2018 · 10.1038/s41559-018-0530-6

• Satellite‐Observed Major Greening and Biomass Increase in South China Karst During Recent Decade

  Earth s Future · 2018 · 10.1029/2018ef000890

• Increased vegetation growth and carbon stock in China karst via ecological engineering

  Nature Sustainability · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-017-0004-x

• Human population growth offsets climate-driven increase in woody vegetation in sub-Saharan Africa

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2017 · 10.1038/s41559-017-0081

• Remote sensing of vegetation dynamics in drylands: Evaluating vegetation optical depth (VOD) using AVHRR NDVI and in situ green biomass data over West African Sahel

  Remote Sensing of Environment · 2016 · 10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.056

• A Review of the Application of Optical and Radar Remote Sensing Data Fusion to Land Use Mapping and Monitoring

  Remote Sensing · 2016 · 10.3390/rs8010070

• Quantifying the effectiveness of ecological restoration projects on long-term vegetation dynamics in the karst regions of Southwest China

  International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation · 2016 · 10.1016/j.jag.2016.09.013

• Evaluating temporal consistency of long-term global NDVI datasets for trend analysis

  Remote Sensing of Environment · 2015 · 10.1016/j.rse.2015.03.031

• Automated Water Extraction Index: A new technique for surface water mapping using Landsat imagery

  Remote Sensing of Environment · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2013.08.029

• Greenness in semi-arid areas across the globe 1981–2007 — an Earth Observing Satellite based analysis of trends and drivers

  Remote Sensing of Environment · 2012 · 10.1016/j.rse.2012.01.017

• Evaluation of Earth Observation based global long term vegetation trends — Comparing GIMMS and MODIS global NDVI time series

  Remote Sensing of Environment · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2011.12.015

• Evaluation of earth observation based long term vegetation trends — Intercomparing NDVI time series trend analysis consistency of Sahel from AVHRR GIMMS, Terra MODIS and SPOT VGT data

  Remote Sensing of Environment · 2009 · 10.1016/j.rse.2009.04.004

• Estimation of diurnal air temperature using MSG SEVIRI data in West Africa

  Remote Sensing of Environment · 2007 · 10.1016/j.rse.2007.02.025

• Combining the triangle method with thermal inertia to estimate regional evapotranspiration — Applied to MSG-SEVIRI data in the Senegal River basin

  Remote Sensing of Environment · 2007 · 10.1016/j.rse.2007.08.013

• MODIS leaf area index products: from validation to algorithm improvement

  IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · 2006 · 10.1109/tgrs.2006.871215

• Evaluation of MODIS LAI, fAPAR and the relation between fAPAR and NDVI in a semi-arid environment using in situ measurements

  Remote Sensing of Environment · 2004 · 10.1016/j.rse.2004.04.009

• Derivation of a shortwave infrared water stress index from MODIS near- and shortwave infrared data in a semiarid environment

  Remote Sensing of Environment · 2003 · 10.1016/j.rse.2003.07.002

Current projects

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