Publications

38. PlantTraitNet: An uncertainty-aware multimodal framework for global-scale plant trait inference from citizen science data

Ayushi Sharma, Johanna Trost, Daniel Lusk, Johannes Dollinger, Julian Schrader, Christian Rossi, Javier Lopatin, Etienne Laliberté, Simon Haberstroh, Jana Eichel, Daniel Mederer, Jose Miguel Cerda-Paredes, Shyam S Phartyal, Lisa-Maricia Schwarz, Anja Linstädter, Maria Conceição Caldeira, Teja Kattenborn
arXiv, 2026

37. deadtrees.earth — An open-access and interactive database for centimeter-scale aerial imagery to uncover global tree mortality dynamics

Clemens Mosig, Janusch Vajna-Jehle, Miguel D Mahecha, Yan Cheng, Henrik Hartmann, David Montero, Samuli Junttila, Stéphanie Horion, Mirela Beloiu Schwenke, Michael J Koontz, Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Djamil Al-Halbouni, Muhammad Ali, Matthew Allen, Jan Altman, Lot Amorós, Claudia Angiolini, Rasmus Astrup, Hassan Awada, Caterina Barrasso, Harm Bartholomeus, Pieter S A Beck, Aurora Bozzini, Joshua Braun-Wimmer, Benjamin Brede, Fabio Marcelo Breunig, Stefano Brugnaro, Allan Buras, Vicente Burchard-Levine, Jesús Julio Camarero, Anna Candotti, Luka Capuder, Erik Carrieri, Mauro Centritto, Gherardo Chirici, Myriam Cloutier, Dhemerson Conciani, K C Cushman, James W Dalling, Phuong D Dao, Jan Dempewolf, Martin Denter, Marcel Dogotari, Ricardo Díaz-Delgado, Simon Ecke, Jana Eichel, Anette Eltner, André Fabbri, Maximilian Fabi, Fabian Fassnacht, Matheus Pinheiro Ferreira, Fabian Jörg Fischer, Julian Frey, Annett Frick, Jose Fuentes, Selina Ganz, Matteo Garbarino, Milton García, Matthias Gassilloud, Antonio Gazol, Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo, Kilian Gerberding, Marziye Ghasemi, Francesca Giannetti, Jeffrey Gillan, Roy Gonzalez, Carl Gosper, Terry Greene, Konrad Greinwald, Stuart Grieve, André Große-Stoltenberg, Jesus Aguirre Gutierrez, Anna Göritz, Peter Hajek, David Hedding, Jan Hempel, Stien Heremans, Melvin Hernández, Marco Heurich, Eija Honkavaara, Bernhard Höfle, Robert Jackisch, Tommaso Jucker, Jesse M Kalwij, Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas, Pratima Khatri-Chhetri, Till Kleinebecker, Hans-Joachim Klemmt, Tomáš Klouček, Niko Koivumäki, Nagesh Kolagani, Jan Komárek, Kirill Korznikov, Bartłomiej Kraszewski, Stefan Kruse, Robert Krüger, Helga Kuechly, Ivan H Y Kwong, Etienne Laliberté, Liam Langan, Hooman Latifi, Claudia Leal-Medina, Jan R K Lehmann, Linyuan Li, Emily Lines, Maciej Lisiewicz, Javier Lopatin, Arko Lucieer, Antonia Ludwig, Marvin Ludwig, Päivi Lyytikäinen-Saarenmaa, Qin Ma, Nicolas Mansuy, José Manuel Peña, Giovanni Marino, Michael Maroschek, M Pilar Martín, Darío Martín-Benito, Pavan Matham, Sabrina Mazzoni, Fabio Meloni, Annette Menzel, Hanna Meyer, Mojdeh Miraki, Gerardo Moreno, Daniel Moreno-Fernández, Helene C Muller-Landau, Mirko Mälicke, Jakobus Möhring, Jana Müllerova, Setti Sridhara Naidu, Davide Nardi, Paul Neumeier, Mihai Daniel Nita, Roope Näsi, Lars Oppgenoorth, Sagynbek Orunbaev, Melanie Palmer, Thomas Paul, Mattis Pfenning, Alastair Potts, Gudala Laxmi Prasanna, Suzanne Prober, Stefano Puliti, Antonio J Pérez-Luque, Oscar Pérez-Priego, Chris Reudenbach, Jesús Revuelto, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Philippe Roberge, Pier Paolo Roggero, Christian Rossi, Nadine Katrin Ruehr, Paloma Ruiz-Benito, Christian Mestre Runge, Gabriele Giuseppe Antonio Satta, Bruno Scanu, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Felix Schiefer, Christopher Schiller, Jacob Schladebach, Marie-Therese Schmehl, Jonathan Schmid, Tristan Alexander Schmidt, Selina Schwarz, Rupert Seidl, Thomas Seifert, Ana Seifert Barba, Elham Shafeian, Aurélie Shapiro, Leopoldo de Simone, Hormoz Sohrabi, Salim Soltani, Laura Sotomayor, Ben Sparrow, Benjamin S C Steer, Matt Stenson, Benjamin Stöckigt, Yanjun Su, Juha Suomalainen, Elisa Tamudo, Mauro J Tognetti Barbieri, Enrico Tomelleri, Michele Torresani, Katerina Trepekli, Saif Ullah, Sami Ullah, Josefine Umlauft, Nicolás Vargas-Ramírez, Can Vatandaslar, Vladimir Visacki, Michele Volpi, Vicente Vásquez, Christine Wallis, Ben Weinstein, Hannah Weiser, Serge Wich, Tagle Casapia Ximena, Pablo J Zarco-Tejada, Katherine Zdunic, Katarzyna Zielewska-Büttner, Raquel Alves de Oliveira, Liz van Wagtendonk, Vincent von Dosky, Teja Kattenborn
Remote Sens. Environ., 2026

