Peer reviewed

2015

Santoro, M., Beaudoin, A., Beer, C., Cartus, O., Fransson, J. E. S., Hall, R., Pathe, C., Schmullius, C., Shvidenko, A., Schepaschenko, D., Thurner, M., Wegmuller, U., "Forest growing stock volume of the northern hemisphere: an estimate for 2010 derived from Envisat ASAR data," Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 168, pp. 316-334, 2015.

2014

Carvalhais, N., Forkel, M., Khomik, M., Bellarby, J., Jung, M., Migliavacca, M., Mu, M., Saatchi, S., Santoro, M., Thurner, M., Weber, U., Ahrens, B., Beer, C., Cescatti, A., Randerson, J. T., Reichstein, M., "Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems," Nature, vol. 513, pp. 213-217, 2014.

Quegan, S., Ciais, P., Santoro, M., "Land surface properties - Forest biomass," in State of the Climate in 2013, vol. 95 (7), Blunden, J., and Arndt, D. S., Eds.: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, pp. S44-S45, 2014.

Thurner, M., Beer, C., Santoro, M., Carvalhais, N., Wutzler, T., Schepaschenko, D., Shvidenko, A., Kompter, E., Ahrens, B., Levick, S. R., Schmullius, C., "Carbon stock and density of northern boreal and temperate forests," Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 23, 3, pp. 297-310, 2014.

2013

Santoro, M., Cartus, O., Fransson, J. E. S., Shvidenko, A., McCallum, I., Hall, R. J., Beaudoin, A., Beer, C., Schmullius, C., "Estimates of forest growing stock volume for Sweden, Central Siberia and Quebec using Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar backscatter data," Remote Sensing, vol. 5, 9, pp. 4503-4532, 2013.

2011

Santoro, M., Beer, C., Cartus, O., Schmullius, C., Shvidenko, A., McCallum, I., Wegmuller, U., Wiesmann, A., "Retrieval of growing stock volume in boreal forest using hyper-temporal series of Envisat ASAR ScanSAR backscatter measurements," Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 115, 2, pp. 490-507, 2011.

2009

Groisman, P. Y., Clark, E. A., Kattsov, V. M., Lettenmaier, D. P., Sokolik, I. N., Aizen, V. B., Cartus, O., Chen, J., Conard, S., Katzenberger, J., Krankina, O., Kukkonen, J., Machida, T., Maksyutov, S., Ojima, D., Qi, J., Romanovsky, V., Santoro, M., Schmullius, C. C., Shiklomanov, A. I., Shimoyama, K., Shugart, H. H., Shuman, J. K., Sofiev, M. A., Sukhinin, A. I., Vorosmarty, C., Walker, D., Wood, E. F., "The Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership: An example of science applied to societal needs," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 90, 5, pp. 671-688, 2009.

Conference proceedings

2013

Santoro, M., Schmullius, C., Pathe, C., Schwilk, J., Beer, C., Thurner, M., Fransson, J. E. S., Shvidenko, A., Schepaschenko, D., McCallum, I., Hall, R. J., Beaudoin, A., "Estimates of forest growing stock volume of the northern hemisphere from Envisat ASAR," Proceedings of ESA Living Planet Symposium, Edinburgh, 9-13 September, SP-722, CD-ROM, 2013.

2012

Santoro, M., Schmullius, C., Pathe, C., Schwilk, J., "Pan-boreal mapping of forest growing stock volume using hyper-temporal Envisat ASAR ScanSAR backscatter data," Proceedings of IGARSS'12, Munich, 23-27 July, pp. 7204-7207, 2012.

Schmullius, C., Leiterer, R., Burjack, I., Traut, K., Santoro, M., Li, Z., Ling, F., "Forest Dragon 2: final results of the European partners," Proceedings of Dragon 2 Final Results and Dragon 3 Kickoff Symposium, Beijing, 25-29 June 2012, pp., 2012.

