Publications

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Cocoa plantations are associated with deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
Nikolai Kalischek, Nico Lang, Cécile Renier, Rodrigo Caye Daudt, Thomas Addoah, William Thompson, Wilma J. Blaser-Hart, Rachael Garrett, Konrad Schindler, Jan D. Wegner
Nature Food (2023)
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Doctoral Thesis: Mapping Vegetation Height — Probabilistic Deep Learning for Global Remote Sensing
Nico Lang
Committee: Prof. Dr. Konrad Schindler (ETH Zurich), Prof. Dr. Jan Dirk Wegner (University of Zurich), Prof. Dr. Walter Jetz (Yale University), Dr. Habil. Bertrand Le Saux (European Space Agency)
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A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth
Nico Lang, Walter Jetz, Konrad Schindler, Jan Dirk Wegner
arxiv (2022)
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High carbon stock mapping at large scale with optical satellite imagery and spaceborne LIDAR
Nico Lang, Konrad Schindler, Jan Dirk Wegner
arxiv (2021)
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Global canopy height regression and uncertainty estimation from GEDI LIDAR waveforms with deep ensembles
Nico Lang, Nikolai Kalischek, John Armston, Konrad Schindler, Ralph Dubayah, Jan Dirk Wegner
Remote Sensing of Environment (2021)
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GRAINet: mapping grain size distributions in river beds from UAV images with convolutional neural networks
Nico Lang, Andrea Irniger, Agnieszka Rozniak, Roni Hunziker, Jan Dirk Wegner, Konrad Schindler
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (2021)
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Country-wide high-resolution vegetation height mapping with Sentinel-2
Nico Lang, Konrad Schindler, Jan Dirk Wegner
Remote Sensing of Environment (2019)
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From Google Maps to a Fine-Grained Catalog of Street trees
Steve Branson, Jan Dirk Wegner, David Hall, Nico Lang, Konrad Schindler, Pietro Perona
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2018)
AWARDED BEST PAPER OF THE ISPRS JOURNAL IN 2018
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