36. Carbono neutralidad en Chile: desafíos y oportunidades para un país más justo y resiliente al clima

C Ibarra, M Galleguillos, L Farías, J Herrera, R Araya, J P Boisier, E Gayó, M Osses, C Rojas, P Moraga, D Núñez, A Gutiérrez, D Hervé, F Muñoz, M Jacquez-Coper, L Ramajo, R Urrutia-Jalabert, R Bórquez, M C Fragkou, G Guevara, F Lambert, A Lara, R O'Ryan, J Pérez-Quezada, P Smith, M Corona, M E González, J Lopatin, A M Ugarte, P Aldunce, N Carrasco, N Huneeus, A Maillet, O Seguel

35. Convolutional neural network models with low spatial variability hamper the transfer learning process

Alejandra Bravo-Diaz, Sebastián Moreno, Javier Lopatin
Neural Comput. Appl., 2025, DOI: 10.1007/s00521-025-11267-6

33. Vegetation browning as an indicator of drought impact and ecosystem resilience

Ignacio Fuentes, Javier Lopatin, Mauricio Galleguillos, James McPhee
Science of Remote Sensing, 2025

32. Environmental heterogeneity mediates plant diversity and ecosystem stability in mountain ecosystems of the Mediterranean Andes

Laura C Pérez-Giraldo, Jose M Cerda-Paredes, Dylan Craven, Javier Lopatin
EcoEvoRxiv, 2025

31. The PeatPic Project: Predicting plot-scale peatland green leaf phenology across global peatlands

Scott J Davidson, Avni Malhotra, Vincent E J Jassey, Maria Strack, Elena Aitova, Russell Anderson, Lindsey J Atkinson, Janna M Barel, Melanie Bird, Clarisse Brehier, Gillian Donaldson-Selby, Emma Duley, Joel Eklof, Elvira de Eyto, Gustaf Granath, Alanna Grant, Antonia Hartmann, Aleicia Holland, Vytas Huth, Cheristy P Jones, Sung-Ching Lee, Javier Lopatin, Alice M Milner, Mike Peacock, Matthias Peichl, Jorge F Perez-Quezada, Clarice R Perryman, Amy Pickard, Helena Rautakoski, Ewen Silvester, Anna-Maria Virkkala, Emma Wegener
Environ. Res. Lett., 2025

29. CNN Sensitivity Analysis for Land Cover Map Models Using Sparse and Heterogeneous Satellite Data

Sebastián Moreno, Javier Lopatin, Diego Corvalán, Alejandra Bravo-Diaz
Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications, 2025

28. Deadtrees.Earth - an open-access and interactive database for centimeter-scale aerial imagery to uncover global tree mortality dynamics

Clemens Mosig, Janusch Vajna-Jehle, Miguel D Mahecha, Yan Cheng, Henrik Hartmann, David Montero, et al.
bioRxiv, 2024

26. Post-fire Pinus radiata invasion in a threatened biodiversity hotspot forest: A multi-scale remote sensing assessment

C Leal-Medina, J Lopatin, A Contreras, M E González, M Galleguillos
For. Ecol. Manage., 2024

25. Is the change deforestation? Using time-series analysis of satellite data to disentangle deforestation from other forest degradation causes

Ignacio Fuentes, Javier Lopatin, Mauricio Galleguillos, Andrés Ceballos-Comisso, Susana Eyheramendy, Rodrigo Carrasco
Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 2024

24. Enhanced Detection of Human-Driven Forest Alterations using Echo State Networks

Tomas Couso, Paula Aguirre, Rodrigo A Carrasco, Javier Lopatin
NeurIPS, 2024

23. Comparison of carbon and water fluxes and the drivers of ecosystem water use efficiency in a temperate rainforest and a peatland in southern South America

Jorge F Perez-Quezada, David Trejo, Javier Lopatin, David Aguilera, Bruce Osborne, Mauricio Galleguillos, Luca Zattera, Juan L Celis-Diez, Juan J Armesto
Biogeosciences, 2024