2011

Shvidenko, A., Schepaschenko, D., McCallum, I., Santoro, M., Schmullius, C., "Use of remote sensing products in a terrestrial ecosystems verified full carbon account: Experiences from Russia," Proceedings of Earth Observation for Land-Atmosphere interaction Science, Frascati, 3-5 November, CD-ROM, 2011.

2010

Cartus, O., Santoro, M., Schmullius, C., "C-band intensity-based growing stock volume estimates versus the MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields tree canopy cover: Does C-band see more than canopy cover?," Proceedings of ESA Living Planet Symposium 2010, Bergen, 28 June - 2 July, CD-ROM, 2010.

Reiche, J., Leiterer, R., Cartus, O., Santoro, M., Schmullius, C., Li, Z., "Forest DRAGON 2: Large-area forest growing stock volume mapping in China using spaceborne radar," Proceedings of ESA Living Planet Symposium 2010, Bergen, 28 June - 2 July, CD-ROM, 2010.

Santoro, M., Beer, C., Cartus, O., Schmullius, C., Shvidenko, A., McCallum, I., Wegmuller, U., Wiesmann, A., "The BIOMASAR algorithm: An approach for retrieval of forest growing stock volume using stacks of multi-temporal SAR data," Proceedings of ESA Living Planet Symposium 2010, Bergen, 28 June - 2 July, CD-ROM, 2010.

Santoro, M., Schmullius, C., Beer, C., Cartus, O., Eriksson, L., Leiterer, R., Reiche, J., Thiel, C., Thiel, C., "Forest mapping of the northern hemisphere with spaceborne radar," Proceedings of ESA Living Planet Symposium 2010, Bergen, 28 June - 2 July, CD-ROM, 2010.

Schmullius, C., Reiche, J., Leiterer, R., Cartus, O., Santoro, M., Wegmuller, U., Li, Z., Tian, X., Ling, F., "FOREST DRAGON 2: Mid-term results of the European partners," Proceedings of Symposium Dragon 2 Programme Mid-Term Results 2008-2010, Guilin City, 17-21 May, CD-ROM, 2010.

2008

Santoro, M., Askne, J., Beer, C., Cartus, O., Schmullius, C., Wegmuller, U., Wiesmann, A., "Automatic model inversion of multi-temporal C-band coherence and backscatter measurements for forest stem volume retrieval," Proceedings of IGARSS'08, Boston, 6-11 July, pp. 124-127, 2008.

2007

Santoro, M., Beer, C., Shvidenko, A., McCallum, I., Wegmuller, U., Wiesmann, A., Schmullius, C., "Comparison of forest biomass estimates in Siberia using spaceborne SAR, inventory-based information and the LPJ Dynamic Global Vegetation Model," Proceedings of Envisat Symposium 2007, Montreux, 23-27 April, CD-ROM, 2007.

Santoro, M., Wegmuller, U., Wiesmann, A., "Possibilities of mapping forest growing stock volume of boreal forest using multitemporal ENVISAT ASAR WS and GM observations," Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Retrieval of Bio- and Geophysical Parameters from SAR Data for Land Applications, Bari, 25-28 September, CD-ROM, 2007.

Wegmuller, U., Santoro, M., Wiesmann, A., "A novel methodology for parameter retrieval from multi-temporal data demonstrated for forest biomass retrieval from C-band SAR backscatter," Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Imagery - MULTITEMP-2007, Leuven, 18-20 July, CD-ROM, 2007.

Web articles

ESA, 2014, Timing carbon turnover

International Innvoation, 2014, Patterns from synergy

ESA, 2013, Earth's northern biomass mapped and measured

Schepaschenko, D., See, L., Fritz, S., McCallum, I., Schill, C., Perger, C., Baccini, A., Gallaun, H., Kindermann, G., Kraxner. F., Saatchi, S., Obersteiner, M., Santoro, M., Schmullius, C., Shvidenko, A., Schepaschenko, M., "Observing forest biomass globally," in Earthzine, 2012.

ESA, 2010, New boreal forest biomass maps produced from radar satellite data