22. Indicators of ecosystem degradation along an elevational gradient in the Mediterranean Andes

Jorge F Perez-Quezada, Javier Lopatin, Marı́a R Donoso, Cristian Hurtado, Ivan Reyes, Oscar Seguel, Horacio E Bown
Ecol. Indic., 2023

21. Interannual Variability of Remotely Sensed Phenology Relates to Plant Communities

Javier Lopatin
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2023

20. Hate Speech Recognition in Chilean Tweets

Alfonso Tobar-Arancibia, Sebastian Moreno, Javier Lopatin
2023 42nd IEEE International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC), 2023

18. Disturbance alters relationships between soil carbon pools and aboveground vegetation attributes in an anthropogenic peatland in Patagonia

Javier Lopatin, Rocı́o Araya-López, Mauricio Galleguillos, Jorge F Perez-Quezada
Ecol. Evol., 2022

17. Surviving in a hostile landscape: Nothofagus alessandrii remnant forests threatened by mega-fires and exotic pine invasion in the coastal range of central Chile

Mauro E González, Mauricio Galleguillos, Javier Lopatin, Claudia Leal, Constanza Becerra-Rodas, Antonio Lara, José San Martı́n
Oryx, 2022

16. Using Sentinel-2 and canopy height models to derive a landscape-level biomass map covering multiple vegetation types

Fabian Ewald Fassnacht, Javiera Poblete-Olivares, Lucas Rivero, Javier Lopatin, Andrés Ceballos-Comisso, Mauricio Galleguillos
Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinf., 2021

15. Biotic and abiotic drivers of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus stocks in a temperate rainforest

Jorge F Perez-Quezada, Cecilia A Pérez, Carla E Brito, Juan P Fuentes, Aurora Gaxiola, David Aguilera-Riquelme, Javier Lopatin
For. Ecol. Manage., 2021

14. How canopy shadow affects invasive plant species classification in high spatial resolution remote sensing

Javier Lopatin, Klara Dolos, Teja Kattenborn, Fabian E Fassnacht
Remote Sens. Ecol. Conserv., 2019

13. UAV data as alternative to field sampling to map woody invasive species based on combined Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data

Teja Kattenborn, Javier Lopatin, Michael Förster, Andreas Christian Braun, Fabian Ewald Fassnacht
Remote Sens. Environ., 2019

12. Using aboveground vegetation attributes as proxies for mapping peatland belowground carbon stocks

Javier Lopatin, Teja Kattenborn, Mauricio Galleguillos, Jorge F Perez-Quezada, Sebastian Schmidtlein
Remote Sens. Environ., 2019

10. Disentangling effects of climate and land-use change on West African drylands' forage supply

Jessica Ferner, Sebastian Schmidtlein, Reginald T Guuroh, Javier Lopatin, Anja Linstädter
Glob. Environ. Change, 2018

9. Pilot study on the retrieval of DBH and diameter distribution of deciduous forest stands using cast shadows in UAV-based ortomosaics

T Kattenborn, J Lopatin, G Kattenborn, F E Fassnacht
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2018

8. Monitoring Andean high altitude wetlands in central Chile with seasonal optical data: A comparison between Worldview-2 and Sentinel-2 imagery

Rocı́o A Araya-López, Javier Lopatin, Fabian E Fassnacht, H Jaime Hernández
ISPRS J. Photogramm. Remote Sens., 2018

7. Predicting Vascular Plant Diversity in Anthropogenic Peatlands: Comparison of Modeling Methods with Free Satellite Data

Ivan Castillo-Riffart, Mauricio Galleguillos, Javier Lopatin, And Jorge F Perez-Quezada
Remote Sensing, 2017

6. Linking plant strategies and plant traits derived by radiative transfer modelling

Teja Kattenborn, Fabian Ewald Fassnacht, Simon Pierce, Javier Lopatin, John Philip Grime, Sebastian Schmidtlein
J. Veg. Sci., 2017

5. Mapping plant species in mixed grassland communities using close range imaging spectroscopy

Javier Lopatin, Fabian E Fassnacht, Teja Kattenborn, Sebastian Schmidtlein
Remote Sens. Environ., 2017

4. Linking plant strategies (CSR) and remotely sensed plant traits

Teja Kattenborn, Javier Lopatin, Fabian Fassnacht, Sebastian Schmidtlein
2016 8th Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing (WHISPERS), 2016

2. Using a Multistructural Object-Based LiDAR Approach to Estimate Vascular Plant Richness in Mediterranean Forests With Complex Structure

Javier Lopatin, Mauricio Galleguillos, Fabian E Fassnacht, Andrés Ceballos, Jaime Hernández
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2015

1. Estimation of aerial biomass using discrete-wave LiDAR data in combination with different vegetation indices in plantations of Pinus radiata (D. DON), Región del Maule, Chile

Diego Valencia Delgado, Jaime H Hernández, Fabian E Fassnacht, Lissette Cortés, Javier Lopatin, Patricio Corvalán
Sustainability, Agri, Food and Environmental Research, 2014